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The death of reactive IT: How predictive engineering will redefine cloud performance in 10 years

Waiting for alerts is obsolete — predictive engineering lets cloud systems see trouble coming and fix it before users ever notice.

Feb 11, 2026 9 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud

10 essential release criteria for launching AI agents

How will you know your AI agent is ready to launch? Here’s the release-readiness checklist every devops team needs.

Feb 10, 2026 12 mins

Data Science Devops Generative AI

Google expands BigQuery with conversational agent and custom agent tools

The additions let data teams ask progressive, context‑aware questions in natural language while enabling developers to deploy governed analytics agents across applications via unified API endpoints.

Jan 30, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

How to use Pandas for data analysis in Python

Pandas makes it easy to quickly load, manipulate, align, merge, and even visualize data tables directly in Python.

Jan 21, 2026 14 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Python

Google tests BigQuery feature to generate SQL queries from English

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say.

Jan 16, 2026 4 mins

Big Data Natural Language Processing SQL

Microsoft acquires Osmos to ease data engineering bottlenecks in Fabric

The acquisition could help enterprises push analytics and AI projects into production faster while acting as the missing autonomy layer that connects Fabric’s recent enhancements into a coherent system.

Jan 7, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering

6 incredibly hyped software trends that failed to deliver

In hindsight, what were we thinking?

Jan 5, 2026 13 mins

Big Data Blockchain Technology Industry

Snowflake software update caused 13-hour outage across 10 regions

Cloud data platform’s backward-incompatible database schema change left customers unable to query data or ingest files

Dec 19, 2025 5 mins

Analytics Cloud Storage Data Warehousing

Why your next cloud bill could be a trap

Your enterprise may be more locked into a vendor’s AI than you realize, thanks to AI-native features in services you’re already using.

Dec 19, 2025 7 mins

Analytics Generative AI Predictive Analytics

InfoWorld’s 2025 Technology of the Year Award winners

The InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards recognize the year’s best and most innovative products in AI, cloud, data analytics, devops, and software development.

Dec 15, 2025 48 mins

APIs Application Security DevSecOps