Data Management News for the Week of March 28; Updates from DataOps.live, Prophecy.io, Quest Software & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of March 28, 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 March 28, 2025

Azul Says: CIOs Overspending on Cloud Infrastructure

43 percent say their CEOs and/or board of directors have concerns about their company’s cloud spend, broken down as follows: 27 percent said their CEOs and/or board of directors require favorable market conditions to expand their cloud footprint, 9 percent are unwilling to approve additional expenses and 5 percent advocate for reduced cloud spending.

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Cloudera Names Leo Brunnick as New Chief of Product

With more than 30 years of experience leading technology teams, Brunnick will work closely with CEO Charles Sansbury and the entire Cloudera leadership team to oversee the company’s product and technology direction.

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Concentric AI Adds User Behavior Analytics to Security Governance Platform

Its proprietary advanced AI technology for discovering and categorizing data uniquely scans entire data records and understands context, which is used to tie back anomalous activity at the user level to a customer’s specific data categories to create actionable risk alerts based on the anomalous activity.

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Datadobi Adds Metadata & Reporting to StorageMAP Offering

StorageMAP software scans and lists a customer’s file and object storage estates, both on-premises and in the public cloud, and can identify orphaned SMB protocol data. There are new archiving capabilities that allow customers to identify and relocate old or inactive data to archive storage, freeing up primary data stores on flash or disk.

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Snowflake Announces Investment in DataOps.live

This expanded collaboration will accelerate time-to-success for Snowflake users and align with Snowflake’s broader commitment to optimize data engineering workflows and enable enterprises to efficiently manage their data lifecycle in the cloud. This is the second strategic investment by Snowflake Ventures in DataOps.live.

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Datavault AI Partners with IBM on AI Monetization

Despite IBM’s mixed earnings results, where revenue slightly increased but net income fell, its prospects for growth through technological advancements in AI and quantum computing appear promising. Market conditions featuring recovering indexes further augmented IBM’s favorable pricing environment during the period.

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Komprise Extends Elastic Data Migration Tool

Komprise Elastic Data Migration, which is already 25x faster than alternatives, is expanding its powerful analytics, fast data migration and flexible reporting capabilities to further simplify the process of complex migrations with high resiliency.

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Prophecy.io Announces Governed Data Prep for Databricks SQL

According to the vendor, Prophecy has “cracked the code on governed self-service.” They’ve taken their foundation of governance and built on it with powerful new capabilities that make it even easier for analysts to get clean, trusted data. Analysts get more power and flexibility, and central data teams get visibility and control.

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Quest Updates Database Management Tools Toad Data Studio and Data Point

These updates introduce AI-powered features, expanded database connectivity, and greater accessibility, helping organizations streamline data management across multiple platforms. New AI-powered features streamline workflows, enabling experienced DBAs to work more efficiently and empowering users with less coding experience to execute tasks confidently.

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Tessell Drops Managed Database Service on Google Cloud

As a fully managed database service, Tessell supports deployments across Oracle Database@Google Cloud in addition to Google Cloud Compute Engine. This development marks a significant milestone for organizations seeking to modernize their transactional applications, database estate, and data architectures within Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure.

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Verdantis Announces Auto-Enrich AI and Auto-Spec AI MDM

Auto-Spec AI uses AI models trained on over 1-Billion data points to extract key attributes, units-of-measure, and product categories from raw, unstructured data. Auto-Enrich AI autonomously sources missing data by leveraging public and proprietary databases.

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April 4! Insight Jam is Getting Set to Host Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’re adding a second Jam Session each month! Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

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In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data analysis, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re a data scientist building custom pipelines, a business analyst looking for quick insights, or a C-suite leader planning enterprise-scale AI adoption.

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On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Robert Eve, Dr. Irina Steenbeek & David Sweenor for the Jam Session: Mind the Gap: Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI

In this month’s Jam Session, our expert panel address these critical AI governance questions: What’s unique or different about governing AI? Where does AI require additional governance capabilities beyond traditional data and analytics governance? What are the benefits of AI governance? What are the risks? How can organizations best fill their AI governance gap? Where is the best place to start?

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