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Microsoft's Flagship Database Is Now Built for AI: SQL Server 2025
Advancing the 'state of the art' in relational databases with Web-scale vector search
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CEO Ali Ghodsi: Databricks Is an 'AI Database'
That unofficial label met resistance in the past, he says, but it's the most accurate way to describe the platform.
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AI Data Centers: 3x Demand, Billion-Dollar Projects, New Energy Sources
Infrastructure is struggling to keep up, according to one expert source — an AI model
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The Story Behind One of Tech's Most Obscure Product Names
Windows, Java, and Zoom are catchy monikers. This one, not so much.
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PostgreSQL Charges Ahead with AWS, Databricks, IBM, Microsoft, Snowflake
The industry's most-popular, most-compatible database now has the most momentum, too.
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Startups: Agentuity Envisions a Purpose-Built Cloud with Trillions of AI Agents
A provocative idea will have to overcome the reality of existing infrastructure.
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A Milestone, Update, and Look Ahead
The Cloud Database Report keeps growing as business rallies around data and AI
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Informatica’s Last, Big Solo Dance
A reporter's notebook on Informatica World 2025 in the days before the company's $8 billion acquisition deal with Salesforce
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The End of Big Data
As much as 80% of business data gets deleted, wiped, overwritten, or destroyed.
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Salesforce and Informatica in $8 Billion AI Data Deal: 5 Strategic Synergies
Marc Benioff envisions "the ultimate AI-data platform"
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Good AI vs. Bad Data: The Fight to Get It Right
At Informatica World, AI gets a data-quality litmus test, with mixed results
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Database Rocket Fuel from Neon, Firebolt, Tessell, Starburst
Startup advances in PostgreSQL, AI, data warehousing, multi-cloud, data lakehouse
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