lakeFS Named as a Cool Vendor™ in the 2026 Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Management

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--lakeFS, the control plane for AI-ready data, is named in the “Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Management” report from Gartner, published on July 29. The report states, “In 2026, there is tremendous interest in deploying AI agents to automate data engineering tasks and operational and analytical workflows. Both vendors and end-user companies are investing heavily in agentic AI, envisioning a world where companies deploy thousands of agents to complete data management tasks, like building data pipelines, monitoring data quality, and documenting data lineage.”*

The report notes that “most enterprise data isn’t organized, contextualized, governed, or automated in a way that autonomous AI agents can act on it.” It further explains that as organizations adopt AI, DataOps practices such as testing, reproducibility, traceability, and version control become increasingly important to support trusted and reliable AI-driven operations.*

lakeFS CEO and Co-founder Einat Orr said, “In our view, this recognition from Gartner supports what we hear from our customers every day: lakeFS closes a critical gap in AI data management by supporting reproducibility, governance, and trust while increasing efficiency in AI agent and model delivery. lakeFS provides an immutable data management layer for multimodal data that sits at the heart of AI. This makes it a data foundation for AI that enterprises can't do without.”

With clients and users spanning regulated industries across the globe, including Arm, Bosch, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Volvo, and the U.S. Department of Energy, the recognition comes on the heels of major product advancements from lakeFS, including AI-ready data, AI data governance, and agentic AI.

For more information and a free copy of the report, visit https://lakefs.io/CoolVendor.

*Source: Gartner Report, Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Management, by Nina Showell, Anurag Raj, Sarah Turkaly, Xingyu Gu, Robert Thanaraj, Michael Simone, Jenna Goodrich, 29, July 2026. Gartner and Cool Vendor are a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

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About lakeFS
lakeFS is the control plane for AI-ready data, bridging the infrastructure gap that slows down enterprise AI initiatives. Built on a highly scalable data version control architecture, lakeFS accelerates AI delivery, ensures data quality, makes AI training and agent runs reproducible, and reduces data access friction for tools, users, and AI agents. lakeFS is trusted by AI/MLOps teams, data engineers, and data scientists at thousands of organizations including Arm, Bosch, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Volvo, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Learn more at lakefs.io.