Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
February 23, 2026

Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: February 23, 2026. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.

News Flashes

Modern Data Architecture in Practice with NetApp Instaclustr, WhereScape, and Hydrolix

As organizations scale their AI and analytics efforts, a data architecture that is "up to snuff" is even more critical to business success. Data teams are being asked to deliver faster insights, stronger governance, and AI-ready data, all while keeping costs and complexity in check.

Qdrant 1.17 Supercharges Vector Search with a Variety of Updates

Qdrant is releasing platform version 1.17.0—updating search latency, introducing relevance feedback query, and deploying greater operational observability. This release introduces a new Relevance Feedback Query as a scalable, vector-native approach to incorporating relevance feedback.

Snowflake Cortex Code Now Supports More Data, Everywhere

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, announced that Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake's AI coding agent for local development environments, is expanding beyond Snowflake-native workflows to support any data source across systems, starting with dbt and Apache Airflow (now generally available).