May, 2026 : Infoblox Adds External Threat Detection with Axur Buy
📅 - Infoblox has completed its acquisition of Brazilian cyber firm Axur, adding external threat discovery and digital risk protection capabilities as enterprises struggle to monitor phishing, impersonation, and credential leaks spreading across social platforms, fake mobile apps, and dark web marketplaces. The networking and DNS security vendor says the deal broadens its reach beyond traditional enterprise perimeters globally.
For years, Infoblox built much of its security positioning around DNS visibility. That gave the company a strong foothold inside enterprise networks, particularly in hybrid and multi-cloud environments where tracking suspicious traffic at the DNS layer became [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Netskope Introduces AI Layer for Security Operations - A surge in enterprise AI adoption is colliding with an old problem inside security operations centers (SOCs): there are too many alerts, too many tools, and not enough people. Netskope thinks autonomous AI agents can absorb part of that pressure. The company on Tuesday introduced AgentSkope, a new architectural layer inside its Netskope One platform aimed at automating security and networking workflows at enterprise scale.
The timing is not accidental. Security operations teams have spent years accumulating tooling designed to reduce risk, yet many now operate in permanent overload. Netskope cites internal figures showing 40% of alerts receive no investigation at all because teams simply [...]
📅 - Broadcom Unveils VMware VCF 9.1 For Enterprise AI Stack - Broadcom has rolled out VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, positioning the platform as a private cloud backbone for production AI workloads as enterprises reconsider where inference and agentic systems should actually run. The release leans heavily on cost control, security, and hardware flexibility at a time when public cloud economics for AI are under increasing scrutiny globally.
The timing is not accidental. Enterprises are still experimenting with AI, but the conversation has shifted. It is no longer about access to models. It is about running them repeatedly, reliably, and without budgets spiraling. That changes where infrastructure decisions land.
Broadcom is making a clear argument [...]
📅 - Quantum Machines Expands Platform with QHarbor Acquisition - Quantum Machines has acquired Dutch startup QHarbor and opened a new office in Delft, tightening its grip on Europe's quantum software layer while expanding its local engineering footprint. The deal brings a TU Delft spin-off into Quantum Machines' orbit as the company works to refine how quantum systems are controlled, integrated, and scaled across different hardware approaches.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move lands in a market that still hasn't decided what "scaling quantum" actually means in practice.
Quantum Machines has been building its position around orchestration - not the qubits themselves, but everything that connects, controls, and stabilizes [...]
📅 - Lumen Acquires Alkira for Cloud Connectivity Control Plane - Lumen is buying cloud networking company Alkira for $475 million, adding a software control layer designed to orchestrate enterprise connectivity across clouds, carriers, and data centers. The acquisition reflects a broader shift happening across enterprise infrastructure as AI workloads strain traditional networking models and force telecom operators to rethink how networks are built, provisioned, managed, and monetized globally today.
For years, telecom infrastructure operated largely out of sight. Fiber networks expanded, cloud traffic exploded, and enterprises stitched together increasingly fragmented architectures across hyperscalers, branch offices, SaaS providers, and private [...]
📅 - Applied Digital Spins Out AI Cloud Unit As ChronoScale - Applied Digital has completed the separation of its cloud computing business into a newly renamed public company called ChronoScale, creating a standalone AI infrastructure platform focused on GPU-heavy workloads. The transaction closes at a moment when demand for AI compute capacity continues outpacing supply, forcing infrastructure providers to rethink how they finance, structure, and scale increasingly expensive operations worldwide today.
The deal itself is unusually layered. Applied Digital contributed its cloud business into EKSO Bionics, a company previously known for robotic exoskeleton technologies. EKSO then rebranded as ChronoScale and began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market [...]
📅 - Altara Raises $7M for AI-Driven R&D Intelligence Platform - Altara has raised $7 million in seed funding to build AI agents for scientific and industrial research, targeting sectors where experimental data still lives across disconnected spreadsheets, instruments, and legacy systems. The startup, backed by Greylock and investors linked to OpenAI and AMD, wants manufacturers and materials companies analyzing failures manually to move faster under competitive pressure.
The company is entering a market that Silicon Valley has talked about for years but struggled to operationalize properly: applying AI to the physical sciences rather than purely digital workflows.
Writing software code is one thing. Interpreting semiconductor wafer maps, sensor [...]
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