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Barracuda overhauls BarracudaONE & partner programme

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Barracuda adds Google Workspace email protection, SecureEdge Access and AI security to BarracudaONE while unifying its global partner programme.
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Dell revamps commercial PCs & brings back Precision

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Dell revamps commercial PCs with slimmer designs, AI-ready chips and stronger IT controls, while reviving Precision for workstations.
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Check Point launches AI Defence Plane for enterprise

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Check Point unveils AI defence plane to help enterprises govern employee tools, applications and autonomous agents at runtime.
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ControlMonkey adds observability recovery for cloud tools

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ControlMonkey broadens disaster recovery to Datadog, New Relic and other observability tools, giving teams versioned snapshots of dashboards and alerts.
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HP unveils AI security tools for workplace PCs & printers

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HP rolls out new AI-driven security and management features for commercial PCs and printers, including hardware defences against TPM bus attacks.
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AI agents blur human access lines in enterprise systems

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Most organisations cannot distinguish AI agents from human staff, exposing widening identity and access risks as autonomous tools spread.
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Omnissa study finds AI surge & endpoint security gaps

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Omnissa warns AI tools are surging across workplace devices while patching, encryption and stability gaps widen, especially in regulated sectors.
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BT wins GBP £200 million NIE Networks connectivity deal

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BT secures a multi-year GBP £200m deal to modernise Northern Ireland's electricity grid with upgraded connectivity and cyber security.
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Manchester tech event to focus on AI, trust & risk

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Manchester Tech Week's flagship returns to probe how AI can boost cyber defence, resilience and experience without eroding trust or control.
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Gamma urges staged AI rollouts to cut CX transformation risk

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Gamma urges firms to phase AI customer experience rollouts, boosting governance and testing to cut disruption and data quality risks.
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Open source use rises as firms shun vendor lock-in

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Concern over vendor lock-in is driving a global surge in open source adoption, with European organisations leading the shift to digital autonomy.
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UK patent filings slip as EPO applications top 200000

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UK patent filings drop 3.3% after three years of growth as EPO applications pass 200,000 for the first time, led by US, Germany and China.
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Sonatype finds live data beats larger AI models on upgrades

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Sonatype says smaller AI tied to live software data can outsecure larger models on dependency upgrades, slashing risk and cost.
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NSS Labs backs AI guardrail tests amid security fears

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NSS Labs warns many enterprise AI guardrails fail basic security tests, urging independent, real-world validation of protections.
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Forrester finds Tanium delivers 235% ROI in six months

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Tanium's Autonomous IT Platform drove 235% ROI and USD $20.1 million in benefits over three years, Forrester's new study finds.
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Everpure adds VM storage tools for Kubernetes estates

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Everpure upgrades Portworx to unify storage, protection and governance for virtual machines and containers on Kubernetes at scale.
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'Human Risk' takes centre stage - Mimecast CEO

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Mimecast chief warns human risk is now cybersecurity's 'eighth layer' as malicious insiders overtake negligence in Australian attacks.
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Cloudflare uses ClickHouse for quadrillion-event analytics

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Cloudflare taps ClickHouse to run sub-two-second analytics on quadrillion-event data sets, keeping queries alive even amid major outages.
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SUSE adds AI & virtualisation tools to Rancher Prime

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SUSE expands Rancher Prime with AI agents and deeper virtualisation, unifying VM and container management to streamline modern workloads.
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Kong hires Bruce Felt as Finance Chief for growth push

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Kong hires veteran finance chief Bruce Felt, whose record of steering three software groups to IPOs bolsters its expansion in API and AI tools.