Artificial Intelligence

Upscale AI launches with over $100M  round for ultra-low latency network solutions purpose-built for AI

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Upscale AI launches with over $100M  round for ultra-low latency network solutions purpose-built for AI
Upscale AI is pioneering open-standard networking technology to drive faster innovation along with greater choice and flexibility across AI infrastructure, creating sustainable, ultra-low latency network infrastructure solutions purpose-built for AI, interconnecting compute, data, and users.

Artificial Intelligence

Bad guys increase ransomware attacks for first time in three years: Hornetsecurity

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bad guys increase ransomware attacks for first time in three years: Hornetsecurity
A new report from Hornetsecurity found the first increase in ransomware attacks in three years were driven by new technology, particularly more convincing AI-based phishing attacks, against which traditional training and defenses have little use.

Agent

Akto looks to protect MCP servers with new Agentic Security Platform

October 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Akto looks to protect MCP servers with new Agentic Security Platform
Akto’s new Agentic Security Platform is an end-to-end security solution purpose-built for the age of autonomous AI agents that is designed to protect enterprises as they deploy AI agents at scale and adopt the Model Context Protocol , with the platform delivering complete visibility, continuous Agentic red teaming, and real-time guardrails to stop agents from going rogue.

Agent

SnapLogic expands Agentic AI in the enterprise with new support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

October 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on SnapLogic expands Agentic AI in the enterprise with new support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)
SnapLogic’s support of the MCP now enables secure MCP servers, governance, and orchestration, advancing SnapLogic’s vision of the agentic enterprise.

Channel Programs

Azul Launches TAP (Technology Alliance Partner Program) to expand Java ecosystem

October 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Azul Launches TAP (Technology Alliance Partner Program) to expand Java ecosystem
The TAP program is focused  on ISVs, complements an earlier one for MSPs that Azul launched this summer, and is designed to foster deep collaboration between Azul and technology partners to deliver integrated solutions that improve developer productivity, DevOps efficiency, business productivity and cloud efficiency for Java customers worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

Sphinx launches with $9.5M seed round to redefine how AI works with data

October 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sphinx launches with $9.5M seed round to redefine how AI works with data
With Seed funding round led by Lightspeed, Sphinx unveils AI copilot for data scientists that thinks in statistics and patterns to find value in raw information.

Agent

Simbian launches AI Threat Hunt Agent integrated to Microsoft Sentinel data lake

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Simbian launches AI Threat Hunt Agent integrated to Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Simbian’s new AI Threat Hunt Agent will allow Microsoft 365 customers to accelerate and scale their organizations’ threat hunting capabilities, which will make them more efficient, and also open up new channel opportunities.

Agent

VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era
Garth Gibson, who has a well-regarded history around AI and HPC, discusses his vision about where VDURA and technology in general are going, as well as the likely impact on VDURA’s channel partners.

Agent

UiPath upgrades AI for UiPath Platform and partners with Snowflake, NVIDIA and Google

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on UiPath upgrades AI for UiPath Platform and partners with Snowflake, NVIDIA and Google
In addition to three important new strategic relationships, UiPath announced significantly expanded Capabilities for its UiPath Platform for agentic automation and orchestration, together with built-in security and governance to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and realize impact and ROI from AI transformation efforts.

Agent

Databricks and OpenAI partner to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks platform and Agent Bricks flagship product

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Databricks and OpenAI partner to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks platform and Agent Bricks flagship product
Databricks and OpenAI have announced a multi-year partnership that will make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ flagship AI product Agent Bricks, while they also signed a multiyear, $100 million deal to sell artificial intelligence services to large business customers.