Data Management News for the Week of August 14; Updates from Arctera, MongoDB, Precisely & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of August 14, 2026.

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 August 14, 2026

Airbyte Launches Migration Service to Move Production Pipelines From Core to Cloud Without Rebuilding

Airbyte has launched a migration service to help customers move production pipelines from self-managed Airbyte Core to Airbyte Cloud without rebuilding connections or disrupting synchronization. The service keeps customer data in its existing destination warehouse and transfers incremental synchronization state into Airbyte Cloud, enabling teams to shift from operating their own integration infrastructure to a managed cloud service while preserving pipeline continuity.

Read on for more→ Airbyte launches migration service from Core to Cloud

Alation and PwC Canada Form Data Governance Partnership for Regulated Industry Compliance

Alation and PwC Canada have formed a strategic partnership to help regulated organizations strengthen data governance and prepare for evolving compliance requirements. The initial focus is on Canada’s OSFI Guideline E-21, with a joint accelerator that combines E-21-aligned policies, critical-data-element definitions, curation templates, and Alation’s data intelligence platform to help financial institutions establish the lineage, ownership, control, and evidence needed for more reliable data risk management.

Read on for more→ Alation and PwC Canada form strategic data governance partnership

Arctera Expands Unified Platform Capabilities to Strengthen Defensible Compliance

Arctera has expanded its Unified Platform with new features to provide more continuous, defensible compliance workflows across regulated communications, reconciliation, legal hold, review, and reporting. Enhancements include capture for LeapXpert mobile messaging and LSEG Messenger, end-to-end reconciliation to identify missing or delayed records, improved legal-hold visibility, attachments and inline translation in eDiscovery review, and reporting on reviewer activity, hot words, and roles to strengthen oversight and evidence of compliance activity.

Read on for more→ Arctera Unified Platform expands capabilities to strengthen defensible compliance

AWS and Oracle Make Exadata on Exascale Generally Available for Oracle AI Database@AWS

AWS and Oracle have made Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure generally available for Oracle AI Database@AWS, allowing customers to run Exadata infrastructure natively within AWS Availability Zones and procure it through AWS Marketplace. The service brings Exadata performance together with pay-per-use economics and decoupled compute and storage scaling, letting organizations run Oracle AI Database workloads without provisioning dedicated database and storage servers; it is initially available across 22 AWS Regions.

Read on for more→ Introducing Oracle Exadata on Exascale for Oracle AI Database@AWS

Cloudera Survey Finds Enterprises Are Re-Architecting Data Environments for AI

Cloudera’s global survey of 1,500 enterprise architects, cloud infrastructure leads, and data architects finds that 72% believe their current data architecture requires significant changes to meet future AI requirements, while 75% have already changed storage and architecture practices because of AI. Although 77% of respondents are actively using AI, 95% have delayed or cancelled projects over data governance, compliance, or regulatory challenges—evidence of what Cloudera calls the “Great AI Re-Architecture” toward hybrid environments that bring trusted AI to trusted data wherever it resides.

Read on for more→ Cloudera survey finds enterprises rethinking data architecture

MongoDB Brings Live Operational Data Into the Agentic Coding Stack With Managed MCP Server

MongoDB has launched the Atlas Managed MCP Server, a fully hosted service that connects coding agents—including Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, and Devin—to live MongoDB Atlas data without additional infrastructure. Developers can now query, inspect, and update operational data from the AI tools and IDEs where they build applications, using existing Atlas credentials and access controls to keep agent access centrally governed and grounded in current business state rather than stale data copies.

Read on for more→ MongoDB brings live operational data to the agentic coding stack

Precisely Launches Cloud-Native SAP Automation Governance to Close Visibility and Control Gaps

Precisely has launched Automate Evolve Cloud Essentials, a cloud-native SaaS offering designed to give SAP IT teams and centers of excellence centralized control over automation programs without managing on-premises infrastructure. The service provides centralized license management, script approval workflows, server-side job scheduling, full audit trails, automatic updates, and managed infrastructure—helping teams strengthen compliance, accountability, and reliability as SAP automation expands.

Read on for more→ Precisely closes the SAP automation governance gap

Splunk Makes Cisco Data Fabric Innovations Generally Available for AI-Ready Machine Data

Splunk has made new platform capabilities supporting Cisco Data Fabric generally available, including Machine Data Lake, Data Catalog, Agent Launchpad, expanded Federated Search, and data-management functions. The capabilities are designed to help organizations find, connect, govern, and activate machine data across external lakes, warehouses, and AI platforms without first centralizing it, providing a unified architecture for AI-ready intelligence and more efficient operations at enterprise scale.

Read on for more→ Splunk platform innovations supporting Cisco Data Fabric are generally available

Expert Insights

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.

Editors Lens: Why Data Products Are the Missing Link Between Data Trust & Enterprise AI by Tim King

As organizations build AI-ready data architectures, simply storing, integrating, and governing information is no longer enough. Enterprise data must also be packaged, documented, owned, and delivered in ways that make it easy for both people and AI systems to discover, understand, and confidently consume.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments

The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.

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Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI

Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.

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Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.

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How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.

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