Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
April 22, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: April 22, 2026. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
The modern data stack was built for a world of dashboards and batch pipelines, but AI agents are breaking it. The scarcest resource is no longer compute or storage, but the talent to reduce platform complexity. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Sanjeev Mohan, principal, SanjMo and former Gartner Research, VP, data and analytics, will examine trends reshaping every layer of the AI-driven data foundation, from storage to governance to operations, during his keynote speech.
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is launching Grafana 13, along with a wave of open source updates anchored by a next-generation Grafana Loki architecture, and simpler paths to OpenTelemetry on Linux and Kubernetes. These announcements were made at at GrafanaCON 2026.