Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
January 29, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: January 29, 2026. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Bedrock Data, a modern DSPM platform provider for data-centric security, governance, and management, announced native support for Atlassian Confluence to bring data security visibility into unstructured SaaS collaboration environments that increasingly serve as both repositories for sensitive enterprise information and inputs for AI systems.
Datadog announced the acquisition of Propolis, a QA testing platform that specifically tackles goal- and output-oriented testing. According to the vendors, by combining Propolis with Datadog's deep production context—including traces, logs, and Real User Monitoring (RUM) data—creating a solution to truly automate testing end-to-end.
Platform Engineering Labs is updating formae, its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, adding beta support for four additional cloud providers and evolving formae into a platform designed to be extended directly by infrastructure builders.