Data Management News for the Week of March 20; Updates from Denodo, IBM, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of March 20, 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 March 20, 2026

Archive360 And EVT Automate Retention Compliance For Regulated Data

Archive360 and EVT have teamed up to automate retention compliance by embedding policy enforcement directly into enterprise data and AI governance workflows. The solution gives organizations centralized control over retention policies, automated enforcement tied to regulation, and fast access to records for legal and compliance teams. The partnership is aimed at highly regulated industries that need defensible controls, less manual intervention, and better alignment between storage costs and data value.​

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/archive360-and-evt-partner-to-automate-retention-compliance-using-enterprise-data-and-ai-governance-302715662.html

EDB Puts Postgres At The Center Of An Agentic Workforce Stack

EDB is accelerating Postgres for the agentic workforce era with GPU-accelerated analytics, high-speed retrieval, and sovereign deployment options built around EDB Postgres AI. The company says the platform can deliver up to 100x performance improvements for interactive analytics, helping enterprises avoid “data ping-pong” across disjointed platforms while supporting autonomous agents that reason and act on real-time data. EDB frames its stack as an enterprise-ready foundation for organizations moving from generative AI pilots into production agentic workflows.​

Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/edb-accelerates-postgres-agentic-workforce-203200061.html

Hammerspace Launches A New AI Data Platform On NVIDIA Reference Design

Hammerspace has launched an AI data platform based on NVIDIA’s reference design, using NVIDIA AI Enterprise components to simplify data orchestration for inference, RAG, and agentic AI. The platform converges data management and orchestration across heterogeneous storage so enterprises can automate indexing, governance, and security across the full AI pipeline. Hammerspace is aiming to give organizations a production-ready data foundation that works across accelerated computing and existing storage estates.

Read on for more→ https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20260316701813/hammerspace-launches-ai-data-platform-based-on-nvidia-reference-design-available-now

Hitachi Vantara Expands Hitachi iQ To Cover More Of The Agentic AI Stack

Hitachi Vantara is adding AI blueprints, multi-agent coordination in Hitachi iQ Studio, expanded NVIDIA infrastructure options, and deeper data integration to its Hitachi iQ portfolio. The update is aimed at helping enterprises build and govern agentic AI in on-premises and virtualized environments while keeping data close to compute and maintaining control over security and sovereignty requirements. Hitachi positions the portfolio as a validated infrastructure stack that connects accelerated compute, storage, and software for production AI.

Read on for more→ https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/news/gl260316

IBM And NVIDIA Expand Their Enterprise AI Stack Across Data, Cloud, And Regulated Infrastructure

IBM and NVIDIA announced an expanded collaboration at GTC 2026 to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale, with work spanning GPU-native analytics, intelligent document processing, on-prem deployment, and sovereign/regulatory controls. The companies say the limiting factor is no longer model availability but the data, infrastructure, and governance layers needed to run AI reliably in production. IBM plans to bring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs into IBM Cloud and integrate the collaboration into Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA so customers can run GPU-heavy AI workloads with enterprise compliance and residency controls.

Read on for more→ https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-03-16-ibm-and-nvidia-announce-expanded-collaboration-at-gtc-2026-to-advance-ai-for-the-enterprise

IDERA 14.0 Adds AI Tuning To Turn SQL Monitoring Into Performance Guidance

IDERA’s SQL Diagnostic Manager 14.0 is now generally available with AI-powered query optimization and workload-aware index recommendations for SQL Server. The new workflows let DBAs feed in slow queries and receive suggested index changes aimed at improving workload performance while avoiding unnecessary index bloat and write overhead. IDERA is positioning the feature as a practical step from passive observability toward guided tuning, while keeping recommendations advisory so teams still make the final call.

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/idera-announces-general-availability-of-sql-diagnostic-manager-14-0–introducing-ai-powered-query-and-workload-index-optimization-for-sql-server-302719146.html

NetApp AIDE Adds Governed AI Data Management With NVIDIA Under The Hood

NetApp has launched NetApp AI Data Engine, a secure, unified AI data platform stack co-engineered with NVIDIA and built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. The platform creates an automated metadata catalog for file content, continuously enriches metadata, and enables discovery and governance without moving data, while extending to hybrid cloud and multimodal workloads later this year. NetApp says the goal is to remove the data bottlenecks that keep enterprise AI from reaching production, while giving customers a governed foundation for agentic workflows.

Read on for more→ https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-rel-20260316-181478/

Redgate Debuts Monitor SaaS To Reduce Infrastructure Overhead For Mixed Database Estates

Redgate has launched Monitor as a SaaS edition, giving teams a fully managed cloud version of its database monitoring platform. The service supports SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB, while a lightweight agent stays on-prem to collect telemetry and Redgate handles hosting, upgrades, and maintenance. Redgate is aiming at organizations standardizing on SaaS for internal tools but still needing broad database coverage and less operational burden.

Read on for more→ https://itbrief.com.au/story/redgate-unveils-saas-edition-of-its-database-monitor

Snowflake Launches Project SnowWork To Put Outcome-Driven AI In Front Of Business Users

Snowflake’s Project SnowWork is a research preview that brings autonomous, outcome-driven AI directly to business users through a desktop-style interface tied to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The experience is designed to let employees ask for outcomes—like automating reporting, synthesizing data across sources, or generating ready-to-share materials—without having to bounce between analysts, dashboards, and disconnected tools. Snowflake is positioning SnowWork as a step beyond insight generation, with AI that can move from intent to action while keeping enterprise data, governance, and controls in the loop.

Read on for more→ https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-launches-project-snowwork-bringing-outcome-driven-ai-to-every-business-user/

ZEDEDA Turns Edge Infrastructure Into A Governed AI Runtime

ZEDEDA has launched what it calls the industry’s first Edge Intelligence Platform, designed to create, secure, and operate edge and physical AI at scale. The platform provides governance, workflows, audit trails, and fleet orchestration so enterprises can deploy AI closer to the real world without relying on the cloud for every decision loop. ZEDEDA is positioning the launch as a response to the limits of cloud-first architectures in latency-sensitive industrial and distributed environments.​

Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zededa-unveils-industry-first-edge-191600769.html

Expert Insights

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