Three platforms run most Fortune 500 analytics. The 2026 pricing, architecture, and acquisition moves separate the SQL shops from the ML shops from the GCP shops.
The DataOps platform market is projected to nearly triple from $3.9B to $10.9B by 2028. The economics behind that growth deserve scrutiny, not applause.
Three months after IBM closed its $11B acquisition, Confluent is shipping an MCP server, in-Flink PII redaction, and Azure Private Link. The streaming layer is being reframed as AI infrastructure.
The source article on Preonz and decision intelligence platforms is blocked behind a bot-detection wall. Here's what that means, and what the category actually looks like.
Databricks just merged OLAP and OLTP into one storage layer, claimed 16x speedups over specialized real-time stacks, and launched a CDP. The pipeline tax is the target.
MotherDuck launched Flights on June 10, pricing agent-driven data ingestion at 60 cents per hour. With 850 paying customers and $100M raised, the math is deliberate.
Fivetran and dbt Labs closed their all-stock merger on June 5, combining two pillars of the modern data stack under one roof to chase the agentic AI workload.