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Q1 The partnership between Pyramid Computer and Scality sits at the intersection of two trends that are increasingly in tension: the urgency to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, and the growing organizational and regulatory pressure to maintain control over where data lives, how it is processed, and who can access it.

“ACID was, and will always be, the right answer to concurrent state access. Agentic AI just made ignoring it expensive instead of theoretical.” Q1. When we last spoke in December 2017, you had just repositioned VoltDB around “translytics” — the combination of real-time transactions with real-time analytics — and you were seeing early adoption in fraud detection, telecoms, and mobile gaming. Eight years later, Volt Active Data is positioning itself squarely around AI infrastructure.

Q1. As the tech lead for AdminAPI, you’ve spent years helping shape how MySQL users deploy and manage InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, and ClusterSet environments. From your experience, what are some of the most important design and operational considerations teams should understand when deploying InnoDB Cluster in production, and how does AdminAPI help simplify those tasks while still supporting different operational models and requirements?

Q1. The publication of EN 18286 — the AI Quality Management System standard — is a significant milestone for organizations trying to operationalize the requirements of the EU AI Act.

Q1. Aqtra is building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation. That is a significant architectural ambition — essentially becoming the infrastructure layer that others build on, rather than a point application.

Aug 3, 2026  2 min read Raj Verma, CEO At SingleStore, we are building the data platform for a world in which AI is no longer separate from the applications and decisions that run a business. As that shift accelerates, product leadership requires more than a strong technology roadmap. It requires a clear understanding of how data, AI and customer needs come together in products people can use and businesses can scale.

August 3, 2026 7 minute read Lenka Kasparova MySQL Community Manager The MySQL Community team will continue to be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities throughout August, September, and October 2026. While some of our August events were featured in our previous event update, we’ve included them here again with the latest information.

AI, GenAI, Big Data, Analytical Data Platforms, Data Science-Blog Posts / Books- GenAI, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Management, Big Data, / Expert Articles Q1. What failure occurs when AI-assisted decision-making operates without an explicit Feedback layer? The specific failure mode is what I call loop erosion: the system continues to optimize under the assumption that real-world consequences have already been invalidated.

“To build a system, you need a team.” Q1. The Bw-tree, which emerged from your Deuteronomy project, won the 2023 ICDE 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award — a recognition that its ideas have proven durable well beyond the original publication.

Q1. In 2001, you co-authored the original Semantic Web paper with Tim Berners-Lee and Jim Hendler — a vision for web content that would be meaningful to computers and would enable AI agents to act on it autonomously.