We’re excited to share that lakeFS has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for DataOps Tools. We believe this recognition reflects what we’re seeing across the industry: the urgent need for data infrastructures that can provide AI-ready data efficiently, repeatably, and safely as organizations build production AI systems.
DataOps Market Momentum
The DataOps market is reaching a critical inflection point and underscores what Data and AI platform leaders already know: DataOps is no longer optional infrastructure. Gartner notes that “DataOps is gaining momentum as a foundational strategic enabler of streamlined data delivery. Capabilities such as scalable orchestration, continuous data quality, and contextual governance enforcement are now essential.”
lakeFS: The Control Plane for AI-Ready Data
At lakeFS, we’ve focused on what we believe is the foundational DataOps challenge that’s emerged as the biggest infrastructure gap slowing down enterprise AI initiatives: ensuring data quality, tracking data provenance and governance, and providing unified access to AI-ready data.
At the heart of addressing this challenge is the core technology we’ve been perfecting since day one: data version control. By treating data with the same rigor as code, data version control serves as the foundational architectural component for modern data infrastructure. It enables comprehensive quality gates, complete lineage tracking, and governed access across distributed environments. This approach significantly accelerates AI delivery, ensures reproducibility, reduces data friction, and supports compliance across data silos.
Based on this foundation, lakeFS uniquely provides the control plane for enterprise-scale AI infrastructure, strengthening DataOps practices and accelerating AI initiatives.
Gartner states in the report, “The DataOps market has evolved into a strategic data management foundational capability, driven by the increased need for optimized data pipelines to support AI initiatives and growing analytic use cases.”
We’re proud to be recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for DataOps Tools.Want to see how lakeFS delivers AI-ready data for organizations like Lockheed Martin, Volvo, and the US Department of Energy? Schedule a demo to learn how lakeFS can strengthen your DataOps practice, accelerate AI initiatives, and ensure reproducibility and compliance.
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Gartner, Market Guide for DataOps Tools, Michael Simone, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, 24 October 2025
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