Year: 2025

APIs

Backblaze research notes hidden cost of cloud object storage fees

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Backblaze research notes hidden cost of cloud object storage fees
95% of organizations report surprise cloud storage fees, as rising egress costs reshape infrastructure strategies and drive demand for transparent alternatives.

Agent

Elastic introduces Streams AI-powered solution

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Elastic introduces Streams AI-powered solution
Streams presents a unified intelligence layer for extracting structure from messy, unstructured logs, enabling rapid root cause identification and remediation.

Agent

Palo Alto Networks to acquire identity security vendor CyberArk

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks to acquire identity security vendor CyberArk
Palo Alto Networks says that their acquisition of CyberArk will create the end-to-end security platform for the AI era.

Agent

Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX as next-gen Cortex XSOAR, to build, deploy and govern the agentic workforce of the future

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX as next-gen Cortex XSOAR, to build, deploy and govern the agentic workforce of the future
What Palo Alto Networks is terming the next generation of Cortex XSOAR, combines the power of agentic AI with the safety of enterprise-grade guardrails.

Agent

Dynatrace, ServiceNow launch multi-year partnership that deepens strategic collaboration

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dynatrace, ServiceNow launch multi-year partnership that deepens strategic collaboration
The multiyear partnership between the two organizations focuses on intelligent automation at scale for joint enterprise customers.

Agent

KnowBe4 research says personalized phishing emails using the company name dominate

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on KnowBe4 research says personalized phishing emails using the company name dominate
The Q3 2025 phishing simulation roundup indicates that people interacted most with emails that impersonated colleagues or referenced internal systems or topics, indicating not so much that the phishing was aimed at tricking dopey users as it is about the understanding of human behavior.

Distribution

Anti-ransomware fighter Halcyon signs North American distribution deal with Climb Channel Solutions

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Anti-ransomware fighter Halcyon signs North American distribution deal with Climb Channel Solutions
While Halcyon has worked with Carahsoft in the public sector, and has had distribution relationships in EMEA and APJ, this deal with Climb is their first in North American that handles the enterprise, commercial or SMB areas in North America.

Agent

Workato Enterprise MCP now available for SaaS platforms

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Workato Enterprise MCP now available for SaaS platforms
The new Workato Enterprise MCP’s availability for SaaS platforms allows them to make their products agent-ready, securely, rapidly, and without rewriting their apps or APIs.

Email

Organizations that take more than nine hours to deal with email breaches 79% more likely to be hit by ransomware

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Organizations that take more than nine hours to deal with email breaches 79% more likely to be hit by ransomware
New research from Barracuda also finds that 78% of respondents experienced an email security breach in the previous 12 months, that smaller companies have the heaviest recovery costs and that the average cost of recovering from a single email security breach exceeds $200,000.

Backup

Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit
Jan Ursi takes over as channels leader at Danish SaaS data and backup company Keepit, where he outlined his strategy for driving the company  forward.