Articles by Mark Cox

Agent

Axoniq launches unified platform to bring explainability to enterprise AI

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox 0
The new Axoniq platform, which just launched, preserves the contextual history of every business decision, in what the company says will close the Trust Gap for AI in complex and regulated industries.

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Channel Communities

Zscaler launches new innovations for advanced end-to-end monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched three major new Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) innovations that help enterprises monitor and fix performance issues faster, cut issue detection by 98% and resolve issues in minutes to strengthen SLAs and minimize downtime.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype major obstacle to CFO attainment of realistic goals

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox 0
A new study from OneStream Software indicates CFOs  are facing mounting pressure from boards and investors to turn AI from promise into performance, while also attempting to transcend AI hype, which is likely why 97% say their boards expect a regular readout on AI investment, even as 32% of CFOs express concerns about ROI uncertainty of AI projects.

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Artificial Intelligence

Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox 0
The availability of Auvik SaaS management, following the initial availability of Auvik Network Management (ANM) on the Pax8 Marketplace in 2024, marks a significant milestone as the first SaaS management platform available on Pax8 with shadow IT and shadow AI discovery capabilities.

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Artificial Intelligence

Flamingo targets MSP  market with AI-powered open source platform

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Flamingo emerges from stealth  and at launch had already signed up over 1,000 MSPs on their waitlist, with over 150 early adopters from the Slack community actively involved in testing.

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APIs

NETSCOUT expands capabilities to support enterprise compliance requirements in cloud environments

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox 0
NETSCOUT says it has extended continuous end-through-end monitoring to enhance attribution for audit controls and incident reports, prove zero-trust network policies, and shorten time to detect, contain, and document incidents, thus delivering essential visibility for compliance evidence, data protection and secure operations.

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APIs

Backblaze research notes hidden cost of cloud object storage fees

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox 0
95% of organizations report surprise cloud storage fees, as rising egress costs reshape infrastructure strategies and drive demand for transparent alternatives.

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Agent

Elastic introduces Streams AI-powered solution

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Streams presents a unified intelligence layer for extracting structure from messy, unstructured logs, enabling rapid root cause identification and remediation.

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Agent

Palo Alto Networks to acquire identity security vendor CyberArk

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Palo Alto Networks says that their acquisition of CyberArk will create the end-to-end security platform for the AI era.

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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 0
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.

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Agent

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

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox 0
The multiyear partnership between the two organizations focuses on intelligent automation at scale for joint enterprise customers.

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Agent

KnowBe4 research says personalized phishing emails using the company name dominate

October 31, 2025 Mark Cox 0
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.

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Distribution

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

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox 0
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.

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Agent

Workato Enterprise MCP now available for SaaS platforms

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox 0
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.

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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 0
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.

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Backup

Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox 0
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.

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Artificial Intelligence

NinjaOne places automated endpoint management platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to NinjaOne’s automated endpoint management platform to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

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Artificial Intelligence

Monitoring AI workloads has made jobs more challenging: Splunk

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Observability practitioners are becoming critical stakeholders to key business decisions in customer engagement strategies, product roadmaps and more, said Patrick Lin, the SVP and GM of Observability at Splunk.

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Artificial Intelligence

Recovery Point Systems enhances their Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) with AI-powered backup validation

October 28, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Recovery Point Systems enhances their Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) with AI-powered backup validation
Recovery Point Systems, which makes cyber resiliency and business continuity solutions, has announced a major enhancement to its Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) solution with the addition of AI-powered Backup Validation. This new capability enables organizations to verify the integrity of their backup images before initiating recovery, which provides a higher level of assurance that restoration will be clean, secure, and operational following a cyberattack.

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Agent

Rubik, Cognizant launch cyber resilience-based partnership

October 28, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubik, Cognizant launch cyber resilience-based partnership
Cognizant and Rubrik’s partnership advances outcome-based cyber resilience, combining AI-driven security and global scale to move from reactive recovery to proactive resilience.

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