Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
March 18, 2025

Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: March 18, 2025. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.

News Flashes

New Virtualization Integrations for ACTIVATE Eases Cloud Resource Management

Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for AI and HPC resources, is debuting a new OpenStack integration for its ACTIVATE platform, further unlocking new levels of efficiency, cost savings, and resource optimization for the cloud, centered around simplicity.

Open Source, Cloud-Native Framework kagent by Solo.io Brings Agentic AI to Kubernetes

Solo.io, the leading cloud native application networking company, is debuting kagent, an open source, cloud-native framework that enables DevOps and platform engineers to build and run AI agents in Kubernetes environments.

Pasqal Integration with Microsoft Azure Expands Access to Quantum Computing

Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, is offering an integration with Microsoft's services that will render cloud-based access to Pasqal's technology—enabling customers of the Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud service to leverage Pasqal's quantum computer, which uses neutral-atom technology and offers a range of analog quantum computational capabilities to solve complex computing issues.