Vivun®, the pioneer in AI-driven sales technology, today announced that Ava, its flagship AI Sales Agent, has achieved full certification under ISO/IEC 42001:2023—the first global standard for AI management systems. The milestone underscores Vivun’s commitment to transparency, ethical development, and enterprise-grade governance as AI becomes foundational to modern sales organizations.
Opsera, the AI-powered DevOps platform and Databricks Startup Award winner, has announced a strategic partnership with Koantek, an Elite Databricks Partner backed by Databricks Ventures. Together, the companies will help enterprises deploy, scale, and operationalize Databricks environments faster—with stronger governance, automated CI/CD, and significantly reduced operational burden.
Security analysts have been living the same nightmare for years: too many alerts, too many tools, and not enough time. Each new product claims to “simplify” operations, yet SOC teams somehow end up drowning in more dashboards, more data, and more guesswork. Into this crowded, often chaotic landscape, Uptycs is introducing something notably different—Juno AI, a verifiable AI security analyst designed not to replace humans, but to actually reduce their workload.
AI is accelerating the cybersecurity arms race—and not in the defenders’ favor. With exploit windows shrinking from weeks to hours, CISOs are under pressure to identify real exposures faster, prioritize what truly matters, and prove progress to boards that expect measurable outcomes. CYE, a cyber exposure management company known for its offensive-first approach, thinks it has the answer.
Hikvision is taking a big swing at the future of smart classrooms with the launch of WonderOS 4, the latest operating system powering its WonderHub interactive displays. While many education platforms sprinkle in AI features, WonderOS 4 goes for the full-stack approach—AI-infused hardware, intelligent software, a cloud-first teaching platform, and system-level assistants designed to make digital classrooms feel more human, not more complicated.
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is turning up the compute dial—hard. The science and technology giant has deployed a new high-performance computing (HPC) platform built on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with advanced liquid cooling, hosted inside an Equinix AI-ready data center in Germany. For a company with deep stakes in life science, healthcare, and semiconductor materials, compute is no longer background infrastructure—it’s the fuel powering its next decade of scientific discovery.
Peek is making a bid for the crown in the global experiences market—and putting serious money behind the grab. The company, which bills itself as the “operating system for experiences,” has acquired ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO while also securing $70 million in fresh funding led by Springcoast Partners. Existing backers—WestCap, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Eric Schmidt, and Kayak founder Paul English—joined the round, signaling strong confidence in Peek’s expanded ambitions.
Sydney, Australia – November 12, 2025 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the impact of Partner Sphere, its hallmark partner program that is designed to accelerate partners’ strategic growth and hone their competitive edge and differentiating factor. To ramp up partners’ proficiencies in addressing enterprises’ complex digital transformation needs, NetApp has refreshed its partner capabilities, offering a comprehensive set of 16 solution competencies that cover AI, cloud transformation, cyber resilience and data infrastructure modernisation, aligned with business priorities in the region.
SYDNEY, November 20, 2025 – Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced Kyndryl Agentic AI Digital Trust to help enterprises securely manage and scale their agentic AI deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The new services, embedded in the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework, strengthen reliability, security, trust and stability of AI agents across critical enterprise operations.
