Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 28, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 28, 2026. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Aiven, a provider of managed open source data infrastructure for application and AI development, is announcing the general availability of Aiven Runtime and Aiven DataHub—enabling companies, from startups to enterprises, to run applications and AI agents against production data while maintaining the complete governance, security setup, and interoperability of the data being consumed. The new services are available within the Aiven Data and AI Cloud.
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to intelligent applications and agents, context engineering is emerging as a critical foundation for success. Delivering the right context at the right time across structured data, unstructured content, business rules, and real-time signals is becoming essential for improving AI accuracy, relevance, and reliability.
IP Fabric, a leading network digital twin platform, is introducing a major platform expansion that adds application-aware infrastructure mapping and a redesigned cloud-native data model, both of which can be accessed via IP Fabric's hosted MCP server.