Tag: Apache Iceberg

SAP Completes Prior Labs Acquisition to Advance Structured Data AI
July 22, 2026

SAP Completes Prior Labs Acquisition to Advance Structured Data AI

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on why SAP’s Prior Labs acquisition must produce measurable business results....
Databricks Data + AI Summit: Looking Beyond the Database Through Unified Transactions, Analytics, and Agentic AI
June 22, 2026

Databricks Data + AI Summit: Looking Beyond the Database Through Unified Transactions, Analytics, and Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin, Chief Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on Databricks' 2026 Summit announcements, detailing how the unification of transactional and analytical data via LTAP lays the groundwork for truly...
Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers
June 3, 2026

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Snowflake's four infrastructure bets—Cortex Sense, Iceberg v3, Datastream, and Adaptive Compute—that will determine the success of the agentic enterprise....
Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness
June 2, 2026

Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Starburst's new Enterprise Intelligence Platform, exploring how federated data access and Managed Icehouse are solving the unpredictable cloud...
Can SAP Finally Kill the ETL Monster? The Dremio and Prior Labs Acquisition Explained
May 6, 2026

Can SAP Finally Kill the ETL Monster? The Dremio and Prior Labs Acquisition Explained

Brad Shimmin, analyst at Futurum, analyzes SAP's major move to acquire Dremio and Prior Labs. This strategic play addresses the core challenges of enterprise data fragmentation and specialized AI reasoning...
Going Beyond the Data Graveyard With Google’s Agentic Data Cloud as the New Semantic Core for Agentic AI
April 24, 2026

Going Beyond the Data Graveyard With Google’s Agentic Data Cloud as the New Semantic Core for Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin, Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on Google's new Agentic Data Cloud. See how this shift from passive storage to active intelligence helps organizations ditch manual data plumbing...
Can Databricks Out-Iceberg the Competition?
April 20, 2026

Can Databricks Out-Iceberg the Competition?

Brad Shimmin, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Databricks’ public preview of Apache Iceberg v3, detailing how deletion vectors and the VARIANT data type bring performance parity and interoperability to the...
ClickHouse Builds a CLI to Make its Databases Agent-Native
April 15, 2026

ClickHouse Builds a CLI to Make its Databases Agent-Native

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores Cloudera’s latest hybrid data platform updates. He analyzes how the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Fabric and Iceberg REST Catalog are designed to reduce...
The Open Lakehouse Imperative: Delivering AI Value Without Compromise
February 27, 2026

The Open Lakehouse Imperative: Delivering AI Value Without Compromise

In The Open Lakehouse Imperative: Delivering AI Value Without Compromise, a report commissioned by Oracle, Futurum Research explains why many lakehouse stacks still force tradeoffs—and what a truly open, multi-cloud,...
Snowflake Acquires Observe Operationalizing the Data Cloud
January 26, 2026

Snowflake Acquires Observe: Operationalizing the Data Cloud

Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Snowflake’s intent to acquire Observe and integrate AI-powered observability into the AI Data Cloud....
Snowflake Summit '25: Accelerating AI with Unified Data & Compute
June 5, 2025

Snowflake Summit ’25: Accelerating AI with Unified Data & Compute

Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Snowflake Summit 2025. Key announcements like Cortex AI, OpenFlow, and Adaptive Compute aim to accelerate enterprise AI by unifying...
AWS Puts S3 and Next Generation of SageMaker at the Heart of its Data and Analytics Strategy during Pi Day 2025
March 21, 2025

AWS Puts S3 and Next Generation of SageMaker at the Heart of Its Data and Analytics Strategy During Pi Day 2025

The Futurum Group's analyst unpacks AWS's SageMaker Unified Studio launch and S3 Tables updates. Learn how this simplifies data and AI workflows for enterprises and strengthens their data lakehouse strategy....

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