Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
August 4, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: August 4, 2026. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Organizations are adapting to a new era of IT virtualization and data center infrastructure management as VMware shifts to costly subscription models and ends support for vSphere 8 perpetual licenses in October 2027. DBTA recently held a webinar, 2026 IT Virtualization Survey: What's Next for VMware Users, with industry experts who broke down the findings of the new "2026 IT Virtualization Survey: What's Next for VMware Users," which gathered data from 269 global IT infrastructure and security leaders.
Infoblox, a leading platform for preemptive security and critical network services, announced its entry into the external attack surface management (EASM) market—with the introduction of Supply Chain Intelligence, the launch expands the Infoblox Exposure Management portfolio.
Sumo Logic, the Intelligent Operations Platform, is introducing new and expanded agentic AI capabilities that translate telemetry into actionable signals and insights for security and cloud operations teams.