Rohit Rao Joins NineHertz as CTO to Lead AI-Native Engineering and Platform Innovation
NineHertz announced the appointment of Rohit Rao as Chief Technology Officer to spearhead its AI‑native engineering and platform innovation agenda. Rao brings 18 years of enterprise architecture experience, most recently as a senior architect at GEP Worldwide and R&D leader at Cimpress. He will drive deeper AI integration across the development lifecycle, expand hyperscaler alliances, and build reusable accelerators to speed client delivery. The move signals NineHertz’s shift toward a platform‑first, engineering‑craftsmanship culture aimed at enterprise‑grade AI solutions.
Azure IaaS: Deploy High-Performance Workloads with a System-Level Approach
Microsoft’s Azure IaaS blog outlines a system‑level performance model that aligns compute, storage, and networking for demanding workloads. It highlights Azure Boost, Ultra Disk, ExpressRoute, and Kubernetes‑native storage as core building blocks. The post stresses consistent, scalable performance for AI...
Google to Release Smart Glasses and Add AI ‘Agents’ to Search Engine
Google announced it will launch its first consumer smart glasses, embedding its generative AI and voice assistant into an AR headset. The glasses will feature a built‑in camera, real‑time translation and contextual overlays powered by Bard. Simultaneously, Google is introducing...
Google Wants to Make the Web Agent-Ready
At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled a suite of tools to make the web "agent‑ready," centering on the new WebMCP standard that lets AI agents invoke JavaScript functions and HTML forms directly. Chrome 149 beta will host an origin...
Honda Taps Ace Engineer to Lead Transformation After EV Strategy Pause
Honda Motor announced that Mahito Shikama, a veteran R&D engineer, will become the company’s corporate transformation officer this summer. Shikama, known for leading powertrain and hybrid projects, is tasked with revamping Honda’s product roadmap after the automaker paused its aggressive...
Claude’s Next Enterprise Battle Is Not Models: It’s the Agent Control Plane
Enterprise AI is shifting from a model‑centric race to a battle over the agent control plane. Microsoft’s Copilot Studio and Azure AI Studio lead with 38.6% adoption, while OpenAI’s Assistants hold second place at 25.7%. Anthropic entered the orchestration space,...
The Cloud Native CTO
Dr. Vanja Josifovski, former CTO of Pinterest and Airbnb, recounts his journey from academic research to leading cloud‑native growth at two of the decade’s biggest platforms. At Pinterest he pivoted from a startup acquisition to head of growth engineering, then...
Boomi CTO: Agentic Engineering Is How Enterprise AI Finally Earns Its Keep
Boomi CTO Matt McLarty unveiled Boomi Companion, an open‑source collection of agent skills that lets developers build, deploy, test and diagnose fully configured Boomi integrations using natural‑language prompts. The tool works with leading AI coding models such as Anthropic Claude Code,...
How AI Is Transforming Software Development
AI‑driven coding agents have moved from autocomplete helpers to autonomous developers that can read tickets, generate multi‑file changes, run tests, and submit pull requests. Adoption is soaring—84% of developers use or plan AI tools, and half employ them daily—compressing six‑month...
Coolbrook Appoints Dr Frank Eulitz as Chief Technology Officer
Coolbrook, a transformational technology firm focused on decarbonising heavy industry, has named Dr. Frank Eulitz as its new Chief Technology Officer. Eulitz brings more than 30 years of experience in turbomachinery, fluid dynamics and high‑temperature processes, previously leading the Turbomachinery...
Microsoft VP Of Copilot Security And AI Joins AWS To Lead Agentic AI Charge At ‘Crucial Moment’
Amazon Web Services has hired former Microsoft executive Shawn Bice as vice president of AI Services to lead its Automated Reasoning Group and accelerate agentic AI initiatives. Bice, who previously oversaw Microsoft Security Copilot and AI Security Research, also spent...
One OS, Two Speeds: How Red Hat Enterprise Linux Is Bridging AI Innovation and Enterprise Stability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is being recast as the control plane for enterprise AI, offering a dual‑speed architecture that lets organizations run ultra‑stable legacy workloads while rapidly adopting AI‑driven services. At Red Hat Summit 2026, VP Gunnar Hellekson highlighted...
Google Cloud Sees Its Marketplace as the Launchpad for the Agentic Enterprise
Google Cloud is positioning its Marketplace as the distribution hub for the emerging "agentic enterprise," where autonomous AI agents handle end‑to‑end workflows. The platform now hosts more than 2,000 agents from partners like ServiceNow and Oracle, and Google has unveiled...
Honeycomb Introduces Agent Observability Features to Keep an Eye on Production
Honeycomb, the full‑stack observability startup, unveiled a suite of AI‑agent monitoring tools—including Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent, Canvas Skills, and auto‑investigations. The features give engineers a real‑time, single‑pane view of large language model calls, tool invocations, and decision paths without requiring...
HPE Expands Hybrid Cloud Stack with Unified Private Cloud and AI-Ready Storage Updates
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled a fourth‑generation Private Cloud that merges virtual machines and Kubernetes under a single Morpheus interface, while expanding its Alletra MP X10000 storage platform to support both file and object workloads up to 23 petabytes. The company also upgraded...