Cloud Database Report

The Aftermath of AWS's Crippling Database Glitch

Increased error rates, health check failures, connectivity issues, and DNS resolution problems wreaked havoc on sites, services, and apps.

Oct 24 • 

John Foley

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AI Agents: 10 New Developments from Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Open AI, Oracle and others

There's a flurry of activity as industry leaders build out their agentic platforms

Oct 9 • 

John Foley

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September 2025

How Air-Filled Fiber Promises to Ease the Data Center Capacity Crunch

Hollow Core Fiber allows for a bigger geographic footprint by moving data faster and farther than traditional fiber cable.

Sep 15 • 

John Foley

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Larry Ellison Hints at What's Next: Oracle AI Database

What can Oracle do for an encore to its Q1 earnings? A new multi-cloud AI database service is coming.

Sep 13 • 

John Foley

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August 2025

MongoDB Responds as AWS, Google, Microsoft Back Open Source Alternative

'Why do we hear so much about Postgres adoption?' asked one analyst.

Aug 30 • 

John Foley

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Databricks Targets AI Database Market with $1B in New Funding

CEO Ali Ghodsi: 'There's a new user. The user is not human.'

Aug 26 • 

John Foley

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Agentic Analytics: Salesforce Envisions Business Intelligence for Everyone

Autonomous AI agents are like having an analytics expert in your pocket

Aug 1 • 

John Foley

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July 2025

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

Jul 29 • 

John Foley

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AI Data Centers: Extreme Heat, Water Scarcity, AWS's New Liquid Cooling

Perplexity warns of 'significant and growing risk' from climate change

Published on Zettabytes • Jul 14

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

Jul 9 • 

John Foley

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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.

Jul 1 • 

John Foley

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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

Jun 28 • 

John Foley

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