Technology Decisions

CrowdStrike has joined two identity and access management industry associations as part of efforts to accelerate the shift to risk-aware identity security industry-wide. The company has joined the OpenID Foundation at the highest level, as a Sustaining Corporate Member, as well as IDPro, the association for identity and access management professionals.

The wide majority of banking leaders see AI as the largest threat facing the industry, and are concerned about the ability to distinguish legitimate and non-legitimate agentic activity at machine speed, research suggests.

Megaport has signed a deal with VAST Data to advance its automated infrastructure platform as the company expands into compute and AI infrastructure services. Under the agreement, Megaport will use the VAST AI Operating System to enable enterprises to run compute and GPU services across multiple environments, including on-premise, in the cloud and at the network edge.

In this emerging ecosystem, AI systems are no longer limited to responding to prompts or offering recommendations. Instead, they are increasingly capable of monitoring environments, applying policy constraints and executing actions autonomously. This transition marks the rise of agentic AI, a model that is fundamentally reshaping how enterprise technology functions across infrastructure, security and data management. The significance of this shift lies in its departure from incremental improvement.

Artificial intelligence is changing the IT landscape in radical, unprecedented ways. It’s rewriting the rules of code generation, automating customer service and providing data insights that used to be impossible to extract. For IT leaders across Australian organisations, AI represents a massive shift in infrastructure requirements. It’s a tool that needs to be used strategically, and that strategy starts at the hardware and virtualisation layer.

Enterprise AI software company Pegasystems is seeking to shake up the AI sector by introducing an AI solution that enables customers to pay for outcomes rather than paying per token. The Pega Infinity 26 platform will provide users with predictable costs, with charges per completed task rather than per seat or per token.

The company arranged to acquire Portkey in May as part of efforts to establish a mission-critical control plane for autonomous AI agents in the enterprise. Palo Alto now plans to establish Portkey as the core AI gateway for AI security platform Prisma ARIS, and in doing so develop a solution that natively integrates AI runtime security, agentic identity security and AI observability into a single platform.

IT services and consulting company DXC Technology has launched a cloud-native revenue orchestration platform for financial institutions. DXC CoreIgnite aims to provide customers with a single connection point to fintech ecosystems, while enabling them to orchestrate financial workflows and explore new revenue opportunities. The solution can operate across both DXC’s Hogan core banking platform and third-party environments.

NetApp has announced an expanded collaboration with Cisco to offer solutions designed to simplify and secure enterprise AI deployments. The companies are expanding their joint FlexPod converged data infrastructure and storage portfolio with solutions that support use cases including the deployment of high-performance infrastructure for AI use cases such as semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation.

AI-powered data security company Cohesity has been granted a US patent for the technology behind its Gaia generative AI platform for enterprise data. The patent covers Cohesity’s ability to allow enterprises’ secondary data to be securely searchable and usable as a governed knowledge source for generative AI applications. It specifically covers Cohesity’s method of combining secondary data systems with a retrieval-augmented generation semantic layer.