Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
December 22, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: December 22, 2025. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
InfluxData is releasing InfluxDB 3.8 for both Core and Enterprise, alongside the 1.6 release of the InfluxDB 3 Explorer UI—with updates focused on operational maturity and making InfluxDB easier to deploy, manage, and run reliably in production.
Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, is launching Percona Packages, a suite of structured consulting and support offerings for enterprise IT and DBA teams.
It's being reported that TikTok has signed a deal to spin-off its U.S. operations to a group controlled by mostly American investors, including Oracle. According to the agreement, TikTok's U.S. algorithm will be retrained with only Americans' data. Content moderation rules around what is permitted and what is not will be set by the new investor-controlled entity, NPR reports.