IT, AI & Telecommunications

North America – October 22, 2026 -- Ideas2IT and Lyzr have agreed to jointly develop, sell and deploy enterprise agentic systems across North America, targeting the gap between AI agent pilots and reliable production deployments.

Lyzr supplies the platform while Ideas2IT owns delivery

Lyzr will provide orchestration, evaluation, governance and lifecycle management capabilities. Ideas2IT will lead solution architecture, agent development, enterprise integration, testing, deployment and ongoing optimization.

The agreement covers joint business development, solution engineering and implementation. The companies will work with enterprise CIOs to identify use cases and integrate agents into existing systems and workflows. Initial focus is industry-specific solutions for regulated enterprises, including healthcare and financial services.

Global – October 22, 2026 -- KMS Lighthouse leads a 2026 ranking of eight web-based knowledge management systems (KMS), ahead of ProProfs, KnowMax, Zendesk, Confluence, Heroic, Document360 and Helpjuice. The buyer's guide names security and data-handling compliance as the decisive selection criteria.

Cloud hosting opens KMS access to remote and field workers

A web-based KMS runs on cloud servers and is reachable from any internet connection, with no VPN tunnel into on-site servers. Management features must also sit in the cloud so managers can administer the system from anywhere. Core functions match those of an on-site KMS.

London – October 22, 2026 -- Seekr has opened its first European office in Mayfair, London, to serve UK and European demand for AI that customers can govern, audit and run under their own laws. The office builds on the company's existing UK customer base and a growing pipeline across UK defence, FTSE-listed companies and regulated industries.

Seekr hires Palantir's Naief Al-Shibli to lead UK sales

Al-Shibli joins from Palantir as VP and UK General Manager. He will lead sales and grow the UK business. David Church becomes Managing Director of UK operations. Church has more than 40 years in European investment banking and has advised on data centre transactions across Europe.

Forward-deployed engineers will work inside customers' secure environments

The London team includes forward-deployed engineers who operate inside customers' regulated, secure and sovereign environments. Partners across Europe back them.

Irvine – October 22, 2026 -- Asuri, a platform built by Sprouter Technologies, has launched a multi-agent enterprise AI system that connects specialized AI agents to more than 1,000 existing business applications, targeting companies that want persistent AI workflows rather than prompt-based copilots.

Asuri lets nontechnical teams assign agents to business processes

Users define a business process, connect the applications involved and assign specialized agents to separate responsibilities. They also set what each agent can access, recommend or execute. The platform combines multi-agent orchestration, workflow logic, persistent context and agent-level permission controls in one environment.

SAN JOSE – October 22, 2026 -- Platform9 has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private Cloud Infrastructure Software Platforms 2026-2027 Vendor Assessment (doc # US54490426, October 2026), and is pairing the placement with a 60-day production guarantee for VMware migrations.

IDC MarketScape rates vendors on current capabilities and future strategy

The assessment covers compute, storage architecture, networking options, cloud automation, security features and compliance frameworks for regulated workloads. It scores vendors on both present capabilities and forward strategy for private cloud infrastructure software.

Mission Viejo – October 22, 2026 -- TeamLogic IT named Arti Dutt of West Northridge, California, its Franchisee of the Year at the managed IT services provider's Owners Summit and Vendor Show, held October 5-8, 2026. The company recognized franchisees across six award categories at a closing ceremony.

Sold-out vendor show draws more than 70 technology companies

The exhibition featured more than 70 technology vendors, including signature sponsor Pax 8. Other exhibitors were Bitdefender, Blackpoint, Cytracom, Sophos, Kaseya, N-able, NinjaOne, Proofpoint, Rewst and Slide. TeamLogic IT operates more than 350 independently owned locations across North America.

San Francisco – October 22, 2026 -- Crest Data has added 15 commercial plugins to the Grafana Marketplace, more than doubling its portfolio to 25 as Grafana Labs moves the Marketplace to general availability at ObservabilityCON 2026.

Plugins query source systems via APIs without exporters or ingestion costs

All 25 plugins are native, agentless data source plugins that query their source systems through APIs. Crest Data states they require no exporters, no extra collection layer and no data ingestion costs. Each plugin ships with pre-built dashboards and was built in partnership with Grafana Labs.

The new plugins cover cloud security, virtualization and data protection platforms. IT, platform and security teams can monitor these systems in Grafana alongside existing telemetry rather than switching between separate vendor consoles.

SALT LAKE CITY – October 22, 2026 -- Moises, the AI creative suite used by 80 million musicians, and SoundCloud, the music platform with 40+ million artists, have launched an integration that moves tracks from SoundCloud into Moises for production and back to SoundCloud for release and monetization.

Artists can import SoundCloud tracks into Moises on mobile or web

Artists connect their SoundCloud account and bring eligible tracks directly into Moises. There they can use stem separation, chord detection and lyric detection to practice and learn. Moises Studio, its web-based audio studio, supports mixing, mastering and track reimagining through contextual stem generation. Artists can also invite producers and other artists to collaborate in real time.

WASHINGTON – October 22, 2026 -- Corsha has launched Folio, a module for its Industrial Identity Security Platform that automatically generates and updates maps and documentation of how operational technology (OT) systems are connected and communicating, replacing manual assessments that the company says take weeks.

Folio draws on live network and access data captured by Corsha Gatekeepers. It records which machines are communicating, when, why and how, and produces derived hardware lists, real-time connection maps and Microsoft Visio data flow diagrams. The outputs are designed for IEC 62443, NERC CIP and Zero Trust frameworks.

Folio targets documentation gaps that slow OT compliance and incident response

Corsha says OT documentation is often missing or has drifted too far from the running environment to be useful. Compliance artifacts built through manual assessments are frequently incomplete or inaccurate, according to the company.

Palo Alto – October 22, 2026 -- Epiphan Video has released read and write access for Epiphan MCP, its hosted Model Context Protocol server for Epiphan Edge. AV and IT teams can now direct Pearl encoders through Claude or ChatGPT, with the user approving each action before it runs.

Epiphan MCP write access covers recording, streaming, scheduling and firmware

Teams can query device status, storage, recording state and schedules in plain language, then act on the answer in the same conversation. Write access lets them start, stop, pause and resume recording on one channel or many. They can also create stream destinations and start or stop streaming.

Scheduled events in Epiphan CMS can be created, extended, paused and resumed. A saved configuration preset can be applied to a group of devices, and devices can be rebooted or have firmware updated.