As IoT deployments scale globally, enterprises, service providers and mobile operators are often required to manage SIMs, eSIM profiles and carrier integrations across separate portals, Connectivity Management Platforms (CMPs) and network platforms. This fragmentation adds operational complexity, slows carrier onboarding and makes it harder to adapt to changing regulation, permanent roaming restrictions and in-life service issues.

The acquisition strengthens CSL’s ability to help customers build resilient global IoT estates that can adapt to network outages, changing regulation and transition smoothly to SGP.32 – the GSMA’s next-generation eSIM standard for IoT.

Resilient IoT Operations for Global Connectivity

Founded in 2015, IoTM Solutions has developed a cloud-native platform that brings fragmented carrier systems, CMPs and eSIM workflows into one managed service, providing a single pane of glass view. The platform is vendor agnostic, taking on legacy estates or new deployments regardless of vendor, so customers manage SIM lifecycle, eSIM profile management, usage reporting, support workflows and API access through a unified operating model across multiple operators and platforms. This low-touch, friction-free approach means customers can provision their entire SIM estate seamlessly in hours, not days.

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Already managing more than 30 million SIMs, with the ability to onboard over a billion, the platform supports 20+ native CMP, API and carrier platform integrations, with access to more than 100 mobile operators. This gives CSL immediate global scale, deep carrier integration and proven operational capability across its Critical Connectivity^® and rSIM^® services, providing more optionality and value for customers.

Combined with rSIM’s SIM-level resilience and CSL’s managed IoT services, IoTM Solutions expands CSL’s resilient connectivity offering beyond network failover. Customers can manage outages, local carrier requirements, permanent roaming restrictions and changing market conditions through a single platform.

Dan Amir, CEO & Co–Founder of IoTM Solutions, said:

“IoTM was created to remove the complexity of managing IoT connectivity across multiple operators, platforms and countries. Joining CSL Group allows us to bring that capability to a larger global customer base, supported by CSL’s managed connectivity services and rSIM resilience. Together, we can help customers and mobile operators simplify SIM and eSIM operations and prepare for the next generation of global IoT.”

The IoTM team will join CSL, and the platform will continue to support existing customers, operators and service provider partners.

Expanding CSL’s Capabilities

CSL already delivers managed IoT connectivity and patented rSIM resilience for life-critical and business-critical applications. By adding IoTM, CSL extends its role beyond connectivity, giving customers a single resilient operating model for managing SIMs, eSIMs, carriers and platforms throughout the device lifecycle.

Together, CSL and IoTM Solutions enable customers to deploy globally, adapt to local carrier and regulatory requirements, automate SIM lifecycle management and strengthen operational resilience as IoT estates grow. This creates a foundation for large-scale SGP.32 adoption while reducing operational complexity for enterprises, service providers and mobile operators.

Preparing Customers for the Next Generation of eSIM

The transition to SGP.32, the next generation of eSIM architecture for IoT, represents one of the most significant changes in how connected devices are provisioned, managed and supported throughout their lifecycle. As enterprises expand globally and permanent roaming restrictions continue to evolve, organisations need greater automation, orchestration and operational control over their SIM and eSIM estates.

By combining IoTM Solutions‘ connectivity management platform with CSL’s managed IoT services and patented rSIM resilience, CSL is creating the operational foundation for both today’s global IoT deployments and tomorrow’s SGP.32 ecosystem.

Ed Heale, CEO of CSL Group, commented:

“SGP.32 marks the biggest change in IoT connectivity management since the introduction of eSIM. Customers won’t simply need a new standard; they’ll need a new operating model. Bringing IoTM Solutions into CSL Group allows us to deliver that; combining IoT connectivity management, eSIM orchestration and resilient connectivity into a single service that prepares customers for the next generation of global IoT.”

Source: PRNewswire

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Underscoring the operational philosophy driving this collaboration, Rainer Brehm, COO Automation and CTO at Siemens Digital Industries, stated, “Industrial AI only delivers value when data, context and execution come together. With Databricks and FFT, we enable our customers to scale industrial AI across factories and plants and make AI-powered production real.” Highlighting the tangible business value generated by this direct IT/OT convergence, Shiv Trisal, Global Industrials GTM Leader at Databricks, noted, “By uniting Siemens’ industrial automation and edge expertise with the Databricks Platform, we help industrial companies close the gap between industrial data and scalable business impact across their industrial network. This partnership is a foundational step in making human-agent collaboration a reality for industrial operations.” Volker Stark, COO at FFT Produktionssysteme, concluded that the platform “provides a simple, powerful gateway to the cloud for more than 30,000 potential customers” by offering an immediately deployable pipeline that bypasses expensive, time-intensive data transformations.

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However, the rapid explosion of artificial intelligence has fundamentally disrupted this hands-off operational model. As businesses heavily integrate generative AI and complex automated features into their daily software tools, AI inference costs the continuous computational power required for an AI model to process data and generate real-time responses have skyrocketed. Enterprise software vendors find themselves trapped between skyrocketing hardware prices and tightening corporate margins.

Recognizing that long-term software sustainability requires physical infrastructure control, global technology giant Zoho Corporation announced the launch of Nathu La, a proprietary server platform designed completely in-house.

Developed over five years by Zoho’s hardware engineering team in Nagpur, India, in collaboration with Intel, the platform marks a bold transition from pure-play software development into custom data center hardware engineering. For the SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure industry, this launch establishes a new precedent for how technology vendors must navigate the resource-heavy AI era.

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Technical Architecture: Optimizing Hardware for Targeted Software Workloads

Building a generic server is a routine commodity process; building a specialized server framework capable of optimizing vertical corporate software pipelines while dropping overhead is an advanced engineering feat.

The design philosophy behind the Nathu La platform is deeply rooted in the open-source blueprints of the Open Compute Project (OCP), prioritizing modularity, thermal efficiency, and minimal maintenance overhead. Powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, the custom architecture delivers equivalent performance to traditional global enterprise servers while yielding massive resource advantages: a 12% to 18% reduction in power consumption and a 20% to 30% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Rather than buying pre-packaged, rigid server configurations from foreign tech conglomerates, Zoho designed every modular component—including the Data Centre Secure Control Module (DC-SCM) and custom Network Interface Cards (NICs)—in-house to perfectly map to their exact software demands. The architecture has already produced over five unique hardware patents covering advanced thermal management and cost-optimized design layouts.

Crucially, Zoho is not selling the Nathu La platform commercially to outside consumers. Instead, the company is completely “dogfooding” the hardware internally, with plans to scale from a few hundred pilot servers to roughly 2,000 active nodes across its global data centers by the end of the year.

Transforming the SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure Industry

Zoho’s decision to own the physical hardware layer sends clear shockwaves across the broader cloud software ecosystem, signaling a major structural transition.

The Rise of Vertical Hardware-Software Integration
For decades, SaaS vendors operated under the assumption that hardware was a utility they never needed to think about. Zoho’s entry into server design shatters this perspective. In an AI-dominated market, running contextual, right-sized language models on generic third-party servers creates immense financial waste. By tightly coupling custom-designed hardware with an in-house GPU database and application code, Zoho demonstrates that vertical integration is the ultimate defense against margin erosion. Competitors in the SaaS landscape will face mounting pressure to explore custom infrastructure plays or risk being outpriced by vertically integrated operations.

Accelerating the Trend Toward Technological Sovereignty
As global geopolitical tensions influence data residency mandates and supply chain paths, the enterprise software market is facing a push toward “sovereign tech.” Up until now, the server technology underpinning global digital frameworks was heavily monopolized by foreign multi-nationals, requiring local tech firms to pay continuous royalties and licensing fees. By keeping 100% of the underlying intellectual property domestically owned, Zoho provides a distinct blueprint for how regional enterprise ecosystems can break their absolute reliance on external infrastructure vendors, securing their long-term operational resilience.

Broad Operational Impact on Enterprise Businesses

For the millions of businesses relying on cloud-based ecosystems to power their daily workflows, the stabilization of backend infrastructure costs yields vital long-term operational advantages.

Protection Against Runaway AI Software Pricing
As software companies scramble to offset the immense costs of running large language models, end-user businesses are frequently hit with steep subscription price increases and restrictive usage caps. Because Zoho’s Nathu La architecture aggressively brings down the baseline cost of AI inference, the company can pass those structural savings directly down to consumers. Businesses gain access to predictable, highly accessible, and unthrottled AI features without fearing unexpected, volatile software billing changes.

Unlocking Unprecedented Data Governance and Speed
When software applications run on heavily fragmented cloud layers, data must bounce across multiple external vendor networks, introducing latency bottlenecks and expanding the potential security attack surface. Hosting enterprise applications on an in-house, sovereign server environment ensures tight data governance. For businesses handling highly sensitive financial logs, healthcare data, or protected customer records, this infrastructure continuity offers a verifiable audit trail that satisfies rigid global compliance frameworks while maximizing application processing speeds.

Ultimately, Zoho’s leap into hardware proves that the future of cloud software will not be won simply by writing smarter code—it will be captured by the organizations bold enough to build the foundations that power it.

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The partnership brings together Tanium’s real-time endpoint intelligence and in-platform remediation capabilities with Censys’ comprehensive, continuously updated map of global Internet infrastructure, enabling security teams to gain a complete, contextual view of enterprise exposure.

“Security teams can no longer afford to operate with blind spots between what’s happening inside their environment and what’s exposed to the outside world,” said Harman Kaur, chief technology officer at Tanium. “By combining Tanium’s real-time endpoint data with Censys’ external internet intelligence, we’re giving organizations the ability to understand, contextualize and act on risk with speed, scale and precision.”

Together, the two platforms each purpose-built for data quality and real-time intelligence break down silos and enable organizations to detect, prioritize and remediate risk from external discovery to autonomous remediation. Connecting those two views helps organizations move from insight to action faster, with greater confidence in what they’re seeing and why it matters.

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“As AI accelerates the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities, managing Internet exposure has become critical to every enterprise security program,” said Zakir Durumeric, founder and chief executive officer at Censys. “By combining Censys’ real-time Internet intelligence with Tanium’s Autonomous IT Platform, organizations can bring real-time Internet visibility into their existing security workflows enabling faster, risk-prioritized remediation of externally exposed assets.”

The partnership reflects a broader industry shift toward continuous exposure management, where organizations must monitor and act on risk in real time as environments and threats rapidly evolve.

• Tanium enables organizations to continuously scan, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities and compliance gaps across endpoints in real time.
• Censys delivers unmatched accuracy and scale into global internet infrastructure to uncover exposures and attacker-controlled assets.

The combined solution empowers organizations to move beyond periodic assessment toward a complete, continuous and intelligence-driven model of exposure management.

“Organizations need external attack surface visibility as part of holistic exposure management. Together, Tanium and Censys can offer security teams a correlated view of internal and external risk, with a workflow that moves from external discovery to remediation without the manual handoffs that slow response,” said Michelle Abraham, senior research director, Security and Trust at IDC.

Source: BusinessWire

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Autodesk’s strategy is to converge design, make, and operate workflows, ensuring data and insights flow seamlessly in a continuous lifecycle. With the creation of Autodesk Operations Solutions (AOS), the company is bringing together its operations capabilities under a unified platform. The proposed acquisition of MaintainX is intended to strengthen Autodesk’s ability to connect operations workflows with the broader lifecycle, helping teams make faster, more informed decisions over time.

Operations represents a significant opportunity for Autodesk and a natural extension of the company’s platform strategy. Organizations are increasingly looking to connect workflows, real-world performance, and lifecycle data to improve reliability and reduce downtime. Autodesk believes expanding further into operations will unlock higher-value system level AI, extend its duration with assets and systems from years to decades, and meaningfully expand its addressable market.

MaintainX’s pre-built integrations and scalable go-to-market growth motion in operations offers strong expansion potential across customer segments, geographies, and adjacent use cases. And its central position in day-to-day maintenance and operational activity gives Autodesk access to rich data on asset history, inspections, maintenance patterns, and real-world performance.

“Autodesk is expanding beyond design and make to operations, ensuring data and insights flow seamlessly in a continuous lifecycle. For decades, we’ve helped customers create the world around us, giving Autodesk a strong foundation of industry workflows, data, and context across the AEC and D&M industries,” said Andrew Anagnost, CEO of Autodesk. “Our goal with MaintainX is to bring deep operational expertise, contextual data, and workflows that enhance our ability to use AI to converge digital and physical worlds.”

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AOS brings together Autodesk’s growing operations capabilities on its unified platform, including digital twin, planning and execution, and performance analysis. This includes Tandem, Flexsim, Fusion Operations, and Factory Design Utilities. AOS reflects Autodesk’s long-term commitment to helping customers create a continuous, data-driven loop by defining and deploying assets and resources, running and maintaining them, all the way through to optimizing their performance.

“Operations is where organizations manage the systems, assets, facilities, and workflows that keep their businesses running every day,” said Stephen Hooper, SVP of Autodesk Operations Solutions. “Autodesk is enabling customers to move from managing operations to continuously improving them, deriving more value from their data, and positioning them for the coming wave of AI-driven workflows. MaintainX brings deep expertise in maintenance and frontline operational workflows that complements this broader strategy.”

MaintainX is used by organizations around the world to manage maintenance activity, asset information, inspections, work orders, and operational workflows. Its solution is designed to capture valuable, high-frequency data on asset condition, maintenance history, and performance in the field.

“MaintainX was built to empower the people who keep the physical world running,” said Chris Turlica, founder and CEO of MaintainX. “Joining forces with Autodesk is an incredible opportunity to accelerate that mission. Together, we can connect the teams who design and build assets with the teams who operate and maintain them every day, and help customers work smarter across the entire lifecycle of their assets.”

Source: PRNewswire

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This partnership creates a unified, programmable connectivity platform. It supports long device lifecycles. “Enterprise customers don’t just need standards – they need a proven way to operationalize them at scale,” said Ron Totton, President and CEO of KORE. “With SGP.32, success depends on deep carrier relationships, global infrastructure and the ability to manage complexity across the full device lifecycle. That’s where KORE delivers – helping customers turn new standards into real-world, scalable deployments.”

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“EMQX 6.2 extends MQTT beyond data movement into native agent-to-agent discovery and coordination. By building A2A discovery directly into the broker, we are giving customers a simpler and more practical way to connect agents, devices, and real-time systems on the same infrastructure.” — Benniu Ji, VP of Product at EMQ Technologies. The release boosts governance with schema validation and namespace controls. This ensures data consistency. New features, like subscription-level filtering and dynamic device management, improve efficiency and scalability. EMQX 6.2 is a single platform for managing data, devices, and autonomous systems in real time.

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While the cloud-based IoT platform provides integration and connectivity capabilities, it can now offer its regional services that include software and middleware development, connectivity architecture design, billing integrations, and cloud infrastructure services. Since Soracom has been offering such services in Japan starting from 2019, it can apply its extensive experience and help its North American clients overcome challenges associated with IoT deployment.

Since IoT projects tend to become more and more sophisticated, there is increasing pressure on companies to shorten their time to market while operating with insufficient internal resources. In order to address this challenge, Soracom is offering a comprehensive set of services to help businesses go beyond their IoT PoC stage and scale their operations in the production environment.

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The services are designed to support a wide range of industries, including smart energy, logistics, retail, healthcare, and video analytics. By applying best practices across each stage of deployment, Soracom enables organizations to build reliable, scalable systems that can operate at millions of connected devices.

“Soracom Professional Services has helped customers bring connected experiences to market at the scale of more than one million devices. That required working alongside each customer through every stage, from architecture through production,” said Kenta Yasukawa, CTO and Co-Founder of Soracom. “We are proud to bring that same depth of partnership to customers in North America as they make things happen in IoT across the globe.”

Industry partners highlight the value of this approach. Brian Murphy, Ph.D., Founder of Murphy Tech Consulting Group, noted that Soracom’s platform and services significantly reduce the time required to move from prototype to production-ready IoT systems.

The expansion also builds on Soracom’s broader innovation strategy, integrating capabilities such as AI-powered workflow automation and natural-language analytics to enhance operational efficiency and enable more intelligent, data-driven IoT applications.

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Security teams within enterprises are often not challenged by a lack of data; rather, they are challenged by a lack of time to analyze the data that is available. In today’s hybrid networks, which consist of a combination of cloud, IoT devices, on-premises networks, as well as containerized networks, networks are changing faster than security teams can document them. Because of this, static maps of networks are often a misrepresentation of what is really going on within an organization’s networks. Network Map 2.0 has been developed to provide a solution to this problem by creating a real-time map of networks within enterprises. The solution is able to provide a real-time map of networks by continuously gathering data from networks within an organization.

The importance of such visibility continues to grow as internal network traffic increases. East-west traffic—communication between systems inside data centers—already accounts for the majority of enterprise network activity, a trend further accelerated by AI workloads and distributed applications.

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With the new platform, organizations can view activity across hybrid environments within a single interface. Security teams can also generate segmentation policies based on actual traffic patterns and test enforcement scenarios before deploying them, reducing the risk of business disruption.

During a cyber incident, the system allows security operations teams to visualize potential lateral movement across systems and understand the possible “blast radius” of an attack. This visibility enables faster containment and more targeted responses.

By transforming network visibility into actionable intelligence, Zero Networks aims to help enterprises strengthen security posture, reduce operational risk, and implement more effective zero trust strategies across increasingly complex IT environments.

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