Articles by Mark Cox

Agent

Obsidian Security launches SaaS AI Agent Defense to protect data in SaaS environments

October 15, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Obsidian Security launches SaaS AI Agent Defense to protect data in SaaS environments
New platform capabilities safeguard enterprises from the next frontier of cyber risk: autonomous AI agents inside business-critical SaaS

Artificial Intelligence

NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads
The two big enhancements, both new, are exabyte-scale AFX systems with disaggregated storage, and an AI Data Engine built with NVIDIA, both of which deliver on NetApp’s AI vision.

Artificial Intelligence

d-Matrix announces SquadRack rack-scale solution to provide AI Inference at data centre scale 

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on d-Matrix announces SquadRack rack-scale solution to provide AI Inference at data centre scale 
Generative AI inference trailblazer d-Matrix partners with Arista, Broadcom and Supermicro to create the industry’s first blueprint for disaggregated standards-based rack-scale solutions for ultra-low latency batched inference.  

Agent

NetApp deepens partnership with Google Cloud by adding block storage

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp deepens partnership with Google Cloud by adding block storage
While there are other changes broadening the Google relationship, the big one is that flexible and powerful block storage is now available in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, along with even greater AI integration for enterprise transformation.

Artificial Intelligence

Barracuda improves AI-powered BarracudaONE Platform for MSPs

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda improves AI-powered BarracudaONE Platform for MSPs
The updates are purpose-built to help MSPs accelerate threat response across multi-tenant environments, simplify operations and drive scalable growth, and include bulk remediation for email threats, PSA integrations for automated billing and invoicing, and streamlined account management.

Artificial Intelligence

NetApp adds more capabilities to ransomware protection

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp adds more capabilities to ransomware protection
NetApp has rebranded its anti-ransomware offer, and also embeds its data breach detection into enterprise data storage

Artificial Intelligence

GoTo and Nexthink ally to integrate Nexthink platform with LogMeIn Rescue in move that should please channel partners

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on GoTo and Nexthink ally to integrate Nexthink platform with LogMeIn Rescue in move that should please channel partners
The partnership enables a new integration between LogMeIn Rescue, GoTo’s enterprise-grade remote support tool, and the DEX-focused Nexthink Infinity platform, a partnership which will have significant implications for channel partners of both companies.

Backup

Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance
The Ootbi Mini broadens the market for Object First storage to ROBOs and smaller businesses, while also adding a honeypot feature and a beta for fleet managers which should appeal to MSPs in particular.

Artificial Intelligence

MinIO adds  native Apache Iceberg support to its AIStor exascale object store with new Tables feature.

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on MinIO adds  native Apache Iceberg support to its AIStor exascale object store with new Tables feature.
The company says this key new capability establishes MinIO as the on-prem exascale AI Data Store for secure, sovereign, scalable enterprise AI.

Agent

Nintex unveils new AI-native capabilities in newly-announced Agentic Business Orchestration

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nintex unveils new AI-native capabilities in newly-announced Agentic Business Orchestration
Nintex has announced that it has unlocked the power of agentic business orchestration by combining process intelligence, workflow orchestration, low-code development, and agentic AI, and has now formally unveiled Agentic Business Orchestration, its vision and strategic direction for the evolution of business process automation and application development.