December 2025 Touchpoint Highlights

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Enterprise-ready hybrid cloud: Why CIOs choose Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization powered by IBM's agentic AI methodology

Chief investment officers (CIOs) are facing the challenge of how to modernize at speed without disrupting operations or compromising governance. Hybrid clouds promise agility and innovation, yet many enterprises still rely on critical virtual machine (VM)-based workloads that cannot be easily refactored or retired. Therefore, modernization is not about abandoning what works; it must be about integrating intelligently. Learn more here

Building for Black Friday every day: Continuous resilience as a DevOps superpower

Black Friday tests systems hard, every second of downtime costs trust and money. DevOps must embed resilience into delivery with observability, automation and governance, continuously and by design. Ready to build resilience into your DevOps pipeline? Explore our guide to staying reliable at scale.

Product updates

Red Hat OpenShift

• Protect data in use: Bringing confidential computing to Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes on IBM Cloud

Databases

• IBM Db2 12.1.3 now generally available: Advancing AI for enterprise data management

Mainframe

• Scale and optimize gen AI inferencing using the IBM AI Optimizer for Z 2.1

watsonx

• From prototype to production: Langflow and IBM watsonx Orchestrate simplify Agentic workflows
• Open-source model surpasses closed models: The open-source breakthrough shifting AI's center of gravity
• Agents that scale versus agents that stall in financial services
• The role of AI in the future of asset lifecycle management

Technical Updates

• Mixture of Experts podcast: hear expert analysis on the latest AI news, trends, innovations and their impact on business
• IBM named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Governance, Risk and Compliance Tools, Assurance Leaders for IBM OpenPages
• IBM recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape 2025 Data Protection and Governance Services Add more articles here
• Weathering the storm: Why outage prediction is the future of grid resiliency
• IBM recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide ESG Reporting and Compliance Management Applications Vendor Assessment, 2025
• IBM named a Leader in the Everest Group Multi-Process Human Resources Outsourcing (MPHRO) Services PEAK Matrix®
• How HSBC and IBM rewired the market’s mind with quantum
• Bring production-grade tests to pre-prod: Instana adds Synthetic Monitoring to your CI/CD
• IBM watsonx Orchestrate recognized with 2025 Red Dot Design Award for Excellence in Enterprise AI Design
• Introducing Machine Identity Management to strengthen IAM for non-human identities
• 23 different IBM offerings win TrustRadius 2026 Buyer’s Choice Award
• IBM named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms
• IBM named a Leader in Everest Group Identity and Access Management (IAM) Services PEAK Matrix® assessment
• IBM OpenPages as a Service expands to IBM Cloud Germany, strengthening EU-centric GRC capabilities
• IBM named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Metadata Management for watsonx.data intelligence
• How UFC uses governance to deepen the integrity of AI-generated narratives
• Rising to the planning challenge: A smarter approach with asset investment planning

Education

• Explainers: become an expert on emerging and fundamental tech topics
• Turning hidden data flows into trusted insight: OpenLineage within IBM watsonx.data intelligence
• Building customer operations that drive growth
• Seven steps to smarter reliability through digital experience monitoring
• Sovereign cloud foundations: What should you expect from your cloud provider?
• A critical wake-up call: Overcoming cloning and surveillance risks from eSIM vulnerability
• 3 ways generative AI is revolutionizing SAP testing to boost quality and efficiency
• Bridging the data engineering skills gap: Build data pipelines with agents, SDKs and automation
• 5 ways IBM SPSS delivers real value for SMBs
• From authentication to orchestration: Building smarter fraud defenses for banks
• Enterprise AI agents: Beyond productivity
• Data quality issues and challenges

Previous editions

In case you missed it, here you are links of past months touchpoints:

• November 2025
• October 2025