Artificial Intelligence

NinjaOne places automated endpoint management platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NinjaOne places automated endpoint management platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
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 Comments Off on Monitoring AI workloads has made jobs more challenging: Splunk
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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Agent

Archive360 collaborates with Microsoft to deliver agentic AI that provides eDiscovery and compliance for large organizations

October 22, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Archive360 collaborates with Microsoft to deliver agentic AI that provides eDiscovery and compliance for large organizations
This strategic collaboration integrates Archive360’s governed data platform with Microsoft Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to enable sophisticated compliance and investigation workflows.

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Agent

Dell releases AI data platform advancements

October 21, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell releases AI data platform advancements
, Dell Technologies is announcing Dell AI Data Platform advancements designed to help enterprises turn distributed, siloed data into faster, more reliable AI outcomes

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Agent

Zilliant  introduces new Agentic AI agents with MCP Server that  integrates pricing intelligence into enterprise AI ecosystems

October 20, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zilliant  introduces new Agentic AI agents with MCP Server that  integrates pricing intelligence into enterprise AI ecosystems
The idea here is to end spreadsheet pricing, as the AI agents replace spreadsheets and guesswork with faster, more confident pricing decisions, and the MCP Server integrates pricing intelligence without complex or costly integrations.

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Backup

Arctera enhances cyber resilience by upgrading Microsoft capabilities in Backup Exec

October 20, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arctera enhances cyber resilience by upgrading Microsoft capabilities in Backup Exec
Among the changes is that Backup Exec now protects identity as well as data.

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Artificial Intelligence

Stibo Systems launches ProductGen AI with generative AI capability

October 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Stibo Systems launches ProductGen AI with generative AI capability
MDM specialist Stibo Systems’ ProductGen AI is a new generative AI capability embedded in the company’s Product Experience Data Cloud (PXDC) which moves MDM out of the back office and positions it as category-essential infrastructure powering digital commerce, sustainability, and AI adoption.

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Artificial Intelligence

Armis and Fortinet deepen strategic partnership around Armis Centrix platform and Fortinet Security Fabric

October 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armis and Fortinet deepen strategic partnership around Armis Centrix platform and Fortinet Security Fabric
The alliance now covers eight integrations, covering all three of Fortinet’s core product lines, with the aim of eliminating blind spots, automating enforcement, and strengthening cyber resilience of their customers worldwide.

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Channel Communities

CyberArk enhances Machine Identity Security Portfolio with new discovery and context capabilities

October 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on CyberArk enhances Machine Identity Security Portfolio with new discovery and context capabilities
The new capabilities include improvements to CyberArk Secrets Hub, CyberArk Certificate Manager, SaaS, and CyberArk SSH Manager for Machines 

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