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		<title>CTERA Introduces Forward Deployed Engineering to Close the AI Skills Gap and Accelerate Enterprise Deployments</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering, a new service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to operationalize specific AI use cases in production on the organization&#8217;s own unstructured data. Each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, works against real enterprise file data, and is designed to [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/ctera-introduces-forward-deployed-engineering-to-close-the-ai-skills-gap-and-accelerate-enterprise-deployments/" data-wpel-link="internal">CTERA Introduces Forward Deployed Engineering to Close the AI Skills Gap and Accelerate Enterprise Deployments</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering, a new service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to operationalize specific AI use cases in production on the organization&#8217;s own unstructured data. Each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, works against real enterprise file data, and is designed to leave the customer&#8217;s team able to run and extend what was built.</div>
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<div>Most enterprises now have access to capable AI models and tools. Far fewer have AI delivering reliable results in production. Futurum&#8217;s 1H 2026 Data Intelligence Decision Maker survey of 818 data leaders found that a shortage of specialized talent is the fastest-rising factor behind AI project failures, and that the organizational challenge insufficient skills and expertise more than doubled in six months.</div>
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<div>The challenge is sharpest with unstructured file data, where much of an organization&#8217;s knowledge lives. File data estates built up over decades are often duplicated, stale, and inconsistently permissioned. Pointing AI at that data without proper preparation can produce confident but wrong answers, or surface information to people who should not see it. Both outcomes erode the trust AI initiatives depend on.</div>
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<div>&#8220;Enterprises are struggling to operationalize AI because they lack enough of the specialized engineering talent, data infrastructure, and integration expertise to do it,” said Brad Shimmin, Vice President &amp; Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics &amp; Infrastructure, Futurum Group. &#8220;Our research shows MLOps complexity, integration issues, and talent shortages are the top three data-related factors in AI project failures, and that more than 90% of enterprises face architectural bottlenecks when building AI agents. Forward-deployed engineering teams address those failure factors directly, while filling the architectural gaps most enterprises face.&#8221;</div>
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<div><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/cisco-unveils-ai-and-splunk-advancements-to-scale-operational-intelligence/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Cisco Unveils AI and Splunk Advancements to Scale Operational Intelligence</a></strong></div>
<h4>How CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering Works</h4>
<div>Small, dedicated teams, pairing a Forward Deployed Engineer and Deployment Strategist, work as part of the customer’s project teams, with access to the environments and to the subject-matter experts who know how work actually gets done in an organization. Engagements follow a phased approach with discovery and data grounding, a first production use case, scaling across additional workflows, and handover for independent operation.</div>
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<div role="presentation">Start from the data. CTERA engineers assess the real file estate, including volumes, access patterns, and source systems, to validate use case workflows with data evidence.</div>
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<div role="presentation">Prepare data AI can use safely. The team identifies which data sets a workflow needs, then classifies, organizes, and governs them in place. AI works only with content each user is already authorized to access.</div>
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<div role="presentation">Build into existing workflows. Workflows integrate with the systems and AI tools the organization already uses through open standards such as the Model Context Protocol and automation platforms, such as n8n, and are validated against real data before go-live.</div>
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<div role="presentation">Transfer ownership. Customer engineers work alongside CTERA from the first phase, and document configuration as they build it. An engagement is complete when the customer can add the next use case without CTERA.</div>
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<div>Forward Deployed Engineering builds on the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform, which provides AI-governed access to enterprise file data across edge locations, data centers, and cloud environments without moving it.</div>
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<div>&#8220;Enterprises aren&#8217;t short of AI tools. What they&#8217;re short of is the time and specialized skills to connect those tools to their own data and workflows safely,&#8221; said Oded Nagel, CEO of <a href="https://www.ctera.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">CTERA</a>. &#8220;Forward Deployed Engineering puts our engineers alongside customer teams to do that work, get a real use case into production, and leave the customer able to run it themselves.&#8221;</div>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/ctera-introduces-forward-deployed-engineering-to-close-the-ai-skills-gap-and-accelerate-enterprise-deployments/" data-wpel-link="internal">CTERA Introduces Forward Deployed Engineering to Close the AI Skills Gap and Accelerate Enterprise Deployments</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>Spectra Logic and ICOS S.p.A. Partner to Expand Access to Data Storage Solutions for Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, announced a strategic distribution partnership with ICOS S.p.A., a value-added distributor specializing in IT infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions in Italy. The agreement expands Spectra Logic’s presence in Italy and enables ICOS to offer Spectra’s portfolio of data storage and management solutions to its network [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/spectra-logic-and-icos-s-p-a-partner-to-expand-access-to-data-storage-solutions-for-italy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Spectra Logic and ICOS S.p.A. Partner to Expand Access to Data Storage Solutions for Italy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, announced a strategic distribution partnership with<a id="m_1712437020113115238m_-1645421886107973151OWA424bbe09-a5f4-f1d2-3337-24356babe941" href="https://www.icos.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external noreferrer sponsored ugc" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.icos.it/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1791436736437000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0pe_MI3odQ-tg_q-B3HtRR" data-wpel-link="external"> </a>ICOS S.p.A., a value-added distributor specializing in IT infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions in Italy. The agreement expands Spectra Logic’s presence in Italy and enables ICOS to offer Spectra’s portfolio of data storage and management solutions to its network of channel partners.</div>
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<div>The partnership comes as organizations face growing data volumes driven by AI initiatives, increasing data sovereignty requirements, and mounting pressure to manage and protect data cost effectively. By combining Spectra Logic’s data storage technologies with ICOS’ channel expertise and reach in Italy, the companies will help partners address data sovereignty, cyber resilience, long-term data retention, and secure storage requirements.</div>
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<div>“We are excited to announce the ICOS partnership with Spectra Logic, providing leading Italian organizations with access to solutions designed to protect, manage and preserve data at scale,” said Federico Marini, Managing Director, ICOS S.p.A. “We look forward to supporting Spectra Logic with our established channel relationships to bring best of breed storage solutions to the Italian marketplace.”</div>
<h4>Also Read:  <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/new-ctera-research-reveals-just-4-4-of-enterprise-storage-is-actively-used/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">New CTERA Research Reveals Just 4.4% of Enterprise Storage Is Actively Used</a></h4>
<div>Founded in 1987, ICOS supports its partners with technical services designed to help them develop new business opportunities and deliver solutions to their customers.</div>
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<div>“Italy is an important market for Spectra Logic, and <a href="https://www.icos.it/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">ICOS</a> brings the channel relationships, and technical expertise we need to expand our reach there,” said Craig Bungay, Vice President of Sales at <a href="https://spectralogic.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Spectra Logic</a>. “ICOS has also built a strong reputation for helping partners address complex infrastructure and cybersecurity challenges, important requirements for any strategic partner of Spectra. We look forward to working together to bring secure and cost-effective data storage and management solutions to organizations across Italy.”</div>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/spectra-logic-and-icos-s-p-a-partner-to-expand-access-to-data-storage-solutions-for-italy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Spectra Logic and ICOS S.p.A. Partner to Expand Access to Data Storage Solutions for Italy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>New CTERA Research Reveals Just 4.4% of Enterprise Storage Is Actively Used</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, released new research showing that the vast majority of data sitting on enterprise storage is rarely, if ever, used. An analysis of 16 petabytes of live production data across 856 file-share scans in enterprise NAS environments, including regulated industries, found that just 4.4% of stored capacity is actively [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/new-ctera-research-reveals-just-4-4-of-enterprise-storage-is-actively-used/" data-wpel-link="internal">New CTERA Research Reveals Just 4.4% of Enterprise Storage Is Actively Used</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, released new research showing that the vast majority of data sitting on enterprise storage is rarely, if ever, used. An analysis of 16 petabytes of live production data across 856 file-share scans in enterprise NAS environments, including regulated industries, found that just 4.4% of stored capacity is actively used. The rest sits inactive, raising costs, widening security exposure, and undermining AI readiness.</p>
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<p role="presentation">83.1% of the total stored capacity is in files that have not been modified in more than one year.</p>
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<p role="presentation">97.5% of individual files had not been modified in more than one year.</p>
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<p role="presentation">88% of individual files had not been accessed in more than one year, indicating the extent of inactivity across enterprise file environments.</p>
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<p role="presentation">Only 9.9% of stored data was accessed in any given 90-day period.</p>
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<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/business-technology/digital-transformation/netbox-labs-and-presidio-announce-strategic-partnership-to-anchor-enterprise-infrastructure-modernization-and-automation/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">NetBox Labs and Presidio Announce Strategic Partnership to Anchor Enterprise Infrastructure Modernization and Automation</a></strong></h4>
<p>These findings point to a common yet costly pattern in which organizations use expensive primary storage as a de facto archive. IT professionals have a term for this accumulated inactive data: ROT, short for Redundant, Obsolete, or Trivial data that exists in duplicate or serves no clear business purpose. While cold data on primary storage is not a new challenge, the research highlights how this ROT data consumes storage as it is backed up, protected, and managed, increasing the resources needed to maintain the overall data estate.</p>
<p>The security implications are also significant. Inactive data often remains in the same network-accessible environments and under the same permissions as active data, potentially exposing far more information than employees and applications need for day-to-day operations.</p>
<p>The research also highlights an emerging AI-readiness challenge. As organizations use AI to search and retrieve enterprise information, large volumes of historical or inactive data can make it harder to surface the most relevant and current information. AI is only as useful as the data it can access, and only as reliable as the information it retrieves.</p>
<p>&#8220;When only 4.4% of capacity is actively used, enterprises are running their most expensive storage tier as what is effectively a cold archive. That creates a multiplier effect across storage and data protection costs, security exposure, and now the quality of information available to AI systems,&#8221; said Aron Brand, CTO of <a href="https://www.ctera.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">CTERA</a>. &#8220;This points to a fundamental challenge in how organizations think about data management. The answer isn&#8217;t simply to delete old data, it&#8217;s to make better decisions about where that data belongs. Information can be retained and protected without living on expensive primary storage.&#8221;</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/new-ctera-research-reveals-just-4-4-of-enterprise-storage-is-actively-used/" data-wpel-link="internal">New CTERA Research Reveals Just 4.4% of Enterprise Storage Is Actively Used</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>Cisco Unveils AI and Splunk Advancements to Scale Operational Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Modern-day enterprise IT infrastructure is in the midst of a major operational crisis. One reason is the widespread data fragmentation on the petabyte scale alongside increasing system complexity. While companies are striving to put gen models and robots to use, Sec Operations Centers (SOCs) and the IT workforce are drowning in an unorganized deluge of [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Modern-day enterprise IT infrastructure is in the midst of a major operational crisis. One reason is the widespread data fragmentation on the petabyte scale alongside increasing system complexity. While companies are striving to put gen models and robots to use, Sec Operations Centers (SOCs) and the IT workforce are drowning in an unorganized deluge of telemetry data, scattered visibility tools, and the ever-rising cyber threat landscape.</p>
<p>Addressing this data scaling bottleneck, networking and security giant Cisco announced a suite of advancements across its Splunk portfolio.</p>
<p>The integration of Splunk&#8217;s telemetry foundation into Cisco&#8217;s security, networking, and cloud architectures makes this release provide enterprise-grade, fully-trusted AI capabilities. The patch empowers Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to monitor threats, manage networks, and regulate AI activities in hybrid cloud setups through a single interface in real-time.</p>
<h3>The News: Unified Telemetry, Agentic SOC Workflows, and Trusted AI Infrastructure</h3>
<p>The core technical advancement behind Cisco’s announcement is turning passive log data into predictive, real-time operational execution. Rather than requiring engineers to query separate tools for network performance and threat analysis, Cisco’s expanded Splunk ecosystem correlates multi-domain telemetry directly into automated workflows.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/business-technology/zendesk-debuts-specialized-ai-agents-to-drive-industry-specific-autonomous-customer-service/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Zendesk Debuts Specialized AI Agents to Drive Industry-Specific Autonomous Customer Service</a> </strong></h4>
<p>Key technological and strategic highlights of the release include:</p>
<p><strong>Splunk AI Assistant for Security &amp; Observability:</strong> Surfaces natural-language diagnostic insights, enabling SOC analysts and IT engineers to investigate anomalies, correlate root causes, and summarize complex incident timelines instantly.</p>
<p><strong>Agentic Threat Detection and Remediation:</strong> Connects Splunk telemetry natively to Cisco Security Cloud, allowing AI agents to draft and execute network isolation rules, update firewall policies, and remediate zero-day threats under human supervision.</p>
<p><strong>Enterprise AI Data Foundation:</strong> Integrates Cisco’s telemetry capabilities directly into Splunk’s data lakehouse, giving enterprises a secure, governed foundation to fine-tune internal AI models on operational data without exposing sensitive intellectual property.</p>
<p><strong>Unified Observability Across Hybrid Cloud:</strong> Bridges performance monitoring between physical Cisco network switches, cloud infrastructure, and distributed AI clusters to prevent systemic downtime and optimize infrastructure spend.</p>
<h3>Transforming the Enterprise IT &amp; Software Architecture Industry</h3>
<p>Cisco’s integration of Splunk into a unified AI data layer signals a fundamental structural evolution across the Enterprise IT &amp; Software Architecture sector.</p>
<p><strong>The Obsolescence of Siloed IT Monitoring Point Solutions</strong><br />
For years, IT architectures have been composed of various software stacks including enterprise monitoring for the infrastructure, security information and event management platform for security purposes, and separate analytics dashboard for application performance. Software architects had to build complex custom connectors between all of these different systems.</p>
<p>Cisco&#8217;s advancements signal the sunset of disconnected IT point solutions. The enterprise software sector is moving toward unified telemetry fabrics. IT architects are abandoning fragmented tools in favor of integrated platforms where security, networking, and application performance data flow through a single, intelligent analytics layer.</p>
<p><strong>Establishing &#8220;Data-First Governance&#8221; as an AI Prerequisite</strong><br />
Historically, software vendors added AI features as standalone tools layered on top of legacy application databases. However, enterprise AI models deployed without unified operational data frequently produce inaccurate recommendations or create severe data privacy risks.</p>
<p>By anchoring Splunk’s data platform as the foundational intelligence engine for enterprise AI deployment, Cisco establishes governed data scale as the core standard for enterprise software architecture. Software providers will no longer be judged simply on the natural language capabilities of their AI models, but on how securely and natively those models access live enterprise telemetry across multi-cloud environments.</p>
<h3>Broad Operational Impact on Enterprise Businesses in the IT Sector</h3>
<p>For IT leaders, enterprise architects, and technology executives operating across this space, adopting <a href="https://www.cisco.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Cisco</a>’s unified Splunk AI architecture provides clear commercial and operational advantages:</p>
<p><strong>Meaningful MTTR Reduction:</strong> The automation of log correlation and root cause analysis results in MTTR being reduced to minutes rather than hours, ensuring application uptime for critical business activities.</p>
<p><strong>Efficient IT Infrastructure Investments:</strong> The consolidation of different monitoring toolsets to one telemetry system removes unnecessary licensing costs and reduces data storage expenses.</p>
<p><strong>Improved Cyber Resilience:</strong> In real time, the correlation of network traffic with threat intelligence stops lateral movement in ongoing cyber attacks.</p>
<p><strong>Rapid Enterprise AI Implementation:</strong> Offers software developers and data scientists the ability to utilize operational telemetry that is already governed and ready to train custom enterprise AI models.</p>
<p>In today’s world where digital infrastructure downtime translates to money loss, enterprises’ software architectures cannot afford manual analysis or disconnected analytics anymore. Using operational AI in a unified telemetry environment gives IT management an opportunity to ensure system uptime, make sure complex cloud migrations go smoothly, and scale autonomous software functionality around the world enterprise.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Deloitte announced that it has acquired a large portion of assets of Wavicle Data Solutions, a premier data and AI engineering company, which has the leading Databricks practice, to enhance its Artificial Intelligence and Data practice. The acquisition will greatly expedite Deloitte’s efforts in assisting enterprise clients in building their data foundations for AI on [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Deloitte announced that it has acquired a large portion of assets of Wavicle Data Solutions, a premier data and AI engineering company, which has the leading Databricks practice, to enhance its Artificial Intelligence and Data practice. The acquisition will greatly expedite Deloitte’s efforts in assisting enterprise clients in building their data foundations for AI on all major hyperscalers and become a leader in orchestrating Databricks for highly-regulated industries like finance, consumer goods, healthcare, and life sciences. Highlighting the strategic impact of the transaction, Jason Salzetti, chair and CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP, stated: &#8220;Together, Deloitte and Wavicle can help clients strengthen their data foundations and translate AI into lasting business value, faster and at scale. This is a new, powerful combination for our clients that can address some of the data roadblocks to their AI-enabled transformations. This acquisition gives us even greater capabilities as we continue shaping the future of AI-enabled transformation.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Emphasizing shared technical ambitions, Naveen Venkatapathi, managing director for Wavicle, added: &#8220;Deloitte and Wavicle align in a multitude of ways, and that makes this an exciting opportunity for us. Our purpose has always been to make AI work for enterprises that build the real economy and make an impact on people&#8217;s lives. Combining our technical leadership and engineering talent with Deloitte&#8217;s impressive AI and Engineering business will help us deliver AI-powered, innovation-centered, data-strong futures for our clients across industries and sectors.&#8221; Reaffirming the necessity of modernizing architecture for generative tools, Sundhar Sekhar, chief services officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP, noted: &#8220;Modernizing data ecosystems is a critical foundation for enterprises seeking to differentiate through AI. The integration of Wavicle&#8217;s technical leadership and background in a wide range of solutions with Deloitte&#8217;s Databricks offering allows us to help clients bring together the modernized data foundations, industry knowledge and intelligence solutions to move faster and deliver AI that performs in the real world.&#8221; Building on Deloitte’s recognition as a triple 2026 Databricks Partner Award winner, this deal solidifies its enterprise capacity to deliver scalable, secure AI transformation.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is ITDigest’s weekly roundup of the latest developments shaping enterprise technology. This week’s stories highlight the growing role of agentic AI across telecom, enterprise operations, AI infrastructure, software development, and healthcare, alongside advances in quantum computing, real-time payments, and hybrid cloud management. In Hardware and Network news this week… FS Launches 800G Muxponder to [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-start="116" data-end="454">Here is ITDigest’s weekly roundup of the latest developments shaping enterprise technology. This week’s stories highlight the growing role of agentic AI across telecom, enterprise operations, AI infrastructure, software development, and healthcare, alongside advances in quantum computing, real-time payments, and hybrid cloud management.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="1xlobd" data-start="456" data-end="499">In Hardware and Network news this week…</h3>
<p class="entry-title h6"><strong><a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/hardware-and-networks/fs-launches-800g-muxponder-to-power-next-gen-ai-and-cloud-networks/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">FS Launches 800G Muxponder to Power Next-Gen AI and Cloud Networks</a><br />
</strong>FS launched D7070 series Integrated 800G Muxponder and thus extended its DCI product lineup to 800G line capacity. The 1U platform consolidates the current 100 GbE and 400GbE client services into four 800G coherent waves, providing 3.2 Tb/s aggregate line capacity across data centers, metro and regional networks. This launch is an important step for the Optical Networking, Telecommunications and Data Center Infrastructure industries, allowing scaling 800G transport into a flexible and open software architecture.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="1xlobd" data-start="456" data-end="499">In Cybersecurity news this week…</h3>
<p class="entry-title"><strong><a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/cloudera-and-nvidia-partner-to-accelerate-apache-spark-pipelines-and-slash-cloud-compute-spend/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Cloudera and NVIDIA Partner to Accelerate Apache Spark Pipelines and Slash Cloud Compute Spend</a></strong><br />
Cloudera, the industry leader in hybrid data platforms, has joined hands with NVIDIA and is now providing GPU-accelerated Spark 4.1 within Cloudera Data Engineering. The solution leverages the NVIDIA CUDA-X library (cuDF) and enables data engineering teams to accelerate workloads by up to 4x. The solution comes with the recently unveiled Cloudera Anywhere Cloud<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> and helps organizations to accelerate ETL (extract, transform, load) processes without any change in the existing PySpark and SQL code.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="1yz4vw2" data-start="1184" data-end="1226">In Business Technology news this week…</h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://itdigest.com/artificial-intelligence/bain-company-partners-with-anthropic-to-drive-enterprise-ai-transformations/" data-wpel-link="internal">Bain &amp; Company Partners with Anthropic to Drive Enterprise AI Transformations</a></strong><br />
Bain &amp; Company has announced a strategic global partnership with AI research firm Anthropic, joining the Claude Partner Network as a ‘Global Premier’ partner to help enterprise clients accelerate from initial AI experimentation to full-scale, value-generating deployments. The collaboration unites Anthropic’s frontier Claude models with Bain’s industry expertise and 1,500-strong multidisciplinary team of AI, data, and analytics specialists to deliver end-to-end strategy, technology modernization, and AI-enabled operations.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="vslqrl" data-start="1877" data-end="1923">In Artificial Intelligence news this week…</h3>
<p><strong><a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/seclore-and-glean-partner-to-deliver-context-aware-persistent-data-security-for-enterprise-ai/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Seclore and Glean Partner to Deliver Context-Aware, Persistent Data Security for Enterprise AI</a></strong><br />
Seclore announced a strategic partnership with enterprise AI platform leader Glean. The integration unifies Glean’s enterprise context graph with Seclore’s ARMOR Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) capabilities. By writing persistent classifications and encryption controls directly onto source files, the joint solution ensures that sensitivity labels follow data wherever it travels—whether opened in native applications, shared externally, or surfaced through conversational AI.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="1vwu9l1" data-start="2608" data-end="2648">In Big Data news this week…</h3>
<p class="entry-title"><strong><a href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/blockchain/sqd-partners-with-google-cloud-to-expand-blockchain-analytics-capabilities-via-bigquery/" data-wpel-link="internal">SQD Partners with Google Cloud to Expand Blockchain Analytics Capabilities via BigQuery</a></strong><br />
SQD has announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to integrate its validated data pipelines into Google Cloud Web3 Blockchain Analytics within BigQuery. Executed through SQD’s enterprise division, SQD 360, the collaboration feeds cryptographically verified on-chain datasets directly into Google Cloud’s fully managed serverless platform, enabling developers, analysts, and enterprises to query structured blockchain records without running dedicated nodes.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="nt86i1" data-start="3324" data-end="3354">In FinTech news this week…</h3>
<p><strong><a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/flagright-partners-with-nacha-to-enhance-ach-compliance-and-risk-prevention/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Flagright Partners with Nacha to Enhance ACH Compliance and Risk Prevention</a> </strong><br />
Flagright has officially been named a Nacha Preferred Partner for ACH Compliance, Fraud Monitoring, and Risk and Fraud Prevention, marking a significant milestone in its expansion across the payments landscape. Organizations utilize Flagright’s transaction monitoring engine to oversee incoming and outgoing ACH payment flows, detect deviations from normal behavior, and prioritize alerts based on dynamic risk parameters by leveraging customer-configured rules alongside machine-learning anomaly detection.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="106qe44" data-start="3955" data-end="3988">In Enterprise Software news this week…</h3>
<p class="entry-title h6"><strong><a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/ntt-data-acquires-netgain-to-build-swedens-largest-pure-play-servicenow-entity/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">NTT DATA Acquires Netgain to Build Sweden’s Largest Pure-Play ServiceNow Entity</a></strong><br />
Global digital business and IT services leader NTT DATA has announced the acquisition of Stockholm-headquartered ServiceNow specialist Netgain AB, combining its operational scale with The Cloud People acquired by NTT DATA in December 2025 to establish Sweden’s largest pure-play ServiceNow consultancy. Founded in 2008, Netgain brings approximately 60 specialists and over 160 certifications across IT Service Management (ITSM), Human Resources (HR), and Customer Service Management (CSM), expanding NTT DATA’s strategic presence and capacity across the Nordics and broader European markets.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="1ol2mgi" data-start="4616" data-end="4650">In IT &amp; DevOps news this week…</h3>
<p class="single-title entry-title"><strong><a href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/progress-debuts-telerik-and-kendo-ui-updates-for-agentic-application-build/" data-wpel-link="internal">Progress Debuts Telerik and Kendo UI Updates for Agentic Application Build</a></strong><br />
Enterprise software leader Progress Software announced the latest release of Progress® Telerik® and Progress® Kendo UI®, introducing context-aware AI capabilities designed to streamline UI engineering and support agent-driven software architectures. The updated suite enables software engineering teams to transition from standard AI-assisted coding toward building production-ready applications that support interactions from both human users and autonomous AI agents.</p>
<h3 data-section-id="1kt30j2" data-start="5352" data-end="5375">Article of the Week</h3>
<p><strong><a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/staff-writer/cloud-security-best-practices-how-enterprises-can-protect-data-applications-and-cloud-infrastructure/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Cloud Security Best Practices: How Enterprises Can Protect Data, Applications and Cloud Infrastructure</a></strong></p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-83084 size-medium" src="https://itdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cloud-Security-Best-Practices-01-300x169.webp" alt="Cloud Security Best Practices" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://itdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cloud-Security-Best-Practices-01-300x169.webp 300w, https://itdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cloud-Security-Best-Practices-01-1024x576.webp 1024w, https://itdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cloud-Security-Best-Practices-01-768x432.webp 768w, https://itdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cloud-Security-Best-Practices-01-1536x864.webp 1536w, https://itdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cloud-Security-Best-Practices-01-2048x1153.webp 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />With IaaS, the customer has a larger security responsibility because it controls more of the environment. Operating systems, applications, network settings, identities, and configurations can all sit within the customer’s area of control. With PaaS, the provider manages more of the underlying platform, but the customer still has to secure applications, data, identities, and configurations. <a href="https://itdigest.com/staff-writer/how-to-choose-the-right-saas-platform-for-your-business-a-strategic-guide-for-enterprise-decision-makers/" data-wpel-link="internal">SaaS</a> moves more infrastructure responsibility to the provider, yet the customer still controls things such as user access, permissions, and data handling.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Enterprise artificial intelligence initiatives face an acute execution bottleneck: data preparation speed and surging cloud infrastructure costs. While organizations have poured immense capital into generative AI models, the data pipelines feeding these algorithms remain notoriously slow and expensive. According to industry data, 84% of enterprises report that AI workloads have significantly driven up their infrastructure [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Enterprise artificial intelligence initiatives face an acute execution bottleneck: data preparation speed and surging cloud infrastructure costs. While organizations have poured immense capital into generative AI models, the data pipelines feeding these algorithms remain notoriously slow and expensive. According to industry data, 84% of enterprises report that AI workloads have significantly driven up their infrastructure spend, with legacy data preparation taking hours to process on traditional CPU hardware.</p>
<p>In order to solve this cost and performance issue, Cloudera, the industry leader in hybrid data platforms, has joined hands with NVIDIA and is now providing GPU-accelerated Spark 4.1 within Cloudera Data Engineering.</p>
<p>The solution leverages the NVIDIA CUDA-X library (cuDF) and enables data engineering teams to accelerate workloads by up to 4x. The solution comes with the recently unveiled Cloudera Anywhere Cloud<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> and helps organizations to accelerate ETL (extract, transform, load) processes without any change in the existing PySpark and SQL code.</p>
<h3>Technical Architecture: Zero-Code GPU Acceleration Across Hybrid Cloud</h3>
<p>The primary technical breakthrough behind the Cloudera and NVIDIA integration is the ability to swap the underlying execution engine without disrupting existing developer workflows.</p>
<p>Traditionally, the utilization of GPU hardware for the purposes of data engineering demanded the process of manually configuring the drivers, significant code reengineering, or tying the organization to a single vendor in terms of public clouds. With the integration of the NVIDIA cuDF plugin in Cloudera Data Engineering, all Spark SQL and DataFrame API calls would be executed on the NVIDIA GPUs.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/it-and-devops/gitlab-expands-agentic-ai-across-software-delivery-to-accelerate-enterprise-development/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">GitLab Expands Agentic AI Across Software Delivery to Accelerate Enterprise Development</a> </strong></h4>
<p>Key technical capabilities of the joint solution include:</p>
<p><strong>Zero-Code Execution:</strong> Data teams maintain their current PySpark scripts, SQL queries, and scheduling pipelines while reaping native hardware acceleration.</p>
<p><strong>No Manual Driver Configuration:</strong> Built-in deployment removes the engineering overhead of configuring GPU drivers and CUDA dependencies across cluster nodes.</p>
<p><strong>Hybrid Cloud Consistency:</strong> Unlike proprietary GPU acceleration tools limited to specific cloud ecosystems, Cloudera extends GPU-accelerated Spark across public clouds, private clouds, sovereign environments, and on-premises data centers.</p>
<p><strong>Enterprise Security &amp; Governance:</strong> Operations remain fully integrated within the Cloudera Unified Data Fabric, maintaining compliance, access controls, and data lineage.</p>
<h3>Transforming the Big Data, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data Engineering Industry</h3>
<p>The integration of native GPU acceleration into mainstream data processing software signals a defining architectural shift across the broader Big Data, Data Infrastructure, and Cloud Analytics market.</p>
<p><strong>The Shift from CPU-Centric to Accelerated Data Engineering</strong><br />
For nearly two decades, enterprise data pipelines relied almost exclusively on CPU clusters for batch processing and ETL workflows. However, as dataset sizes have exploded to support real-time analytics and generative AI models, CPU-only processing has reached its economic and physical limits.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cloudera.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Cloudera</a> and <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">NVIDIA</a>’s partnership accelerates the transition toward accelerated compute architectures for data engineering. Data infrastructure providers will no longer be evaluated solely on how efficiently they scale CPU memory, but on how natively they weave GPU acceleration into standard data processing frameworks.</p>
<p><strong>Ending Vendor Lock-In for GPU-Accelerated Pipelines</strong><br />
Up until now, organizations looking for GPU accelerated big data processing had little choice but to move their workloads to certain multi-tenant cloud vendors or SaaS offerings.</p>
<p>With the GPU-acceleration capability now integrated into Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, the collaboration makes GPU-accelerated data engineering available to all. Organizations have full data sovereignty enabling GPU acceleration of Spark workloads regardless of where the underlying storage is located.</p>
<h3>Operational Impact on Enterprise Businesses</h3>
<p>For enterprise organizations navigating soaring cloud bills and delayed AI rollouts, adopting GPU-accelerated Spark pipelines yields direct commercial and operational advantages:</p>
<p><strong>Insulating Cloud Budgets Against AI-Driven Inflation</strong><br />
Because cloud providers charge for instance compute runtimes by the minute, long-running CPU Spark pipelines are a primary cause of cloud cost overruns. Shrinking processing times by up to 4x enables enterprises to dramatically shorten server runtimes reducing monthly cloud infrastructure bills while handling higher data volumes.</p>
<p><strong>Accelerating Enterprise AI Deployment Velocity</strong><br />
AI and machine learning models depend on clean, fresh, and properly structured data. When data preparation pipelines lag, data scientists and AI models sit idle. Accelerating the baseline ETL layer allows businesses to ingest, clean, and feed real-time operational data into production AI models faster, turning raw corporate data into an immediate driver of competitive advantage.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Veeam® Software, a global leader in data resilience and data security posture management, announced the general availability of Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive. The new archival-class cloud tier provides enterprise organizations with a low-cost, fully managed storage destination designed for long-term data retention, regulatory compliance, and cold data governance. With the increase in volume of [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Veeam® Software, a global leader in data resilience and data security posture management, announced the general availability of Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive. The new archival-class cloud tier provides enterprise organizations with a low-cost, fully managed storage destination designed for long-term data retention, regulatory compliance, and cold data governance.</p>
<p>With the increase in volume of corporate data, the information technology department has to incur more costs due to having old backup data, unstructured data, and redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data stored in primary storage which is performance-oriented. Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive brings closure to the cycle of backups through an automated policy-based destination to store inactive data in cheap cloud storage.</p>
<p>“Data powers organizations, and trusted AI requires trusted data,” said Rehan Jalil, President of Products and Technology at Veeam. “That means data must be protected, isolated, recoverable and stored in the right location — even when it is no longer actively used. Long-term retention of that data has become a cyber resilience, compliance and cost challenge all at once. Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive gives customers a secure, immutable, and cost-effective way to tier aging backups, cold and ROT data off premium storage while keeping a trusted copy on storage better fit for long-term retention.”</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/edge-delta-eliminates-data-throughput-costs-to-accelerate-ai-driven-observability-adoption/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Edge Delta Eliminates Data Throughput Costs to Accelerate AI-Driven Observability Adoption</a></strong></h4>
<h4>Accelerating Cost Optimization and Replacing Legacy Tape</h4>
<p>Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive addresses critical operational bottlenecks associated with legacy tape systems and high-cost cloud storage tiers:</p>
<p><strong>Retiring ROT Data Efficiently:</strong> Automated policies within Veeam Data Platform v13.1 allow organizations to offload cold backups and large unstructured data sets including Network-Attached Storage (NAS) archives—from expensive primary tiers to low-cost archival storage.</p>
<p><strong>A Modern Alternative to Physical Tape:</strong> Eliminates the operational friction, transportation risks, offsite logistics delays, and physical handling overhead inherent to tape archives.</p>
<p><strong>Immutable Cyber Resilience:</strong> Keeps archived backup data encrypted, logically air-gapped, and immutable to prevent unauthorized modification or deletion by ransomware threat actors.</p>
<p><strong>Integrated Clean Restores:</strong> Working alongside Veeam Data Platform v13.1, the system scans data before long-term archiving to verify clean, malware-free restore points for future recovery.</p>
<h4>Immediate Enterprise Availability</h4>
<p><a href="https://www.veeam.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Veeam</a> Data Cloud Vault Archive is generally available today alongside the release of Veeam Data Platform v13.1 through Veeam’s global network of authorized channel partners, resellers, distributors, and cloud marketplaces.</p>
<p>IT leaders, infrastructure architects, and cloud security executives can evaluate platform specifications or access deployment frameworks by visiting the official Veeam platform portal.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/veeam-debuts-data-cloud-vault-archive-to-cut-cold-storage-costs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Veeam Debuts Data Cloud Vault Archive to Cut Cold Storage Costs</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>For years, the field of enterprise data architecture has struggled with a persistent performance compromise. While the &#8220;lakehouse&#8221; design successfully combined the scalability of a data lake with the structural reliability of a data warehouse, it ran into a technical limitation when handling fast-moving data. Whenever an organization required true millisecond response times at massive [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/analytics/databricks-unveils-lakehouse-rt-the-critical-real-time-layer-for-the-agentic-ai-era/" data-wpel-link="internal">Databricks Unveils Lakehouse//RT: The Critical Real-Time Layer for the Agentic AI Era</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For years, the field of enterprise data architecture has struggled with a persistent performance compromise. While the &#8220;lakehouse&#8221; design successfully combined the scalability of a data lake with the structural reliability of a data warehouse, it ran into a technical limitation when handling fast-moving data. Whenever an organization required true millisecond response times at massive scale such as powering interactive client dashboards or streaming live telemetry the system hit a wall.</p>
<p>To bridge this performance gap, data teams were historically forced to copy data out of their primary repository and maintain a separate, highly expensive real-time serving database. This fragmented approach introduced severe vendor lock-in, data security risks, and complex data pipeline maintenance.</p>
<p>Eliminating this structural bottleneck, data and AI leader Databricks announced the launch of Lakehouse//RT.</p>
<p>Powered by a groundbreaking compute engine named Reyden, the platform delivers ultra-low millisecond query speeds directly on open table formats like Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg. This release completes the performance lifecycle for the Data Infrastructure, Cloud Analytics, and Enterprise Software industry, altering how modern organizations store, secure, and monetize enterprise intelligence.</p>
<h3>Technical Integration: True Millisecond Execution on an Open Foundation</h3>
<p>The structural breakthrough behind Lakehouse//RT is its ability to eliminate the data movement phase entirely. Rather than relying on extract, transform, load (ETL) routines or change data capture (CDC) pipelines to shift copies of data to separate storage, the Reyden engine queries data lakes directly where they reside.</p>
<p>The software architecture addresses heavy, complex concurrent workloads across three main vectors:</p>
<p>Massive Concurrency at Low Latency: The platform delivers sub-100 millisecond response times while processing up to 12,000 queries per second under heavy load, ensuring analytics dashboards remain responsive even with tens of thousands of simultaneous users or autonomous AI agents.</p>
<p>Complex Analytical Handling: Unlike legacy real-time acceleration stacks designed purely for simple data lookups, the engine executes deep multi-table joins, window functions, and complex aggregations without crashing or experiencing latency spikes.</p>
<p>Unified Governance via Unity Catalog: Every single query executes natively within Databricks&#8217; existing Unity Catalog governance framework. This enforces consistent security policies, access controls, and data auditing logs without requiring a separate permissions management layer.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/cybersecurity/crowdstrike-targets-autonomous-risks-with-continuous-identity-architecture-for-ai-agents/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">CrowdStrike Targets Autonomous Risks with Continuous Identity Architecture for AI Agents</a></strong></h4>
<h3>Transforming the Data Infrastructure and Analytics Market</h3>
<p>The arrival of a native, ultra-low latency tier within the data lakehouse fundamentally resets the competitive dynamics of the enterprise software ecosystem.</p>
<p><strong>The Obsolescence of the &#8220;Side-Stack&#8221; Serving Layer</strong><br />
For the past decade, specialized real-time database vendors carved out lucrative market share by pointing out the latency limitations of the cloud data lakehouse. Databricks&#8217; deployment of Lakehouse//RT challenges the economic model of those specialized, external side-stacks.</p>
<p>When a single platform can natively handle data pipelines, AI modeling, business intelligence, and real-time app serving on an open format, the justification for purchasing and maintaining expensive, separate real-time serving platforms shrinks significantly. The market will increasingly favor complete, unified data platforms over fragmented point solutions.</p>
<p><strong>Acceleration of the Agentic AI Runtime Stack</strong><br />
The timing of this release corresponds with the enterprise shift from simple conversational chatbots toward autonomous AI agents. AI agents operate by constantly reasoning in loops, calling external tools, and executing data checks behind the scenes. For an AI agent to take smart actions, it must query massive enterprise datasets in real time; a three-second latency delay completely stalls its execution flow. By providing a reliable millisecond speed layer, <a href="https://www.databricks.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Databricks</a> is effectively establishing the necessary plumbing for high-velocity, production-ready AI agents.</p>
<h3>Overall Operational Impact on Businesses</h3>
<p>For enterprise corporations navigating strict technology budgets and thin operating margins, consolidating real-time workloads onto a unified platform delivers clear business advantages.</p>
<p><strong>Slashing Total Cost of Ownership and Architectural Debt</strong><br />
Maintaining separate databases for analytical storage and real-time serving creates massive data replication costs and burns significant engineering hours just to keep data synchronized. Early adopters of Lakehouse//RT have reported performance improvements of up to 16x compared to their specialized real-time tools, allowing them to completely dissolve their separate analytics side-stacks. This compression recovers massive amounts of capital and engineering capacity, liberating data teams to focus on revenue-generating applications rather than infrastructure plumbing.</p>
<p><strong>Enforcing Single-Source Security and Governance</strong><br />
Data protection officers have a difficult time keeping track of compliance when corporate information is proprietary and constantly copied across independent database systems. One unsecured copy or unmonitored data synchronization is enough to put an organization at risk of serious data privacy breaches and regulatory fines.</p>
<p>By integrating real-time business processes in one controlled environment, it is possible to guarantee that security measures are consistently enforced across all the workloads. The members of a corporate board can be sure of creating and expanding automated data services, their foundational intellectual property being securely protected, thoroughly checked, and compliant with global standards.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/analytics/databricks-unveils-lakehouse-rt-the-critical-real-time-layer-for-the-agentic-ai-era/" data-wpel-link="internal">Databricks Unveils Lakehouse//RT: The Critical Real-Time Layer for the Agentic AI Era</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>Transflo Unveils ‘Workflow AI for Factors’ to Modernize and Accelerate the Factoring</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Transflo, a premier provider of factor audit solutions and a leader in transportation technology, unveiled its Workflow AI for Factors solution. The latest iteration of the platform is designed to disrupt the factoring process, making it easy, faster, and more accurate throughout each step in the transaction workflow. Cutting Out the Friction from the &#8220;Cab-to-Cash&#8221; [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/transflo-unveils-workflow-ai-for-factors-to-modernize-and-accelerate-the-factoring/" data-wpel-link="internal">Transflo Unveils ‘Workflow AI for Factors’ to Modernize and Accelerate the Factoring</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Transflo, a premier provider of factor audit solutions and a leader in transportation technology, unveiled its Workflow AI for Factors solution. The latest iteration of the platform is designed to disrupt the factoring process, making it easy, faster, and more accurate throughout each step in the transaction workflow.</p>
<p><strong>Cutting Out the Friction from the &#8220;Cab-to-Cash&#8221; Process</strong></p>
<p>Historically, factoring has been characterized by paper-based documents and inefficient communications. With an advanced architectural design that places users at the forefront, the new Workflow AI for Factors solution streamlines the entire workflow, including document ingestion, processing, approval, and financing.</p>
<p>As a neutral technology provider, Transflo ensures that this increased efficiency does not come at the cost of data security or relationship integrity.</p>
<p>“Our goal was simple: remove complexity from factoring,” said Renee Krug, CEO of <a href="https://www.transflo.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Transflo</a>. “We’ve combined automation, intelligent workflows, and a clean user experience to create a platform that is faster, more accurate, and significantly easier to use. This is a meaningful step forward for our customers and the industry.”</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/cybersecurity/operant-ai-introduces-endpoint-protector-to-address-enterprise-ai-security-blind-spots/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Operant AI Introduces Endpoint Protector to Address Enterprise AI Security Blind Spots</a></strong></h4>
<p>“Our customers value confidentiality and trust,” added Krug. “Because Transflo is a neutral technology partner, our customers can confidently run their operations on our platform, knowing their data is protected and their business relationships stay intact.”</p>
<p><strong>A Smarter, Scalable Factoring Engine</strong></p>
<p>Workflow AI for Factors introduces a suite of intelligent capabilities designed for high-velocity financial operations:</p>
<p>End-to-End Automation: Custom AI agents carry out document capturing and data extraction, leading to greatly decreased manual input.</p>
<p>User-friendly Interface: An intuitive UI enables employees to process high volumes of transactions with no need for extensive training.</p>
<p>Built-in Validation Engine: A powerful built-in engine verifies invoices&#8217; data in real-time, thus minimizing the chances of fraud or mistakes happening during the process.</p>
<p>Quick Payment Approval: The automation of the validation process makes it possible for factors to make decisions regarding funding in record time.</p>
<p>Scalability for Enterprises: The system is capable of processing numerous transactions in compliance with the high-performance standards of the current transportation industry.</p>
<p>“This platform is about efficiency and confidence and speed of funding,” said Bill Vitti, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Transflo. “Customers can trust that transactions are verified, accurate, and processed quickly, without the delays and errors that have historically impacted the industry.”</p>
<p><strong>Live Demonstrations at IFA 2026</strong></p>
<p>The launch coincides with the International Factoring Association (IFA) 2026 Conference in Nashville. Attendees can visit the Transflo team at Booth #12 from May 6-8 to experience live walkthroughs of the Workflow AI platform and see how it is redefining speed and precision in freight factoring.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/cloud-computing-mobility/big-data/transflo-unveils-workflow-ai-for-factors-to-modernize-and-accelerate-the-factoring/" data-wpel-link="internal">Transflo Unveils ‘Workflow AI for Factors’ to Modernize and Accelerate the Factoring</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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