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Riverbed, the AIOps for observability and data acceleration firm, has introduced its Riverbed Data Express Service, enabling enterprises to “radically accelerate” the movement of massive datasets now required to prepare and deploy AI models at scale.
Data Express Service can reach data transfer speeds of up to “10 times faster” than current industry solutions, Riverbed claims, to improve “customers’ time to value and to lower costs”.
Enterprises are racing to build large language models with tens of petabytes of data scattered across data centres, edge environments, and multiple public clouds.
Moving this data to AI-optimised GPU clusters often takes months, delaying time-to-value and increasing costs. With the new Riverbed Data Express Service, what once took months can now be completed in days, we are told, giving organisations the speed and security of data delivery now required to prosper in the AI era.
Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Data Express Service utilises post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to move petabyte-scale datasets through secure VPN tunnels to ensure that customer data remains protected during the transfer process.
The service includes enterprise-grade controls for secure access to data as well as the option to deploy data mover agents in customer tenants to enable additional security controls.
-HackerOne, a specialist in offensive security solutions, has announced HackerOne AI, Hai, from a copilot into an agentic AI system, and the general availability of its AI-native code security product, HackerOne Code.
Together, they promise to improve continuous exposure management by accelerating how enterprises find, prioritise, and remediate vulnerabilities.
Hai is HackerOne’s coordinated team of AI agents that continuously analyse and contextualise findings to help organisations prioritise, validate, and remediate risks faster, guided by insights from over 500,000 validated vulnerabilities.
Hai’s current agents include Priority Escalation Agent to uncover critical risks without delay, and Deduplication Agent to eliminate duplicates and reduce noise. There is also Report Assistant Agent to ensure complete, consistent reports, and Insight Agent to surface historical context to accelerate validation.
-Ringover has unveiled AIRO Coach, an AI-based coaching tool integrated into its Empower platform. AIRO Coach offers personalised support before, during and after sales calls to “enrich conversations and accelerate skill development”.
Since 2018, Ringover has been developing SaaS tools that reinvent customer relations and boost sales team performance through a centralised omnichannel experience integrated with business tools. Its Empower solution allows users to manage calls, text messages, voicemails, chat, social media, emails and video conferences from a single interface.
With over 100 native integrations (Salesforce, Hubspot, Zendesk, Slack, Odoo, Zoho, etc.), automation features and quick start-up, Empower has enabled the sales and customer relations/support departments of clients such as AXA, Engie, Groupama, Best Western, Betclic, RATP, and Pennylane, to optimise their teams' working time.
AIRO Coach is a Google Chrome extension linked to the Empower solution, and compatible with major video call platforms such as Zoom, Teams and Google Meet.
-Managed service provider Advania is giving organisations access to multi-tenant sovereign AI clouds across its seven operational countries.
The initiative will deliver a key competitive advantage for Advania’s customers, it is said, by enabling companies and public sector organisations to securely utilise their critical and sensitive data, ensuring compliance with national regulations while turning that data into a true business gain.
The market is rapidly adopting off the shelf AI tools that deliver selective productivity gains, automate routine tasks and streamline communication. But Advania says it has taken a more strategic approach, offering a complete and accessible AI portfolio that goes beyond generic tools to “deliver real competitive advantage for customers”.
“Organisations can confidently harness their own data in their own AI processes, driving real business results from growth to efficiency,” said the MSP.
-Oracle this week announced the general availability of Oracle AI Data Platform, technology designed to help customers securely connect industry-leading generative AI models with their enterprise data, applications, and workflows.
By combining automated data ingestion, semantic enrichment, and vector indexing with built-in generative AI tools, Oracle AI Data Platform promises to “simplify” the entire journey from raw data to production-grade AI.
Oracle AI Data Platform makes data AI-ready and enables the creation and deployment of agentic applications by harnessing the combined capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and OCI Generative AI service.
Business users gain trusted, real-time insights and AI agents that automate routine tasks, surface growth opportunities, and embed intelligence directly into everyday workflows, while developers and data teams benefit from a single, enterprise-grade platform to rapidly build and scale them.
The platform integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure, which enables the selection of the latest generation GPUs and libraries for high-performance workloads. “The result is faster innovation, higher productivity, and measurable business impact across every line of business,” maintained Oracle.
-Informatica has brought out four solutions to help Oracle customers unify and govern trusted master records across Oracle and non-Oracle sources, streamline data processes for AI initiatives, and accelerate time-to-value for agent-driven applications deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Theses solutions include:
Blueprint for Agentic AI on OCI: An AI-driven cloud data management framework, optimised for agentic AI workloads on OCI, with no-code, pre-built connectors, recipes, and a rich API layer to speed agent development.
IDMC MCP server support: A dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server within Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform that accelerates deployment and reduces time-to-value for enterprise agentic AI projects, by providing access to IDMC’s data management capabilities to AI agents via the industry-standard MCP protocol.
Master Data Management (MDM) capability on OCI: Native availability of Informatica MDM SaaS on OCI, delivering unified, trusted data from practically any business domain, including customer, supplier, product, patient, and provider, with enterprise-grade security, performance, and cloud-native efficiency.
Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud on OCI Dedicated Region: Support for IDMC deployments within OCI Dedicated Region enables customers to run the entire IDMC platform, including MDM, data governance, and other IDMC services in a private, sovereign environment to address “stringent regulatory and data-residency requirements”.
-Storyblok has introduced a suite of new products and partnerships designed to help brands capitalise on the AI revolution.
Dominik Angerer, CEO of Storyblok, said: “The web looks a lot different than it did even a few months ago. Now people trust AI more than your website. Search traffic is down, zero-click AI answers are up, and brands are still in shock about how fast the rules have been rewritten. The focus used to be on publishing as much content as possible, but now all of that unmanaged content debt is backfiring. Outdated and irrelevant content can be used as a source of truth in AI answers to misrepresent a brand, decrease its authority, and end the buyer’s journey before it even begins.”
He said: “The good news is that the product features and partnerships we’re unveiling for content operations and observability give brands a new playbook for success. Now they will feel more confident about their content than ever before, at a time when AI search is the new front door to your brand.”
The new tech:
Storyblok Strata: A “new era of visibility”. Strata gives companies a new level of visibility into their content. By adding a vector data layer, it adds meaning and connection to every piece of content in Storyblok, helping brands eliminate content debt, improve AI performance, and deliver personalisation at scale. Strata will also power new and enhanced use cases where content is critical, such as customer support that’s relevant, accurate and immediate.
Storyblok FlowMotion: “Your content on autopilot”. Updating content often triggers a chain of manual tasks. FlowMotion automates that process. It’s a new integration layer in Storyblok that connects your content to your entire tech stack, allowing you to visually design workflows and use AI agents to handle repetitive work. Powered by n8n, FlowMotion integrates with over 500 of the most popular enterprise tools and platforms.
Two partnerships have also been sealed. With Netlify, customers can now manage content in Storyblok and instantly deploy it worldwide with Netlify’s AI-native web platform. This partnership combines Storyblok’s content management with Netlify’s build, deploy, and global edge network offering, giving teams a faster, more secure, and scalable way to deliver digital experiences.
And with OtterlyAI, customers can use it alongside Storyblok to monitor how their content performs in multiple AI search engines against their competitors, and discover how they can optimise it to improve their AI search visibility. OtterlyAI currently supports ChatGPT, Google Gemini, AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Copilot, and Perplexity.
-Archive360, the archiving company for enterprise data management, is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver advanced AI-powered eDiscovery and compliance solutions for large organisations.
The initiative combines Archive360's governed data cloud with Microsoft's AI capabilities through Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, to enable large and complex enterprises to conduct sophisticated investigations, while maintaining strict data governance and regulatory compliance.
Compliance officers, HR investigators, and insider threat analysts must be able to quickly identify and analyse potential policy violations, fraud, workplace harassment, or other areas of misconduct across vast amounts of data that’s being archived.
In many organisations, the data that lends itself to this insight has been historically trapped in source applications and other complex isolated data silos, which makes it difficult to find and govern.
Through this integration, AI agents built using Azure technologies will use curated data from archived emails, Microsoft Teams communications, and other digital communication and collaboration platforms, all while respecting granular permission controls and data segregation requirements. This ensures that AI analysis only accesses data that users are authorised to view, maintaining the confidentiality and privacy requirements of sensitive information.
The centrepiece of this collaboration is the Archive360 AI Discovery Investigator feature, which enables end-users to initiate comprehensive investigations using natural language prompts. For example, an analyst who receives an alert about potential misconduct can ask questions using simple prompts to learn more about the potential incident. The new capability automatically scans archived digital communications - including emails, mobile messages, and chat messages – and identifies potential misconduct, creates e-discovery cases, and applies legal holds to the relevant data within the platform.
-NTT DATA and Fortanix have sealed a global partnership to help enterprises safeguard sensitive data, counter emerging AI threats, and prepare for looming post-quantum cryptography challenges.
As part of the deal, NTT DATA will launch a new cryptography-as-a-service offering as part of its data security services portfolio. The service combines Fortanix’s Data Security Manager Platform with NTT DATA’s cybersecurity expertise, deep knowledge of evolving data protection standards, global delivery model and capabilities across AI technologies.
The Fortanix platform isolates and encrypts data while it is being processed, protecting it at rest, in motion and in use across hybrid, multi-cloud and AI environments. Its unified security architecture provides centralised visibility and policy control, which simplifies audits, compliance and regulatory reporting. “This strong foundation allows enterprises to future-proof their data security strategies and migrate smoothly to quantum-resistant cryptography,” said the partners.
NTT DATA will deliver full lifecycle services, starting with a tailored assessment of each client’s data security maturity level, and a technology roadmap for crypto agility implementation of the Fortanix platform and ongoing managed services.
-Brilliant marketers are still buried in dashboards, spending more time on reports and clicks than on strategy and creativity. Epiminds was created to solve this problem.
The company, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Elias Malm and Mo Elkhidir, has now come out of stealth with $6.6 million of funding, with the round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from EWOR, Entourage, and high-profile angels, including the former CMO of Booking.com.
In just twelve weeks from ideation, Epiminds has already signed major agencies that manage over 240 brands.
Agencies today are squeezed from both sides: clients demand more transparency, faster reporting, and measurable ROI, all with smaller budgets. And inside agency walls, insights are scattered across platforms, making decisions slow or reliant on gut instinct, while the rapid rise of AI creates uncertainty about which tools to adopt and how to scale capacity sustainably.
Epiminds creates advanced multi-agent AI systems that agencies can train and evolve over time. At the core is Lucy, an AI marketing manager that leads a dynamic team of more than 20 specialised agents working together across reporting, optimisations, budget pacing, bidding and creatives.
Agencies can onboard a client in less than 30 seconds, it is claimed, and can instantly get an AI-powered marketing team capable of running campaigns from A to Z. Lucy and her team doesn’t just surface insights but executes them, learns each agency’s playbooks, and proactively monitors accounts to flag risks before they hurt performance, Epiminds promises.
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