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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.