The Modern Data Stack Was Never Built to Make Decisions

I was in a meeting recently with a VP of Data at a mid-size enterprise when she said something that stopped me. We were talking about her team’s quarterly roadmap, and she paused and said, almost to herself: “We have faster pipelines than we’ve ever had, and somehow decisions still take a week.” She wasn’t…

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MariaDB to Acquire GridGain to Tackle the AI Latency Gap

MariaDB is set to acquire GridGain Systems with the aim to deliver sub-millisecond data performance for agentic AI workloads. GridGain is the company behind the in-memory computing platform and developer of the open source project Apache Ignite. The deal comes at a time when technology vendors are rethinking the foundations of the modern data stack…

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