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.

Channel Communities

TD SYNNEX partners with IBM Cloudability to empower partners with cloud financial management

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on TD SYNNEX partners with IBM Cloudability to empower partners with cloud financial management
Distributor TD SYNNEX has commenced a TD SYNNEX Global FinOps Practice powered by IBM Cloudability, which is targeted . The practice is geared at helping partners build their own practice with the assistance of Cloudability.

Artificial Intelligence

Armada and OpenAI partner to produce smaller, industry-specific AI models

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armada and OpenAI partner to produce smaller, industry-specific AI models
Edge computing vendor Armada and OpenAI  have launched a strategic collaboration with OpenAI which is focused on the deployment of AI applications at the edge, specifically through smaller, industry-specific AI models.

APIs

Cequence Security strengthens channel first model to drive profitability across the application, API, AI and AI ecosystems

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cequence Security strengthens channel first model to drive profitability across the application, API, AI and AI ecosystems
Cequence enhances their channel program with structured tiers, enhanced enablement, and profitability incentives as the company strengthens its channel-first positioning.

Agent

Illumio Insights strengthens threat detection and containment with new Insights Agent

October 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Illumio Insights strengthens threat detection and containment with new Insights Agent
Illumio launches Insights Agent to provide fast, radically simplified threat detection and containment

Agent

Cyware, Microsoft launch strategic partnership integrating Microsoft Sentinel, Defender  and Cyware Intel Exchange

October 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyware, Microsoft launch strategic partnership integrating Microsoft Sentinel, Defender  and Cyware Intel Exchange
This new partnership combines Microsoft Commercial Marketplace momentum with deep integrations across Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender and Cyware Intel Exchange to accelerate threat intelligence-driven detection, sharing and response.

Artificial Intelligence

Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities

October 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities
VergeOS 26 modernizes infrastructure while VergeIQ, integrated within it, has features like shared LLM, OpenAI-compatible services, vendor-agnostic GPU support, and generative AI intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM and Toronto’s Groq partner to give IBM clients immediate access to agentic AI through Groq technology

October 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM and Toronto’s Groq partner to give IBM clients immediate access to agentic AI through Groq technology
The partnership aims to deliver faster agentic AI capabilities through the integration of IBM watsonx Orchestrate and Groq technology, enabling enterprise clients to take immediate action on complex workflows.

Agent

Agent Builder enables developers to build custom AI agents directly on top of their data using a natural conversational approach to context engineering

October 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Agent Builder enables developers to build custom AI agents directly on top of their data using a natural conversational approach to context engineering
Elastic’s introduction of Agent Builder was designed to accelerate AI agent development, making it easy for developers to build custom AI agents and providing an out-of-the-box conversational experience for exploring, analyzing, and optimizing any data in Elasticsearch.

Agent

Riverbed introduces new Riverbed Data Express Service for large-scale massive AI dataset movement

October 22, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed introduces new Riverbed Data Express Service for large-scale massive AI dataset movement
The new Riverbed Data Express Service, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is designed to let enterprises radically accelerate the movement of massive datasets now required to prepare and deploy AI models at scale at speeds up to 10X faster than traditional solutions.