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Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending November 8

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In this week’s real-time analytics news: Snowflake made a number of announcements this week covering a range of application areas.

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Snowflake made a number of announcements this week covering a range of application areas. First, it announced that Snowflake Intelligence is now generally available to Snowflake’s global customer base. Snowflake Intelligence is an enterprise intelligence agent that helps users answer complex questions in natural language and puts insights at every employee’s fingertips. Furthermore, the solution unifies all enterprise data sources from structured tables and unstructured documents to data from third-party apps like Salesforce Data 360 via Zero Copy.

The company also announced a suite of new developer tools designed to help organizations rapidly build, test, and deploy enterprise-ready AI apps faster and more securely. New enhancements to Snowflake’s developer collaboration environment, seamless open-source integrations, and new data quality capabilities further accelerate productivity and reduce overhead, helping teams drive measurable business value at scale, all within a single, governed platform.

Finally, Snowflake announced innovations that make it easier for organizations to ingest, access, and govern their data across the entire data lifecycle, redefining the enterprise lakehouse for the AI era. For example, new advancements to Snowflake Horizon Catalog and Snowflake Openflow (now generally available) enable enterprises to connect all of their data from disparate sources and catalogs, making it accessible for AI agents to drive value, all with consistent, built-in security and governance.

Real-time analytics news in brief

Ataccama announced Ataccama ONE Agentic, a new generation of its unified platform that automates how organizations manage, govern, and trust their data. By replacing manual rule-writing and cleanup with intelligent automation, the platform delivers AI-ready, trusted data faster than traditional workflows. It enables faster reporting, shorter AI development cycles, and decisions based on accurate, compliant, and ready-for-business information.

Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd, announced upcoming support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Linkerd to extend its core service mesh capabilities to this new type of agentic AI traffic. This capability is designed to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption by giving a safe, reliable, and observable foundation for MCP traffic in Kubernetes environments.

DiffusionData announced the launch of an open source implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets AI assistants interact with Diffusion in real-time. The Diffusion MCP Server enables users to explore, create, and configure topics and topic views through natural language, guided by a contextual help system that explains concepts, shows syntax, executes operations, and interprets results. The MCP Server is the first Agentic AI feature delivered by DiffusionData.

Grafana Labs announced the launch of Grafana Mimir 3.0, the latest evolution of its open-source, horizontally scalable metrics backend. Mimir 3.0 delivers new levels of reliability, performance, and cost efficiency for Prometheus-compatible monitoring at enterprise scale. Additionally, Grafana Mimir 3.0 introduces a new decoupled architecture that separates the read and write paths for more reliable, large-scale metrics operations.

Hitachi Vantara announced Hitachi iQ Studio, the latest addition to the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI solutions. Hitachi iQ Studio is designed to help enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents and applications at scale, acting as a turnkey integration hub with a no-code and low-code agent builder and a library of industrial AI solution templates that enable rapid prototyping and production across diverse data environments. This helps enterprises operationalize their AI solutions faster while maintaining full control over their data and models.

Nexla announced the launch of Express, a conversational data engineering platform that makes it simple for anyone to work with data. Express addresses the critical bottleneck in AI adoption: the complex, time-consuming process of preparing and integrating data from multiple sources to create context for AI. To that end, Express uses an agentic AI framework that understands user intent, figures out where the data resides, and automatically connects, transforms, and prepares it for use.

New Relic announced two complementary innovations, Agentic AI Monitoring and the New Relic AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. Agentic AI Monitoring provides businesses with holistic visibility into interconnected agents and tools so they can optimize their agentic workforces. The New Relic AI MCP Server opens up a standardized way of enabling a powerful ecosystem of agents that fuel advanced agentic workflows. This integration allows popular AI assistants like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to access detailed New Relic observability data directly.

pgEdge announced the availability of pgEdge Containers on Kubernetes, built for compatibility with CloudNativePG, along with an updated pgEdge Helm chart. These releases make it easier than ever to deploy and operate pgEdge Enterprise Postgres and pgEdge Distributed Postgres on Kubernetes. With pgEdge now fully open source under the OSI-approved PostgreSQL License, the company continues to make Postgres more accessible to developers, operators, and the broader open-source community.

Postman announced several updates bringing key enterprise features to its platform, so customers can build AI-ready APIs that meet the most critical enterprise specifications. The new capabilities make Postman the enterprise control plane for the modern API ecosystem: public or private, human, or AI. The updates establish the governance, automation, and observability needed to make APIs safe, reliable, and discoverable by both humans and AI systems, without slowing down developer velocity.

Prismatic announced the availability of its MCP flow server for production-ready AI integrations. The new offering enables companies to transform fragile AI toolchains into reliable, deterministic workflows that can securely and efficiently power mission-critical applications. With Prismatic, a single MCP call triggers a defined, monitored, and secure integration process for better reliability, observability, and enterprise-grade scalability.

Quantexa launched Quantexa AI, a major platform upgrade that makes enterprise AI fully agent-ready and directly addresses one of the toughest challenges in AI: data fragmentation and lack of context. Quantexa AI democratizes and operationalizes contextualized enterprise data that can interact bidirectionally with both LLMs and task-specific models using open industry standards. It accomplishes this by leveraging NLP pipelines, predictive analytics, graph machine learning, and agentic AI to deliver explainable insights and fully auditable decision-making.

RapidFire AI is an open-source extension of its hyperparallel experimentation framework that brings dynamic control, real-time comparison, and automatic optimization to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and context engineering workflows. RapidFire AI RAG applies the company’s hyperparallel execution engine to the full RAG stack, allowing users to launch and monitor multiple variations of data chunking, retrieval, reranking, prompting, and agentic workflow structure simultaneously, even on a single machine.

SnapLogic announced a major expansion of its platform capabilities, including updates focused on Agents, MCP, and AI governance. Together, these updates establish SnapLogic as the “central nervous system” of the modern enterprise, connecting, orchestrating, and governing digital workforces while ensuring the data they depend on is AI-ready, trusted, and accessible.

Tarkenton announced the launch of pipIQ, a private generative AI workspace specifically designed for small and mid-sized businesses. pipIQ is built around a client’s unique knowledge base and is trained on that company’s internal documents. It is an intuitive AI chat tool for business that emulates the familiar experience of interacting with the world’s leading large language models (LLMs), but it is hosted in a company’s private, secure environment.

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

Anyscale announced a partnership with Microsoft and the private preview of a new AI-native compute service, co-developed with Microsoft and delivered as a fully managed, first-party offering on Microsoft Azure. Powered by Ray, the open-source distributed compute framework for AI, this new Azure service provides enterprises with a streamlined, high-performance experience for building, running, and scaling advanced AI workloads.

CData Software announced a new partnership with Databricks to offer CData’s Managed MCP Platform, Connect AI, on Databricks Marketplace. Connect AI enables Databricks Agent Bricks to directly connect to hundreds of enterprise data systems via the MCP protocol. This integration enables Databricks customers to build and deploy AI agents in minutes that can securely read, write, and act on data in Databricks, combined with real-time data directly from 350+ enterprise systems, including NetSuite, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow.

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Salvatore Salamone is a physicist by training who has been writing about science and information technology for more than 30 years. During that time, he has been a senior or executive editor at many industry-leading publications including High Technology, Network World, Byte Magazine, Data Communications, LAN Times, InternetWeek, Bio-IT World, and Lightwave, The Journal of Fiber Optics. He also is the author of three business technology books.

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