Database administrators are reinventing themselves. Data roams freely, AI is advancing, and governance is lagging behind. Yet ...

AI initiatives don’t stall because models aren’t good enough, but because data architecture lags the requirements of agentic systems.

A few years ago, I had lunch with the head of a major motion picture studio, who declared that his central problem was not finding good people—it was finding good ideas. Since then, when giving talks, ...