Data Management News for the Week of May 16; Updates from Actian, Alation, Informatica & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 16, 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 May 16, 2025
Featured: New Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might
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.
Actian Launches New Data Observability with AI/ML Data Quality Monitoring
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.
Aerospike Enables 30-Minute Database Deployment on AWS
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’s built on AWS’s Data on EKS (DoEKS), an open source project that accelerates building, deploying, and scaling data workloads on Amazon EKS.
Airbyte Announces New Product Enhancements
In terms of product development, the company added Airbyte Embedded to 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.
Alation Unveils New Data Products Builder Agent
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 Alation Data Products Marketplace. By automating the data product lifecycle, the Data Products Agent streamlines curation, packaging, and publishing processes.
Archive360 Releases Governed AI-Ready Data Cloud
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.
Boomi Acquires Thru, Inc.
The acquisition will streamline customer experiences by embedding Thru, Inc.’s functionality directly into the Boomi Enterprise Platform, enabling the integrated management of APIs, applications, and files from a single, intelligent interface.
Continuent Unveils Tungsten Dashboard v8
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.
Fivetran Says AI Projects Fail Due to Lack of ‘Data Radiness’
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.
GridGain 9.1 is Live and in the Wild
The core enabler of GridGain 9.1 is the concept of secondary 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.
Informatica Launches Agentic AI on AI Data Management Platform
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.
Kong Unveils New Event Gateway
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.
Mezmo Announces Predictable Pricing for Telemetry Orchestration
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 — calculated in complex formulas — to process and analyze telemetry data, even as global data volumes are projected to more than double by 2028.
Qlik Launches New Open Lakehouse on Talend Cloud
Qlik Open Lakehouse is built from the ground up to meet the scale, flexibility, and performance demands of modern enterprises — without the tradeoffs. It combines real-time ingestion, intelligent optimization, and true ecosystem interoperability in a single, fully managed platform.
Quest Unveils erwin Data Intelligence 15
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.
Redpanda Appoints Tyler Akidau as New CTO
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.
TensorStax Raises $5 Million Seed Funding for Data Engineering AI Agents
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.
Expert Insights
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 by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Paula Caligiuri PhD: Too Many Options, Not Enough Clarity: Why Tolerance of Ambiguity is Tech’s Next Competitive Edge
According to our April 2025 study, 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.
Insight Jam Set to Host Bob Eve for the Jam Session: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering Featuring William McKnight, Aria Attar & Barzan Mozafari on May 20
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, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam John Santaferraro: Informatica 2025: A Year in Review
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.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Irina Steenbeek: What’s the Biggest Challenge in Implementing Data & AI Governance?
The higher percentage for AI is understandable—it’s 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.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Cher Fox: Shifting the Narrative from Data Management to Decision Enablement
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.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Stop Trying to Build a “Data Culture”
Having worked in the industry for over 20 years, I’ve seen plenty of trends come and go. One that’s stuck around is the idea of building a “data culture.” But often, that ends up feeling like something separate, bolted on rather than built in. That’s the real issue.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI
Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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