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CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup: Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Zendesk, OpenText, F5, Acceldata, Riverbed and More
Welcome to CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup – your trusted briefing on the forces redefining enterprise IT strategy, AI-native infrastructure, data engineering, cybersecurity, and large-scale digital transformation. This week’s highlights spotlight accelerated AI cloud platforms, next-generation silicon and connectivity, governed data pipelines, industrial AI alliances, and the growing need to translate cyber risk into board-level business impact.…
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F5 and Omnissa Partner to Deliver Zero Trust Virtual Desktop Architectures
There has been a definitive structural shift in the modern corporate workspace. Within the ranks of global corporations, remote, hybrid, and increasingly mobile workforces have ceased being temporary measures amid the pandemic and have become a permanent way of operations. Today, employees need immediate and streamlined access to critical apps, virtual desktops, and internal data…
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Acceldata Introduces xFactory for Private AI Software Factory, Governed AI Development
Acceldata has launched xFactory, a private AI software factory designed to help enterprises build, test and deploy AI agents, applications and analytics across hybrid environments while keeping data in its existing locations. Built on the xLake Data & AI platform, xFactory brings on-premises, cloud, sovereign and edge data into a unified estate and provides governed…
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Dun & Bradstreet Brings New Business Context to IBM watsonx Orchestrate Through MCP
Dun & Bradstreet have stated that the D&B Commercial Graph™ is now available in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Such integration allows businesses to access business identity and corporate relationships in a safe and standardized manner to transition from experimental AI models to agentic workflow in the enterprise…
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Keeper Security and SailPoint Partner to Automate Privileged Access Governance
Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, announces an integration with SailPoint, a leader in identity governance, access and compliance. The Keeper SaaS Connector links SailPoint’s IGA platform directly to KeeperPAM. The integration allows SailPoint to control the provisioning, deprovisioning and entitlements of Keeper users, vaults and…
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ALTEN Spain and Lumu Partner to Advance SecOps Through Automated Threat Eradication
ALTEN Spain, a leader in engineering and technology consulting, and Lumu Technologies, creator of the Continuous Compromise Assessment® security model, announced a strategic partnership to strengthen cybersecurity capabilities for organizations across Spain. The partnership brings Lumu’s SecOps platform into ALTEN’s cybersecurity portfolio, giving organizations comprehensive, real-time visibility across their infrastructure, from networks and endpoints to…
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The Evolving Role of the CIO: How Technology Leaders Are Driving Business Growth and Digital Transformation
Technology has a habit of changing job descriptions before companies realize they need to change them. The CIO is a good example. A role once associated mainly with infrastructure, IT budgets, systems uptime, and keeping employees connected now sits much closer to the questions that determine whether a business grows or falls behind. This shift…
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Hitachi and Mission Critical Group Collaborate to Expand Modular AI Data Center Infrastructure
The global expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure has reached a physical bottleneck. Over the past three years, the rapid evolution of generative AI foundation models, multimodal engines, and autonomous multi-agent systems has driven an unprecedented surge in data center power, cooling, and space requirements. Modern AI server clusters equipped with high-power GPUs demand megawatts-and increasingly…
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Riverbed Unveils Network 360 With Agentic AI for Intelligent Network Operations
Riverbed has introduced new Riverbed Network 360 offerings that combine 360-degree network visibility with agentic AI to help network operations teams accelerate troubleshooting, identify root causes, predict emerging issues and prevent disruptions before they affect users. The offerings integrate Riverbed IQ and Q into AppResponse and NetProfiler while extending visibility across remote users, Zero Trust…
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OpenText and Cohere Form Strategic Partnership to Launch Trusted Agentic AI for Regulated Sectors
OpenText Corporation, a global leader in data management and context for enterprise artificial intelligence, has joined forces with sovereign AI pioneer Cohere in a strategic partnership announced at the ALL IN AI conference. The collaboration is designed to deploy secure, trusted agentic AI solutions tailored specifically for public sector institutions and strictly regulated commercial industries.…