IT, AI & Telecommunications

Chattanooga, Tenn. – September 29, 2026 -- Fenix24 has deployed its Argos99 recoverability intelligence platform across more than 200 enterprise environments, now monitoring over 2.5 million assets and servers worldwide, the company announced.

Argos99 platform expands to 200-plus client environments worldwide

The SaaS platform, built from lessons across more than 500 real ransomware recoveries, maps every asset, dependency, backup, identity, and policy state governing an organization's recovery capability. Unlike earlier tools that focused on asset visibility alone, Argos99 reads policies alongside live data to flag drift from required configurations. Gartner named Fenix24 a Cool Vendor in its September 2026 Coolest Vendor Innovations in Cyber Resilience report, specifically citing the Argos99 platform.

New York – September 29, 2026 -- JPMorgan Chase claimed the No. 1 spot on the 2026 Fortune AIQ 75, a ranking of Fortune 500 companies generating measurable business impact from AI adoption, jointly produced by Fortune and ServiceNow.

Ranking expands to 75 companies from 50, with 36 new entrants

Building on the inaugural 2025 Fortune AIQ 50, the list grew by 50% this year, now spanning 18 sectors including Technology, Finance, Healthcare, Energy, Retail and Industrials. Alphabet, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Nvidia rounded out the top five, followed by Mastercard, Visa, Carrier Global, Cleveland-Cliffs and Microsoft to complete the top ten.

Chandler, Arizona – September 29, 2026 -- VIAVI Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAV) has launched the CyberFlood CF50, billed as the industry's smallest and lightest all-in-one platform for enterprise-scale application performance, security and AI inference testing at speeds up to 100G.

CF50 delivers TLS performance 1.75X faster than nearest competitor

The 1U appliance combines Layer 4-7 traffic generation, security assessment and AI inference testing while offering what VIAVI describes as the industry's lowest power consumption. It includes native support for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), addressing enterprise migration toward quantum-resistant encryption standards.

Syracuse, N.Y. – September 29, 2026 -- Leslie Jemiolo, Director of Partner Marketing at MarketDesign Consulting Inc., has been named a finalist for CRN's 2026 Women of the Year Awards in the Solution Provider category.

CRN recognizes Jemiolo for building partner ecosystems across telecom, solution provider and manufacturing sectors.

Her nomination cites decades of channel experience translating vendor-partner relationships into measurable business growth, according to the announcement from MarketDesign Consulting Inc.

Atlanta – September 29, 2026 -- Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ: AAOI) has shipped its 1 millionth 1.8GHz amplifier, marking a manufacturing milestone unveiled this week at SCTE TechExpo 2026 in Atlanta. The company is showcasing the achievement alongside new AI-driven network management tools and the public debut of its QuantumWave tunable transport module at booth #H1448 through October 2.

AOI marks 25-plus years of HFC amplifier production with 1 millionth unit shipped

The milestone traces back to 1997, when AOI began building HFC amplifiers under the GainMaker platform as an ODM partner for industry vendors. The company consolidated that manufacturing legacy under the Quantum Bandwidth brand in 2023, pairing hardware with predictive software for autonomous network operations. A functioning golden Quantum 18 HGD amplifier is on display at the booth to mark the occasion.

NEW YORK – September 29, 2026 -- Software Experts has named CorelDRAW Graphics Suite a leading AI vector generation tool, citing Text-to-Vector capabilities introduced in the September 2026 Update.

Editable output separates CorelDRAW from single-shot AI generators

Software Experts highlighted editability as the deciding factor in its recognition. Text-to-Vector converts written prompts or existing artwork into scalable vector graphics while keeping shapes, curves, colors, and individual objects open for further manual adjustment after generation.

The tool addresses a recurring production bottleneck: AI-generated artwork is typically a starting point, not a finished asset. Logos often need resizing, apparel graphics require color swaps, and icons need reshaping before reaching final production.

Boston – September 29, 2026 -- Atomic, an AI-native supply chain planning platform, closed a $12.5 million Series A led by Klass Capital and Madrona to expand from planning software into a full operating control system for physical goods companies.

Atomic already automates 90% of purchasing for DoorDash's DashMart network

DoorDash's DashMart convenience and essentials business migrated to Atomic in roughly three months with zero business disruption and feature parity with legacy systems. The platform now automates 90% of purchasing decisions across hundreds of DashMart sites. Nick Palefsky, Director of New Business Verticals at DoorDash, said Atomic lets the company apply years of operating judgment across its network daily, including how to sequence primary and backup suppliers.

Austin, Texas – September 29, 2026 -- CyberRatings.org has published new Cloud Network Firewall (CNFW) test results showing security effectiveness among nine evaluated products ranging from 0% to 99.95%, with only four earning a Recommended rating.

Four vendors clear the bar with 99.7% or higher security effectiveness

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, HPE Juniper Networking vSRX Next Generation Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall, and Versa Networks Next Generation Firewall each achieved 99.7% or higher in Security Effectiveness, earning Recommended ratings. Tests were conducted by NSS Labs, CyberRatings' official testing partner, using the Cloud Network Firewall Test Methodology v4.1.

Singapore – September 29, 2026 -- MagPro, operating as Nanjing CIPU Technology Co., Ltd., has launched the AeroLev 1850, a 1.85 MW-class air-cooled magnetic-bearing chiller designed to cut water use in AI data centers built in arid, high-ambient regions.

Platform eliminates cooling towers to remove water dependency

AeroLev 1850 uses a cooling-tower-free, oil-free magnetic-levitation architecture paired with intelligent controls, removing evaporative cooling water as an operational constraint for facilities in water-stressed markets. The chiller is rated to operate at ambient temperatures up to 45°C.

Singapore – September 29, 2026 -- Castrol has launched Castrol CORE, an integrated thermal management offer that shifts the company from selling standalone cooling products to providing end-to-end design, deployment and lifecycle services for data centres.

Castrol moves from product sales to full-service thermal management partnerships

Under Castrol CORE, the company will engage customers earlier in data centre infrastructure development, adding design capabilities to its existing deployment, start-up, operation and maintenance support. Castrol says the change responds to industry research showing growing demand for integrated thermal management solutions that cut the complexity of coordinating multiple suppliers, alongside concerns over supply chain disruption and the high cost of cooling-system failure.