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 a Deterministic AI Platform that guarantees repeatable, auditable outcomes by translating natural language into verified queries against ERP, CRM, and financial systems. This new infrastructure model aims to turn AI from a speculative tool into a trusted execution layer for mission‑critical processes.
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...
Griffin Media Introduces Bitcentral Core News At KWTV, KOTV
Griffin Media has deployed Bitcentral’s Core News platform across its flagship stations KWTV in Oklahoma City and KOTV in Tulsa. The rollout, which began on Nov. 2, 2025 at KWTV and Nov. 16 at KOTV, includes Bitcentral’s Precis, Oasis, Create and Fusion Hybrid...
Most Platform Teams Build Products, but They Don’t Know It
Platform teams often treat internal platforms as pure infrastructure, overlooking their product nature. By failing to define specific user personas, they ship technically complete features that see low adoption. The article stresses that rollout activities differ from genuine adoption, which...
GReminders Integrates with Orion's Redtail CRM
GReminders announced an expanded integration that embeds its AI‑driven meeting assistant directly into Orion’s Redtail CRM. The new functionality lets financial advisors generate AI‑powered notes, receive pre‑meeting briefs, and schedule client appointments without leaving the Redtail interface. By consolidating the...
Terraform Enterprise 1.2 Upgrades Workflows, Visibility, and Brownfield Migration
Terraform Enterprise 1.2 is now generally available, adding a visual UI‑driven search and import tool that lets teams bring unmanaged, brownfield resources into Terraform without writing code. The release also graduates Explorer to GA, delivering a centralized dashboard that records...
Marquis Sues Firewall Provider SonicWall, Alleges Security Failings with Its Firewall Backup Led to Ransomware Attack
Fintech firm Marquis has filed a lawsuit against firewall vendor SonicWall, alleging that a 2025 breach of SonicWall’s cloud backup service exposed critical firewall configuration data. The compromised backup files allegedly gave threat actors the keys to bypass SonicWall defenses,...
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 %...
Collate Introduces Semantic Intelligence Graph to Make Enterprise Data Understandable to AI
Collate, a semantic intelligence firm, unveiled a new Semantic Intelligence Graph that converts enterprise metadata into a machine‑readable RDF‑based graph. The launch includes AI Studio, offering four pre‑built agents—Data Quality, Tier Management, Documentation, and SQL Query—to automate data tasks. An...
How to Use Cyber-Deception in Your Security Strategy
Cyber deception is gaining prominence as AI‑driven threats rise, prompting the UK NCSC to champion its wider use. The approach relies on high‑fidelity decoys—honeypots, fake credentials, and canary tokens—to generate early breach signals and expose lateral movement. While plug‑and‑play tools...
Enterprises Still Can't Get a Handle on Software Security Debt – and It’s only Going to Get Worse
Enterprises are wrestling with a surge in software security debt, with 82% reporting heightened vulnerability backlogs—a rise of 11% year‑over‑year. Critical flaws now account for 60% of that debt, and high‑risk, highly exploitable issues jumped 36% in the same period....
App Spotlight: Clearout Email Verifier for Zoho CRM
Zoho Marketplace highlights Clearout Email Verifier, a native extension that validates and cleans email addresses directly within Zoho CRM. The tool performs over 20 validation checks—including syntax, catch‑all, and spam‑trap detection—with 99% accuracy, allowing users to sync verified results back...
KODE Labs Unveils EnerG: Revolutionizing Utility Management for Smarter, Sustainable Real Estate Portfolios
KODE Labs has launched EnerG, an AI‑enabled platform that consolidates utility, sustainability, and performance data for enterprise real‑estate portfolios. The solution replaces fragmented spreadsheets, PDFs and portal pulls with automated ingestion, validation and anomaly detection. Built as an extension of...
How to Use Intune App Protection without MDM Enrollment
Microsoft Intune now lets organizations protect corporate data on BYOD devices without enrolling them in a full MDM solution. By applying app‑protection policies to apps that embed the Intune SDK, IT can enforce PINs, data‑sharing restrictions, and multi‑identity separation. Conditional...
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...
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...
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...
Identity Prioritization Isn't a Backlog Problem - It's a Risk Math Problem
Identity programs still rank remediation like IT tickets, ignoring context. The article argues that true prioritization must treat identity risk as a function of controls posture, hygiene, business impact, and user intent, not just checklist completion. When these factors align,...
ArisGlobal Launches XDI
ArisGlobal unveiled XDI, a Data Intelligence Cortex that federates fragmented life‑science data without centralizing it. The platform delivers continuous, explainable, decision‑grade intelligence across domains such as pharmacovigilance, benefit‑risk, and regulatory operations. XDI promises up to 80% reduction in compliance effort...
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...
CrowdStrike Says AI Is Officially Supercharging Cyber Attacks: Average Breakout Times Hit Just 29 Minutes in 2025, 65% Faster than...
CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report reveals AI‑enabled cyber attacks surged 89% year‑over‑year, making AI systems a prime target for criminals. Prompt‑injection techniques are now being used to subvert AI‑driven security tools, while threat actors exploit vulnerabilities in AI development platforms....
Top Threat Modeling Tools, Plus Features to Look For
Automated threat‑modeling tools streamline the identification of risks and generate remediation recommendations, reducing the manual effort traditionally required. The article outlines a selection framework that blends business objectives, SDLC alignment, and functional criteria such as data‑ingestion ease, threat‑intel integration, and...
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Adds Governance, Productivity, and Support for Large AI Models Securely Running Even when Completely Disconnected
Microsoft announced that its Sovereign Cloud now includes Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local, and Foundry Local with large‑model support. The new services let enterprises run core infrastructure, productivity suites, and multimodal AI models entirely offline while preserving Azure‑consistent...
Druva Launches Deep Analysis Agents to Cut Forensic Investigations From Days to Minutes
Druva unveiled Deep Analysis Agents as an extension of its DruAI platform, promising to shrink forensic and compliance investigations from days to minutes. The agents leverage the Dru MetaGraph, a graph‑powered data map, to automatically correlate telemetry, logs, identity data, and...
Microsoft CEO Opens London AI Tour with Copilot Push
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opened the London AI Tour by showcasing the company’s push into agentic AI across its productivity suite. He highlighted how Excel and PowerPoint now feature an Agent Mode that can generate code and insights from a single...
How to Setup Credentials for Windows to Use DigiCert KeyLocker & SMCTL?
The article walks through configuring DigiCert KeyLocker and the Signing Manager Command‑Line Tool (SMCTL) on Windows, detailing required prerequisites such as the DigiCert ONE API key, client certificate, and administrative rights. It compares four credential‑storage methods—Windows Credential Manager, properties file, temporary and...
AIRHART Chosen as Heathrow Airport’s New Digital Backbone
Smarter Airports, the joint venture of Copenhagen Airports and Netcompany, announced that Heathrow Airport has selected the AIRHART platform as its new digital backbone. The multi‑year agreement will replace Heathrow’s legacy Airport Operational Database and embed collaborative decision‑making and predictive...
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...
5G Security: Everything You Should Know for a Secure Network
5G introduces a service‑based, cloud‑native architecture that replaces 4G's hardware‑centric design, bringing modular network functions and edge computing. The standard embeds stronger 256‑bit encryption, privacy‑preserving identifiers, and a new authentication protocol to protect user data and device identities. Additional features...
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...
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,...
Observability Vs. Monitoring: What's the Difference?
Observability and monitoring are often conflated, but they serve distinct purposes. Monitoring continuously watches predefined metrics and alerts when thresholds are breached, providing real‑time detection of outages or performance degradation. Observability goes deeper, aggregating metrics, logs, and traces to infer...
Microsoft’s AI Ambitions Could Bring Trouble
Microsoft is embedding its AI assistant Copilot deeply into Windows 11 and Microsoft 365, positioning the feature as a core productivity tool. The FTC has opened an antitrust investigation, probing whether the bundling of AI with the operating system and...
Agentic SDLC: GitLab and TCS Deliver Intelligent Orchestration Across the Enterprise
GitLab and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have teamed up to deliver an Intelligent Orchestration layer that embeds AI agents into the full software development lifecycle. The partnership leverages GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform and a TCS Center of Excellence to standardize...
How to Build a Production-Grade Customer Support Automation Pipeline with Griptape Using Deterministic Tools and Agentic Reasoning
The MarkTechPost tutorial shows how to construct a production‑grade customer‑support automation pipeline with Griptape, combining deterministic Python tools and an LLM‑driven agent. Custom tools handle PII redaction, ticket categorization, priority scoring, SLA assignment, and escalation payload creation before any language...
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...
How CBA Unlocked 90 Percent of Its Customer and Transaction Data
Commonwealth Bank completed a migration from an on‑premises SAP R/3 mainframe to an SAP S/4 HANA core hosted on AWS in October 2023. The new in‑memory architecture cut infrastructure costs by 30% and boosted processing performance by the same margin,...
Report Shows Finance AI Automation Gap as 76% Plan Investment, Only 6% Deliver Advanced Implementation
Savant Labs' 2026 Trends Report reveals finance, tax and accounting leaders plan heavy AI investment. Seventy‑six percent intend to fund strategic agentic automation in 2026, yet only six percent have advanced, broad‑scale deployments. Governance, auditability and ERP integration emerge as...
Army Tackling Its ‘Achilles Heel’ of IT Modernization
U.S. Army CIO Leo Garciga announced a rapid purge of legacy business applications, shutting down 100 systems in the past two quarters and cutting the total from roughly 800 to under 300. The consolidation focuses on enterprise‑wide platforms, low‑code/no‑code tools,...
5 Ways Google Cloud Partners Are Driving the Next Phase of Enterprise AI
Google Cloud’s partner ecosystem is moving enterprise AI from isolated pilots to production‑grade, agent‑driven solutions. Partners such as CDW, Perficient, KPMG, Tredence and Datatonic are embedding generative AI and modular platforms into core business processes while maintaining governance. The shift...
600+ FortiGate Devices Hacked by AI-Armed Amateur
A financially motivated, Russian‑speaking threat actor used generative AI services to compromise more than 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewalls worldwide between January and February. The campaign avoided exploiting software vulnerabilities, instead leveraging exposed management ports and reused credentials with single‑factor authentication,...
Why Real Estate Is Entering a Year of Cleanup, Clarity, and Course Correction in ERP
2026 is shaping up as a reset year for ERP in real‑estate firms after a period of hesitation and postponed projects. Accumulated technical debt and over‑customized legacy systems have created a gap between capability and business needs. Companies are now...
Ad Tech Firm Optimizely Confirms Data Breach After Vishing Attack
Optimizely, a New York‑based ad‑tech firm, disclosed a data breach after a sophisticated voice‑phishing (vishing) attack on February 11. Threat actors accessed the company’s CRM and other internal business systems, extracting only basic contact information and not sensitive customer data. The...
Pure Storage Snaps up 1touch in Data Management Pivot
Pure Storage announced the acquisition of data‑intelligence firm 1Touch and a corporate rebrand to Everpure, signaling a strategic pivot from pure flash hardware to comprehensive data‑management solutions. The deal will embed 1Touch’s orchestration capabilities into Pure’s Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC)...
ERP App Marketplace Launched for Acumatica Customizations
Technology Leader Co and AcuPower have launched ERP App Marketplace, a joint venture that packages Acumatica customizations into reusable, embedded applications. The new marketplace debuts with a suite of modules built on AcuPower’s legacy IP, enabling partners to select proven...
Building a Financial Backbone for Mixed-Application Enterprises with Unit4
Unit4’s Financials by Coda introduces a single, multidimensional financial modeling structure that consolidates entities, currencies, accounting standards, and tax regimes into one global ledger. The platform extends this core through cloud deployment and a low‑code Extension Kit, enabling seamless integration...
Grimshaw Moves to Inevidesk VDI Platform
Grimshaw has completed a firm‑wide migration of its UK and European design teams onto Inevidesk’s virtual desktop infrastructure, replacing a centralized rack of physical workstations with cloud‑based virtual desktops. After a pilot deployment for its visualisation team in 2024, the...
BMC Expands Collaboration with AWS to Accelerate Intelligent Automation
BMC announced a five‑year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services, designating AWS as the preferred cloud for its Control‑M SaaS platform. The partnership integrates BMC’s intelligent automation and generative AI advisor Jett with AWS’s scale, performance, and security. Joint customers...
Babble Turns to NinjaOne to Unify Legacy IT Stack
UK‑based managed service provider Babble has migrated from a patchwork of five legacy IT tools to NinjaOne’s unified management platform. The switch supports over 12,000 client devices, including those in regulated public‑sector environments, and aims to improve productivity, scalability, and...
KKR Weighs Sale of BMC Helix at up to $1.5bn
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) is weighing a sale of BMC Helix, its AI‑driven IT service‑management platform, for up to $1.5 billion. The potential transaction would be one of the larger exits in a market where private‑equity distributions have slipped to near‑2008...