It's About Data

Weimo Liu, CEO of PuppyGraph, joins us to discuss a new approach to graph analytics, bringing a graph query engine to existing relational and columnar data stores.#graphdatabase #dataanalytics #dataengineering

We're joined by Francois Lopitaux (SVP Product Management, ThoughSpot) to discuss the rise of semantic layers as a key source of agentic AI context, and the development of Open Semantic Interchange to facilitate sharing between tools and platforms.#dataanalytics #agenticai

This is a continuation of our conversation with Sanjeev Mohan in episode 27. We discuss the implications of Open Semantic Interchange, a data industry alliance designed to streamline semantic model sharing. Sanjeev also relates his experiences traveling to China for tech industry conferences.#dataanalyticsEp 27 link:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AnyrsnDKryuOKCSOY1VLX?si=9H-P-zvkSdKueaQcM25eYw

John Santaferraro, host of The Digital Analyst Podcast, drops by to discuss practical deployment of AI and agents at his clients and in the broader data industry. The Digital Analyst Podcastthedigitalanalyst.aihttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivd8WaRu-XkJsuP8YAtk8T1QYRYlEkD5&si=bIzbB3rCMBdq2YBW  @InsightJam  https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsantaferraro/ferraroconsulting.com#agenticai #artif...

We discuss Oracle AI World 2025. After forty years of database dominance, is Oracle becoming a cloud infrastructure company? How solid is Oracle's backlog? Will OpenAI pay its bills?#oracledatabase #oracle #cloudcomputing

We're joined by Amit Ganesh (VP of Engineering | AI and Databases | Google) to discuss Target's recent search overhaul powered by AlloyDB AI.A related blog post:https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/retail/from-query-to-cart-inside-targets-search-bar-overhaul-with-alloydb-ai#vectordatabase #postgresql #artificialintelligence

Martin Willcox joins Tony and Matt at Teradata Possible 2025 to discuss the challenges of deploying agents in the field. How do we help agents understand the needs of customers even though they're 'not the sharpest tools in the box'?#agenticai #vectordatabase #largelanguagemodels

This episode, special guest Sanjeev Mohan joins Tony and Matt to discuss acquisitions, rumors of acquisitions and the perpetual AI capital machine. #artificialintelligence , #openai , Fivetran, DBT, #databricks

We're joined by guest John O'Brien to discuss the universal semantic layer. https://radiant-advisors.kit.com/e293763bb5#dataengineering #dataanalytics #datamodeling

We discuss Graph Summit NYC and Neo4j. Graph RAG, knowledge graphs, agentic logic, Infinigraph and more.#dataengineering #graphdatabase #agenticai

Our guest this time is Ryan Gross of Caylent, here to discuss a recently commissioned report on The Database Migration Bottleneck. This was catnip for data nerds like us. Among other things, we discuss why 94% of database migrations miss deadlines and how to use AI to effectively build test driven automation.https://caylent.com/blog/the-database-modernization-bottleneck-survey-report#artificialint...

Oracle disclosed a massive backlog as part of its Q1 earnings call. #cloudcomputing #artificialintelligence

In this episode, we discuss an under the radar data company that powers some massive platforms. It's About Data is a media sponsor of http://datadaytexas.com/ 2026. Register with discount code ITSABOUTDATA.#dataanalytics #healthcaredata #venturecapital

Dave Langer joins Tony and Matt to discuss his upcoming book "Python in Excel: step-by-step." #excel #python #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence

Ollie Hughes (CEO of Count.co) joins Tony and Matt for episode 20. How can #data teams rise above the noise? How will data roles evolve when basic technical tasks are automated? YouTube link: https://youtu.be/1Rm7jySLkog Check out Count: count.co #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence

Jessica Talisman joins Tony and Matt to discuss the current limitations of AI systems, and finding solutions in knowledge infrastructure and knowledge engineering. Learn more about Jessica's work: https://ontologypipeline.com/ https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmtalisman/ #artificialintelligence #knowledgegraphs #ontology

Tony gets a blast of AI related news at AWS Summit 2025 NYC.#modelcontextprotocol #aiagents #vectordatabase

Nvidia just hit a record market capitalization of $4.2 trillion. We interrupt our summer lull to give our hot take #nvidia #generativeai #deeplearning

We're joined by guests Mehul Shah and Kambiz Aghili to discuss Oracle Database@AWS. What do broadening multi-cloud partnerships mean for customers and cloud architects? #amazonwebservices #oracle #cloudcomputing #dataengineering

Tony and Matt follow up the previous episode's review of first half announcements with a discussion of major themes for the year to date. Acquisitions, rebundling the modern data stack, data products, interop and the future of engineers in an #artificialintelligence driven industry.

Tony and Matt review vendor news from the first half of 2025. In short: agents, agents, agents.#aiagents #enterpriseai #cloudcomputing #datawarehousing

Matt and Tony discuss the 2025 edition of  @Databricks ' annual shindig in San Francisco. #postgres #iceberg @snowflakeinc #airealism Articles mentioned in the episode: https://www.businessinsider.com/when-ai-automation-replacing-humans-databricks-ceo-ali-ghodsi-2025-6 https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2025/05/06/ai-bubble-burst-databricks-ceo-gic-bridge-forum.html

Ryan joins Tony and Matt to discuss the recent release of DuckLake, a combined table format and data catalog released by the DuckDB foundation.#datawarehouse #dataanalytics #iceberg #duckdb #podcast

Tony and Matt discuss this year's Snowflake Summit. Agents, Iceberg, Postgres and Snowflake's ongoing battle with old rival Databricks.#snowflake #aiagents #iceberg #postgres #podcast

Alex Merced joins Tony and Matt to discuss Apache Iceberg and the future of composable data stacks. Alex is the head of DevRel at Dremio and a coauthor of the O'Reilly Media book Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide.