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Intellyx BrainSausages -- July 1, 2025 | |
Summer briefing season has produced an excellent variety of vendor Brain Candy beyond just AI, mixed into many unique links of little summer BrainSausages -- each one leading to data optimization, networking, identity, security, supply chain, and other things. Just don't ask us how they're made. Want to appear in an upcoming #BrainCandy brief with Intellyx B.V., or invite us to your upcoming (virtual) event? Email us at pr@intellyx.com. | |
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Aduna is a collective of twelve global telcos plus leading telco technology and services provider Ericsson focused on establishing the industry standard CAMARA APIs across the global telco landscape.
Every telco – especially the incumbents with the burden of legacy technologies – offers proprietary, complex interfaces that foster carrier lock-in within their respective markets ... [Read more] | |
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By now, we can see that securing applications with perimeter based defense mechanisms is not always sufficient protection against cyber attacks. Firewalls, web application firewalls, encryption, and threat detection systems are necessary, but not always sufficient.
Attackers often bypass these defenses, for example by obtaining user IDs and passwords with phishing and social engineering … [Read more] | |
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Continuent’s Tungsten Cluster runs highly available and reliable MySQL and MariaDB databases in a data center, cloud, or hybrid cloud infrastructure, supporting demanding enterprise workloads.
Continuent designs and configures MySQL and MariaDB database clusters for global operations, multi-site replication for disaster recovery, continuous uptime, and high performance for large volumes of data. They offer 24x7x365 support services ... [Read more] | |
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Security solutions for mobile devices running the Android and iOS operating systems tend to apply protection at the application level.
Corrata on the other hand detects and responds to mobile device threats at the network level, using what you might call a mini web application firewall.
Corrata compares what they are doing to “Crowdstrike for mobile.” They install an agent on the mobile device and provide a management console and dashboard ... [Read more] | |
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Crow Canyon Software offers a low-code platform that enables business users to build applications on top of the Microsoft 365 platform, including the Office applications as well as Teams and SharePoint.
The company also offers pre-built applications on the Microsoft platform, including help desk apps for both HR and IT, purchasing … [Read More] | |
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Hypermode offers a platform for building and deploying conversational AI agents via an approach that is itself conversational and iterative. Subject matter experts (SMEs) within the organization can thus construct, deploy, and improve agents via text prompts, both for themselves and their colleagues to use.
Hypermode also supports the platform engineering teams who run deployed agents. The platform can export agents as code for engineers to harden, connect to existing IT support technologies including management and observability tools, and deploy upon existing IT infrastructure leveraging WebAssembly, either on-premises or in the cloud ... [Read more] | |
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When we first covered Gremlin in 2017, as Jason Bloomberg noted, IT managers were wary of introducing “chaos” in production code to improve reliability.
During the past eight years, however, Gremlin has been raising the focus level of their platform from “chaos” to the broader concept of “reliability management,” as reflected in our coverage in 2023 ... [Read more] | |
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GreySkies leverages AI to power its service assurance platform that unifies monitoring, analytics, and automation to optimize telco and enterprise operations.
GreySkies leverages machine learning (ML) for AIOps, including real-time anomaly detection, correlations, and root-cause determination. ML also supports GreySkies’ complex analytics ... [Read more] | |
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When we last covered GridGain in February 2024, the company offered a real-time data platform that combined in-memory data storage and distributed compute; processing of data at rest and in motion across silos; and configurable ACID support, facilitating both low-latency data movement as well as system-of-record durability.
In addition to the continued maturation and hardening of this platform, GridGain has recently added extensive support for both generative AI (genAI) and predictive AI ... [Read more] | |
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Infinidat offers a software-based primary storage, data protection and backup architecture that works atop advanced and legacy infrastructures while accepting incoming telemetry and alerts from many large enterprise application platforms and being used by service providers to provide data security, orchestration and fast recovery capabilities.
Most enterprises are concerned with the performance-to-cost ratio of hybrid storage, but they don’t prioritize data protection and backup until they go through their first major recovery crisis such as a ransomware attack. Infinidat takes rapid immutable snapshots of massive data volumes, flash drives, databases, and file systems, and can ‘unflood the zone’ ... [Read more] | |
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Infiterra offers a subscription commerce platform for telcos, IT distributors, MSPs, and other channel partners to provide subscription-based technology services to end-customers.
The Infiterra platform supports product catalogs, service bundling, provisioning, and billing automation. Customers can also run promotions on Infiterra ... [Read more] | |
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LotusFlare offers a customer experience-focused business support system (BSS) that is both cloud and AI-native, serving as a commerce and monetization platform for communications service providers and other digital network operators (DNOs).
Today’s DNOs consist of both mobile communications and media services providers who leverage the cloud and AI to deliver a range of modern services ... [Read more] | |
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NetBrain helps customers prevent network outages and incidents, helps them recover from incidents and outages, and guards against recurrence through visibility and automation.
They recently added AI powered remediation and continuous automatic network assessment.
When you install NetBrain, it runs a discovery protocol against your network and builds a “digital twin” model of the network ... [Read more] | |
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Innovation works best when it increases abstraction and reduces complexity. Nextdata, founded by Zhamak Dehghani, creator of the data mesh concept, does both with its innovative Nextdata OS solution for building autonomous data products.
Centralized data management creates complexity and challenges for analytics, reporting, business intelligence, and gen AI model training ... [Read more] | |
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OPT/NET offers a patented ‘generic’ AI approach that uncovers patterns in both structured and unstructured time-series data without the need for data labeling or access to training data.
OPT/NET works with all data types, making it especially useful for AIOps, as it can uncover unknown and previously unrecognized anomalies in all types of time-series data ... [Read more] | |
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Radiant Logic unifies, sanitizes and enriches human and non-human identity data across multiple IAM, governance, authorization and control silos in order to identify risks and remediate weaknesses in an enterprise’s zero-trust security posture.
Since our previous coverage of Radiant Logic in 2022, the vendor has built atop their foundational data rationalization fabric and protocols with a robust identity posture observability platform, as well as deep analytics ... [Read more] | |
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Scytale organizes and manages your governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) information in a comprehensive platform.
The platform generates compliance reports and answers security questionnaires, and allows you to grant online access to your compliance information ... [Read more] | |
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Business support systems (BSS) are customer-facing telco platforms that traditionally comprise product management, order management, revenue management, and customer management.
Existing telcos struggle with a mishmash of different, often proprietary BSS platforms, limiting their ability to innovate and meet changing customer demands ... [Read more] | |
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Tradeverifyd offers an AI-driven data analysis platform for measuring and predicting supplier reliability and risk in order to assure availability, quality, regulatory compliance and ethical behavior within global supply chains.
While this kind of analysis used to be largely conducted by government entities, major brands are increasingly taking responsibility for more aspects of their own supplier networks, in order to avoid irregularities and supply chain shocks as deep as six hops back from finished goods ... [Read more] | |
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When we last spoke to triPica in June 2024, the vendor discussed its cloud native, SaaS-based platform that integrated all business support services (BSS) functions into a single, coherent API-based integration touchpoint with mobile service operators and utilities.
While triPica has traditionally served both the telco and utilities industries, it is experiencing increased interest from the utilities sector ... [Read more] | |
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VergeIO offers virtualized compute (VMs), virtualized network (SDN), and virtualized storage (vSAN) via a single codebase that incorporates all infrastructure virtualization into its hypervisor.
The VergeIO platform installs on bare metal and can run on any hardware – in data centers, in the cloud, or on edge servers. It can run on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), or if customers prefer, dedicated separate compute and storage nodes ... [Read more] | |
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When we last covered VIAVI in April 2024, the company’s focus was leveraging its deep network visibility capabilities to provide threat exposure management.
At this year’s TM Forum DTW Ignite conference, the company featured its ability to smooth network utilization for telcos by differentiating between peek and average loads, moving workloads as needed, and offering dynamic ‘spot’ pricing for network capacity ... [Read more] | |
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Volt Active Data offers a real-time data processing platform with the performance and scalability that even the largest telco carriers require. The platform supports real-time data performance for real-time decision making at scale.
In addition to telcos, Volt serves other real-time data-intensive industries like banking and financial services, the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and online gaming ... [Read more] | |
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Wavelo offers an event-driven platform for Internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that streamlines and automates customer onboarding, billing, provisioning, and field service processes.
Wavelo’s most important differentiator is its event-driven architecture, which enables it to handle massive numbers of data streams in real-time ... [Read more] | |
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Upcoming Events & Webinars | |
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Where visionaries and AI convergeRAISE Summit is the premier event for professionals seeking to disrupt, build, and connect in the AI landscape.
This summit is the ultimate destination to validate AI strategies through real-world use cases, define a winning AI playbook, and find the right partners to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
Jason Bloomberg will be attending in person and meeting with vendors. Email him to set up a meeting ... [Register for the event here] | |
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Join Jason Bloomberg, Founder and Managing Director of Enterprise IT Industry analyst firm Intellyx as he discusses the challenges faced in maintaining real-time mainframe performance and the role CICS observability plays in supporting teams to optimize performance, analyze operations, and lower MTTR to minimize customer disruption.
Alongside Jason will be product and technology experts from Rocket Software providing real customer perspectives on challenges faced and solutions that work ... [Register for the webinar here] | |
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The Crossroads of Code, Community, and Corporate Open SourceOpen Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Jason Bloomberg will be attending in person and meeting with vendors. Email him to schedule a meeting ... [Register for the event here] | |
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IBC2025 September 12-15, 2025 RAI Amsterdam | | | |
Join global leaders for a three-day programme packed with inspiration, innovation, and insight. From transformative tech and shifting business models to the people shaping tomorrow’s media landscape, the IBC Conference delivers big ideas and bold thinking.
Gain exclusive access to keynotes, panels, and cutting-edge research. Network with industry decision-makers at curated events and connect in our dedicated Delegate Lounge. Whether you’re exploring AI, immersive content, or next-gen workflows, this is where the future unfolds.
Jason Bloomberg will be attending and meeting with vendors. Email him to set up a meeting ... [Register for the event here] | |
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TechEx Europe unites five leading enterprise technology events — AI & Big Data, Cyber Security, Data Centres, Digital Transformation and IoT — into one powerful experience designed for organisations driving change.
From scaling infrastructure to unlocking new efficiencies, this is where decision-makers and their teams come to connect, explore real-world use cases, and discover the technologies that will shape their next phase of growth.
Jason Bloomberg will be attending and meeting with vendors. Please email him to set up a meeting at the conference ... [Register for the event here] | |
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Intellyx is the first analyst and advisory firm focused on digital transformation for the enterprise. We help business executives and IT professionals connect the dots between disruptive new technologies and the challenges of implementing them with agility at scale to meet rapidly changing customer demands. | |
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