Lucidity, the Cloud Storage OS, is extending the Lucidity Platform into object storage with a focus on object mapping, drift and tiering?enabling the company to apply its proven approach of driving optimization from insights to implementation for object storage.

Basware, a?global leader in?invoice lifecycle?management,?is strengthening its compliance capabilities for SAP customers by making its e-invoicing and tax compliance solutions?available on?SAP Store?helping organizations modernize their ERP while keeping up with global e-invoicing and tax requirements.?

Hitachi Vantara is announcing that its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End is now?certified by SAP to support up to 1,008 SAP HANA nodes. According to the companies, that certification gives organizations a validated benchmark for the scale the platform can support, providing greater confidence as they consolidate, modernize, and grow large SAP environments.

Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is releasing?Automate Evolve Cloud Essentials?as a cloud-native SAP automation solution, giving IT and SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) teams centralized control, governance, and visibility over automation programs, without the cost and complexity of managing on-premises infrastructure.?

SAP is unveiling the Industry AI portfolio, bringing together 50 years of deep industry?expertise, leading AI engineering know-how, and customer-facing forward-deployed delivery capabilities to combine forward-deployed engineering with strong productization capabilities.

BlueFinity is releasing the latest version of the Evoke low-code platform, introducing Code Hook technology which takes the customization of apps to a whole new level. According to BlueFinity, Code-Hooks provide a simple way to integrate code and routines from existing applications, custom-built functionality, and third-party libraries directly into an app, making them seamless.

MultiValue software vendors continue to address emerging challenges and opportunities that are affecting the IT landscape by frequently adding new features and integrations with other platforms and services, helping their loyal and committed customers to stay up-to-date with the latest technological trends. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year,?DBTA?presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts?our readers! The top three vote getters in the MultiValue category this year are:?Rocket Software MultiValue Application Platform, Pick Cloud, and Intersystems Iris.

Rocket Software is releasing Rocket MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS) 2.3.3?focusing on making the MVIS environment more resilient, easier to administer, and simpler to secure. According to Rocket Sofware, MVIS 2.3.3 offers expanded platform certification, a more complete Next Generation UI, and key stability and security improvements for production environments.

Blitzy is announcing the introduction of Proactive Insights?a platform that finds vulnerabilities in proprietary code, alerts users with certainty which of them the architecture exposes, and batch automates PRs to remediate them at scale.

GitLab Inc., the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, is introducing updates that give enterprises more control as they scale agentic software development.

IBM is partnering with OpenAI to help enterprises deliver business outcomes by deploying AI at scale across core business operations and complex workflows, while strengthening cyber defense and resilience through programs such as OpenAI Daybreak.

IBM announced a partnership with Together AI to deliver IBM and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Under a multi-year $240M agreement between IBM and Together AI, IBM is positioned to deploy a large cluster of NVIDIA HGX B300 systems on IBM Cloud with expected availability in Q1 2027, according to the companies.

IBM is introducing the first dual-architecture mainframe processor, which is being designed to enable enterprises to run operating systems and applications on both the IBM and Arm compute platforms in future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems.

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, is introducing new AI capabilities in its?OpenBlue?digital ecosystem to help building owners reduce energy use, automate building operations, and cut operating costs.

AWS is announcing the general availability of?AWS Glue 6.0, providing 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions and introducing full support for?Apache Iceberg?v3 features.

Graphwise, a leading graph AI provider, announced that Oakley Capital (Oakley), a leading European mid-market private equity investor, has acquired a majority stake in the company to help businesses anchor AI using verified enterprise data.

AlertOps, the AI-powered incident orchestration platform, announced the general availability of Status Hub?a fully integrated stakeholder communication platform that gives organizations real-time, audience-specific visibility into every incident.

Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, is debuting advancements to Cloud Rewind, expanding Microsoft Azure resource coverage for configuration protection and recovery.

In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, discusses the many ways sub-optimal human interaction complicates AI performance, raising piracy concerns through over-sharing, manipulating or hacking agentic exchanges, and the lack of a shared frame of reference that would help to assess the relevance of different results for questions with more than one correct answer.