Cloud data stories

Auditoria opens UK and Ireland data hubs and hires London lead as it chases 400% European growth and rising demand for sovereign AI.

Check Point adds AI Cloud Protect to Nvidia’s Enterprise AI Factory design to secure purpose-built AI data centres without GPU performance hit.

Aveva adds four AI assistants to Unified Engineering, promising faster generative and predictive design and smoother point cloud workflows.

Concentric AI brings its Semantic Intelligence data security platform to AWS GovCloud, targeting US public sector and tightly regulated users.

Catalogic refreshes DPX with browser-based tape management, richer hybrid reporting and streamlined scheduling for mixed environments.

DoiT snaps up SELECT to fold Snowflake spend optimisation into its Cloud Intelligence platform, advancing a USD $250 million AI push.

Indian firms ramp up AI pilots for customer engagement and marketing, but most still struggle to prove real returns and scale deployments.

WTW links its Radar platform with Databricks to cut insurer data turnaround to minutes and tighten governance on pricing and analytics work.

Informatica named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for data and analytics governance platforms, driven by its IDMC cloud platform.

Seagate has begun shipping 32TB CMR hard drives for AI-driven video and analytics, targeting edge security, NAS and cloud data centre workloads.

Outdated, inaccurate and duplicate records are crippling data-driven decisions, but simple verification and cleansing tools can reverse the damage.

Informatica from Salesforce is named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, its 20th straight year on top.

Denodo named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for data integration, its sixth straight top-tier ranking amid rising AI demand.

‘ZombieAgent’ flaw lets crafted content hijack ChatGPT-based agents for stealth cloud data theft that evades corporate security tools.

Snowflake invests in Ataccama to embed automated data trust and quality tools deeper into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for enterprise AI.

Snowflake will run Google’s Gemini 3 AI models natively in Cortex, keeping enterprise data in-platform while deepening Google Cloud ties.

Johnson Controls to spend S$60m expanding its Singapore Innovation Centre to develop AI-ready, energy-efficient cooling for data centres.

Snowflake and Anthropic deepen their Claude tie-up with a USD $200m deal to power regulated, enterprise-ready AI agents worldwide.

Generative AI promises transformation, but without modern, rigorous data governance frameworks, projects risk failure, fines and lost trust.

Boards are set to demand tougher ROI and stricter data foundations from AI projects in 2026, as natural language tools reshape data work.