Sailesh Krishnamurthy joins us to discuss Google Cloud Spanner Omni, an on-prem option for Google's famous ultra-scalable transactional database. We discuss the engineering challenges of moving to customer hardware, and the broad problem of data sovereignty.

Nikita joins us to talk about an idea that he couldn't let go: separating compute and storage in an OLTP database. He cofounded Neon to pursue this technology, which is now the engine behind Lakebase.#database #dataanalytics #agenticai

Suresh Srinivas (CEO Collate getcollate.io) joins us to discuss his journey from big data to metadata.

Much digital ink has been spilt on the death of the modern data stack. Amit Sharma (CEO CData Software ) joins us to discuss a vision for collapsing the modern data stack to better support AI applications.

Dr. Fern Halper joins us to discuss her recently published book.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394390663

Tony returns from SAP Sapphire 2026 to report on "the most consequential Sapphire of Christian Klein's reign."

Winfried Etzel joins us to discuss the hard, practical problems of data governance, made more complicated by AI as data consumer and generator. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.

https://winfriedadalbertetzel.substack.com/

Tony records from Boston to bring us the latest updates from  @IBM  Think 2026.#artificialintelligence #bigblue

We're releasing this continuation of Ep 53 with Miran Badzak to coincide with IBM Think 2026. What does it mean for a database to be autonomous? What is the future for DBAs? What is the outlook for text-to-SQL?The other half of this conversation:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pIdV72QcW2b#database #agenticai

We chat with Angie Jones (VP Developer Experience,  @AgenticAI-Foundation  ) and Jim Zemlin (CEO of  @LinuxfoundationOrg  ) at MCP Dev Summit about what's next for agentic AI and the foundation.#agenticai #mcp