Redpanda Acquires Oxla, a distributed SQL Engine, Launches New Agentic Data Plane for Governing AI Agents for Enterprise Data

Combining streaming, SQL, and Iceberg for cloud to air-gapped environments enabling governed data access to safely accelerate the production of enterprise AI agents

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced the availability of the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) — a new suite for safely and scalably connecting AI Agents across the growing digital workforce. Redpanda ADP provides a reliable data access layer to build AI Agents with complete traceability, observability, and governance for enterprise environments.

Redpanda’s ADP is built on modern, battle-tested data stacks, including the Redpanda Streaming platform, the Redpanda Connect data connectivity suite, and the recently acquired Oxla standard SQL query engine and database.

“AI agents have made initial inroads to the private networks of the modern enterprise,” said Alex Gallego, CEO and founder of Redpanda. “However, organizations today don’t have an easy, integrated way to observe, control, and govern data access for agents. These goal-driven agents are reading, writing, processing enterprise data in addition to sharing it with LLMs and autonomously taking actions. The Agentic Data Plane provides the very necessary MCP aware connectivity, access control, and governance for enterprise AI. And with the acquisition of Oxla, we can now give agents a standard SQL endpoint for agents to query data in motion or at rest.”

The ADP extends Redpanda's proven streaming platform capabilities to encompass the full breadth of data connectivity and governance for agents, adding standards such as MCP, A2A, and SQL alongside existing standards like Iceberg, and with broad deployment models including a fully managed cloud, BYOC, or on-premise.

“At Poolside, we’re building toward a future where enterprises can deploy agents at scale—with real-time, permissioned access to streaming data from anywhere, securely within their own firewall,” said Eiso Kant, co-CEO and co-founder of Poolside. “Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane helps make that possible. Our agents are designed for our customers’ most critical work, and we’re partnering with Redpanda because they share our commitment to trust, security, and auditability without compromise.”

“We are excited to partner with Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane solution as the preferred delivery provider to build and enable the Agentic Enterprise”, says Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO of Ness Digital Engineering. “AI agents are quickly changing how software is built and delivered, creating a massive opportunity but also risk when working with private enterprise data. Our combined capabilities accelerate the adoption of agents with reliable and safe access to data.”

Key Capabilities of the Agentic Data Plane

• Unified Connectivity: Through Redpanda Connect and BYOC deployments, enterprises can bridge private and public environments, unlocking data for AI without compromising security.
• Full Observability: Every agent interaction including prompts, inputs, context retrieval, and actions is logged and can be replayed for debugging, compliance, or validation.
• Federated Querying & Transformation: A new SQL query engine enables agents and humans to query, join, and transform data across disparate sources in real time.
• Agentic Access Control (AAC): An evolved access model designed for AI agents, providing fine-grained, narrowly scoped, short-lived, agent-bound tokens to ensure secure, auditable interactions.

Availability

The first phase of the Agentic Data Plane is available now through Redpanda Cloud and BYOC deployments. Governance and transformation capabilities will follow in early 2026, with full federated SQL querying entering beta later next year.

To learn more about Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane, visit: www.redpanda.com

For Alex Gallego’s blog on the announcement, visit: https://www.redpanda.com/blog/agentic-data-plane-adp

About Redpanda

Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders including Activision, NYSE, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe. To learn more, visit our website at redpanda.com and follow us on X at @redpandadata.