Digital-native startups are ditching rigid databases for their agentic stacks

The data layer underneath an agentic system must handle variable schemas, vector embeddings, real-time retrieval, and ...

Zilliz Launches Vector Lakebase, Extending the World's Most Adopted Vector Database into a Unified Data Platform for AI

Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the world's most widely adopted open-source vector database, today announced the public ...

Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs

Tech leaders are under pressure to satisfy growing demand for AI while keeping a lid on costs. That is becoming harder as ...

Zilliz Launches Loon, a Lake-Native Storage Engine That Lets One Copy of Vector Data Serve Every AI Workload

Zilliz, a leading AI data infrastructure company and the creator of Milvus, recently announced Loon, the new storage engine that powers Zilliz Vector Lakebase and ships in Milvus 3.0. Loon is the lake ...

Modern Data & Knowledge Platforms: The Foundation Every AI Strategy Actually Runs On: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Every conversation ...
The Silicon Review

Couchbase AI Wants to Redefine the AI Database Market. But Is This the Breakthrough Enterprises Have Been Waiting For?

Couchbase AI launches its AI Data Plane to transform the AI database market with Agent Memory, unified data access, and edge ...

Oracle Targets AI Security With Database-First Protection Strategy

Oracle expands its AI database security strategy with new data protection, patching, and cyber resilience tools to help ...
SDxCentral

AI is altering data storage scale, structure, and sanity

Data storage systems have been refined over the years to provide a stable platform onto which organizations can dump their ...

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

Database management work will soon be mostly automated by AI agents, just like coding, according to the CEO of Cockroach Labs ...
CIOOpinion

AI is exposing the real limits of enterprise cloud strategy

Executives approved a bold AI roadmap. Cloud spending climbed 40, 50, even 70 percent. And yet the AI workloads that made ...

OceanBase Unveils AI Database: A New Product Portfolio Unifying Multimodal Data, Real-Time Analytics, and AI Agent Workloads

OceanBase today announced the release of OceanBase AI Database, a comprehensive portfolio designed to enable enterprises to ...

There’s lots of hope when it comes to closing deals

Gretchen Gavett, managing editor of the Harvard Business Review, defines hope as “linking present action to a desired future, ...