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Druva announces powerful AWS workload protection, exceeds $100 million in ARR

December 3, 2025 Mark Cox 0
In addition to surpassing $100 million in ARR for the first time, Druva added new AWS backup capabilities and launched a new integration with Crowdstrike.

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Artificial Intelligence

Rubrik signs strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to cybersecurity solutions that provide cyber resilience

November 12, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik signs strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to cybersecurity solutions that provide cyber resilience
This strategic collaboration agreement will accelerate secure AI adoption through Rubrik’s expanding AI portfolio, unifying backup, threat analysis, and recovery for AWS workloads, all on a single platform.

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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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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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Artificial Intelligence

NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads
The two big enhancements, both new, are exabyte-scale AFX systems with disaggregated storage, and an AI Data Engine built with NVIDIA, both of which deliver on NetApp’s AI vision.

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Agent

NetApp deepens partnership with Google Cloud by adding block storage

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp deepens partnership with Google Cloud by adding block storage
While there are other changes broadening the Google relationship, the big one is that flexible and powerful block storage is now available in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, along with even greater AI integration for enterprise transformation.

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Backup

Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance
The Ootbi Mini broadens the market for Object First storage to ROBOs and smaller businesses, while also adding a honeypot feature and a beta for fleet managers which should appeal to MSPs in particular.

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Artificial Intelligence

MinIO adds  native Apache Iceberg support to its AIStor exascale object store with new Tables feature.

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on MinIO adds  native Apache Iceberg support to its AIStor exascale object store with new Tables feature.
The company says this key new capability establishes MinIO as the on-prem exascale AI Data Store for secure, sovereign, scalable enterprise AI.

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Agent

SolarWinds adds operational resilience to AI Agent

October 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds adds operational resilience to AI Agent
SolarWinds is making several news announcements today, but the strengthening of AI Agent is the most significant of the lot.

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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.

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Channel Communities

Exabeam and Cribl extend partnership by integrating Exabeam platform with Cribl Stream

September 25, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Exabeam and Cribl extend partnership by integrating Exabeam platform with Cribl Stream
The partnership advances an outcome-driven data strategy, decoupling security outcomes from data volume, and powering scalable, high-fidelity threat detection with next-gen data pipelines.

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Artificial Intelligence

Cohesity announces major cyber resilience breakthroughs

September 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity announces major cyber resilience breakthroughs
The data protection vendor, fresh off its acquisition of Veritas has extended its Cyber Resilience positioning with new security innovations and partnerships, strengthening its identity and data resilience to speed response and recovery from destructive cyberattacks.

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Artificial Intelligence

IT service provider Blue Mantis launches midmarket cybersecurity service with GenAI

September 20, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on IT service provider Blue Mantis launches midmarket cybersecurity service with GenAI
Blue Mantis unveils a comprehensive and fully managed cybersecurity service to defend midsized businesses against advanced threats

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Data Management

Barracuda Managed XDR beefs up  both Microsoft and Google with Automated Threat Response

September 18, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda Managed XDR beefs up  both Microsoft and Google with Automated Threat Response
Barracuda Managed XDR has had Automated Threat Response added for two major platforms – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Google Workspace.

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Agent

ThoughtSpot launches major platform update to redefine legacy BI tools

September 16, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on ThoughtSpot launches major platform update to redefine legacy BI tools
New innovations in ThoughtSpot Embedded and Spotter 3 break down barriers between structured and unstructured data, embedding intelligence into every app, workflow, and AI tool, and redefining analytics with boundaryless, agentic intelligence

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Agent

Ericsson leaps forward in enterprise 5G networking by integrating agentic AI into NetCloud platform

September 15, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ericsson leaps forward in enterprise 5G networking by integrating agentic AI into NetCloud platform
In addition, as NetCloud evolves to effortlessly manage both Wireless WAN and private 5G solutions, Ericsson is also launching the industry’s first enterprise 5G agentic AI virtual expert.

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Artificial Intelligence

Zenity collaborates with Microsoft Copilot Studio to protect Copilot AI agents

September 12, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zenity collaborates with Microsoft Copilot Studio to protect Copilot AI agents
Zenity is the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents, from SaaS to cloud to end user devices, and is designed to help organizations deploy agentic AI at scale with greater control and security.

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APIs

Enterprise browser firm Island named IGEL partner of the year

September 11, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Enterprise browser firm Island named IGEL partner of the year
Island, which has been focused on building quality lightweight browsers and has been focused on the workspace, has been selected by IGEL as their 2025 IGEL Ready Application Excellence Partner of the Year. It significantly upgrades what IGEL has been doing around their enterprise browser technology, to the point where Island considers IGEL to be a design partner

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Artificial Intelligence

Dataminr adds Agentic AI capabilities to key cybersecurity platforms

September 11, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dataminr adds Agentic AI capabilities to key cybersecurity platforms
AI vendor Dataminr has introduced its Agentic AI capabilities for leading cybersecurity platforms in what the company says is transforming the future of real time information using AI and public data.

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