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EDB hires CMRD team to own Postgres AI agent governance

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EDB hires CMRD team to own Postgres AI agent governance

WILMINGTON — November 12, 2026 -- EnterpriseDB (EDB) has hired the agent-native engineering team formerly of CMRD, which built the audit and evidence layer of EDB's agent governance for EDB Postgres AI, to take that work in-house. Christopher Mitchell, CMRD's former managing partner, is now a principal engineer at EDB.

IDC's agent forecast sets the enforcement workload EDB cites

EDB bases the hire on an IDC projection of more than 1 billion AI agents actively deployed worldwide by 2029, executing over 217 billion actions per day. At those floor values, the figure works out to about 217 actions per agent per day. EDB says each action must be permitted or blocked before it runs, recorded as it happens and explainable afterward, on both Postgres and ClickHouse software.

EDB Ties AI Governance to Energy Efficiency at UN Summit

New York – September 25, 2026 -- Sixty-nine percent of enterprise technology decision-makers now weigh energy more heavily in AI and data infrastructure decisions than a year ago, according to new research from EnterpriseDB (EDB) presented at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit this week. The survey of 300 respondents, conducted in September 2026, found reliability of supply cited by 49% of respondents as a leading energy factor, with cost and energy efficiency each cited by 48%.