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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 16, 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review<\/em>, join Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/p>\n As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Monitoring includes critical dimensions such as freshness, volume, schema drift, distribution patterns and custom business rules. ML-driven anomaly detection automatically identifies outliers, drifts and unexpected patterns, while providing valuable root-cause analysis suggestions to facilitate faster resolution.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The new Terraform blueprint delivers a complete Aerospike deployment by provisioning the EKS cluster, configuring the underlying infrastructure like the VPC, and deploying both the AKO and Aerospike server with recommended defaults. It\u2019s built on AWS\u2019s\u00a0Data on EKS (DoEKS), an open source project that accelerates building, deploying, and scaling data workloads on Amazon EKS.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n In terms of product development, the company added\u00a0Airbyte Embedded\u00a0to its product portfolio, which enables users to bring data to create AI applications at high velocity without spending significant time and resources building data infrastructure.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The Data Products Builder Agent addresses these challenges by transforming raw data into productized, AI-ready assets that are easy to find and use in the\u00a0Alation Data Products Marketplace. By automating the data product lifecycle, the Data Products Agent streamlines curation, packaging, and publishing processes.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The Archive360 Platform enables enterprises and government agencies to unlock the full potential of their archival assets with extensive data governance, security and compliance capabilities, and primed for intelligent insights.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The acquisition will streamline customer experiences by embedding Thru, Inc.\u2019s functionality directly into the Boomi Enterprise Platform, enabling the integrated management of APIs, applications, and files from a single, intelligent interface.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With support for seamless management and monitoring of complex topologies, the dashboard has been a core tool for reducing administrative overhead and enhancing cluster reliability. Tungsten Dashboard v8 builds on this foundation with a suite of new features designed to make cluster operations more intuitive, secure and responsive.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Even though 57 percent of organizations rate their data centralization strategy as highly effective, nearly the same proportion say that over half their AI projects fail to deliver. The disconnect is data that is not fully centralized, governed, or made available in real time for AI models. From integration bottlenecks to pipeline maintenance burdens, enterprises are stuck managing infrastructure instead of delivering business value through AI.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The core enabler of GridGain 9.1 is the concept of\u00a0secondary storage. This allows selected tables to use two storage formats simultaneously: primary storage optimized for OLTP and secondary storage optimized for OLAP. The secondary storage layer asynchronously ingests updates from the transactional store, providing up-to-date analytics without interfering with transaction performance.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n As the resilient backbone of enterprise data and AI strategies, Informatica provides the critical metadata system of intelligence that enhances decision-making and AI outcomes through a comprehensive catalog of an organization’s data assets.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With this release, Kong is helping to reduce the cost and complexity of managing Kafka, making it easier for organizations to unlock the full potential of event streams. Now, platform architects will have one unified workspace for managing and designing access to events and APIs.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The move is a response to a compounding industry problem: Infrastructure and applications have created an explosion in data from cloud, microservices and AI, causing observability costs to skyrocket. Most vendors charge premium prices \u2014 calculated in complex formulas \u2014 to process and analyze telemetry data, even as global data volumes are projected to more than double by 2028.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Qlik Open Lakehouse is built from the ground up to meet the scale, flexibility, and performance demands of modern enterprises \u2014 without the tradeoffs. It combines real-time ingestion, intelligent optimization, and true ecosystem interoperability in a single, fully managed platform.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The new version gives organizations the tools to build trust in their data by certifying AI models, improving discovery, and reducing the manual effort of data governance. The release comes at a time when organizations face growing pressure to ensure AI-driven decisions are transparent, explainable, and based on reliable data.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Tyler brings more than 20 years of experience as a data streaming architect, serving for several years as distinguished software engineer at Snowflake, following a dozen years at Google. He will report to CEO Alex Gallego and oversee all aspects of product development.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Unlike software engineering, which allows for many ways to solve one problem, data engineering is much more rigid, as it deals with strict data schemas, reproducibility requirements, and tightly coupled pipelines where even small errors can corrupt downstream outputs.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0 According to our\u00a0April 2025 study<\/a><\/strong>, 75 percent of tech leaders say tolerance for ambiguity is critical. Yet 37 percent of those same leaders admit they struggle to make decisions in uncertain conditions. Even more striking? Nearly a quarter say too many options leave them feeling paralyzed.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Customer service improvements, IT resource and performance optimization, and new product development acceleration are just a few benefits. In a world of agents, where does that leave people Will we become the horse at the advent of the horseless carriage? Or the bookkeeper with the advent of financial software? Steve Jobs once said, \u201cGreat things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.\u201d<\/p>\n Register free on Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n In this webinar, we\u2019ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake\u2014no code required and full governance intact. You\u2019ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.<\/p>\n Register free on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n The company reported strong Cloud Subscription Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth, exceeding 30 percent year-over-year. It also surpassed 101 trillion processed cloud transactions per month, indicating significant scale. Informatica was recognized as a Leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrant reports, including Data Integration Tools, Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, and Augmented Data Quality Solutions, often positioned furthest for vision and highest for execution.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The higher percentage for AI is understandable\u2014it\u2019s a newer discipline. But the figure for data governance is still high, despite decades of industry focus. I believe this correlates with the low priority given to data governance, which limits investment in upskilling.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Many organizations are still struggling to refine their data into actionable business value. Despite significant investments in data technologies, governance frameworks, and data literacy programs, the harsh reality is that most Chief Data Officers (CDOs) and data leaders continue to fight an uphill battle to demonstrate measurable ROI.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Having worked in the industry for over 20 years, I\u2019ve seen plenty of trends come and go. One that\u2019s stuck around is the idea of building a \u201cdata culture.\u201d But often, that ends up feeling like something separate, bolted on rather than built in. That\u2019s the real issue.<\/p>\nTop Data Management News for the Week Ending May 16<\/strong>, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Featured: N<\/strong>ew Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Actian Launches New Data Observability with AI\/ML Data Quality Monitoring<\/h4>\n
Aerospike Enables 30-Minute Database Deployment on AWS<\/h4>\n
Airbyte Announces New Product Enhancements<\/h4>\n
Alation Unveils New Data Products Builder Agent<\/h4>\n
Archive360 Releases Governed AI-Ready Data Cloud<\/h4>\n
Boomi Acquires Thru, Inc.<\/h4>\n
Continuent Unveils Tungsten Dashboard v8<\/h4>\n
Fivetran Says AI Projects Fail Due to Lack of ‘Data Radiness’<\/h4>\n
GridGain 9.1 is Live and in the Wild<\/h4>\n
Informatica Launches Agentic AI on AI Data Management Platform<\/h4>\n
Kong Unveils New Event Gateway<\/h4>\n
Mezmo Announces Predictable Pricing for Telemetry Orchestration<\/h4>\n
Qlik Launches New Open Lakehouse on Talend Cloud<\/h4>\n
Quest Unveils erwin Data Intelligence 15<\/h4>\n
Redpanda Appoints Tyler Akidau as New CTO<\/h4>\n
TensorStax Raises $5 Million Seed Funding for Data Engineering AI Agents<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam<\/em>, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community<\/a><\/strong><\/span> 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.<\/p>\nNew by SR<\/em> Expert @ Insight Jam<\/em> Dr. Paula Caligiuri PhD: Too Many Options, Not Enough Clarity: Why Tolerance of Ambiguity is Tech’s Next Competitive Edge<\/h4>\n
Insight Jam<\/em> Set to Host Bob Eve for the Jam Session: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering<\/em> Featuring William McKnight, Aria Attar & Barzan Mozafari on May 20<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review<\/em> Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21<\/h4>\n
New by SR<\/em> Expert @ Insight Jam<\/em> John Santaferraro: Informatica 2025: A Year in Review<\/h4>\n
New by SR<\/em> Expert @ Insight Jam<\/em> Dr. Irina Steenbeek: What’s the Biggest Challenge in Implementing Data & AI Governance?<\/h4>\n
New by SR<\/em> Expert @ Insight Jam<\/em> Cher Fox: Shifting the Narrative from Data Management to Decision Enablement<\/h4>\n
New by SR<\/em> Expert @ Insight Jam<\/em> Samir Sharma: Stop Trying to Build a “Data Culture”<\/h4>\n