BigDATA Wire

Accenture and Google Cloud Launch Gemini Enterprise Business Group NEW YORK and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2026 — Accenture and Google Cloud today launched the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a global group designed to help clients scale Gemini Enterprise outcomes in the agentic AI era.

NETSCOUT Data Platform Transforms AI-Driven Network Operations and Controls Costs Smart Data dramatically improves MTTK and reduces AI token consumption helping organizations accelerate and control AI-driven operations as they advance toward autonomous IT WESTFORD, Mass., Sept.

Mistral Raises €3B to Expand AI Research and Infrastructure Sept. 8, 2026 — Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company, three years after the company’s launch. Samsung Electronics led the round, joined by co-leads Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, and existing investor PSG Equity.

RavenDB Debuts Quill to Connect AI Agents with Enterprise SQL Data HADERA, Israel, Sept. 8, 2026 — RavenDB, a NoSQL document database used by more than 12,000 customers, today announced the launch of its new product, Quill, a context layer for SQL databases that makes them ready for production AI agents without migrating the system of record or architecting a custom AI stack. With AI becoming a board-level mandate, CTOs and VPs of engineering are under pressure to ship AI capabilities fast.

New Quantum Autonomous Data Management provides greater visibility, identifies risk and capacity waste, and ensures the right data is in the right place at the right cost CENTENNIAL, Colo., Sept. 8, 2026 — Quantum Corp. today announced the release of Quantum Autonomous Data Management (ADM), a new solution designed to enable organizations to better understand their data, reduce storage costs, lower risk, and improve operational efficiency.

Cloudera: Manufacturing AI Initiatives Face Governance and Workflow Integration Challenges SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2026 — Cloudera today released manufacturing findings from its latest research report, The Data Readiness Index 2026. The report reveals that manufacturing companies face significant barriers to scaling AI due to persistent gaps in data access, governance, and infrastructure performance.

What Formula One Engineering Can Teach Us About AI Infrastructure by Michael Fuller | September 8, 2026 Michael Fuller, Executive Chairman of Conflux Technology, examines why thermal performance alone is no longer enough in modern data centers, and how balancing heat transfer with hydraulic efficiency can unlock significant operational gains. The AI era is forcing data center operators to rethink some long-held assumptions about infrastructure design.

Verisk Maps More Than 2,500 US Data Centers for Risk Analysis BOSTON, Sept. 4, 2026 — Verisk, a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, has announced a new U.S. Data Center Exposure Database designed to help insurers, reinsurers and brokers better understand and manage one of the fastest-growing concentrations of risk.

Elastic to Bring OpenAI GPT Cyber Models into Elastic Security SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4, 2026 — Elastic has announced plans to bring OpenAI GPT cyber models into Elastic Security. By integrating these models directly into Elastic Security workflows, Elastic aims to give security teams specialized cyber reasoning capabilities for alert triage, investigation, detection engineering and remediation, without requiring customers to deploy and manage separate model infrastructure.

VAST Data Integrates CrowdStrike Falcon Protection with Its AI Operating System NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 4, 2026 — VAST Data and CrowdStrike have announced new integrations that will bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity across the infrastructure, data and AI workloads supporting production AI.