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Principal with dbInsight LLC, covering Big Data & data management with some systems engineering thrown in. Views stated here are my own.
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Data Outlook 2026: The Rise of Semantic Spheres of Influence — dbinsight

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By Tony Baer
| dbInsights
In 2024, the elephant in the room was how generative artificial intelligence seized the conversation. In 2025, the dialog shifted to agents and the question of whether there’s an AI bubble happening in our midst. But as we noted, AI’s taking of the limelight shined a new spotlight on the importance of having good data, and so last year, we forecast that data would have a renaissance.
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Data 2026 outlook: The rise of semantic spheres of influence

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By Tony Baer
| SiliconANGLE Verified
In 2024, the elephant in the room was how generative artificial intelligence seized the conversation. In 2025, the dialog shifted to agents and the question of whether there’s an AI bubble happening in our midst. But as we noted, AI’s taking of the limelight shined a new spotlight on the importance of having good data, and so last year, we forecast that data would have a renaissance.
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How the Sun Microsystems acquisition made Oracle the cloud company it is today Original

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By Tony Baer
| SiliconANGLE Verified
In April 2009, Oracle Corp. made what at the time looked like a bad deal. Or at least that was the conventional wisdom. It announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. TL/DR, the judgment of the community on the decision by Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison (pictured) was: Why would a database and enterprise software company buy a declining server company and get saddled with the resultant cost drain of a hardware business?
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