IT, AI & Telecommunications

Columbus – October 28, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) has completed its acquisition of Utility Innovation Holdings, Inc., which operates as UtilityInnovation Group (UIG), for approximately $1.45 billion in upfront cash, adding microgrid and behind-the-meter power capabilities for data centers constrained by grid access.

Earnout of up to $1.15 billion ties additional payout to 12- and 24-month EBITDA targets

The transaction carries contingent cash consideration of up to $1.15 billion, payable if UIG meets EBITDA targets over 12- and 24-month periods. Including the full earnout, total cash consideration could reach $2.6 billion.

The upfront price equals approximately 13x expected UIG 2027 EBITDA. Vertiv expects that multiple to fall significantly if the full earnout is paid. The company expects the deal to be accretive to adjusted earnings per share in the first year after completion.

Idstein – October 28, 2026 -- Serviceware SE has built its new service management platform AI-native with TU Darmstadt, and CEO and founder Dirk Martin argues that agentic AI only justifies itself where it delivers measurable business value.

Agentic AI adds usage-based costs alongside efficiency gains

Martin says the goal is not maximum AI deployment. Agentic AI raises service efficiency, but it also raises usage-based costs. Companies therefore need to weigh the benefit and total cost of each use case and keep reviewing both, which turns AI into a management task.

Agents move from assistant to acting digital colleague

Agentic systems act independently within set limits, Martin says. They can interpret requests, combine information from different systems, decide within defined rules and complete tasks on their own. Workflows can be modeled from natural language, which speeds up processes and relieves staff of routine work.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – October 28, 2026 -- The same busbar drawing can produce supplier quotes up to three times apart, depending on which manufacturing process each supplier assumes, according to engineering guidance released by MES, Inc. The guidance targets data center engineers and sourcing teams specifying copper and aluminum busbar for high-density power distribution.

Liquid-cooled AI racks push current above 2,000 amps

A liquid-cooled AI rack can draw around 120 kW. At the 48 to 54 V DC used inside many of these racks, that exceeds 2,000 amps. Busbar is therefore a critical component inside the rack and in the switchgear and busway that feed it.

MES President and CEO Hiten Shah said material and margin do not explain the quote gap. One supplier prices punch and bend, another stamping, another machining, so buyers are not comparing the same part until those assumptions are disclosed.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- QoS 1 is the practical starting point for most industrial telemetry over MQTT, but none of the three QoS levels guarantees a complete historian, according to engineering guidance tied to the OASIS MQTT 5.0 standard.

QoS 1 reduces the risk of losing a message on an MQTT delivery hop. The receiving system must tolerate duplicates. QoS 0 fits replaceable readings where low overhead matters more than complete delivery. QoS 2 is reserved for flows where duplicate delivery on that hop is unacceptable and the extra protocol exchange is justified.

MQTT QoS covers one sender-receiver hop, not the whole pipeline

The OASIS MQTT 5.0 standard defines QoS for a single delivery flow. A device publishing to a broker is one flow. The broker sending to a subscribing collector is another, and it can use a different QoS depending on the original publication and the subscriber's granted maximum.

Dusseldorf – October 28, 2026 -- Deutsche Glasfaser scored 963 of 1,000 possible points in the 2026 fixed-network test by telecom magazine connect, the highest total of any national or regional provider tested in Germany.

Fourth regional title since 2022 for Deutsche Glasfaser

The result is the company's fourth regional win in the connect test, after 2022, 2024 and 2025. Deutsche Glasfaser says its rating improved on the prior year based on the base points awarded.

The network scored strongly in coverage and upload data rate. Reliability received the top grade of "outstanding" ("überragend"), the third time the company has earned that rating.

Berlin – October 28, 2026 -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) will run its SAP-RPT tabular foundation model on the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 aboard the International Space Station, an edge-compute deployment it describes as one of the most significant for any enterprise AI model to date. The announcement headlined a package of agent, data and governance upgrades unveiled at the SAP TechEd developer conference.

SAP-RPT is planned to run onboard the ISS without sending data to Earth

Developed with HPE, the deployment is designed to support anomaly triage, predict issues before failures escalate, reconstruct missing sensor values from historical data, and generate explainable mission-health reports for astronauts and ground teams. SAP said no data needs to be sent back to Earth for analysis.

Norwalk – October 28, 2026 -- Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.025 per share on its common stock, payable July 31, 2026, to shareholders of record on June 30, 2026.

Xerox board sets $20.00 quarterly dividend on Series A preferred stock

The board also declared a quarterly dividend of $20.00 per share on the outstanding Xerox Holdings Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock. It is payable July 1, 2026, to preferred shareholders of record on June 15, 2026.

Preferred holders are paid 30 days before common shareholders

The preferred payment date of July 1, 2026, falls 30 days before the common payment date of July 31, 2026. The preferred record date of June 15, 2026, precedes the common record date of June 30, 2026, by 15 days.

The two declarations cover the company's two listed equity instruments, the common stock and the Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Hyperproof is selling professional services across six areas to close the gap between buying governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software and getting teams to use it, and cites a G2 recognition for Fastest Implementation.

Customers choose between two implementation models

Under Hands-on Implementation, Hyperproof builds the platform from customer inputs and approvals. Under Guided Implementation, the customer builds and Hyperproof advises. The company says its team anticipates edge cases and designs scalable integrations.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Hyperproof says compliance teams can reach readiness in weeks on an extensible GRC platform, versus 6 to 12 months spent engineering custom AI agent pipelines in-house.

The vendor frames the choice facing CISOs and compliance leaders as "build from scratch" versus "build on top." Risk teams are increasingly assembling internal utilities with Claude, ChatGPT or custom LLMs.

In-house LLM projects stay limited to narrow productivity tasks

Internal builds offer tailored workflows, private cloud control over audit evidence and source code, and no per-seat or per-framework licensing fees. But generic LLM wrappers carry heavy engineering overhead, security risk and audit exposure, according to Hyperproof.

United States – October 28, 2026 -- Hyperproof has named Carahsoft Technology Corp. its Master Government Aggregator, making its governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform available to public sector organizations, defense industrial base (DIB) suppliers and government contractors through six procurement contract vehicles.

Carahsoft opens six contract routes to Hyperproof's GRC platform

Hyperproof will be sold through Carahsoft's reseller partners and these contracts: NASA SEWP V (NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B), NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement #AR2472, TIPS Contract #220105, OMNIA Partners Contract #R240303, E&I Contract #EI00063~2021MA and The Quilt Master Service Agreement MSA05012019-F.