Exabeam, a leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, is launching Agent Behavior Verification (ABV), a new security discipline that helps organizations determine whether AI agents are configured, authorized, and governed in ways that align with their intended responsibilities before deployment.

meshIQ, a leader in middleware observability and management, announced a partnership with Dataeko, a Hyderabad-based data, AI/ML, and digital engineering consultancy, aiming to help organizations improve visibility, control, and operational intelligence across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The collaboration also supports meshIQ's expansion into the Indian market.

PDQ is releasing new capabilities that give IT teams more control across their environments without adding complexity?making PDQ more complete and easier to use, helping admins see Windows update status clearly, deploy and automate patching for macOS software, reboot devices directly, and enroll new devices faster.

Arcova, a leading U.S.-based cybersecurity and AI consulting firm, is introducing an end-to-end data center development offering that brings engineering, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and grid-planning coordination under one accountable team.

IBM is announcing new IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 configurations, marking the first time IBM is offering rack mount alongside single frame systems across its full Z and LinuxONE portfolio. According to IBM, the expanded IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 portfolios now offer a wide range of deployment options, engineered with the same flagship performance, security, and ecosystem standards.

IBM is unveiling a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world's first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node.

StorMagic, simplifying on-site virtualization, and Supermicro, a total IT solution provider for AI, cloud, storage and edge computing, are collaborating on virtualized infrastructure solutions for edge, ROBO, and small data center environments.

Devplan, the intelligence layer for AI-native product development, is emerging from stealth along with announcing $2.5 million in seed funding, enabling the company to accelerate product development, engineering hiring, and early customer deployments.

Flare, a leader in identity-first cyber threat intelligence (CTI), is expanding capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. Together, these updates extend Flare's identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations, according to the company.

Lightrun, a leader in software reliability, is introducing the Runtime Aware PR Verifier, a solution that confirms how a new pull request (PR) will impact live production, before deployment.

Lantronix Inc., a global provider of edge AI and industrial IoT solutions, is acquiring the assets of Vecima Networks Inc.'s industrial IoT (IIoT) business, including its Nero Global Tracking software-as-a-service platform. The transaction is expected to close in the near term, subject to customary closing conditions.

In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Sanjeev Mohan, principal,?SanjMo?and former Gartner Research VP, data and analytics, demystifies the nature and critical elements of AI agents to arrive at a working definition of what distinguishes them from AI assistants.

In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, explores how data complexity and task complexity serve to increase uncertainty when working with AI systems and trusting the quality of the summaries they provide, the actionable code they generate, the biases they reproduce, and the resulting chaos they produce, and how these challenges multiply in the progression from generative to agentic AI.

With every organization currently wondering if their data is sufficient for AI,?closing the gap between data ambition and operational reality requires more than just a technical roadmap.?It requires the strategic discipline to translate major pain points into a narrative leadership can fund.

Infoblox, the leading platform for preemptive security and critical network services, is acquiring Kentik, a leading network intelligence and observability platform?allowing customers to have a more holistic, real-time view of everything that is happening on the network and in the cloud. This planned acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions.

As AI becomes more agent-driven, data management must evolve just as quickly. AI agents need real-time data, trusted context, strong governance, and reliable orchestration to operate responsibly.

StorONE, a leader in real-time tiering architecture, announced StorONE Version 4.0, introducing an architecture that enables existing third-party All-Flash Arrays to immediately serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering (RTT).?

In the world of database management, there are a handful of phrases that make experienced DBAs uneasy. Statements such as "we'll fix it in production" or "the database can handle it" usually signal that trouble is coming. But there is another phrase that may be even more dangerous: "It's just data."