IT, AI & Telecommunications

NEW YORK – November 04, 2026 -- Hatz AI is including its new Hatz Spaces collaborative workspace in existing Hatz packages at no additional cost, removing a pricing barrier for MSPs rolling out shared AI tools to small and midsize business clients.

Spaces bundles files, chats and tools into one shared workspace

Each Space keeps instructions, files, memory, chats and connected tools together, so new chats start with context already in place. Users state the outcome they need and return to finished work for review. Artifacts run with live previews, and scheduled runs keep multi-step work moving. Teams can share and pin conversations, branch chats and continue on web or phone.

Farmington Hills – November 03, 2026 -- Coretek, a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP, has been named to the inaugural 2026 AI Innovators list by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, with 24 AI agents already running in production across eight of its own departments.

CRN's list recognizes North American solution providers that advance AI adoption through innovative solutions and services. Coretek said its inclusion reflects its work moving clients from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, covering strategy, infrastructure, security and ongoing management.

Coretek's AI Managed Services offering covers the full AI lifecycle

Through its AI Managed Services (AIMS) offering, Coretek manages AI from strategy and readiness through deployment, governance, ongoing optimization and support. The company combines Microsoft Cloud expertise with consulting, cybersecurity and managed services.

The offering targets five outcomes:

SANTA CLARA – November 03, 2026 -- Sesame Software has launched a free migration assessment for organizations preparing to leave Salesforce, with a data expert delivering a scoped, priced migration plan based on each customer's actual data. Teams connect to the assessment read-only, and no credit card is required.

Sesame Software targets three concerns that keep teams on their current CRM

The company says staying on a CRM is often a default rather than a decision. It cites three barriers: losing records, attachments or relationships during the move; API limits and data volumes that make exports slow and fragile; and losing years of history after cutover.

Five-step process ends in a verification report before sign-off

Every migration runs through five steps: assess, map, dry run, transfer and verify. Sesame Software lists four customer commitments:

Spring Lake, N.J. – November 03, 2026 -- Atomic Mobile has launched Atomic Orbit, a cellular internet service that gives IoT devices access to three national and 18 regional carriers in the United States, plus multi-carrier support across hundreds of operators worldwide.

Atomic Orbit switches devices automatically to the strongest available signal

The service targets scanners, tablets, POS terminals and smart meters that move through varying signal environments. Single-carrier deployments often leave coverage gaps, particularly for mobile assets or devices spread across regions. Atomic Orbit SIMs automatically transition between networks to hold the most robust connection, which the company says maintains uptime and removes the risk of localized dead zones.

PITTSBURGH – November 03, 2026 -- Expedient has acquired phoenixNAP's U.S. managed VMware cloud business, moving its clients onto a Broadcom Pinnacle tier provider before VMware Cloud Service Provider contracts for non-renewing partners end in March 2027. Terms were not disclosed.

The deal covers phoenixNAP's managed VMware cloud services and its Veeam-based backup and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) business. Both serve U.S. clients from phoenixNAP facilities in Phoenix, Arizona, and Ashburn, Virginia.

Broadcom's VCSP consolidation sets the March 2027 deadline

Broadcom is consolidating its VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) program. Contracts for providers that are not renewing, phoenixNAP among them, expire in March 2027. Their clients need a licensed, supported home for VMware workloads before that date.

Venice, Florida – November 03, 2026 -- Rep Com International (RCI) has become the first national manufacturers' representative for Charles Industries, an Amphenol company, effective immediately, giving the outside-plant enclosure maker sales coverage across all 50 U.S. states.

RCI will work alongside Charles' direct sales team and distributors

RCI will sell the Charles line to local, regional and national fiber network operators and broadband providers building metro and last-mile networks. It will operate next to Charles' existing direct sales organization and distribution partners. The stated aim is wider market coverage across traditional telecom, broadband and emerging AI and data center infrastructure.

NEW YORK – November 03, 2026 -- LeapXpert has been named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions, its third consecutive year in the report. The report, authored by Michael Hoeck, Rizvan Hussain and Apurva Singh, is dated October 29, 2026.

LeapXpert raised $180 million and shipped platform version 3.0 since the last report

Riverwood Capital provided the $180 million in growth funding. In December 2025, LeapXpert launched version 3.0 of its platform, adding LeapXpert Signals and Communication Workflows.

The company also was named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for a second consecutive year.

Plano, Texas – November 03, 2026 -- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will roll out the Ericsson Intelligent Controller (EIC) nationally this year, after field deployments of autonomous rApps lifted downlink data radio bearer throughput by up to 8.9% and uplink UE throughput by up to 8%.

Closed-loop rApps delivered double-digit-adjacent throughput gains in live networks

The gains came from fully autonomous, 24/7 closed-loop optimization rApps, including the Advanced Antenna System (AAS) Cell shaper. Verizon and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) also demonstrated AI cell shaping of Massive MIMO and traffic steering in a live environment.

Oxford – November 03, 2026 -- The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a UK public R&D funding body, will deploy Lumai's Iris inference servers as the first optical inference platform in its Scaling Inference Lab. The deployment will test whether optical compute can cut data center power consumption by 90% in a commercial environment.

Lumai claims one-tenth total cost of ownership versus GPUs

The Scaling Inference Lab is run by CommonAI CIC, a non-profit focused on collaborative AI development. Researchers will use the Iris servers to evaluate optical compute under standard power, cooling and rack integration. Lumai says the servers could cut total cost of ownership to around one-tenth of conventional GPU architectures. The headline claims for the technology also include processing speeds up to 50x higher.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – November 03, 2026 -- Avature has launched Cortex, a cognitive layer that plans and coordinates work across AI agents, applications and people, and made it available to select customers as a native Avature solution.

Cortex draws on customers' existing business context so users can direct work and track agent activity and outcomes. IT teams retain control and visibility over execution.

Cortex splits work into tasks and routes them to agents, people or fixed workflows

Cortex takes instructions through Avature Copilot or connected workplace messaging tools. It can also start work from an event or an existing process. It breaks work into tasks, identifies dependencies and routes steps to specialized agents, people or deterministic application workflows where the path must stay fixed. It tracks handoffs and reports progress, obstacles and uncertainty. Users can refine instructions in natural language.