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QumulusAI taps Michael Maniscalco as CEO to drive growth in neocloud era
QumulusAI, a Georgia-based provider of graphics processing unit-powered cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence, is making moves to claim a leadership position in the emerging neocloud market today by naming Michael Maniscalco new chief executive officer. Maniscalco (pictured), former chief technology officer of Applied Digital Corp., will bring his technical skills to an already deep team to bring ...
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AWS adds fully managed AI models: Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V3.1
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the addition of fully managed open-weight models Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V3.1 to its AI model portfolio. The new models offer greater flexibility to customers that rely on the Amazon Bedrock generative AI service to meet their evolving business needs. Open-weight models provide increased transparency for developers regarding model weights, which makes it ...
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It’s an AI bonanza at Zoomtopia 2025
Zoom Communications Inc. has a variety of products, including meetings, contact center, front-line worker applications and others, but this week there’s a single theme that cut across the fully virtual Zoomtopia event: artificial intelligence. In fact, with that emphasis on how AI is expanding and enhancing Zoom’s conferencing and related services, they could have called the ...
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Splunk .conf25 shows good progress with Cisco integration
It has been almost a year and a half since Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Splunk Inc. At the time, investors were happy because it was a good financial move. Cisco spent $28 billion and would get back about $4 billion a year in revenue that was accretive to profit margins. Splunk revenue is primarily subscription-based, ...
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F5 boosts AI security capabilities with acquisition of CalypsoAI
F5 Inc., the Seattle-based application delivery and security company, is expanding its portfolio with today’s acquisition of CalypsoAI Inc., a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence security. The acquired company was founded in 2018, showing it has been pioneers in the AI security market long before the latest hype cycle. The purchase price was announced at ...
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RingCentral dials up native workforce management with the acquisition of CommunityWFM
Cloud communications provider RingCentral Inc. announced today announced it’s acquiring CommunityWFM, a workforce management provider. CommunityWFM will be integrated into RingCentral’s homegrown contact center solution, RingCX. No purchase price was given and CommunityWFM took in no funding, but its revenue is believed to be somewhere in the $5 million to $10 million range. WFM provider Verint Systems ...
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Palo Alto Networks gets ready for an AI-centric world with Prisma SASE 4.0
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today added more capabilities to its fast-growing Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform by leveraging AI to create what the company calls “a blueprint for the AI-ready enterprise.” The Secure Access Service Edge service delivers protection against AI-powered threats, data security that adapts to how information flows, and unified operations capable ...
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Brazil’s first digital-only bank relies on Zscaler to roll out zero-trust security everywhere
Inter is a large digital financial services corporation based in Brazil with its U.S. headquarters in Miami. It began operating in 1994 as Banco Inter, a traditional bank, and became Brazil’s first fully digital, cloud-based bank in 2015. Inter provides online banking and other financial services, ranging from investments to travel, shopping and rewards, to ...
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HPE Juniper rolls out agentic AI to simplify IT operations and improve user experience
Artificial intelligence is at the heart of almost every part of an organization’s strategy, and that includes information technology operations. However, many organizations aren’t seeing clear business results. In fact, a recent MIT Study found that 95% of generative AI projects are failing. One of the big reasons for failure is that AI is being ...
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Understanding the pivotal role of Nvidia Spectrum-XGS Ethernet in the rollout of AI
The implementation of artificial intelligence generates wide-ranging effects throughout all industrial sectors through its generative capabilities and large language models together with autonomous systems and scientific discovery applications, but true AI capabilities have been hard to achieve because the foundation of the infrastructure needs a complete redesign. AI computational engines have earned their rightful position ...









