It's About Data

Matthew Housley and Tony Baer
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Oct 28, 2025 • 16min

Oracle AI World 2025

We discuss Oracle AI World 2025. After forty years of database dominance, is Oracle becoming a cloud infrastructure company? How solid is Oracle's backlog? Will OpenAI pay its bills?#oracledatabase #oracle #cloudcomputing
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Oct 24, 2025 • 18min

Overhauling Search with AlloyDB AI (Guest: Amit Ganesh)

We're joined by Amit Ganesh (VP of Engineering | AI and Databases | Google) to discuss Target's recent search overhaul powered by AlloyDB AI.A related blog post:https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/retail/from-query-to-cart-inside-targets-search-bar-overhaul-with-alloydb-ai#vectordatabase #postgresql #artificialintelligence
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Oct 20, 2025 • 14min

Agents, Context, Customers and Vectorization (Guest: Martin Willcox)

Martin Willcox joins Tony and Matt at Teradata Possible 2025 to discuss the challenges of deploying agents in the field. How do we help agents understand the needs of customers even though they're 'not the sharpest tools in the box'?#agenticai #vectordatabase #largelanguagemodels
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Oct 12, 2025 • 26min

The Perpetual AI Capital Machine (Guest: Sanjeev Mohan)

This episode, special guest Sanjeev Mohan joins Tony and Matt to discuss acquisitions, rumors of acquisitions and the perpetual AI capital machine.#artificialintelligence, #openai, Fivetran, DBT, #databricks
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Oct 1, 2025 • 22min

The Universal Semantic Layer

We're joined by guest John O'Brien to discuss the universal semantic layer.https://radiant-advisors.kit.com/e293763bb5#dataengineering #dataanalytics #datamodeling
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Sep 24, 2025 • 23min

The State of Graph Databases

We discuss Graph Summit NYC and Neo4j. Graph RAG, knowledge graphs, agentic logic, Infinigraph and more.#dataengineering #graphdatabase #agenticai
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Sep 17, 2025 • 20min

The Database Migration Bottleneck

Our guest this time is Ryan Gross of Caylent, here to discuss a recently commissioned report on The Database Migration Bottleneck. This was catnip for data nerds like us. Among other things, we discuss why 94% of database migrations miss deadlines and how to use AI to effectively build test driven automation.https://caylent.com/blog/the-database-modernization-bottleneck-survey-report#artificialintelligence #cloudcomputing #dataanalytics
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Sep 12, 2025 • 19min

Oracle's Massive Rally

Oracle disclosed a massive backlog as part of its Q1 earnings call.#cloudcomputing #artificialintelligence
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Sep 10, 2025 • 21min

InterSystems

In this episode, we discuss an under the radar data company that powers some massive platforms.It's About Data is a media sponsor of http://datadaytexas.com/ 2026. Register with discount code ITSABOUTDATA.#dataanalytics #healthcaredata #venturecapital
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Sep 3, 2025 • 26min

Python in Excel (guest: Dave Langer)

Dave Langer joins Tony and Matt to discuss his upcoming book "Python in Excel: step-by-step."#excel #python #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence

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