CrowdStrike has agreed to acquire Adaptive Shield
analyst activities. Hugging Face and NVIDIA collaborated to
accelerate robotics research and development by bringing together their open-source robotics communities. SoftBank and Fujitsu signed a
memorandum of understanding to strengthen their
partnership toward realizing the commercialization of AI-RAN.
Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft are launching a copilot business transformation practice and co-investing in new
capabilities, solutions and training to help organizations securely and responsibly reinvent their business functions with generative and agentic AI and Copilot technologies. Global
pharmaceutical and techbio industry leaders, academic pioneers, and AI researchers are adopting the open-source NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework to advance drug discovery and accelerate molecule design. TDC
NET has selected VIAVI's NITRO
AIOps for end-to-end network monitoring that continuously observes, analyzes, and manages network performance across multiple domains. SAP and Microsoft are highlighting their
collaborative vision to redefine workplace
productivity through the seamless integration of SAP’s AI copilot, Joule, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. ZTE debuted the industry's first AI-powered full-stack FWA solution, the ZTE Nebula AI FWA.
Guided by its upgraded product philosophy, AI-powered GIS 2.0, this solution was introduced at its first-ever ZTE Devices User Congress focused on FWA & MBB.
HP released a new HP Amplify program for partners, HP Amplify AI. HP
Amplify AI is a customizable program designed to boost partner capabilities in achieving positive AI outcomes offering AI guidance, tools, resources, training, and certification. Other
enhancements unveiled include new AI-powered tools, availability of refreshed HP Future Ready AI MasterClass content in multiple languages, and global expansion of the HP Business Partner
Program. Adtran and Dell formed a strategic collaboration to meet the growing AI networking needs of the US federal government. SoftBank Corporation, GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI, Rutilea and SAKURA
internet are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA
accelerated computing, networking, and software to accelerate transformation across the nation’s robotics, automotive, healthcare, and telecom industries.
Cloud News
LotusFlare Digital Network Operator Cloud, a digital business support system for communications services providers, is
now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings
from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services. Amdocs revealed a five-year extension of its strategic
collaboration with Vodafone Italy. Under the new agreement, Amdocs will modernize the Italian service provider’s business platform to
cloud-ready and cloud-native solutions, and migrate the operator's business support
systems environment to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
IBM and AMD announced they have formed a collaboration to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators as a
service on IBM Cloud. This offering, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, aims to enhance
performance and power efficiency for Gen AI models such as and high-performance computing applications for enterprise clients. NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Niveus
Solutions, a
premier cloud
engineering company, specializing in Google Cloud Platform services. The acquisition accelerates NTT DATA’s strategy to expand its cloud capabilities to meet the global demand for
transformative cloud solutions across industries and solidifies the company as a leading global system integrator for Google Cloud.
In partnership with China Mobile, ZTE has launched an
AI-Driven Green Telco Cloud solution with diverse hardware architectures. This solution leverages their exploration and experience in telco network energy-saving
technologies, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence to enhance energy efficiency in telco cloud environments. Lumen formed a partnership with Google Cloud that is
accelerating Lumen's
digital transformation
and driving innovation for billions of Google customers.
Security & Assurance News
CrowdStrike has agreed to
acquire Adaptive
Shield, a leader in SaaS Security. With this acquisition, CrowdStrike will be the only cybersecurity vendor to provide unified, end-to-end protection against identity-based attacks
across the entire modern cloud ecosystem. Palo Alto Networks announced its perspective on the top
AI and cybersecurity trends for 2025. These predictions encompass emerging
threats, the