NatWest serves over 7.5M personal customers and 850,000 businesses, and their Central Customer DNA Database is mission-critical data. So when they decided to re-architect it for AWS to take advantage of SageMaker analytics, "good enough" wasn't enough.

88% of organizations use AI. 6% are getting measurable impact. The difference isn't the model. It's the data foundation feeding it. See how AI-ready data actually works: tinyurl.com/bdh4zz5h #AI #DataInfrastructure

The data was never the problem. The downtime was. The Cirata Symphony Data Migrator extension moves petabytes while applications keep writing to the source. Every byte verified, path by path. Learn more and see the other extensions at: cirata.com/symphony/extensio…

An estimated 70% of AI projects fail because of poor data. Don't fall into that statistic and make your data estate AI-ready in just one quarter. Don't wait to innovate. Start now: cirata.com/landing/book-meet… #AIReady #DataTransformation #LegacySystems

Friday data fact: AI productivity gains aren't all hype, they're measurable. Marketing output: 50%+ Software development: 26%+ Customer support: 14-15% But here's the nuance worth paying attention to: gains shrink on tasks requiring deeper reasoning.

70 TB initial migration. 20 TB of changes per week. 0 production disruption. Sanlam needed high availability for their Cloudera Data Platform. The DR environment had to stay in sync with constantly-changing production data.

Today Cirata announced its Q3 FY26 trading update. View the RNS: polaris.brighterir.com/publi… Quarterly CEO update video: stream.brrmedia.co.uk/broadc…

Iceberg is the open standard. Moving tables between catalogs still is not. The Cirata Symphony Ice Flow extension delivers any pair, either direction, snapshot history intact, verified table by table. tinyurl.com/56ds98v3

Is your organization unknowingly in AI debt? This silent disruptor, rooted in incomplete digital transformations, fragmented systems, and rushed AI deployments, could be stifling your innovation and efficiencies, and inflating costs. tinyurl.com/3vskywwp #AI #AIDebt

Friday data fact: By 2030, CIOs expect that 0% of IT work will be done by humans without AI, 75% will be done by humans augmented with AI, and 25% will be done by AI alone, according to a Gartner survey. #AI #Sustainability #DataFact #TheMoreYouKnow #FridayFact

Another week, another reminder of how vulnerable interconnected retail systems can be. At Cirata, we believe resilience needs to be designed into the data infrastructure itself. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj62…

AI at scale requires more than experimentation, it requires trusted, governed, and accessible data across environments. Cirata helps enterprises modernize data movement and orchestration without downtime, enabling AI teams to build with confidence.

Explore Cirata Symphony free on our environment with the Ice Flow extension and on our data. Run a replication yourself, then tour other extensions such as governance, sovereignty, and observability. Start free trial: cirata.com/landing/cirata-sy…

AI doesn’t live in one place, and your data shouldn’t either. Cirata enables unified data access across on-prem, cloud, and multicloud environments, without disruptive migrations. One data strategy. Endless AI possibilities. #HybridCloud #MultiCloud #AI

Friday data fact: Worldwide end-user spending on AI models and platforms is projected to total $64 billion in 2026, up 63.4% from $39 billion in 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. Spending on GenAI models is forecast to grow 117%, while AI platform spending will rise 36.9% in 2026.

Australia's oldest bank is moving fast. Cirata handled their data modernization: 2 PB moved live from on-prem Hadoop into Azure Data Lake, with ongoing changes captured as they happened. Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/3wzmrcu7 #HybridCloud #Banking #Azure #DigitalTransformation

Thaw your data. Fuel your AI. Stop freezing your models in static data. AI enablement starts with data that moves. Enable AI now with Cirata. #AI #DataOrchestration #ThawYourData #CirataSymphony

Today we published a new Cirata and #BackUKTech report that sets out how Government procurement reform could help British technology businesses scale at home. Read the report: tinyurl.com/53trxff6

Many AI projects start with excitement… and end in silence. The problem isn’t the model—it’s unclear strategy and unready data. Our article breaks down the hidden obstacles + how to fix them. tinyurl.com/4p7c44h8 #DataReadiness #AI #AIFailure #AISuccess #Cirata

Friday fun data fact: 23 Gigawatts of electricity globally was used to power AI in 2025 – That equals the same power usage of the United Kingdom and is almost certain to increase rapidly through 2026/2027! #AI #Sustainability #DataFact #TheMoreYouKnow #ThoughtLeader #Cirata