AI Layoffs Don’t Deliver ROI: Gartner

Gartner Says Autonomous Business and AI Layoffs May Create Budget Room, but Do Not Deliver Returns

STAMFORD, Conn., May 5, 2026 — Among organizations piloting or deploying autonomous business capabilities, approximately 80% report workforce reductions, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. However, those reductions do not appear to translate into return on investment (ROI).  The survey found that workforce reduction rates were nearly equal among…

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AI Climate Risk Analysis Transforms Insurance

Natural Resources Defense Council Applies ZestyAI’s ZORRO Discover™ for Climate Risk Research and Insurance Market Analysis

San Francisco, CA; April 30, 2026 – ZestyAI, the Risk and Decision Intelligence Platform for the insurance industry, today announced that NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), one of the leading environmental advocacy organizations in the US, is using ZORRO Discover™ to support its climate research and public policy advocacy efforts.  NRDC’s FAIR Future Team uses ZORRO…

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Valstro’s Cloud‑Native OMS Goes Live with First Wall Street Client

Valstro’s cloud‑native Order Management System (OMS) officially launched with a major Wall Street investment‑banking firm on April 29, 2026, marking the first commercial deployment of the platform and signaling a shift toward AI‑driven, fully automated trading infrastructure in the capital‑markets arena. What Valstro Delivered Valstro’s OMS is a plug‑and‑play, enterprise‑ready solution built on a modern, cloud‑native architecture. It…

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NetApp & Google Cloud Launch Unified AI Storage

NetApp and Google Cloud Unveil Unified Storage Service for AI Workloads

NetApp and Google Cloud have announced a new unified storage offering—Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Unified Service Level—that lets enterprises run file and block workloads side‑by‑side across all Google Cloud regions, a move that could reshape how AI‑driven applications access data at scale. The partnership between NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Google Cloud has moved from incremental…

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Scality Names AI Alliances Leader

Scality appoints former Inlayer CEO Greg DiFraia as Senior Vice President of AI Alliances and Partnerships

SAN FRANCISCO — April 23, 2026 — Scality, a global leader in cyber-resilient storage software for the AI era, today announced the appointment of Greg DiFraia, former CEO of Inlayer, as Senior Vice President of AI Alliances and Partnerships. In this role, DiFraia will lead Scality’s global AI ecosystem strategy, driving strategic partnerships and go-to-market initiatives…

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PixerLens & TCS Launch AI‑Powered Sovereign Cloud

PixerLens Teams Up with TCS to Deliver AI‑Powered Sovereign Cloud for Enterprises

PixerLens, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to roll out an AI‑powered sovereign cloud solution that embeds the company’s Annotet AI platform into TCS’s SovereignSecure™ Cloud. The collaboration promises to give enterprises a secure, compliant environment for running advanced‑machine‑learning workloads while gaining real‑time vulnerability and performance insights. The partnership merges two…

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Firefly Expands Programmatic DOOH Access

Firefly Expands Programmatic Capabilities Through Integration with VIOOH

New York, NY – April 23, 2026 – Firefly, the global leader in moving out-of-home (OOH) advertising, today announced an integration with VIOOH, the leading premium global digital out-of-home (DOOH) supply-side platform.  The integration provides an additional programmatic pathway for advertisers to discover and activate Firefly’s inventory through VIOOH’s global platform. Buyers can access Firefly’s network via…

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AI-Powered OOH Becomes Performance Channel

Lemma Launches AI-Powered Platform ‘Integral’ to Turn OOH into a Performance Channel

Mumbai – 22nd April 2026 – Lemma today announced the launch of Lemma Integral, a groundbreaking AI first AdTech platform designed to fundamentally change how advertisers view and utilize Out-of-Home (OOH) media. By dissolving the traditional barrier between upper-funnel brand building and lower-funnel performance advertising, Lemma Integral provides brands and agencies with full-funnel visibility, enabling them to…

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Harness‑Google Cloud Developer Connect Integration

Harness Teams Up with Google Cloud Developer Connect to Power AI‑Ready Software Delivery Knowledge Graph

Harness Teams Up with Google Cloud Developer Connect to Power AI‑Ready Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, a partnership unveiled at Google Cloud Next that stitches together Harness’s Software Delivery Knowledge Graph with Google Cloud’s Developer Connect, delivering a unified, context‑rich view of the entire software‑delivery lifecycle for enterprise engineering teams. What the integration delivers The joint solution fuses…

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