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UiPath & Talkdesk unite agentic AI for healthcare CX

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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UiPath and Talkdesk are teaming up to fuse agentic AI, streamlining document-heavy healthcare contact centre workflows and cutting errors.
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Industrial firms face AI growth drag from talent gaps

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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Industrial giants warn AI ambitions are stalling as severe talent shortages and ageing systems choke growth and sustainability goals.
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AI agents spark new identity security fears for 2026

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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AI agents with sweeping powers will trigger new identity security fears by 2026, as firms brace for over-privileged bots and poisoned models.
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AI projects face long delays amid rising security risks

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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AI rollout delays are stretching to a year as three-quarters of organisations report security incidents and governance gaps grow.
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Azets appoints Trevor Attridge as new Group CIO

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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Azets names Trevor Attridge Group CIO to spearhead global digital strategy, AI adoption and automation across its international operations.
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AI shifts cybersecurity priorities amid rising threats

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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AI-fuelled cyberattacks are forcing more than a third of organisations to rewrite security strategies as identity threats and audits surge.
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Riverbed unveils AI tool to automate workplace IT support

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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Riverbed launches Aternity Self-Service, an Agentic AI tool that automates diagnosis and fixes for common workplace IT issues.
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AI surge keeps Gigamon atop fast-growing observability

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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Gigamon holds 50% of the deep observability market as AI and LLM demand fuels rapid hybrid cloud growth toward USD $1.7 billion by 2029.
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DXC launches AdvisoryX to help enterprises scale AI

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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DXC launches AdvisoryX to help enterprises scale AI, as 94% struggle to move beyond pilots and build coherent business cases.
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CrowdStrike hits 100% in latest MITRE cross-domain tests

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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CrowdStrike's Falcon platform scores 100% detection and protection with no false positives in MITRE's toughest cross-domain ATT&CK tests yet.
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CloudCasa widens Kubernetes backup with SMB, compression

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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CloudCasa adds SMB backup support and tunable compression, extending Kubernetes protection for hybrid, on-premises and edge environments.
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AppDirect has acquired vCom in a $100m-plus lifecycle deal

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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AppDirect has closed the acquisition of vCom in a $100m-plus deal to fold network and mobility lifecycle tools into its “everything store” tech platform.
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F5 & NetApp boost AI data security for quantum era

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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F5 and NetApp are deepening their alliance to harden AI data pipelines with quantum-resistant encryption and higher S3 throughput.
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Snowflake hits USD $2 billion in AWS Marketplace sales

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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Snowflake doubles AWS Marketplace sales to top USD $2 billion in 2025, underscoring surging enterprise demand for integrated data and AI tools.
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Industrial ransomware attacks surge, manufacturing hit hardest

Thu, 11th Dec 2025
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Industrial ransomware attacks climbed 13% in Q3 2025 to 742 cases worldwide, with manufacturing absorbing nearly three quarters of hits.
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Cohesity honours global & APAC partners for cyber resilience

Wed, 10th Dec 2025
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Cohesity has honoured global and APAC partners including NVIDIA, AWS and NCS for driving AI-led data security and cyber resilience.
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AI-led workplaces twice as likely to beat revenue goals

Wed, 10th Dec 2025
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Firms that embed AI in digital workplace tools are twice as likely to beat revenue goals, as gaps widen with slower-moving rivals.
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Neo4j unveils Fleet Manager for unified graph control

Wed, 10th Dec 2025
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Neo4j launches Fleet Manager, a unified control plane giving CIOs a single view to govern dispersed graph databases for GenAI workloads.
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Expereo to manage Kingspan Light, Air + Water network

Wed, 10th Dec 2025
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Expereo wins global deal to unify Kingspan Light, Air + Water's network across 100 sites, replacing fragmented local connectivity setups.
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Cloudflare outage exposes risks of AI & payments reliance

Tue, 9th Dec 2025
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Cloudflare's latest outage fuels fears over fragile AI and payments systems as firms brace for weeks of disputes and operational fallout.