Hyperscalers

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.

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.

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.

Artificial Intelligence

Deep Instinct releases next-gen AI Analyst in AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity

October 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Deep Instinct releases next-gen AI Analyst in AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity
DIANNA, which built on the first and only AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity, pairs with the DSX Brain to provide expert-level analysis of zero-day and unknown threats, arming security teams with confidence from unknown threats in seconds

Artificial Intelligence

Mueon launches from Stealth with modular ‘Cubelets’ to redefine data centres for AI Era

September 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Mueon launches from Stealth with modular ‘Cubelets’ to redefine data centres for AI Era
Mueon brings a $15.5M seed funding round, and modular Cubelets that optimize compute, memory, power, and thermal management to unlock exponential performance improvements.

Artificial Intelligence

Rubrik expands integration with CrowdStrike Falcon to strengthen next-gen identity security

September 18, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik expands integration with CrowdStrike Falcon to strengthen next-gen identity security
The integration of Rubrik Identity Resilience with CrowdStrike Falcon next-gen identity security lets customers surgically rollback malicious identity changes and restore identity providers to a safe state.

Certifications

AppViewX  names Troy Dankworth as Channel Chief to accelerate global partner role

September 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on AppViewX  names Troy Dankworth as Channel Chief to accelerate global partner role
Dankworth will also deepen strategic alliances, and scale AppViewX’s channel ecosystem to meet rising demand for enterprise-grade machine identity orchestration, private PKI modernization, and crypto-agility solutions.

Artificial Intelligence

SentinelOne to boost AI SIEM and data offerings with Observo AI acquisition

September 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on SentinelOne to boost AI SIEM and data offerings with Observo AI acquisition
What Observo considers to be the best-in-class, AI-native data pipeline platform will build on SentinelOne’s AI advantage by turbo charging ingestion, enriching telemetry, and automatically adapting to evolving threats.

Big Data

Hitachi Vantara expands hyperscaler support with Azure, Google relationships

August 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara expands hyperscaler support with Azure, Google relationships
An initial deal with Google was followed up by one with Azure, although many of the strategies and principles of both agreements are similar.