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How Salesforce Data Cloud Fuels Fast, Accurate, Trusted AI Agents
Nearly 60% of the company's top 100 deals in Q1 FY26 included both Data Cloud and AI
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John Foley
AI Data Centers: Extreme Heat, Water Scarcity, AWS's New Liquid Cooling
Perplexity warns of 'significant and growing risk' from climate change
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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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John Foley
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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John Foley

June 2025

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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John Foley
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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John Foley
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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John Foley

May 2025

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