All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔒 At it-sa vendors unveiled a slate of security, privacy and access offerings aimed at strengthening enterprise controls. Salesforce expanded its AI Agentforce into the Security Center and Privacy Center to automate threat detection, incident remediation and compliance prioritization. Ivanti reengineered Connect Secure 25.x with a security‑by‑design architecture including SELinux, WAF, secure boot and disk encryption. Additional launches included Samsung Knox mobile credentials, KOBIL mPower and a Zurich/Deutsche Telekom cyber insurance plus MDR integration.

🚀 Amazon has made Neptune Analytics available in the AWS Canada (Central) and Australia (Sydney) Regions, enabling local creation and management of analytics graphs. Neptune Analytics is a memory‑optimized graph engine that supports fast, in‑memory processing, a library of optimized analytic algorithms, low‑latency graph queries, and vector similarity search within traversals. You can ingest data from an Amazon Neptune Database, snapshots, or Amazon S3, and start via the AWS Console or CLI; consult the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table for costs and availability.

🔍 CrowdStrike Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM has been named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management. The product is presented as an agentic SOC engine that combines AI-driven detections, real-time telemetry and a unified data foundation to accelerate detection and response. CrowdStrike cites metrics including 150x faster search, over 1PB/day ingestion and up to 80% cost savings, and highlights the acquisition of Onum to improve real-time pipelines and scale. New AI agents for workflow, data transformation, search analysis and correlation rule generation aim to simplify playbook creation, data prep and detection tuning.

🔔 Amazon EBS io2 Block Express is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. The service delivers consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability with single-volume limits of 256,000 IOPS, 4 GiB/s throughput, and up to 64 TiB capacity. Volumes support multi-attach within an Availability Zone with NVMe reservations for shared storage fencing. Existing io1 users can nondisruptively upgrade via the ModifyVolume API to gain higher performance, durability, and improved cost-efficiency.

🤖 Amazon Quick Suite is now generally available as an agentic, AI-powered workspace that retrieves insights across the public internet and your enterprise data stores — including Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake, databases, and other documents — and moves instantly from answers to actions. Quick Suite can execute or trigger tasks in popular applications like Salesforce, Jira, and ServiceNow, and automate workflows from RFP responses to invoice processing and account reconciliation. AWS highlights customer privacy — queries and data are not used to train models — and administrators can enable and tailor the experience quickly; new customers receive a 30-day trial for up to 25 users.

🚀 Microsoft Azure announced the first production-scale cluster using more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs, co-engineered with NVIDIA to support OpenAI and other frontier AI workloads. The new ND GB300 v6 VMs are optimized for reasoning models, agentic systems, and multimodal generative AI, delivered on rack-scale systems with 72 GPUs per rack and 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs. Microsoft says this infrastructure will shorten training from months to weeks and will scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs globally.

🔒 AWS expanded 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated Direct Connect links with MACsec encryption at the Netrality KC1 facility near Kansas City, MO. Customers at this location can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Direct Connect delivers a private, physical connection that can provide more consistent performance and lower latency than the public internet. AWS also notes there are over 146 Direct Connect locations worldwide.

🚀 Gemini Enterprise is presented as Google’s unified, enterprise-grade AI front door that integrates advanced models, a no-code workbench, pre-built and customizable agents, secure data connectors, centralized governance, and an open partner ecosystem. The chat-first interface works across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and adds multimodal agents for text, image, video, and speech. Google highlights developer tooling, open agent protocols, agent monetization, and customer deployments to accelerate end-to-end workflow automation and auditable governance.

☁️ Microsoft is expanding its Azure footprint across Asia, launching new datacenter regions in Malaysia and Indonesia in 2025 and announcing planned expansions in India and Taiwan for 2026. The company is investing billions to deliver AI-ready hyperscale infrastructure, next‑generation networking, scalable storage, and multi‑zone availability to support low-latency, compliant services. Microsoft also plans a second Malaysia region (Southeast Asia 3) and recommends multi-region architectures along with the Cloud Adoption and Well‑Architected Frameworks to improve resilience, performance, and cost optimization.

🔒 Fortinet has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP in 2025, reflecting verified customer satisfaction with a 4.8/5 rating and a 99% recommendation rate across 79 reviews. The accolade highlights FortiAppSec Cloud, a unified WAAP platform that integrates WAF, API protection, bot management, DDoS mitigation, CDN acceleration, and AI-driven automation. Customers emphasize rapid onboarding, reliable performance, and strong vendor support.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon EC2 I7i storage-optimized instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region, powered by 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs. Compared with prior I4i instances, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute performance, improved price performance, and up to 45 TB of NVMe storage with notable reductions in storage I/O latency and variability. Offered in eleven sizes (including bare-metal), I7i targets I/O-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads requiring very high random IOPS and real-time access to multi-TB datasets.

🔒 Microsoft has made Windows Backup for Organizations generally available, offering an enterprise-grade, opt-in solution to preserve Windows settings, user preferences, and Microsoft Store-installed apps. The capability is available after installing the September 2025 Windows Monthly Cumulative Update on Entra-joined devices and must be enabled by administrators through Intune or backup and restore policy settings. Backups are stored in Exchange Online in the tenant's selected Country/Region, are protected by encryption, and are accessible to Microsoft personnel only under strict oversight for troubleshooting or legal compliance, helping streamline migrations to Windows 11 during device setup.

🔒 Cloudflare today introduces REACT, a new incident response and advisory service from Cloudforce One designed to bridge the gap between edge defenses and in‑network remediation. REACT combines proactive advisory work—threat hunting, tabletop exercises, and readiness assessments—with emergency incident response and retainer options for guaranteed availability. As a network‑native, vendor‑agnostic service, REACT can deploy mitigations at the Cloudflare edge and coordinate investigations across on‑premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 C6in instances in the Mexico (Central) Region. These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances run on 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and improved EBS throughput and IOPS. C6in offers up to 128 vCPUs across 10 sizes (including bare metal) and provides Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. Targeted use cases include network virtual appliances, Telco 5G UPF, data analytics, HPC, and CPU-based AI/ML workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made M6in and M6idn EC2 instances available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These sixth‑generation, network‑optimized instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth — double comparable fifth‑generation capacity. Offered in 10 sizes including metal, they provide up to 128 vCPUs, 512 GiB memory, 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS, with EFA support on select sizes and up to 7.6 TB local storage on M6idn.

🌐 Amazon DynamoDB now allows customers to use IPv6 addresses within their Amazon VPC to access tables, streams, and DAX, including via PrivateLink Gateway and Interface endpoints. The feature simplifies network stacks, helps avoid overlapping address spaces, and supports compliance with IPv6-ready policies. It is available today across US commercial and GovCloud Regions and will roll out to remaining global Regions over the coming weeks. See the DynamoDB and DAX guides to check regional availability and connection steps.

⚠️ Microsoft is addressing an outage in its Azure Front Door CDN that is blocking access to some Microsoft 365 services and admin portals across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The incident began around 07:40 UTC and produced delays and timeouts when connecting to the Azure and Entra portals. Engineering teams have been restarting Kubernetes instances that caused capacity loss across AFD instances and have initiated failover for the Microsoft 365 Portal while monitoring telemetry to confirm full recovery.

🚀 Gemini Enterprise launches a curated ecosystem of partner-built AI agents that integrate with Google Cloud to deliver validated, secure solutions for enterprise workflows. The platform supports Agent2Agent (A2A) communication and includes a Gemini-powered AI agent finder for natural language discovery and filtering by industry, use case, and validation status. A broad set of technology and consulting partners — from Box and Salesforce to ServiceNow, Workday, and Accenture — are bringing agents and services to the Google Cloud Marketplace to accelerate deployment and adoption.

🚀 Google today launched Google Skills, a unified learning platform consolidating nearly 3,000 courses and labs from Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, Grow with Google and Google for Education. The rollout, timed with the release of Gemini Enterprise, integrates Gemini Code Assist into hands-on labs, introduces new skill badges, and adds gamified features and admin tools for organizations. A new GEAR sprint will target one million developers for agent development, and a partnership with Jack Henry creates a direct hiring pathway for U.S. certificate holders.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now offer Amazon Linux 2023 as a launch option alongside Amazon Linux 2. The update provides a modern rpm-based runtime with a predictable two-year release cycle and five years of long-term support. Enhanced security features include SELinux support and FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules. Use AL2023 to benefit from updated packages and continued OS maintenance.