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Search ArticlesSnowflake's Newest Agentic AI Capabilities, from A (Artifacts) to Z (Zero Copy)
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. A big welcome to new subscribers and thank you to paid subscribers — your support is appreciated. Connect on LinkedIn. Snowflake introduced so many new product capabilities at Snowflake Summit 26 (June 1-4 in San Francisco) that CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said he used the company’s AI agent to create a list of them all. I decided to do the same.
Why Snowflake Matters Now More Than Ever
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. A big welcome to new subscribers and thank you to paid subscribers — your support is appreciated. Connect on LinkedIn. CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy at Snowflake Summit 2026 Can Snowflake, which revolutionized data warehousing with its cloud model, upend the market once again with agentic AI?
AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Google Cloud Lead the Database Market, But AI Disruption Is Afoot
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Gartner’s annual chart of database vendor revenues for 2025 shows a market that’s remarkably stable at the top — with no change whatsoever among the top nine database providers over the past three years. In fact, there has been no churn among the top 17 vendors over the past 2 years, with one exception: Tencent passed Huawei.
9 Data Management Twists & Turns with AWS, Oracle, Anthropic and others
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Connect with me on LinkedIn. This post was 100% written by a human! And that explains why it’s been a few weeks since my last post. I’ve been busy working with a “neocloud” GPU startup, researching and writing about post-quantum cryptography, and traveling to Ireland. My next stop: a potato farm in the Midwest to report on data-driven agriculture.
Will AI Eat the Database World?
AI innovations are finding their way into the space long occupied by traditional databases. Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Not long ago concerns about AI’s potential to disrupt the SaaS market resulted in a sharp drop in the stocks of Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and others.
Database Snafu Caused 6-Hour Outage on Bitcoin Exchange
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Database reliability is off to an inauspicious start in 2026. Just a few weeks into the new year and already a database glitch has resulted in a system failure that might have caused your heart to stop if you were an affected user.
The Rise of AI Databases: Oracle, Microsoft, Databricks, Google Cloud
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Need help communicating your company’s strategy? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Many different databases are used for AI workloads and applications. Few of them are actually called AI databases. That’s beginning to change.
A Year of Database Glitches, Failures & Outages. Can AI Fix This?
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report! I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist, who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Please subscribe (free or paid) to support my work. Where are all the self-healing databases? We’ve been hearing about databases that autonomously repair themselves for more than 20 years. It was back in 2004 that the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems published research on the design of a self-healing database system.
The End of Big Data
Welcome to Zettabytes, a new Substack newsletter on the hypergrowth of AI-fueled data. Thanks for reading Zettabytes! Subscribe for free to receive my new posts. Data volumes keep growing, but most data actually disappears. It may be deleted, wiped, overwritten, shredded. I’ve smashed old PC drives with a hammer. That’s true in the data center, as well.
The Story Behind One of Tech's Most Obscure Product Names
Let’s face it: PostgreSQL, the widely used database management system, is the kind of name that only a mother can love. A mother who is a database developer. Not only is it an alphabet soup of a name, with not one but two acronyms — Graphics and Retrieval System (GRES) and Structured Query Language (SQL) — but the “s” is lower case in some usages (Postgres) and upper case in others (PostgreSQL).