Inside Google’s Agentic Data Cloud Architecture for Enterprise AI

This article breaks down Google’s Agentic Data Cloud, introduced at Cloud Next 2026, and explains how it redefines enterprise data architecture for AI agents. By integrating components like the Knowledge Catalog, Smart Storage, and Cross-Cloud Lakehouse, the platform enables agents to access, interpret, and act on data with precision. The key takeaway is that agentic AI requires a unified, context-rich, and multi-cloud data layer to function reliably at scale.