Data Management News for the Week of January 30; Updates from Adeptia, Snowflake, Teradata & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 30, 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 January 30, 2026

Cockroach Labs 2026 AI Report Warns Infrastructure Is Near Breaking Point

Cockroach Labs’ “State of AI Infrastructure 2026” report finds that as AI shifts from pilots to always‑on production, 83% of senior tech leaders believe their data infrastructure will hit a breaking point within two years, and a third expect failure in under a year. The study highlights the database layer as a primary bottleneck under sustained AI load, with leaders warning that AI doesn’t just add traffic—it fundamentally changes the scale systems must survive—making resilient, elastic architectures a board‑level priority rather than a back‑office concern.

Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cockroach-labs-2026-ai-report-finds-ai-scale-is-pushing-enterprise-infrastructure-toward-failure-302673598.html

NETL Launches ClaiMM Hub to Unify Critical Minerals Data, Models, and Tools

The U.S. Department of Energy’s NETL has launched ClaiMM, a digital platform on its Energy Data eXchange that centralizes curated datasets, models, tools, and AI‑driven services for critical minerals and materials research across the full value chain. By providing a secure, extensible environment that links source‑to‑supply information—from geological prospects through processing, manufacturing, and supply chain modeling—ClaiMM aims to reduce data fragmentation, accelerate cross‑disciplinary collaboration, and support national priorities around energy security and resource independence.

Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/netl-introduces-claimm-hub-for-critical-minerals-data-models-and-tools/

OpenAIRE and World Data System Renew Pact to Strengthen Research Data Infrastructure

OpenAIRE and the World Data System have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding to jointly strengthen open science data infrastructure, focusing on how research data repositories are represented, connected, and assessed across the ecosystem. The collaboration will use the OpenAIRE Graph, shared metadata and vocabularies, and joint events to improve interoperability, promote good practices, and pilot new monitoring tools and community gateways for research data.

Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/openaire-and-world-data-system-renew-partnership-on-research-data-infrastructure/

Snowflake Energy Solutions: Unifying IT, OT, and IoT for AI-Ready Grids

Snowflake has introduced Energy Solutions for its AI Data Cloud, bundling 30+ partner-built tools and curated datasets to unify IT, OT, and IoT data for utilities and oil and gas companies. By bringing SAP finance/supply-chain data together with field and grid telemetry, Snowflake aims to power predictive maintenance, grid optimization, and lower-carbon operations for customers like ExxonMobil, PG&E, Siemens, and Sunrun.

Read on for more → https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/data-driven-energy-solutions/

Teradata Unveils Enterprise AgentStack for Production-Grade Agentic AI

Teradata has introduced Enterprise AgentStack, an open, connected stack that unifies the lifecycle for building, deploying, and governing autonomous AI agents against enterprise data across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. The platform combines components such as Enterprise MCP for secure data discovery, AgentBuilder and AgentEngine for creating and running single or multi‑agent systems, and AgentOps for observability and governance, positioning Teradata customers to turn their existing analytic datasets into a foundation for large‑scale agentic AI in minutes rather than months.

Read on for more → https://www.teradata.com/press-releases/2026/teradata-unveils-enterprise-agentstack

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.

Insight Jam Launches Year-Long “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI

Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.

Episode 1 featuring Michelle Ament, EdD, T. Scott Clendaniel, Sandra Watts, PhD, Stefan Bauschard, Ben Tasker, and Center for Compassionate Leadership will be available next week.

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Expert Wrap: Data Privacy Week 2026 – Key Insights from The Field’s Greatest Thinkers

This roundup features insights from leading experts who dissect the nuances of data privacy today. They explore the challenges we face in safeguarding digital identities, the emerging threats to our online spaces, and the innovative strategies being developed to secure personal information against unauthorized access.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Astronomer for the Exclusive Session ‘Stop Reacting, Start Preventing: Observability at the Orchestration Layer’ on February 17

In this webinar, Ashley and Stephanie will share how to enable proactive monitoring by moving observability upstream. You’ll learn how embedding observability into the orchestration layer allows you to: Identify risks before they cascade downstream Eliminate blind spots and get a single control plane for pipeline and data product health and performance Connect data quality failures directly to the pipeline tasks that caused them.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19

Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we’ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications — which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex — cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.

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The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro: Adopting Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara

In this episode of The Digital Analyst, John and Bhaskar explore the evolution from dashboards to autonomous analytics agents with someone who decoded complex signals at AppDynamics. Bhaskar reveals why detection without understanding creates alert fatigue, and why fragmented data means marketing, payments, and product teams never agree on basic definitions.

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Thought Leaders: George Firican Adds New Lesson on GenAI Prompting for Data Governance to Popular Training Course

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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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For consideration in future data management news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.