This Week in AI Updates: F5 acquires CalypsoAI; CIQ-NVIDIA collaboration (September 12, 2025)
F5 has announced its intent to acquire enterprise AI security company CalypsoAI, whose award-winning platform brings real-time threat defense, red teaming at scale, and data security to enterprises racing to deploy generative and agentic AI. These capabilities will be integrated into the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) to create the most complete solution … continue reading
Meet pNFS v4.2: The Protocol That is Revolutionizing High-Performance Computing and AI
There is a growing recognition across all industry verticals that the strategic application of AI workloads can significantly enhance organizational competitiveness, particularly in managing and activating untapped value from unstructured data. IDC Research has highlighted a growing focus on advancing AI within the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, underscoring the importance of this intersection. Although HPC … continue reading
Cisco announces Splunk-powered Agentic AI innovations
Splunk this week is announcing three new products around data fabric, security and observability powered by Agentic AI at its .conf25 event. The company, which was acquired by Cisco in March 2024, announced Cisco Data Fabric, designed to unlock siloed and fragmented machine data — from the edge, cloud and hybrid environments — to provide … continue reading
Harnessing network observability to speed the Telco-to-Techco transition
Today, the telecommunication industry stands at a critical inflection point. Telecommunications firms (telcos) face structural challenges that demand fundamental transformation. While the options and opportunities are numerous, one thing is clear: Sticking with the same services and legacy monitoring tools is a recipe for failure, now and over the long term. Here are just a … continue reading
Windows 10 EOL is just around the corner
Windows 10 reaches end of life (EOL) on Oct. 15, 2025, after which point updates will no longer be provided. Despite the deadline closing in soon, a good number of computers are still running Windows 10. The asset management company Retfab said that 86% of 2 million assets it tracked were still running Windows 10, … continue reading
VMware Explore 2025 recap: From private cloud to private AI
Recently, at its annual user conference VMware Explore, Broadcom announced that VMware Private AI Services will become a standard component of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the company’s private cloud platform. “It’s undeniable that customers are resetting their cloud strategies and building out their private clouds to support better developer velocity with IT control, and more … continue reading
August 2025: All AI updates from the past month
Cloudflare One gets new capabilities to secure Shadow AI Cloudflare has added new capabilities to its zero trust platform Cloudflare One to help organizations securely adopt, build, and deploy generative AI applications. Its new Shadow AI Report provides visibility and analytics of AI activity in general purpose models like ChatGPT, code-generation assistants like GitHub Copilot, … continue reading
Kubernetes v1.34 is now available
The latest version of Kubernetes is here, with 58 enhancements: 23 stable, 22 in beta, and 13 in alpha. Kubernetes v1.34 is codenamed “Of Wind & Will (O’ WaW),” inspired by the fact that every release cycle is impacted by factors (AKA winds) out of the control of the release team, like the state of … continue reading
From reactive monitoring to intelligent orchestration – AIOps grows up
Precisely mapping the evolution of AI is practically an impossibility, considering that AI capabilities evolve extremely quickly. Whereas it may take years for people to acquire certain capabilities, current AI systems learn them in hours, days, or weeks of training. Every year of AI progress can feel like years’ worth of change from a human perspective. Amazon e-commerce consultants Ecom Ondot theorize that one year in AI could equal 10-20 human … continue reading
Project Calico’s latest updates improve ingress traffic security
Tigera has announced several updates to its open source container networking and security tool, Project Calico. The Calico Ingress Gateway now includes WAF capabilities for inspecting, authorizing, and securing ingress traffic at runtime. Users will be able to define and enforce security policies at the ingress gateway, which allows for deeper inspection of HTTP and … continue reading
Cloudflare One gets new capabilities to secure Shadow AI
Cloudflare has added new capabilities to its zero trust platform Cloudflare One to help organizations securely adopt, build, and deploy generative AI applications. According to Cloudflare, employees are using AI for numerous tasks, from writing code to generating marketing copy to summarizing confidential documents. Unfortunately, generative AI interactions can involve sending company data to these … continue reading
Network detection and response done right from the ground up
Swiftly identifying network issues is crucial for delivering both robust cyber protection and a top-notch application experience to your clients and staff. A fully featured Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution is essential for every IT infrastructure deployment. With an NDR in place, your IT administrators can quickly detect anomalies on the network, from cyberattacks … continue reading
SailPoint Accelerated Application Management facilitates application governance at scale
SailPoint, an enterprise identity security company, is introducing a new solution to help organizations discover, govern, and secure their growing number of applications. SailPoint Accelerated Application Management provides continuous application discovery to uncover inventory, ownership, user activities, and risky access patterns. According to the company, this visibility enables IT teams to identify high-risk applications, prioritize … continue reading
pgEdge’s latest platform update adds new features for scaling distributed Postgres
pgEdge has announced v25 of its distributed Postgres platform, adding several features to make it easier to manage and scale distributed PostgreSQL clusters. The company’s Spock extension, which offers advanced logical replication capabilities, was updated to version 5.0, adding several new features. In Spock 5.0, new nodes can be added to an existing Spock cluster … continue reading
