It's About Data

Alex Merced joins Tony and Matt to discuss Apache Iceberg and the future of composable data stacks. Alex is the head of DevRel at Dremio and a coauthor of the O'Reilly Media book Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide.

In this episode, Matt and Tony are joined by Ryan Dolley of GoodData to discuss Salesforce's acquisition of Informatica.#data #salesforce #informatica #acquisition​

We discuss our takeaways from SAP Sapphire 2025. Topics include SAP Business Data Cloud, the challenges of culture, the last 10% problem for AI, and conservatism versus modernization.#data #dataanalytics #informationtechnology #ai

We discuss #modelcontextprotocol, an open framework developed by  @anthropic-ai  that allows AI models and #aiagents to access data. Will #mcp continue to run away from the competition?

We recap IBM Think 2025. IBM as a software company, AI on mainframes and the challenges of supporting legacy applications while looking toward the future.#ibm #mainframes #ai #data

Special guest Vin Vashishta talks about the power of small language models for agentic AI workflows.

#generativeai #aiagents #languagemodels

Matt and Tony are joined by Sanjeev Mohan to discuss Oracle's multicloud partnership strategy

#oracle #gcp #azure #aws

We discuss a whole slough of announcements from Google Cloud Next 2025.#googlecloudnext #gcp #bigquery #thesphere #aiagents

Tony and Matt are joined by Juan Sequeda to discuss a recent IPO.

Here's the article Tony referenced in the episode:

https://siliconangle.com/2024/02/26/giant-sucking-sound-generative-ai/

We discuss the SAP/Databricks partnership and its aftermath.