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The next phase of banking transformation will depend on how well its parts work together. Digital channels, payments, data, risk and core systems all contribute to the same customer experience. For financial institutions, connecting them effectively is a question of business performance, operational resilience and growth. That challenge provides the backdrop to FINNOVEX Middle East 2026 — Chapter 39, taking place in Dubai on 10–11 November 2026.

At the IT Press Tour in Palo Alto, the Stanford-born startup, Clockwork, showed what happens when you pull the network cable and the power cord out of a live AI training job. The job kept going. Suresh Vasudevan has been here before. Years ago, as CEO of Nimble Storage, he launched his company at an IT Press Tour event.

AI-driven development is helping engineering teams ship code faster than ever, but that speed comes with a catch. According to New Relic’s 2026 AI coding report, 94% of respondents rate AI-generated code as higher quality, yet 78% still report more incidents once it ships. The challenge isn’t the code itself; it’s shipping faster than teams can validate it.

By Gary Tousseau, Vice President, Managed Services & Technology, TeamLogic, LLC Small and midsize businesses carry a significant cybersecurity burden that often goes unrecognized. And they’re more vulnerable because SMBs typically don’t have the cybersecurity teams in place or outsourced that the big players do. Attackers don’t particularly care about a company’s headcount.

During the 70th Edition of the IT Press Tour in Palo Alto, Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen and Chief Product Officer Vasu Murthy explained why the company that holds the world’s backup data has provided its source code to some of the top AI models around, and what it plans to do about the thousands of agents about to land on every enterprise network. Sanjay Poonen is great at breaking things down into clear and understandable numbers.

GitLab Inc., the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, today announced new capabilities for the governed software factory, a connected system for moving software from idea to production under an organization’s own policy and standards. These new innovations are designed to help organizations ship more AI-generated software to production without taking on more risk or cost. More than 70 million developers and over 10,000 enterprises innovate on GitLab today.

Nasuni announced the general availability of AI Activate and Resilio 6.0, with Enterprise Search rolling out to customers later this quarter. Combined with the recent acquisition of DryvIQ, these capabilities bring content intelligence, automated governance, high-performance file access and search, and governed AI activation together in the Nasuni File Data Platform.

CTERA announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering, a new service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to operationalize specific AI use cases in production on the organization’s own unstructured data. Each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, works against real enterprise file data, and is designed to leave the customer’s team able to run and extend what was built. Most enterprises now have access to capable AI models and tools.

Cerabyte, Inc. announced its participation in the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, October 12–15 in San Jose, California, where it will demonstrate a digitally restored copy of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis preserved on Cerabyte ceramic data storage. Nearly a century ago, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis imagined a future shaped by robots, synthetic identities and mass manipulation influencing generations of science fiction, from Star Wars and Blade Runner to The Matrix.

Riverbed announced the results of the Riverbed Global Survey on ‘The State of Autonomous IT Operations’, which reveals that 90% of organizations want to use agentic AI to drive autonomous IT operations. However, while 76% say that agentic AI is central to their future IT strategy, and 91% agree that AI investments have met or exceeded their expectations, 77% state that their organization is hesitant to allow AI to make operational decisions without human approval.