Agent

Tanium to preview new platform capabilities and agentic AI innovation at 10th annual Converge event

November 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tanium to preview new platform capabilities and agentic AI innovation at 10th annual Converge event
Tanium previews coverage of their Converge 2025 event in November, and says Global IT and cybersecurity leaders will launch the next chapter in Agentic AI for the autonomous enterprise.

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Agent

Axoniq launches unified platform to bring explainability to enterprise AI

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axoniq launches unified platform to bring explainability to enterprise AI
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 Comments Off on Zscaler launches new innovations for advanced end-to-end monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation
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

Cisco’s Robbins outlines opportunities, challenges of AI era

November 4, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Robbins outlines opportunities, challenges of AI era
SAN DIEGO — AI has the technology industry “moving at a pace as an industry, as a group, and as partners, that we haven’t moved in a very long time,” Cisco CEO Chuk Robbins told […]
Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype major obstacle to CFO attainment of realistic goals

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on AI Hype major obstacle to CFO attainment of realistic goals
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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Edge

Cisco’s Unified Edge updates UCS concept for AI era

November 4, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Unified Edge updates UCS concept for AI era
SAN DIEGO — At its Partner Summit here, Cisco announced its latest server offering, taking the converged infrastructure approach it’s been taking with its Unified Computing System (UCS) lineup for many years and bringing it […]
SaaS Alerts Sponsored Content

Top 5 SaaS security risks that could be hiding in your environment

November 3, 2025 SaaS Alerts Guest Blog Comments Off on Top 5 SaaS security risks that could be hiding in your environment
SaaS adoption has surged in recent years, becoming the foundation that enables and transforms modern business models for productivity and growth. From startups to global enterprises, businesses today rely heavily on cloud-based SaaS applications to accelerate workflows, improve collaboration and boost efficiency.

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Artificial Intelligence

Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8
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 Comments Off on Flamingo targets MSP  market with AI-powered open source platform
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 Comments Off on NETSCOUT expands capabilities to support enterprise compliance requirements in cloud environments
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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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