Firmus Partners with Vast Data for APAC Expansion
Firmus announced a partnership with Vast Data to deploy the Vast AI Operating System as the data foundation for its Asia‑Pacific expansion. The collaboration targets high‑throughput, disaggregated GPU clusters, ensuring efficiency across thousands of GPUs in its sovereign AI factories, including the Project Southgate initiative in Tasmania. By leveraging the model‑to‑grid architecture and NVIDIA’s Cloud Partner reference design, Firmus aims to unify data access and support secure multi‑tenant workloads. The deal follows a recent $10 billion debt financing round that will fund the broader rollout.
SISU Solutions Joins ICTPA Panel
Australia's Department of Defence has added SISU Solutions to its Information Communications Technology Provider Arrangement (ICTPA) panel, making the SME one of the few approved across all service modules. SISU can now supply systems integration, application services, and ICT personnel...
Unify AI for Employees and Customers to Boost Service Velocity
Why are you running separate AI stacks for your employees and your customers? The "service" logic is the same. Convergence between the Contact Center and ITSM is the only way to achieve true operational velocity. Stop managing silos; start managing...
Aptean Acquires OpsVeda to Bring End-to-End Agentic Orchestration to the Logility Supply Chain Planning and Execution Platform
Aptean announced the acquisition of OpsVeda, an AI‑powered operations command center, to integrate with its recently acquired Logility supply‑chain platform. The deal adds a real‑time, agentic execution layer that bridges planning and execution, enabling continuous AI‑driven orchestration across the supply...
Aptean Launches Paragon Route 360 on AppCentral, Transforming AI-Driven Real-Time Routing and Scheduling for Logistics Teams
Aptean announced the launch of Paragon Route 360 on its AppCentral platform, delivering an AI‑native routing and scheduling solution for logistics teams. The software offers continuous schedules, an AI Routing Assistant that accepts natural‑language commands, and AI agents that automate...
From Packets to Prompts: What Cisco’s AITECH Certification Means for IT Pros
Cisco launched the AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH) certification, a role‑oriented credential that validates applied AI skills for infrastructure professionals. The 60‑minute 800‑110 exam covers generative AI, prompt engineering, ethics, security, data analysis, and workflow automation. AITECH targets network engineers, AIOps...
Is Generative AI Failing the Enterprise? A New Infrastructure Model Emerges
Enterprises have poured $30‑40 billion into generative AI, yet 95% see little measurable ROI, according to MIT NANDA’s 2025 report. The failure is attributed to reliability gaps as AI moves from conversational assistance to transaction approval and workflow automation. Quarrio introduced...
Blumira Lands in Pax8 Marketplace, MSPs Get a Scalable Path to Managed SIEM
Blumira has entered the Pax8 Marketplace, allowing managed service providers (MSPs) to purchase, provision, and bill a full‑stack security operations platform through the same portal they use for cloud services. The integration eliminates separate sales and onboarding steps, enabling MSPs...
Eye on Innovation: Advancing AI Maturity
Planview’s Chief Data Scientist outlines why most AI pilots stall, citing low AI maturity as the core barrier. MIT’s four‑stage maturity model shows the biggest financial gains when firms move from pilot‑centric Stage 2 to enterprise‑wide Stage 3. Planview’s Anvi platform tackles...
Google Unveils Two New US Data Centers As $185 Billion Commitment Gets Underway
Google announced the construction of two new data centers—one in Wilbarger County, Texas, and another in Pine Island, Minnesota—as part of a $185 billion capital‑expenditure plan for 2026. The Texas site will employ advanced air‑cooling technology and partner with AES Corp....
NYC Cyber Leaders: Private Dinner on Dataverse Protection
If you’re a cybersecurity leader in NYC, join me this Thursday for a roundtable dinner focusing on New Strategies to Protect Your Expanding Dataverse. Private dinner, peer conversation, no vendor pitch. These are the discussions where the real issues come...
Evolve Digital Ops or Burn Out Talent Amid AI Pressure
RT Layoffs + AI expectations = danger zone. If you're being asked to "do more with less" and deliver AI ROI, you must evolve the digital operating model or you'll burn out your best people before you see results. #CIO #DigitalTransformation...
Tetra Pak Redefines ERP Modernization with a Clean Core Strategy
Tetra Pak has replaced its heavily customized ERP landscape with a clean core strategy built on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, leveraging SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX. The shift eliminated more than 10 million lines of custom code and drove 95 %...
GenAI Bridges Divergent Multicloud APIs, IAM, and Pricing
Multicloud != "just more clouds." It's divergent APIs, IAM models, pricing, and PaaS semantics across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and others. GenAI introduces a translation layer for configs, code, and policies. #MultiCloud https://t.co/vBzM21vM14
Treat AI Like Critical Systems: Enforce Strict Governance
RT One bad AI release can undo months of trust. Treat agents like critical systems: identity, least privilege, data governance, and safety controls must be non-negotiable before going to production. #AIGovernance #DevOps @Star_CIO https://t.co/1tg10UmJNv
Filin-Matthews Named Chief Architect at McDonalds
Wayne Filin‑Matthews has been named Vice President of AI Strategy and Chief Architect at McDonald’s, a newly created executive role aimed at embedding artificial intelligence throughout the restaurant chain. The veteran enterprise architect arrives from AstraZeneca, where he led large‑scale...
AI Literacy: Blend ROI Roadmap with Realizable Vision
AI literacy isn't about moonshots; it's about pairing a practical ROI-focused roadmap with a bold long-term vision your organization can actually execute on. #AILiteracy #Leadership #CIO https://t.co/aiB5P99ido
Boards Demand Business Impact Over Technical Threat Metrics
📈 The Board is over "Red, Yellow, Green" charts. They want financial risk quantification. Moving from technical metrics to business risk is the #1 theme for CIOs at RSA this year. Stop reporting on "threats" and start reporting on "impact."...
New Relic Launches New AI Agent Platform and OpenTelemetry Tools
New Relic unveiled the Agentic Platform, a no‑code solution that lets enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents focused on observability outcomes. The platform supports the Model Context Protocol, enabling seamless connection to external data sources and integration with existing...
AI Accelerates Threat Groups' Attack Speed
Threat groups move at record speeds, as AI helps scale attacks | Cybersecurity Dive https://t.co/frfbUAXzlI
CIOs and CHROs Must Co‑Lead AI Literacy for Scale
AI democratization is a change management problem. CIOs must partner with CHROs on AI literacy, "vibe then verify" cultures, and on-the-job learning that turns pilots into scaled outcomes. #ChangeManagement #AI #CHRO #CIO #AIDemocratization https://t.co/8OLLAWNSNL
Slotegrator Introduces an AI-Powered Anti-Fraud Assistant
Slotegrator has launched an AI‑powered anti‑fraud assistant for iGaming operators, turning existing dashboard metrics into concise, structured insights. The tool does not create new data or make autonomous blocking decisions, instead offering analytical recommendations for human review. It targets new...
Join 5-City Tour Securing the Age of Agentic AI
📍5-city tour with @cequenceai engaging in timely conversations about Securing the Age of #AgenticAI 📍Bellevue WA -Feb 26th 📍Plano TX - March 5th 📍NYC - March 12th 📍Chicago - April 16th 📍Atlanta - April 30th 📍📍Request your invite 👇 https://t.co/DjzQMjpsJE #AI #CISO https://t.co/LoNKw65bCh
Inside SAP's Future Strategy at Analyst Council
On the ground for the @SAP Analyst Innovation Council meetings. Digging into SAP's strategy moving forward. All discussions under NDA...but looking forward to digging into the details. #CIO #strategy #ERP #AI #HCM #CX #Data https://t.co/pFVziQGjU8
Nimble Raises $47M to Give AI Agents Access to Real-Time Web Data
Nimble announced a $47 million Series B round led by Norwest to scale its AI‑driven web‑search platform. The service uses autonomous agents to query the internet in real time, validates results, and outputs them as structured tables that can be queried like...
Citizens’ CIO on the Ethos that Led the Bank Into the Cloud and Beyond
Citizens Bank’s Chief Information Officer Michael Ruttledge outlines how the institution’s "Next Gen Technology" initiative has driven a full migration of its legacy mainframe workloads to public cloud platforms Azure and AWS. Since joining in 2019, Ruttledge has overseen a...
Windows 11: A Guide to the Updates
Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 update consolidates a year’s worth of incremental features and security patches, delivering enhancements such as AI‑driven File Explorer actions, Quick Machine Recovery, and enterprise‑grade Wi‑Fi 7 support. Recent out‑of‑band builds address critical bugs, from Remote Desktop sign‑in...
Cyber Supply Chain Security Is Essential for National Resilience
Cyber supply chain security is no longer optional—it’s essential for resilience, innovation, and national security. Read the full piece: The Cybersecurity Challenges of the Supply Chain by @ChuckDBrooks https://t.co/THnR3VKAJx #cybersecurity #technology #supplychain
Why Chief AI Officers Need to Become Change Agents
Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) are evolving from technical overseers to enterprise change agents, tasked with accelerating AI experiments while managing risk. Companies are shifting focus from low failure rates to high‑velocity learning, recognizing that each experiment adds strategic insight. The...
Windows 365 for Agents Brings Managed Cloud PCs to Autonomous Workflows
Microsoft introduced Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud platform that lets AI agents securely access managed cloud PCs without handling underlying infrastructure. Built on Azure virtual machines, the service leverages Microsoft Intune and Entra ID for device management and identity, offering shared PC...
Intel Inks ‘Multiyear’ AI Inference Deal With SambaNova After Acquisition Talks End
Intel has forged a multiyear strategic partnership with AI‑chip startup SambaNova after acquisition talks stalled, coupling Intel Capital’s $350 million Series E investment with access to Intel’s global enterprise, cloud and partner channels. The deal coincides with the launch of SambaNova’s SN50...
AtNorth Announces Plans for 300MW Data Center Campus
Nordic data‑center operator atNorth announced a 300 MW campus in Sollefteå, Sweden, to be built on a 50‑hectare plot at Hamre Industrial Park and targeted for H1 2028. The facility will feature direct liquid cooling and support rack densities up to 1 MW,...
Building Secure SaaS Architecture: Why Identity Must Be Designed From Day One
SaaS founders must embed identity architecture from day one to avoid the most common breach vectors. A 2025 ReliaQuest study found 44% of cloud workload breaches stem from compromised credentials, underscoring the risk of retrofitting authentication later. Early design choices—separating...
How Discord Can Expose Corporate Data
Discord has become a popular channel for corporate collaboration, supporting everything from developer communities to customer‑support servers. Its fast APIs and webhook integrations let teams create functional workspaces in minutes, but the platform also stores years of code snippets, credentials,...
7 Ways to Tame Multicloud Chaos with Generative AI
Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud to avoid vendor lock‑in, yet the resulting operational complexity strains IT teams. The article outlines seven ways generative AI—through copilots, agents, and code‑translation tools—can streamline cloud‑service selection, infrastructure provisioning, observability, compliance, and finops. By automating...
New Partnership Targets Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in South Africa
Obsidian Systems has signed an exclusive reseller and implementation agreement with California‑based BlueFlag Security to bring the latter’s identity‑first SDLC protection platform to South African enterprises and the public sector. The partnership targets developer and machine identities, CI/CD pipelines, and...
Microservices Platforms - Part 5: Observability Platform
The fifth installment of the Microservices Platforms series introduces an Observability platform that centralizes metrics, logs, and tracing for microservices. It explains how a dedicated platform team delivers shared observability capabilities, allowing service teams to concentrate on their core domain...
CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes
CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report reveals that attacker breakout time fell to an average of 29 minutes, a 65% acceleration from the previous year. The speed of initial intrusion to lateral movement is now measured in seconds for the fastest...
From Strategy to Execution: Celebrating Ardoq’s 2025 Partners of the Year
Ardoq announced its 2025 Partners of the Year, honoring a select group of firms that have successfully embedded the Ardoq platform into enterprise transformation initiatives. The awards spotlight five global partners across consulting, technology, and integration services that helped clients...
Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
Thales has launched the Authenticator Lifecycle Manager, a SaaS solution that centralizes enrollment, replacement, and revocation of FIDO2 security keys across enterprises. The platform offers a single‑pane‑of‑glass dashboard, on‑behalf key registration, granular policy controls, and comprehensive audit logging. By automating...
The Growing Risk of Malicious Apps in a Mobile-First Workplace
Enterprises adopting a mobile‑first workstyle expose a new attack surface through the apps employees use daily. Traditional signature‑based defenses lag behind the rapid proliferation of malicious or poorly coded apps in official and third‑party stores. Behavior‑based mobile threat defense and...
RLE and GCF Partner to Shape CEO-Ready CIOs
Resilient Leaders Elements (RLE) and the Global CIO Forum (GCF) have forged a strategic partnership to deliver leadership development programmes to GCF’s community of more than 48,000 CIOs. The collaboration aligns with GCF’s conference theme “The next CEO is in...
Censys Appoints New META Vice President to Expand Growth
Censys has appointed Meriam ElOuazzani as its first Vice President for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), tasked with driving regional revenue, partnerships, and ecosystem development. ElOuazzani brings two decades of cybersecurity experience from senior roles at SentinelOne, VMware,...
Binding Operational Directive 26-02 Sets Deadlines for Edge Device Replacement
CISA’s Binding Operational Directive 26‑02 obliges all federal agencies to inventory, report, decommission, and replace unsupported edge devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and wireless access points. Agencies have three months to identify vulnerable equipment and twelve to eighteen...
CrowdStrike Hires Joe McPhillips
CrowdStrike appoints veteran Joe McPhillips as JAPAC SMB senior director after a year‑long sabbatical. McPhillips brings more than 30 years of cybersecurity experience, previously serving at SentinelOne, Cylance, Symantec, Intel Security, Riverbed and Commvault. He will build and scale the...
AI Is Reshaping, Not yet Transforming, CIOs' Businesses
Ive been telling CIOs that a lot of what AI is doing in their organization is reshaping its business. Its not really transforming yet. #AI #CIO #DigitalTransformation #CXOTalk https://t.co/xTvbca0YxB
Nvidia Lines up Partners to Boost Security for Industrial Operations
Nvidia announced expanded partnerships with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Xage to embed AI‑driven security into operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). Using Nvidia BlueField DPUs, the collaborations offload security workloads from host CPUs, enabling hardware‑isolated,...
WinDC Partners with Yirigaa for AI Infrastructure Deployment
WinDC has teamed up with Indigenous‑led MSP Yirigaa to roll out modular, high‑density AI data centres powered by renewable energy at generation sites across regional Australia. The partnership couples WinDC’s zero‑scope‑2 emissions compute modules with Yirigaa’s ISO‑27001‑certified workforce, delivering training,...
More Than Dashboards: AI Decisions Must Be Provable
Enterprise leaders are demanding proof of what AI systems actually did, not just what they were designed to do or what dashboards report. As AI moves into regulated, high‑risk environments, boards and auditors expect decision‑level evidence for each action. The...
Sharon AI, Cisco and NVIDIA Bring AI Factory to Australia
Sharon AI, Cisco and NVIDIA are launching Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory, a sovereign AI infrastructure that keeps data and processing within the country. The facility will run on Cisco UCS servers, Nexus Hyperfabric, and 1,024 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra...