Jun 20, 2025

By Tim King , Executive Editor at Solutions Review Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of June 20, 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. For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam , a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI. Top Data Management News for the Week Ending June 20, 2025 BARC Analyst Report Reveals Data Gaps Hindering AI Success A new BARC analyst report highlights that missing or incomplete data remains a critical barrier to successful AI and analytics projects. Organizations are urged to invest in better data governance and integration strategies to unlock the full potential of their AI initiatives and drive measurable business outcomes. Read more: finance.yahoo.com/news/barc-analyst-report-reveals-missing-130100004.html BigID Debuts First Managed DPSM Offering for Global Security Providers BigID has launched the industry’s first managed Data Protection, Security, and Management (DPSM) solution tailored for global MSSPs and MSPs. This new offering enables service providers to deliver advanced data security, privacy, and compliance capabilities to their clients, streamlining risk management and regulatory adherence across diverse environments. Read more: prnewswire.com/news-releases/bigid-launches-first-managed-dpsm-offering-for-global-mssps-and-msps-302484106.html Diskover Raises $7.5M, Partners with Snowflake & NetApp, and Acquires CloudSoda to Unlock Unstructured Data for Enterprise AI Diskover, a pioneer in structuring unstructured data at exabyte scale, has secured $7.5 million in seed funding with investments from Snowflake Ventures, NetApp, Park Partners, and The Hive. The company also announced partnerships with Snowflake and NetApp and the acquisition of CloudSoda, a data intelligence and orchestration platform. These moves position Diskover to help enterprises gain visibility and control over their vast unstructured data estates, powering more efficient AI pipelines and ensuring security and compliance across hybrid environments. Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/20250617182942/en/CORRECTING-and-REPLACING-Unstructured-Data-Pioneer-Diskover-Unveils-%247.5M-Seed-Round-Investment-by-Snowflake-Ventures-NetApp-and-CloudSoda-Acquisition EDB Postgres AI Accelerates the Era of Autonomous Data Management EDB has announced Postgres AI, an advanced platform designed to automate database management and optimize AI-driven workloads. The solution leverages machine learning to enhance performance, scalability, and security, empowering enterprises to modernize their data infrastructure and accelerate digital transformation. Read more: finance.yahoo.com/news/edb-postgres-ai-accelerates-era-110000464.html Extend Raises $17 Million to Build the Document Processing Cloud Extend has secured $17 million in funding to accelerate the development of its Document Processing Cloud. The platform aims to transform how enterprises manage, extract, and leverage data from documents, offering scalable automation and advanced analytics to streamline business workflows. Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/20250617790342/en/Extend-Raises-%2417-Million-to-Build-the-Document-Processing-Cloud Fivetran Report: Enterprises Race Toward AI, But Data Readiness Lags A new Fivetran report finds that nearly half of enterprise AI projects are delayed, underperforming, or fail altogether due to poor data readiness, despite aggressive AI investments and strategies. Key challenges include lack of centralized, governed data, integration bottlenecks, and compliance concerns. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the survey highlights the urgent need for robust, real-time data infrastructure to turn AI ambition into business impact. Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/20250618605894/en/Fivetran-Report-Finds-Enterprises-Racing-Toward-AI-Without-the-Data-to-Support-It Hammerspace Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace Hammerspace, a leader in data orchestration, is now available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, making it easier for enterprises to deploy Hammerspace’s global data environment in Oracle Cloud. This integration enables organizations to seamlessly orchestrate, protect, and access data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, accelerating innovation and simplifying data management for Oracle Cloud users. Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/20250619581745/en/Hammerspace-Now-Available-on-Oracle-Cloud-Marketplace Qlik Survey: Americans Prefer Donating Blood Over Sharing Health Data A new Qlik survey reveals that Americans are more willing to donate blood than to hand over their health data. The findings highlight growing concerns around privacy and trust in the healthcare system, with many respondents expressing reluctance to share sensitive information even if it could benefit medical research or improve care. Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/20250617139926/en/Americans-Would-Rather-Donate-Blood-Than-Hand-Over-Their-Health-Data-Qlik-Survey-Reveal Qumulo Stratus: Cryptographically Isolated Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud Data Platform Qumulo has announced Stratus, a multi-tenant data platform that delivers cryptographically isolated data management from edge to core to cloud. Stratus is designed to empower organizations with secure, scalable, and resilient data storage, supporting modern workloads and regulatory requirements across distributed environments. Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/20250617477912/en/Qumulo-Stratus-Cryptographically-Isolated-Edge-to-CoretoCloud-MultiTenant-Data-Platform Sifflet Secures $18M to Accelerate Data Observability Growth Sifflet, a leader in data observability, has raised $18 million to fuel its North American expansion and accelerate product innovation. The company, known for its unique approach that bridges technical and business needs, has tripled both its customer base and revenue over the past year. Sifflet’s AI-native platform is now trusted by major global brands to ensure data reliability and quality across analytics and AI initiatives, setting new standards for enterprise data health. Read more: openpr.com/news/4075722/sifflet-data-observability-platform-confirms-momentum-with SingleStore Unveils Enterprise AI Platform for Real-Time, Serverless Workflows SingleStore has launched a major update to its enterprise AI platform, introducing real-time, serverless functions designed to streamline development and deliver ultimate flexibility for AI-powered applications. The new release focuses on enhancing developer productivity and enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale AI solutions faster and more efficiently. Read more: aithority.com/machine-learning/singlestore-drops-an-enterprise-ai-glow-up-built-for-real-time-serverless-functions-and-ultimate-dev-flow/ WEKA Launches NeuralMesh Adaptive AI Data Platform WEKA has announced NeuralMesh, a revolutionary software-defined storage system purpose-built for the new era of agentic AI and real-time reasoning. NeuralMesh’s dynamic mesh architecture offers microsecond latency, self-healing resilience, and scalable performance that improves as data grows—unlike traditional storage that slows under pressure. Read more: weka.io/company/weka-newsroom/press-releases/weka-introduces-neuralmesh 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. WATCH: Expert Roundtable: AI Agents in Proactive Data Management: Governance, Ethics & Architecture This session explores how AI agents are being developed and deployed to anticipate, prevent, and respond to issues in real-time through data-driven insights — with a focus on the governance, ethics, and architecture behind such predictive systems. With Fox Consulting’s President Cher (The Datanista) Fox as panel moderator and featuring Dutch Schwartz, DataPrivacy CMO Kohei Kurihara, Noelle Russell (Microsoft MVP, AI), Raghavan Chellappan, and Graphwise’s Sumit Pal. WATCH: Expert Roundtable: Beyond Human Speed: AI Agents Transforming Real-Time Data Analysis This panel explores the evolution of AI from passive assistants (like copilots) to active, autonomous collaborators that can execute, manage, and even optimize complex business processes. The session focuses on how AI agents are no longer just helping — they’re doing — and what that means for workflows, workforce design, and business operations. Mini Jam Q2, 2025 – AI Agents of Change: Watch All Sessions On-Demand NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD. : You Can Work Alone – But You Won’t Win Alone According to our April 2025 report,  85 percent of tech professionals say relationship-building is very important . Yet, over a quarter of the respondents (30 percent) struggle to maintain strong professional connections, and a surprising number (26 percent) prefer to work alone, even when collaboration would drive better results. NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Dr, Joe Perez: The Empire of Presumption and the Power of Data History has no shortage of characters who seized power through force of will alone, believing their own vision was strong enough to keep an empire intact. Napoleon Bonaparte was a such an individual whose one-track mind filled with presumptuous ambition reshaped not only France but also Italy, forging new political structures on the foundation of his own confidence rather than measured governance.