Data Management News for the Week of April 25; Updates from Astronomer, Datadog, Qlik & More
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Tim King
, Executive Editor at Solutions Review - Data Management News,
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 25, 2025.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.
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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending April 25, 2025
Astronomer touts the Release of ‘Transformative’ Apache Airflow 3 Release
Airflow 3 delivers a comprehensive redesign that delivers long-standing community requests while also expanding the platform’s capabilities to support complex AI, ML, and near real-time data workloads. Airflow 3 contains a significant number of new features that make Airflow easier to use, more secure, and able to run any task, anywhere.
Confidencial.io Set to Unveils Preview of AI Data Governance
Purpose-built for enterprise-scale AI, Confidencial serves as a governance layer seamlessly embedded within AI frameworks, covering AI workflows, Agentic AI systems, training workflows, and operations to ensure only authorized data flows through.
Confidencial.io Set to Unveils Preview of AI Data Governance
Purpose-built for enterprise-scale AI, Confidencial serves as a governance layer seamlessly embedded within AI frameworks, covering AI workflows, Agentic AI systems, training workflows, and operations to ensure only authorized data flows through.
Couchbase Enters Partnership with Arize AI
The integration of Couchbase and Arize AI delivers a powerful solution for building and monitoring Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent applications at scale. By leveraging Couchbase’s high-performance vector database and the Arize AI observability platform and enhanced monitoring capabilities, enterprises can confidently build, deploy and optimize Agentic RAG solutions in production.
Datadog Acquires Metaplane
With the emergence of AI and widespread adoption of platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, trust in data has never been more critical to the growth of a business. The acquisition of Metaplane accelerates Datadog’s expansion into data observability—building on launches of related products like Data Jobs Monitoring and Data Streams Monitoring.
EY Announces New Partnership with Confluent on Data Streaming
Through this Alliance, EY US taps into the $100b data streaming market as a trusted advisor for real-time innovation to help clients unlock significant value and create sustainable competitive advantages.
Pinecone Unveils First MCP Servers
To solve the issue of LLMs lacking information (post-training data, private data, etc.) the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique was developed. As it boils down to passing the relevant missing information together with the request, it’s more or less a standard (leaving aside things like context window sizes and content structure).
PingCAP Announces New TiDB Features
TiDB is a unified database platform for transactions, real-time analytics and AI applications. It combines the scalability and performance of NoSQL systems with the reliability and consistency of a transactional database, making it an ideal foundation for hyperscale SaaS companies. Leading innovators such as Pinterest, Plaid and Bolt rely on TiDB to support their growth.
Qlik Gains Momentum in AWS Cloud MidEast Region
With governments and enterprises rapidly scaling AI initiatives, the ability to control, process, and analyze data within national borders is a necessity. The new cloud region enables businesses across critical industries such as finance, healthcare, energy, and the public sector to operate with real-time intelligence, lower latency, and full regulatory confidence.
Redis Extends Partnership with UiPath
Redis excels in powering the critical memory layer of AI applications and agents, ensuring they operate with the efficiency and depth required to achieve UiPath’s vision of seamless, intelligent workflows that emulate human-like problem-solving abilities.
Reducto Nabs $24.5 Million in New Funding for Enterprise Unstructured Data
Reducto turns complex documents into accurate LLM-ready inputs, allowing AI teams to reliably use the vast data that’s locked in PDFs and spreadsheets. Ingestion is a core bottleneck for AI teams today because traditional approaches fail to extract and chunk unstructured data accurately.
Relyance AI Announces New Data Journeys Offering
Built on an AI-native foundation, Data Journeys delivers complete and context-aware visibility into the vast and ever-changing enterprise data flow. Organizations can now establish robust AI governance frameworks and navigate complex global regulatory requirements with confidence, all while protecting their most sensitive data.
Stibo Systems Hires New CRO & Chief of Sales
Thomas Møgelmose joins as Chief Financial Officer, based in Aarhus, Denmark. A seasoned finance executive with deep experience within global software enterprises, Møgelmose most recently served as group CFO at Gram Equipment and, previously, Systematic A/S. Michael Blough joins as Chief Sales Officer, bringing more than 25 years of global sales leadership experience across SaaS, AI and ML, supply chain and enterprise software industries.
Teradata Names Sumeet Arora as Chief of Product
Most recently Arora was at ThoughtSpot, an industry leading agentic analytics platform for enterprise data, where he served as Chief Development Officer. Arora led ThoughtSpot’s global engineering, product, and design teams in continuously improving and scaling the company’s AI-powered data analytics platform.
Expert Insights Section
Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 1
Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.
Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8
The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.
Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14
Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Why Most Data & AI ‘Best Practices’ Are Just Expensive Mistakes in Disguise
There is one thing I’ve often noticed about the phrase, is this, most of what’s touted as a best practice in the world of data and AI is nothing more than a well-dressed mistake. Even worse, it’s often someone else’s mistake, packaged, dressed up and marketed, sold to everyone as THE gospel.
On-Demand: SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve Previews the Exclusive April 18 Jam Session: Is it Time to Rethink How we Connect Our Data & Apps?
Given the changing landscape and the opportunities new technologies and use cases afford, IT leaders must continuously evaluate and improve how their organizations connect their data and applications. To give you a head start on this initiative, we have brought together four experts on Friday, April 18, 2025, Insight Jam Session: Connections: Fun in the New York Times, Essential for Evolving Analytics and AI Apps.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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