15 Cutting-Edge Tech Solutions for Partners!

 

The technological landscape is brimming with innovations, trends, tools, and partnerships. Enterprises globally are pooling their skills and resources into leveraging and integrating emerging technologies into cutting-edge technologies. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and secure access service edge (SASE) are governing businesses across all industries, cultivating an ecosystem constantly charging with tech offerings.

 

Key players in the industry are combining their knowledge and expertise to form partnerships and make the IT landscape more accessible and easier to navigate.

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) launched three components of its AI platform IBM watsonx to train, store, and govern AI and ML data.

 

• IBM watsonx.ai: IBM watsonx.ai will allow AI developers to train, test, and deliver AI models comprising traditional machine learning capabilities and the latest generative AI features driven by an accessible, user-friendly, and intuitive user interface. This AI studio will facilitate AI schedules and lifecycles, from data collection to model designing and monitoring.

 

• IBM watsonx.data: IBM watsonx.data is a data storage platform governed by an open lakehouse architecture that equips enterprises with data and AI workload optimisation tools. This tech innovation is powered by querying, governance, and open-data formats for seamless data sharing and accessibility. IBM watsonx.data will enable users to access extensive incoming data sets through a single entry point while gaining insights from fit-for-purpose engines.

 

• IBM watsonx.governance: This AI governance set will allow users to conduct seamless and trusted AI workflows by mitigating operational risks and reducing the dependency on manual tasks, thereby saving time and costs and providing the essential documentation for transparent processes.

Microsoft Azure

In light of frequent and increasingly complex cyberattacks, Microsft has launched Microsoft Purview Audit. This cloud platform allows users to centralise the visualisation of cloud log data across the enterprise. It instantly reacts to security disasters by conducting forensic and internal inspections and ensuring compliance. Customers’ Purview Audit comprises records of various MS 365 solutions captured, documented, and retained.

 

Microsoft Bing Chat

In addition to Purview Audit, which mitigates cyber threats, Microsoft also launched Bing Chat Enterprise to empower organisations with AI-powered chat to protect commercial data. This tool will safeguard user and business data by preventing external breaches. Bing Chat Enterprise secures incoming and outgoing data by ensuring no unauthorised personnel can view or use sensitive data to train AI models.

Vonage

Vonage’s Vonage Protection Suite helps businesses stay alert and ahead of fraud risks. The protection suite comprises Number Insight API, a real-time fraud detector and assessment tool, and Verify API, a two-factor authentication solution. This platform helps enterprises strengthen their UCaaS, CaaS, and conversational commerce strategies and develop protection against fraud through end-to-end security.

 

This suite is built on Vonage Fraud Defender, Vonage’s API fraud identification and elimination solution. This solution enhances the existing Verify API system by implementing an omnichannel two-factor authentication (2FA) that protects channels against fraud by customising automatic channel failover.

TD SYNNEX

TD Synnex and Zoom formed an alliance to offer Zoom’s AI-powered platform to TD Synnex’s channel partners and their end users. This partnership will allow channel partners and their clients to leverage video conferencing features like phone calls, team messaging, scheduling meetings, cloud contact centre, smart recordings, and whiteboards.

Dell Technologies and NVIDIA

Two technological giants, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, collaborated to make generative AI easily accessible and accelerate its expansion. The partnership, Project Helix, enables faster, full-stack conversational AI integration, allowing organisations to enhance business operations, improve scalability, and leverage AI tools to deliver reliable and trusted results.

 

Project Helix’s full-stack solution, technical prowess, and built-in tools based on Dell and NVIDIA’s systems will help companies of all sizes use their individual data sets and deploy generative AI safely, securely, and responsibly.

Splunk

Splunk’s Splunk Attack Analyzer will transform organisations’ security and observability. This tool will enable security teams to automate the monitoring and assessment of malware and phishing attacks. This cloud-based platform analyses complex cyberattacks to understand their nature, garner valuable insights, and create an action plan to reduce manual tasks, automate risk investigation, and prevent future disasters.

8 x 8

8×8 launched an upgraded version of its 8 x 8 Phone Application for Microsoft Teams. This application directs phone calls to users’ preferred platform—Teams’ calling window—and creates immersive and intuitive user experiences. Designed on 8 x 8’s direct routing program, this application connects the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) with Microsoft Teams to help enterprises make native calls cost-effectively without additional software, apps, or plug-ins.

Fortinet

Fortinet updated its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) platform with underlay and overlay services. The Underlay Performance Monitoring Service is powered by FortiManager and FortiGuard’s database of popular SaaS and cloud information, providing organisations with central visibility into the underplay performance of the entire server and underpinning ISP link’s sorting and reporting capabilities. This service equips IT teams with tools to monitor and resolve network and operational issues.

 

With its Overlay-as-a-Service offering for SD-WAN, Fortinet empowers companies with self-hosting hubs, resolving skills and budgetary constraints. This service efficiently manages setup and management challenges with its cloud-hosted platform, FortiCloud. FortiCloud reduces response time and decreases costs while cutting hosting and management expenses.

Coro

Coro, the leading cybersecurity solutions provider, acquired Privatisation to centralise comprehensive security and protection services on a single, unified, cloud-based platform. Coro’s SASE solution includes enhanced VPN, Secure RDP, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), DNS filtering, and an upgraded firewall—all integrated into Coro’s robust architecture to reduce security vulnerabilities. This single cloud platform can protect users, their devices and data, emails, connected networks, and incoming and outgoing information while ensuring compliance with supply chain and industry regulations.

Arrow Electronics

Arrow Electronics expanded its portfolio by adding managed services to it. The IT giant’s services catalogue now includes storage, 24/7 on-premises and cloud monitoring, secure cloud backup and recovery, and automated networking and security alerts.

 

BCN

BCN integrated Cato Network’s SASE technology platform into its connectivity servers to empower partners and clients with advanced security and networking solutions to cost-effectively build a collaborative and transparent service infrastructure.

Fusion Connect

Fusion Connect launched a new CCaaS Professional tool enabling seamless contact centre as a service (CCaaS) integrations. This application will assist small- and medium-sized enterprises by integrating Microsoft Teams Calling Services into CCaaS platforms cost-effectively, thus accelerating implementation, transforming company infrastructure, and relieving teams of acquiring manual IT resources.

Windstream Enterprise

Windstream Enterprise and network services provider ATSG merged hands to provide managed IT services to reshape digital workspace management, digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity. This partnership will extend crucial managed services to IT teams, allowing them to save time and resources by prioritising and spending their skills and expertise on improving the business model and user experiences. This technology solution will offer IT companies hands-on assistance to optimise networks, applications, and data across remote and hybrid work modes.

Nitel

Nitel is taking its Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) services across the globe by expanding its SD-WAN, secure remote access, and cloud web security services. This expansion will deliver Nitel’s multi-site managed network solutions to medium- and large-sized organisations worldwide. Nitel’s SASE expansion includes SD-WAN, content filtering, threat detection and mitigation, data loss prevention, and ZTNA.

Takeaway

As the digital ecosystem evolves, it is crucial to transform alongside it to flourish in the competitive market. IT services providers continually research and develop new platforms and applications by combining traditional and emerging technologies to strengthen cybersecurity measures, enable safe and secure data sharing, and centralise files and servers on single, unified platforms for better accessibility and navigation.