Cloud data stories
Demand for data governance is rising as regulated organisations spend more on AI, and RecordPoint is betting on partners to capture it.
The recognition underscores how governed customer data is becoming essential as marketers shift toward real-time decisions and AI-driven personalisation.
The tie-up should let brands move customer data and campaign signals between systems faster, while cutting middleware, sprawl and governance risk.
The refinancing gives the Copenhagen-based software group room to expand enterprise sales and fund AI services built on backup data.
Room-temperature photonic systems could help quantum machines slot into data centres and classical supercomputers without cryogenic cooling.
Businesses can now query BigQuery in plain English, with Google adding audit trails, access controls and scheduled AI analyses.
Analysts can now summarise millions of unstructured rows in BigQuery SQL, as Google's new preview function flags patterns in text and images.
It gives security teams a single view of backup coverage and recovery risk, helping spot gaps before a cloud incident slows restoration.
The funding will help the London-based consultancy expand through acquisitions and into new markets as demand for digital change and security grows.
Enterprises can now run AI agents on live PostgreSQL data with governance controls, as EDB expands its Postgres AI platform.
Retailers can tap seller and customer data without duplicating systems after Marketplacer expanded its integration with Snowflake's AI Data Cloud.
The tie-up gives Databricks users quality and lineage checks for AI workflows, helping teams spot risky data before it reaches models.
The new role reflects growing demand from banks and wealth managers for help modernising operations, data and security as systems grow more complex.
The layer is designed to stop AI misreading marketing shifts, after many pilots fail because systems lack business context and governance.
Only 7% of enterprises are seeing measurable returns from agentic AI, as poor data readiness and fragmented systems hold back adoption.
Wealth managers could cut manual reconciliation as the tie-up gives access to data from more than 650 financial institutions in one system.
AI pilots stall less on model quality than on messy data, disconnected tools and weak governance, Snowflake Summit heard.
A lack of live data infrastructure is leaving most Australian IT leaders unable to scale AI, according to new research from Confluent.
Data silos and staff time are being cut as the township uses AI agents to speed calculations, analyse waste and answer residents online.
Lenders in Australia can now score borrowers without moving data out of Snowflake, as the app targets faster, simpler underwriting.
