In the year ahead, we see the cloud, AI, and data management as the megaforces of the data and analytics agenda. And so, picking up where Big on Data bro Andrew Brust left off last week, we're looking at some of the underlying issues that are shaping adoption. In the world of data and analytics, you can't start a conversation today without bringing in cloud and AI. Yesterday in Part I, we hit the cloud checkbox: we explored how the upcoming generation change in enterprise applications will in turn shift the context of how enterprises are going to be evaluating cloud deployment. Today we turn our attention to the core building block – what's happening in databases, and what we expect to become the sleeper issue this year in AI.

Article includes shout outs to Doug Laney ('The 3 Vs of Big Data'), Cathy O'Neil "Weapons of #Math Destruction) & Tony's'Big on Data bro' Andrew J. Brust.