James Curtis is research director of the Data, AI & Analytics channel at at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons. He also leads the database and data platforms vertical. Previously, he covered business intelligence, analytics and reporting, along with machine learning and data science. James’ current areas of concentration include database and related technology analysis, real-time analytics, cloud computing and cloud-native technologies for database as a service, database optimization tooling, generative AI and retrieval augment generation (RAG) environments, including vector stores and semantic search. James arrived at S&P Global through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, which he joined in 2015. Prior to 451 Research, he held several senior roles in technology, marketing and communications. He served as VP of a large BPO firm where he oversaw marketing for analytic solutions. He held senior technical marketing roles at Netezza and later at IBM with responsibility for data warehousing, analytics and big-data products. He has managed global programs at HPE and worked as a case editor at Harvard Business School. James holds a bachelor's degree in English from Utah State University, a master's degree in writing from Northeastern University in Boston and an MBA from Texas A&M University.
At OpenSearchCon Europe, directors from the OpenSearch Software Foundation announced a long-term program for OpenSearch, a move that transitions OpenSearch from a community project to an enterprise-ready platform. The announcement follows the release of OpenSearch version 3.6 in April.
When executives are making decisions, do they always know how much they're relying on information or recommendations from generative AI? Maybe, maybe not. Take five minutes to read five Voice of the Customer qualitative interview comments and what they mean.
Driven by AI, organizations are no longer looking to simply store and retrieve information — they want converged platforms that can simultaneously handle operational transactions, power real-time analytics and integrate seamlessly across heterogeneous environments, all while enabling AI workloads.
Voice of the Enterprise: Data & Analytics provides you with actionable data and insight to understand the key dynamics driving the information technology market.
Now private once again, the company is embedding a suite of AI services into Couchbase Capella, its fully managed database-as-a-service platform. Couchbase asserts that AI — particularly generative AI — should reside as close to the data as possible within the database.
At re:Invent 2025, AWS announced new Database Savings Plans for nine services, along with updates spanning Amazon RDS, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Redshift. Enabling AI is at the heart of AWS' strategy, but that is only part of the story.
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