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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 9, 2026.<\/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 Apache Software Foundation Announces Top\u2011Level Project Promotions and Community Milestones<\/strong><\/p>\n The Apache Software Foundation highlighted several projects graduating to top\u2011level status and reported continued growth in its global contributor community. The updates reinforce Apache\u2019s central role in the open\u2011source data and AI ecosystem, with projects powering everything from big data platforms to streaming and machine\u2011learning infrastructure.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/apache-software-foundation-announces-top-140000584.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n New in BindPlane: Permalinks for Telemetry Pipelines and Assets<\/strong><\/p>\n BindPlane introduced Permalinks, giving users stable, shareable URLs that deep\u2011link directly to specific collectors, pipelines, or views in the BindPlane UI to simplify collaboration and troubleshooting. Combined with recent features like Fleets, Blueprints, and Bring Your Own Collector, Permalinks make it easier for distributed teams to coordinate on telemetry changes, reviews, and incident response at scale.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/bindplane.com\/blog\/new-in-bindplane-permalinks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Cleo Names Haitham Ghadiry Senior Vice President, Industry & Ecosystem<\/b><\/p>\n Ghadiry brings more than 25 years of supply chain technology and B2B SaaS leadership experience, with deep expertise in vertical go\u2011to\u2011market, channel development, and revenue scaling. Most notably, Ghadiry spent 12 years at TrueCommerce, where he served as SVP of Sales & Marketing and helped grow the company from startup to a large, scaled software business.\u00a0\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192 https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260106957935\/en\/Cleo-Names-Haitham-Ghadiry-Senior-Vice-President-Industry-Ecosystem<\/a><\/p>\n DoiT Acquires SELECT to Eliminate Snowflake Waste<\/strong><\/p>\n DoiT acquired SELECT, a data optimization startup built to give teams deep visibility into Snowflake usage and automatically cut waste from misconfigured compute, inefficient queries, and misaligned workloads. SELECT\u2019s technology becomes PerfectScale for Snowflake inside the DoiT Cloud Intelligence platform, extending FinOps automation into the data layer so customers get AI\u2011assisted recommendations and policy\u2011driven optimizations that reduce costs without harming performance or data quality.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260107287084\/en\/DoiT-Acquires-SELECT-to-Eliminate-Snowflake-Waste<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n FICO Adds NVIDIA GPU Power to Xpress for 50\u00d7 Speed\u2011Up<\/strong><\/p>\n FICO integrated NVIDIA GPU acceleration into its Xpress optimization solver, reporting up to 50\u00d7 faster performance for large, complex decision models. The boost allows businesses to run more frequent and granular optimization for pricing, supply chain, and risk decisions, supporting real\u2011time, AI\u2011driven operations.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/ecommercenews.com.au\/story\/fico-adds-nvidia-gpu-power-to-xpress-for-50x-speed-up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Kiteworks and Concentric AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive Data Security Governance and Enforcement<\/strong><\/p>\n Kiteworks and Concentric AI formed a strategic partnership that combines Concentric\u2019s AI\u2011powered semantic discovery and classification with Kiteworks\u2019 policy\u2011driven enforcement to protect sensitive data as it moves outside the enterprise. Concentric\u2019s labels (such as \u201cConfidential,\u201d HIPAA, or GDPR) flow into the Kiteworks Private Data Network, which then automatically applies controls like encryption, watermarking, access limits, and possessionless editing, creating continuous, auditable protection for data shared via email, MFT, SFTP, forms, and APIs.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/press-release\/story\/136369\/kiteworks-concentric-ai-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deliver-comprehensive-data-security-governance-enforcement\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Precisely Achieves FedRAMP Authorization for Its Data Integrity Suite<\/strong><\/p>\n Precisely announced FedRAMP authorization, enabling US federal agencies to use its Data Integrity Suite for governed data quality, enrichment, and location intelligence in compliant cloud environments. With authorization, Precisely can support more government workloads that require high\u2011assurance data for analytics, AI, and mission\u2011critical operations.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/precisely-achieves-fedramp-authorization-140000300.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI\u2011Powered Observability at Enterprise Scale<\/strong><\/p>\n Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on the Snowflake Data Cloud, to offer integrated, AI\u2011powered monitoring and troubleshooting within its AI Data Cloud. The deal aims to give customers a single environment for logs, metrics, traces, and business data, enabling LLM\u2011driven root\u2011cause analysis and operations insights without duplicating data across tools.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260108681865\/en\/Snowflake-Announces-Intent-to-Acquire-Observe-to-Deliver-AI-Powered-Observability-at-Enterprise-Scale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n VAST Data Co\u2011Founder on Building AI Before the Hype<\/strong><\/p>\n In a wide\u2011ranging interview, VAST Data co\u2011founder and CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company started designing its platform for AI workloads back in 2016, long before the current generative AI boom. He describes VAST as an \u201cAI operating system\u201d that unifies storage, database, and compute into a software infrastructure layer for training, inference, fine\u2011tuning, and agentic applications, enabling both hyperscale clouds and enterprises to run next\u2011generation AI on a single data platform.\u200b<\/span>\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.frontier-enterprise.com\/vast-data-co-founder-on-building-ai-before-the-hype\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n This year\u2019s show is the first since Insight Jam<\/em>\u2019s YouTube channel crossed 1 million subscribers<\/a><\/strong><\/span>; a showcase of how network effect works. Every keynote, panel, and highlight will be streamed live and preserved for on-demand viewing \u2014 amplifying the reach of every speaker and extending the impact of every insight in an evergreen way.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Artificial intelligence is everywhere\u2014but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review<\/em>‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 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\u2014the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.<\/span><\/p>\n Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n Sign Up Free<\/a><\/p>\n In this fireside chat, an analyst-led discussion will explore how observability has evolved, whether today\u2019s tools are ready for these new demands, and why observability is becoming essential in the agentic AI era. The session will also highlight how solutions like Impetus Prism help organizations bring observability and cost intelligence together as an enterprise capability.<\/p>\n Register on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n This webinar examines three structural challenges behind that bottleneck: distributed datasets, heterogeneous environments, and rising expectations for true self-service analytics. We then outline architectural principles that dynamically integrate data, metadata, and analytics to guide wide-ranging business decisions.<\/p>\n Register on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n The most significant problem in enterprise data and AI is\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0the technology; it’s the\u00a0strategy-execution gap<\/span>. The vast majority of data & AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable value because the Boardroom\u2019s strategic vision cannot be translated into the day-to-day execution of technical teams. This strategic disconnect costs the global economy trillions in wasted effort, failed projects, and missed opportunities.<\/p>\n Get it on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n Discover why even perfect data quality doesn’t guarantee trustworthy AI, and what evidence-based governance means beyond marketing claims. Actual benchmarks, measurable results, and technical assessments instead of opinions. Learn why AI governance must be implemented in the tech stack, not on paper, and why it’s closer to cybersecurity than compliance documents.<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Data engineers struggle mightily to prepare and deliver data to voracious consumers that range from executives to line managers, analysts, data scientists, and of course AI agents. Given the scale and complexity of modern analytics initiatives, it\u2019s no surprise that 69 percent of 131 respondents to a recent LinkedIn\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0expect demand for data engineers to rise next year even as AI reduces the need for other software roles.<\/p>\nTop Data Management News for the Week Ending January 9,<\/strong> 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\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>\nWatch the 7th annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Human Development Focus & the Impact of AI <\/em>Now On-Demand<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review<\/em> Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review<\/i> is Getting Set to Host Impetus and Forrester Research for Exclusive Session ‘The Next Generation of Observability in the Era of Agentic AI’ on January 28<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review<\/i> is Getting Set to Host Promethium and BARC for Exclusive Session ‘Break the Metadata Bottleneck to Drive Agentic AI and Contextual Insights’ on January 29<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review Expert Samir Sharma Publishes New Book: The Strategy Canvas: A Field Guide for Data & AI<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
The Digital Analyst<\/em> with John Santaferraro: Evidence-Based AI Governance: Beyond Marketing Claims Featuring Petar Tsankov<\/h4>\n
Thought Leaders: Agentic Data Management and Data Observability: Autonomous Agents Arrive Just in Time by Kevin Petrie<\/strong><\/h4>\n