Stephanie Simone

In this clip from Data Summit 2026, John O'Brien, Radiant Advisors' principal advisor and industry analyst, quantifies and demonstrates what differentiates organizations succeeding with agentic AI from organizations continuing to struggle with it and what the data tells us.

Databricks announced that the Electric team is joining Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes-extending Databricks' Postgres capabilities from the lakehouse to the edge. Electric is leading the way in pioneering data primitives purpose-built for agents: PGlite gives every agent its own lightweight Postgres right where it runs, providing ultra-low latency access to local context, and Electric's real-time sync engine synchronizes distributed state back to a central Lakebase, enabling teams of agents to collaborate without losing track of shared context, according to the company.

Blumira, the security operations platform for growing teams and partners, is introducing Hearth, a vendor-agnostic AI command center that intelligently reasons across the complete workspace, so teams can coordinate their whole environment from one place.

The influence of generative AI (GenAI) and decision intelligence continues to drive data-driven processes. While data quality and security remain essential, everyday components, organizations should also embrace AI/ machine language-driven automation and self-service analytics, while paying equal attention to the human element, thereby fostering a strong data culture, robust governance, and enhanced data literacy. With more data being created than ever before, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics solutions is a top priority for many organizations. To help companies progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, offering the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts-our readers!

In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Michael Vasicek, Airo Digital Labs SVP of sales and AI enablement, asks should information professionals believe the hype that they will all be reporting to AI agents one day soon, or that their jobs will disappear and be replaced by AI reporting to AI reporting to AI?

Since the sudden explosion of generative AI with OpenAI's debut of Chat-GPT in 2022, AI itself has quickly evolved to act as different things to different organizations and people-sometimes lacking alignment. Adoption of AI in some form is now widespread, with McKinsey research suggesting that 88% of organizations are deploying AI in at least parts of their organizations. However, just as many report no significant bottom-line impact. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.

PDQ is releasing new capabilities that give IT teams more control across their environments without adding complexity-making PDQ more complete and easier to use, helping admins see Windows update status clearly, deploy and automate patching for macOS software, reboot devices directly, and enroll new devices faster.

Lantronix Inc., a global provider of edge AI and industrial IoT solutions, is acquiring the assets of Vecima Networks Inc.'s industrial IoT (IIoT) business, including its Nero Global Tracking software-as-a-service platform. The transaction is expected to close in the near term, subject to customary closing conditions.

DXC Technology (DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, is releasing its DXC Private Cloud+, delivering public cloud-like flexibility and pricing while maintaining full control over sensitive data and workloads.

In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Michael Vasicek, Airo Digital Labs SVP of sales and AI enablement, identified 7 business use cases for agentic AI implemented at Airo Digital, drilling down into two that improve operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction.