Nvidia unveils open‑source Agent Toolkit for autonomous enterprise AI agents
Nvidia introduced an open‑source Agent Toolkit at GTC 2026, offering a unified software stack for building autonomous enterprise AI agents. The platform, which includes Nemotron models, AI‑Q cost‑saving blueprint, OpenShell security runtime and cuOpt optimization libraries, already has commitments from 17 enterprise software leaders such as Adobe, Salesforce and SAP.
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By the numbers: Unidata raises $65.6M for joint data center venture
Recent high‑profile cloud outages have exposed the risks of relying on a single CDN, prompting enterprises to adopt multi‑CDN architectures for resilience and performance. By distributing traffic across multiple providers, companies can automatically reroute around regional failures, maintain SLA compliance, and reduce downtime costs. Fastly positions itself as a versatile platform that supports DNS‑based steering, Layer 7 traffic management, CDN chaining, and client‑side steering, offering both lightweight and advanced deployment models. The vendor also emphasizes unified security controls to protect traffic across the heterogeneous edge network.

GitLab 18.9 launches a self‑hosted Duo Agent Platform for online cloud license customers, enabling AI‑driven automation while keeping models on‑premise or in approved clouds. The new offering uses a usage‑based billing model powered by GitLab Credits, delivering transparent per‑request metering...
N‑Able reported Q4 2025 revenue of $130 million, a 12% year‑over‑year increase, and ended the year with $540 million in annual recurring revenue, up 12% on a reported basis. Non‑GAAP adjusted EBITDA held steady at a 30% margin, while dollar‑based net revenue retention...

Leveraging its Database DevOps platform, Harness has released an open‑source native MongoDB executor for Liquibase Community Edition. The executor allows teams to run MongoDB scripts, generate changelogs, and embed migrations into CI/CD pipelines without purchasing commercial extensions. Accompanying the tool...

Narratives can crush multiples faster than fundamentals change. Markets are pricing “software is dead” as if AI will commoditize SaaS overnight. But enterprises still need governance, permissioning, audit trails, compliance, uptime, and data orchestration. AI may change workflows, but it doesn’t...

Software is getting hit on fear of substitution more than evidence of structural deterioration in enterprise spending. When price action gets ahead of reality, the re-rating can be violent if the narrative cools.
Opkey introduced Design Studio, an AI‑driven module within its application lifecycle automation platform that streamlines ERP and HCM implementation planning. The visual canvas embeds more than 20 domain‑specific AI agents to automate discovery, requirements capture, process mapping, and configuration design....
The semantic layer is like a restaurant menu: you know what you're ordering, but not how it's made. This analogy comes from Maxime Beauchemin and I think it's perfect. Users shouldn't need to understand your star schema to calculate revenue. They should...
Arista Networks announced extensions to its telemetry stack aimed at AI‑driven environments, adding host‑level data such as RDMA counters, NIC buffering, and flow‑control metrics to its CloudVision platform. The new capabilities will merge in‑network and host telemetry into a single,...
Albertsons announced four AI priorities for fiscal 2026—digital customer experience, merchandising, labor, and supply chain—backed by a full cloud migration and unified data platform. Chief technology officer Anuj Dhanda emphasized these are long‑term investments already delivering measurable impact, such as...

Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries has built a fully integrated procure-to-pay backbone by linking Vroozi’s procurement platform with NetSuite ERP and Shopify e‑commerce. The integration automates inventory replenishment, accounts payable, and even service procurement, allowing real‑time updates across systems....
There are a lot of new entrants coming into the GRC market right now, which tells you something interesting is happening. But most of what I see still feels like workflow layered on top of spreadsheets. Executives do not need more...

Intel is launching "Ask Intel," an AI‑driven virtual assistant built on Microsoft’s Copilot Studio, to handle customer and partner support after scaling back phone and social‑media channels. The assistant can open cases, verify warranties and route complex issues to human...

The NextGen Supply Chain Conference 2026 has opened its speaker submission window, inviting senior supply‑chain leaders to present case studies at the event scheduled for Oct. 21‑23, 2026, in Nashville’s W Hotel. The conference’s theme, “Innovate. Upskill. Transform.”, signals a shift...
Most AI productivity hacks you see on LinkedIn don't work. They work for one person, on their own laptop, with no one else involved. That's not your reality. Your reality is shared Google Docs with 14 contributors. Confluence pages that...

Sumo Logic announced the extension of its cloud‑native analytics platform into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and an AWS data center in Switzerland. The move lets customers keep logs, telemetry, and security data within national borders, satisfying GDPR and other...
Spirent Communications, now part of Keysight, launched Luma, an agentic AI platform that automates network test case generation, root‑cause analysis, and knowledge retrieval. Built on a domain‑specific knowledge graph, deterministic rule engine and a suite of 10‑12 specialized AI agents,...
In this brief episode, the hosts recap Procore's Q4 and full‑year 2025 financial results, highlighting its strong performance in the construction software market. They then discuss NetSuite's new suite of innovations aimed at boosting operational efficiency and supporting rapid growth...

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy told CRN that the company’s focus is on creating customer value, not merely selling AI. He highlighted the rapid expansion of Snowflake’s partner ecosystem to more than 14,200 global partners, a 22% year‑over‑year increase. Ramaswamy emphasized...

Solution providers are abandoning hourly billing in favor of outcome‑based models as AI automation turns software development into a commodity. Eduardo Ramos founded Viewnear to align pricing with measurable client results, leveraging Snowflake’s data platform and AI tools. RiskSpan and...

Former Nike Global VP of Marketing Data, Linda Cereda, explains how the brand built a scalable marketing data engine by prioritizing operating model over technology. She details the SNKRS app’s scarcity‑driven launch, the use of zero‑party data to slash forecasting...

Futurum’s latest Enterprise Software Decision Maker Survey reveals Enterprise AI ROI Shifts as Agentic Priorities Surge ▪The Agentic Shift: Autonomous Agents/Agentic AI claimed the #1 technology priority for 17.1% of decision-makers, up from 13.0% in 2H 2025—a 31.5% year-over-year increase and...

Zoho’s @rajuv just finished a great presentation describing @Zoho’s systems philosophy, summing up to following 3 key outcomes at #ZohoDay 2026 in Austin. - Operating System of Intelligence - Unified Business Context with live data - Sovereignty by design https://t.co/y6UWOmv1dv
Sun Chemical, a global inks and materials producer, has chosen SNP’s Kyano platform to steer its worldwide SAP S/4HANA migration and shift to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The initiative will merge more than 60 regional ERP instances into a single,...
Even after the SaaS dip, ServiceNow's market cap is north of $100mil "largely" for internal help desk. I've always been surprised how big the ITSM market is. Am I alone on that one?

It’s official: @Zoho launches Zoho ERP. Zoho is stepping into a quickly evolving space focusing on four verticals: manufacturing, retail, distribution and non-profit. #cio #erp #zohoday26 https://t.co/ZHXSetWIbM

The Federal Aviation Administration announced a challenge‑based acquisition to modernize its sprawling, aging IT portfolio of roughly 200 applications and 3,000 databases. Vendors must demonstrate cloud‑native migration strategies, AI‑driven code analysis, and security automation across a four‑phase competition ending with...
The amount of growth by @Zoho over the past year is incredible. Historically, Zoho has been very deliberate and measured with their expansion. The past year, they hit the gas...big time. #CIO #ERP #ZohoDay26

Listening to @Diginomica's @JonERP interview Mo Umerji of @NewcrossHealth and their usage of @Zoho - no surprise a lot of Creator usage. #ZohoDay26 https://t.co/hhB05jxEhN

New Charter Technologies is reshaping the managed services provider (MSP) model by embedding AI into its core operations, turning reactive support into automated, self‑healing processes. The company recently hired Microsoft veteran Michelle Curtis as chief revenue officer to drive a...
.@Cloudflare crushes analysts’ expectations on revenue and its stock soars in late trading https://t.co/RRvAoDmATi @SiliconANGLE @Mike_Wheatley “If those three metrics are moving together, it often points to enterprise commitment velocity improving…” - @Chirag_Mehta @constellationr

At #ZohoDay26, @Zoho CEO Mani Vembu makes the case to collapse AppStack layers into an AppOS. The goal is the same - #EntepriseAcceleration through higher developer velocity. https://t.co/e7JTmo1bS8

Marlink announced that it will deliver direct, secure global access to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 through the Microsoft ExpressRoute program. The service uses Marlink’s multi‑orbit satellite network and global Points of Presence to provide private, dedicated circuits that bypass...

Next up - @Zoho CEO Mani Vembu on the challenges of #ensw. In short. Too many systems. #ZohoDay26 https://t.co/VncJBRx1pr

Salesforce confirms the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) remains supported but has not received new features since March 2023. The company has rebranded Nonprofit Cloud as Agentforce Nonprofit, positioning it under the broader Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits umbrella. New eligible nonprofits receive Enterprise‑edition...
The 7 biggest S/4HANA migration hurdles — and how to overcome them https://t.co/6u9sHnY6rG My take: Many CIOs I speak w/ are accumulating SAP instances faster than they can combine/rationalize them. ERP industry needs to adapt to AI speed if it doesn’t want to...
Salesforce announced that Flow Orchestration is now a standard Flow type, removing the previous paid add‑on barrier. This upgrade lets admins design complex, multi‑user processes—such as cross‑department handoffs, approvals, and parallel tasks—without custom code or costly workarounds. The new Orchestration...
Legacy systems are piling up—and so is the risk. Great insights from @QuestDX on why ECM is the smartest, most scalable way to archive and protect healthcare data. ➡️ https://t.co/NcgrjGUq3D #HealthECM #HealthIT #HITSM
At the Digital Lounge in Davos, IT leaders highlighted a hidden crisis: data debt is draining human capacity more than technology. Legacy SAP systems and fragmented data require teams to spend countless hours cleaning and governing information, leading to transformation...

[1Slide] @Zoho by the numbers. 30 Years 19K Employees 60+ Apps 150+ Countries ~150M Users 1M Customers #ZohoDay26 https://t.co/JKIjBGvgKQ

Salesforce has GA‑enabled GraphQL mutations, allowing Lightning Web Components to create, update, and delete records without writing Apex. Developers use the lightning/graphql module’s executeMutation function, crafting queries with the gql template literal. The guide demonstrates single‑record operations, batched mutations with...

Smart metrics don’t just measure performance, they shape behavior. If we’re deploying #AI across the enterprise, we need guardrails against metric gaming from day one. Governance isn’t a brake on innovation, it’s what makes transformation durable. Especially as agentic systems enter ops. https://t.co/r792RxQbTa...

Microsoft confirmed a bug in its 365 Copilot Chat that allowed the AI to read and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, even when data‑loss‑prevention policies were in place. The issue, tracked as CW1226324, affected both draft and sent messages...

Trackforce upgraded its support analytics by swapping delayed Zendesk reports for Geckoboard’s real‑time dashboards. The new self‑serve visualisations gave agents instant insight into queue health, productivity and CSAT, enabling proactive management. As a result, customer satisfaction jumped to 92.5% and...
You've got data spread across geographies. What happens when you want to bring that data together? Usually ETL jobs or other mechanisms. We just launched @googlecloud BigQuery global queries. Do multi-location analysis with a single query: https://t.co/F3p2mn5SjZ

AI pilots frequently stall between proof‑of‑concept and production, often due to outdated quarterly KPIs, governance vacuums, and slow feedback loops. Executives argue that linear metrics clash with AI’s dynamic nature, causing drift and delayed corrective action. To close the gap,...

MySQL 8.0 reaches official End‑Of‑Life in April 2026, ending Oracle’s security patches and bug fixes. Organizations can still rely on Premier or Extended Support for a limited period, but the safest route is to upgrade to newer MySQL releases or migrate...

Texas‑based INTX Insurance Software has been chosen by Xitus to serve as its core insurance operating system for global run‑off, loss‑portfolio transfer (LPT), insurance‑backed transaction (IBT) and captive reinsurance activities across its Bermuda, UK and Europe subsidiaries. The selection covers...

Kingland Systems unveiled a new suite of applied‑AI solutions built on its Cloud & AI platform, aimed at automating document‑heavy processes for public accounting firms, banking and capital‑markets institutions, and insurers. The platform adds an orchestration layer that combines document...

The episode dissects the gap between commoditized AI agent infrastructure and the bespoke workflow engineering needed for healthcare deployments, arguing that while 60‑70% of the tech stack (LLMs, orchestration, vector stores, compliance layers) can be standardized, the remaining 30‑40% requires...