Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management | Computer Weekly

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Google’s Andi Gutmans describes a shift from human-managed data stewardship to agent-driven data management as enterprises move toward autonomous workflows. The discussion centers on quality, trust, guardrails, and the use of multiple agents to verify actions before execution. It also highlights cross-cloud connectivity, zero-copy integration with SaaS platforms, and secure access controls as key enablers for Google’s borderless lakehouse vision. The piece frames agentic AI as a way to manage zettabyte-scale data estates without relying on manual ontology work and large teams of data stewards.

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