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Santiago Blanquet discusses the growing importance of open-source networking in shaping modern technology landscapes.

Snowflake will launch a local cloud instance on AWS's New Zealand region by early 2026, enabling onshore data storage and enhancing compliance with local data rules.

RUSH has acquired Pixel Fusion, boosting its managed services and expanding into education, energy and GLAM sectors with stronger recurring revenue growth.

Peter Farkas has returned as CEO of Percona, bringing over a decade of experience in open source database technology to lead innovation and growth.

Dynatrace partners with Crest Data to help enterprises swiftly migrate from legacy log tools to its AI-powered observability platform, enhancing real-time insights and automation.

Hitachi Vantara and Index Engines launch AI-powered data recovery service, promising twice the speed and 99.99% accuracy to combat ransomware threats for enterprises.

Fastly has secured its seventh consecutive Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice award for Cloud WAAP, praised for its Next-Gen WAF by 130 verified reviewers.

IBM and AMD partner to equip Zyphra's AI lab with AMD Instinct GPUs on IBM Cloud, powering its USD $1 billion open-source AI superintelligence project.

Google Workspace's native tools struggle to manage unapproved SaaS apps, exposing firms to data risks amid rising shadow IT use.

AI vulnerability reports surged 210% as organisations boosted AI security by 270%, with prompt injection attacks rising 540%, HackerOne's report shows.

Hitachi Vantara has appointed Dave Wardrop as CTO for Australia and New Zealand to lead technical sales amid growth in data storage and cloud markets.

ServiceNow unveils AI Experience, a unified, multimodal AI platform that streamlines enterprise workflows with voice, text, image, and web agents for smarter work.

Commvault unveils Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS, offering air-gapped, Iceberg-aware backups to strengthen AI and analytics data lakehouse security.

Dynatrace has earned the AWS Generative AI Competency, highlighting its expertise in observability and governance of generative AI apps on AWS platforms.

ServiceNow launches AI Experience, a unified conversational AI platform integrating workflows to enhance productivity across enterprises with secure, multimodal tools.

In 2025, cybersecurity centres on layered data protection, privacy compliance, shadow IT control and responsible AI to safeguard trust and resilience in organisations.

As AI projects rise and non-human identities outnumber humans in IT, firms must strengthen cybersecurity and governance to meet new regulatory demands.

Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat have teamed up to ease virtual machine migration costs by integrating OpenShift Virtualization with VSP One for hybrid cloud platforms.

Dell launches PowerEdge XR8720t, a compact server that consolidates Cloud RAN and Open RAN workloads, boosting AI and telecom edge computing efficiency.

WatchGuard launches FireCloud Total Access, a hybrid SASE service offering Zero Trust security for MSPs and IT teams to protect remote and hybrid workforces.