Source: SiliconANGLE
Data infrastructure vendors are abandoning the middle and moving directly into agent deployment. They sense that whoever controls the agent layer—not just the data layer—owns the AI stack's economic moat. This mirrors the PC era's vertical integration wars, except the winner won't sell machines but rather the operating system for autonomous decision-making. The shift threatens to cannibalize their core database revenues while forcing them to compete against AI labs and cloud giants in territory where data pedigree alone doesn't guarantee distribution or product-market fit.