Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
December 15, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: December 15, 2025. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, is introducing new capabilities to its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution—designed to give enterprises greater flexibility to deploy and govern their infrastructure across distributed environments running traditional, modern, and AI applications, including fully disconnected environments, with cloud providers that offer sovereign services.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and announced the founding contributions of three leading projects driving innovation in open source AI; Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md.
News Flashes
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.