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Volume 331 Issue 2 - IT News You Can Use
IT News You Can Use
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IBM News
IBM Introduces The Spyre Accelerator For Commercial Availability
IBM, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Coming this Fall to IBM Z, LinuxONE and Power, IBM Spyre Accelerator Enables Enterprises to Scale Generative and Agentic AI Workloads...more
Dell News
Dell Launches PowerEge Xr8720T For Ai-Ready Edge Telecoms
ITBrief, Monday, October 6th, 2025
Dell Technologies has introduced the PowerEdge XR8720t, a server designed to streamline Cloud RAN and Open RAN deployments in telecommunications and edge computing environments....more
Dell Technologies Previews New PowerEdge XR8720T For Next-Gen Edge And Telecom Network Deployment
Dell, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Dell Technologies has unveiled the PowerEdge XR8720t, a new compute sled built to transform edge and telecom infrastructure with powerful performance and enhanced connectivity, particularly for Open RAN and Cloud RAN deployments....more
Hitachi Vantara News
Hitachi Vantara Gives Enterprises New Reasons To Believe They Can Realize AI’s Promise
DCIG, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Hitachi Vantara has historically represented somewhat of an enigma as an enterprise storage platform provider. Hitachi Vantara continues to deliver a great - and by many measures - the best enterprise storage platform. However, it has struggled to capture enterprise storage market share commensurate with the value its storage platform offers....more
Hitachi Vantara Finalizing Partnership With Supermicro
insideHPC, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced it is working towards a strategic partnership with Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI)....more
Hitachi Vantara And Physical AI
Hitachi Vantara, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
We had the opportunity to interview Jason hardy, Hitachi Vantara’s CTO for AI, and the conversation started by looking at VSP One and disaggregation and ended up talking about AI agent-infused robots. Physical AI. Read on to see how we got there....more
Study Finds Hitachi Vantara’S Vsp One Demonstrates Significant Roi And Operational Efficiencies
Hitachi Vantara, Monday, October 6th, 2025
A new Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting found that organisations using Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) achieved a 285% return on investment (ROI), US$1.1 million in net present value (NPV) and payback in just seven months....more
Fortinet News
AI-Powered Alert Investigation And Remediation With FortiCNAPP
Fortinet, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Cloud-native attacks continue to grow in scale and sophistication, often blending multiple techniques such as credential theft, lateral movement, API abuse, and privilege escalation. For security operations center (SOC) teams, this creates a major challenge: Traditional alerts are fragmented, context is limited, and analysts are left with the tedious job of stitching together logs across multiple systems....more
Cisco News
Cisco’S 51.2T Silicon One P200 Chip Brings Scale-Across To Distributed AI
siliconANGLE, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced its 8223 routing system, powered by its new Silicon One P200 chip - a new network system designed to unlock artificial intelligence’s potential through massive scale....more
Cisco Launches Splunk Observability Cloud On AWS In Singapore
FutureCIO, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Cisco launches Splunk Observability Cloud in Singapore via Amazon Web Services. It aims to help organisations simplify IT operations, build resilience and accelerate digital transformation by providing a unified, real-time visibility into IT environments....more
Cisco Duo MSP: Your Trusted Identity And Access Management Is Available Through Distribution
Cisco, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
As part of our ongoing effort to simplify the experience for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) using Cisco Security products-and to continue building on the great success of our Secure MSP Center program-I’m excited to announce that Cisco Duo for MSPs is now available through the Secure MSP Center Managed Services Licensing Program (MSLA) via the distribution channel....more
Google News
Google’s New AI Doesn’t Just Find Vulnerabilities - It Rewrites Code To Patch Them
The Hacker News, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Google’s DeepMind division on Monday announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agent called CodeMender that automatically detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent future exploits....more
Google Messages Is Getting Another Powerful New Feature
How-To Geek, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Do you want more control over the types of texts, images, and videos you get on Google Messages? If so, we have some good news. This week, we learned that Google is rolling out an optional new feature to prevent NSFW and other unwanted videos from appearing on your phone....more
Gemini 2.5 Flash: Google’s AI Image Editor Is Now Available In Full
Google, Monday, October 6th, 2025
Google has rolled out Gemini 2.5 Flash, its advanced AI image editing model, making the tool widely available. Its native image generator app, Nano Banana, now has 10 new aspect ratios and the option for image-only output....more
4 Ways Gemini Enterprise Makes Work Easier For Everyone
Google, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Gemini Enterprise works across all the tools and data you use every day to make your workflows easier - giving you time back in your day....more
4 Tips For Using Nano Banana To Create Amazing Images
Google, Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
Get the scoop on how to use Nano Banana, the Gemini app’s viral new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind....more
Gemini Enterprise: The New Front Door For Google AI In Your Workplace
Google, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
We’re introducing Gemini Enterprise, designed to bring the full power of Google’s AI to every employee, for every workflow....more
ESET News
Windows 10 End Of Life: How To Prepare For What Comes Next
ESET, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
All good things come to an end. So it is with Windows 10, when Microsoft officially ends support on October 14, 202...more
Scam Alert: How To Spot Fake PayPal Emails
ESET, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
PayPal is an attractive target for cybercriminals and AI makes the problem even worse....more
Veeam News
The Social Engineering Revolution: How Veeam Addresses The New Era Of Ransomware Attacks
Veeam, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
The cybersecurity landscape has reached a critical turning point in Q2 2025 as it is marked by a dramatic shift in ransomware tactics that challenge old defense strategies. Some of the recent findings from Coveware by Veeam share a completely new reality....more
Veeam Data Platform Advanced For Proxmox VE
Veeam, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Proxmox VE has seen remarkable growth in popularity and adoption across industries of all sizes. All organizations share a common problem: ensuring their data is protected and ready to be restored at a moment’s notice....more
7 Backup Mistakes That Cost More Than You Think
Veeam, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Downtime and data loss are far more expensive than most organizations realize....more
Commvault News
Commvault Delivers Industry-First Cyber Resilience For AI Data Lakehouses On AWS With Support For Apache Iceberg Tables
Commvault, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Commvault Systems, Inc., a provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, launched Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS, the industry’s first and only solution to deliver Iceberg-aware, air-gapped cyber resilience....more
Every AI Strategy Needs A Data Protection Strategy With Commvault
Commvault, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Every company lives in fear of a ransomware attack, whether they have suffered one or not, and this is even more critical in the era of AI. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast looks forward to Commvault SHIFT in November with a discussion of the importance of data protection to AI applications with Tim Zonca from Commvault, frequent delegate Gina Rosenthal, and host Stephen Foskett....more
Salesforce News
6 UX Design Tips To Make AI Trustworthy And Easier To Use
Salesforce, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
AI can feel magical-or mildly terrifying. Here’s how thoughtful UX turns fear into confidence and delight....more
Reduce Manual Security Tasks With Agentforce In Security Center
Salesforce, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Move beyond manual monitoring with a proactive AI agent that automates investigations, guides remediation, and works 24/7 to keep you secure....more
3 Ways B2B Marketers Can Enhance Outreach With Account Engagement+
Salesforce, Friday, October 10th, 2025
New capabilities help you reach customers faster across channels, decrease third-party integrations and improve personalization...more
10 Agentic AI Use Cases For Your Startup
Salesforce, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Understand what agentic AI really means for your startup or SMB with these use cases....more
100 Million Missed Opportunities Later, We Found A Better Way To Sell
Salesforce, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
There’s not enough manpower, or hours in the day, to follow up on the thousands of sales prospects coming onto our radar every day. Agentforce changed the game....more
Your AI Agent Works, But Do Your Users Think It’s Worth It?
Salesforce, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Design research shows that improving your users’ perception of value is the key to adoption. Learning from AI agent pain points can help....more
Zscaler News
Defending Against Last-Mile Reassembly Attacks
Zscaler, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Reassembly attacks are a form of client-side attacks, including HTML smuggling, that have rapidly evolved into a favored technique among cybercriminals: they bypass conventional security controls and deliver malicious payloads onto endpoints....more
Rapid7 News
What Recent Cyber Attacks Reveal About Readiness In 2025
Rapid7, Monday, October 6th, 2025
When we last wrote about the rising tide of cyberattacks hitting the retail sector, the headlines were already sobering: disruption at major brands, ransomware claims, and attackers showing a deep understanding of how to break into systems and exploit trust....more
OneTrust News
Establishing An AI Governance Committee: How To Structure Roles, Speed Approvals, And Reduce Rework
OneTrust, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Knowing where to start an AI Governance Committee can be overwhelming, as companies set to govern responsibly, reduce risk for people, and help the business move faster with confidence....more
CyberArk News
Cyberark Unveils New Capabilities To Reduce Risk Across Human And Machine Identities
Help Net Security, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
CyberArk announced new discovery and context capabilities across its Machine Identity Security portfolio. The enhancements enable security teams to find, understand and secure machine identities, spanning certificates, keys, secrets, workloads and more, reducing risk and simplifying compliance at scale....more
Tenable News
Don’t Let Your Cloud Security Catch A Bad Case Of Permission Creep
Tenable, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Cloud security teams are often blind to one of the biggest threats to cloud environments: a web of over-privileged identities that create pathways for attackers....more
Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Security Skills Drive Up Cyber Salaries, As Cyber Teams Grow Arsenal Of AI Tools, Reports Find
Tenable, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Want recruiters to show you the money? A new report says AI skills are your golden ticket....more
Okta News
Three Insights You Might Have Missed From theCUBE’s Coverage Of Okta’s Oktane Event
Okta, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Instead of joining in on the artificial intelligence spree, Okta Inc.’s approach to agentic AI has been focused on governance and the thoughtful implementation of an identity security fabric....more
Check Point News
Law Enforcement Pressure Is Reshaping The Global Ransomware Threat Landscape
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Check Point’s quarterly Ransomware Report reveals dramatic changes in the global ransomware landscape. In Q2 2025, once-dominant ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups, including Lockbit and RansomHub, either ceased operations or stopped publishing victim data altogether....more
Akamai Technologies News
AI Inference Hardware Decisions: When to Choose CPUs vs. GPUs
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
AI infrastructure is not about chasing the latest hardware trend - it’s about choosing the right tool for the job....more
A Guide To International Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
The adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has become a critical mandate for organizations of all sizes....more
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