Data Management News for the Week of March 21; Updates from Confluent, DataStax, dbt Labs & More
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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of March 21, 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 21, 2025
Airbyte Launches Winter 2025 Update for First Party Data & AI Tools
AI teams and data teams everywhere are converging on data lakes, because lakes offer unmatched flexibility to support multiple use cases—whether it’s AI, analytics, or operations. And, with AI moving so fast, you want to be prepared for what’s next. Winter 2025 continues Airbyte's focus on performance improvements, and adds the features listed at the link below to further accelerate AI adoption.
Bedrock Security Announces New Metadata Lake
It provides continuous visibility across enterprise metadata by automatically cataloging all the data that exists, where it resides, who can access it, its level of sensitivity plus more than fifty other parameters.
Concentric AI Secures Patent for AI Data Security Governance
The new granted patent, titled “Method and Electronic Device for Managing Sensitive Data based on Semantic Categorization,†protects existing intellectual property for Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform.
Databricks Announces Hive Metastore and AWS Glue Federation in Unity Catalog
You can now effortlessly discover, query, and manage all your data from a single, centralized platform, regardless of the format and location. This not only fosters open access and collaboration across your organization but also extends data intelligence into every data source. Unlike static data catalogs or siloed tools, Bedrock Security uses AI and cloud-scale architecture to automatically discover, classify and gather other data risk context, continuously expanding knowledge in the metadata lake.
DataStax Announces Astra DB Hybrid Search
Accelerated by the?NVIDIA NeMo Retriever?reranking microservices, part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Astra DB Hybrid Search seamlessly integrates vector search and lexical search to deliver highly accurate, AI-driven search and recommendation experiences.
dbt Labs Announces the Release of dbt Copilot
With dbt Copilot, you’re not just injecting GenAI into your analytics workflows; you’re leveraging the full context of your data—its relationships, metadata, and lineage—to automate routine tasks and consistently uphold key ADLC best practices like documentation, data testing, semantic modeling, and SQL formatting.
Nexla Announces Open-Source Version of Agentic Chunking Tech
Building on years of technological leadership, Nexla has released its groundbreaking advancements in agentic chunking to developers worldwide, empowering organizations to create more accurate GenAI-powered agents and assistants while accelerating industry-wide innovation.
Pinecone Launches Pinecone for Agents & More
Every day this week, Pine rolled out new features to better support you in building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. The blog linked below will serve as your go-to hub for all announcements.
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Project Aether: NVIDIA Accelerates Apache Spark
Customers using Spark in production often manage tens of thousands of complex jobs, or more. Migrating from CPU-only to GPU-powered computing offers numerous and significant benefits, but can be a manual and time-consuming process.
Reltio Integrates with Alation on Agentic AI, Data Trust & Governance
The out-of-the-box integration of Reltio’s metadata with the Alation Agentic Platform enables unified data governance and easy discovery and consumption of well-governed, high-quality data by end users and AI agents.
Rerun Raises $17 Million in Funding for Multimodal Data Stack for Physical AI
Rerun is launching a new database and cloud data platform purpose-built for Physical AI data and workflows. The database is designed to manage complex multimodal data such as video streams, 3D scenes, and tensors that evolve at varying rates over time.?
StreamNative Announces New Ursa Engine
Along with Ursa Engine GA, StreamNative announces?UniLink?(Universal Linking) public preview to help customers migrate from legacy data streaming platforms to Ursa. These offerings drastically reduce infrastructure costs, simplify Apache Kafka? migrations, and unify governance across streaming and batch workloads—making real-time data a foundational asset for AI and analytics.
WEKA Integrates with NVIDIA AI Data Platform Reference Design
WEKA also unveiled its new Augmented Memory Grid capability, which integrates WEKA Data Platform software with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and enterprise software to accelerate AI inference, maximize the number of tokens processed per second, and dramatically increase token efficiency.
Expert Insights Section
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.
NEW?Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring Hyoun Park: The Plummeting Cost of AI
They discuss how AI model training costs have plummeted from $50 million to potentially just $50 in compute costs, the shift toward smaller specialized models rather than massive foundation models, and what these developments mean for enterprise AI adoption. The conversation explores how affordable AI will accelerate agent development and the challenges of orchestrating multiple AI agents to work together effectively.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Who Should Be Responsible for AI Governance?
The panel explores different leadership models, the importance of cross-functional collaboration, and practical approaches to defining roles and responsibilities. They draw parallels to established information governance practices while addressing the unique challenges of AI. Essential viewing for organizations developing AI governance structures that balance innovation with risk management.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Does AI Fundamentally Change Data Architecture?
Our data architecture experts discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming enterprise data systems. The panel explores why organizations need to bring AI operations closer to data, the growing importance of semantic layers, and the rise of graph-based approaches. They address challenges in metadata management, data fragmentation, and the need for shared language across organizational silos. Essential viewing for data professionals planning AI-ready architectures.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Robert Eve: Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI
If you are among the four million people who ride London’s Tube daily, you are undoubtedly familiar with its ubiquitous warning: Mind The Gap. That warning came to mind recently when I read a thought-provoking article, “The Gorilla in the Quadrant: Why Your Data and AI Governance Strategy Needs More Than Gartner’s Report,†by my friend and fellow Solutions Review Expert David Sweenor.
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