Palo Alto Networks has exceeded a $10 billion annual revenue run rate, posting FY25 Q4 revenues of $2.54 billion, up 16% year-on-year.
The results were said to be driven by “accelerated demand” for integrated security platforms, as enterprises tackle the challenge of AI-powered cyber threats.
Company CEO Nikesh Arora said AI-powered attacks now complete in just 25 minutes, making enterprises rethink about deploying fragmented security solutions. Company research found that GenAI traffic amongst customers had surged 890% in 2024, with related data security incidents more than doubling.
The challenge drove Q4 bookings growth to its highest level in 2.5 years. All sales regions posted double-digit growth, with EMEA up 19%, the Americas up 15%, and APAC rising 13%.
-Databricks has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to “close soon” with backing from existing investors. The new funding values the company at over $100 billion.
The company expects to use the new capital to “accelerate” its AI strategy - expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new database offering Lakebase, and fuelling global growth.
Agent Bricks builds “high-quality” production AI agents optimised on enterprise data, and Lakebase is an operational database (OLTP) built on open source Postgres, and optimised for AI Agents.
The investment is also expected to support future AI acquisitions and deepen AI research.
-Salesforce is acquiring Regrello, an AI-native process automation specialist, that will strengthen Salesforce’s agentic AI capabilities. Regrello adds process orchestration capabilities and specialises in turning unstructured business data into coordinated workflows.
The deal will see Regrello's technology integrated with Agentforce and Slack, to turn manual business processes into automated, agentic workflows.
Whilst Agentforce has been positioned as Salesforce's flagship AI agent platform, Regrello's workflow automation should enable more sophisticated orchestration between human workers and AI agents.
-IFS has acquired 7bridges, an AI-powered supply chain management solution provider. The move strengthens IFS’s position as an industrial AI leader by expanding its capabilities in logistics and transportation optimisation.
7bridges streamlines supply chains using advanced AI simulation and analytics to automate and optimise logistics networks. It has been purpose-built for industrial use cases, combining “rapid”, “low-cost” data capture, a “high-quality” semantic data layer, and “powerful” AI to solve complex supply chain optimisation challenges.
IFS sees a “significant opportunity” to scale 7bridges’ capabilities into the asset and service-centric industries it serves, with strong demand coming from the manufacturing and aerospace and defence sectors.
-Data management and protection player HYCU has announced the general availability of HYCU R-Cloud for iManage Cloud, to empower legal, accounting, and professional services firms to protect critical knowledge work with automated, customer-controlled backups.
Built exclusively for iManage Cloud and delivered through HYCU’s R-Cloud platform, the integration allows organisations to store immutable backup copies of their iManage data in their own storage environments, whether for compliance, governance, or peace of mind.
This allows customers the ability to recover anything from a single document to an entire library in “just one click”, including metadata and permissions, all from a unified interface with “no scripting or manual exports required”.
“As organisations become more reliant on cloud applications like iManage, the need for tailored, resilient data protection has never been more urgent,” said Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU. “HYCU R-Cloud for iManage Cloud is purpose-built to solve this challenge. We’re giving customers complete control over their data, with the flexibility to meet evolving security, governance, and recovery needs, without complexity.”
-ArmorPoint and Computer Integration Technologies (CIT), a technology solutions provider specialising in managed IT services, cloud solutions, and cybersecurity, have sealed a new strategic partnership.
For over 30 years, CIT has supported organisations with a reliable suite of managed IT and SOC-as-a-service solutions. As cyber attacks continue to grow rapidly in sophistication and quantity, however, businesses need access to a higher level of protection in order to stay ahead of these evolving risks.
By tapping into ArmorPoint’s portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and program management expertise, CIT will “enhance and scale” its existing security offerings, said the pair, providing businesses with “stronger protection”.
-8x8 has welcomed MNET to the SellWith8 tier of the 8x8 Technology Partner Ecosystem. The partnership brings MNET’s CoreAccess+ middleware to the 8x8 Platform for CX, including 8x8 Contact Center and 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, among others, enabling “secure, real-time access” to core financial systems such as Jack Henry, Fiserv and Corelation.
The partnership enables 8x8 and MNET to better serve joint customers in regulated verticals, including banking and credit unions, with purpose-built solutions that reduce complexity and improve CX across channels.
The result: “faster authentication, smarter self-service, and seamless hand-offs between bots and agents”, all while maintaining “strict” security and compliance standards, the partners said.
-LambdaTest, the AI-native testing platform, has launched the private beta release of its Agent-to-Agent Testing, a platform designed to validate and assess AI agents.
With the rise of AI agents in developer workflows, the platform is set to “revolutionise” the way organisations test and validate their AI agents across conversation flows, intent recognition, tone consistency, complex reasoning, and beyond.
As enterprises increasingly rely on AI agents to power customer experiences, a critical challenge has emerged: no standard way of testing various AI Agents. These agents interact with users and systems in ways that are dynamic and unpredictable, making it hard to ensure their reliability and performance.
Organisations need a new, smarter way to test AI applications at scale, which is where Agent-to-Agent Testing comes in. The platform uses a suite of specialised AI testing agents to “rigorously validate” chat and voice AI agents.
Teams can upload existing requirement documents in various formats, such as text, images, audio, and video, and the system automatically handles multi-modal analysis to generate relevant test scenarios, simulating real-world challenges that could break the AI agent under test.
Each scenario includes precise validation criteria and expected responses, evaluated within HyperExecute, LambdaTest’s next-gen test orchestration cloud, delivering “up to 70% faster” test execution than standard automation grids.
The platform highlights different key metrics like bias, completeness, and hallucinations, for instance, to help teams analyse the quality of their AI agent.
-Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced security firm, has announced a strategic collaboration with Pretera, an offensive security firm based in Brussels. As Bugcrowd’s first partner in the Benelux region, Pretera will play a “key role” in bringing scalable, continuous security testing solutions to high-stakes sectors across Europe.
Pretera is known for its manual-first red teaming, penetration testing, and adversary simulation services. The company specialises in helping financial institutions, healthcare providers, critical infrastructure operators, and governments uncover sophisticated vulnerabilities through real-world attack simulation. Pretera has operations across EMEA.
Pretera will now offer enterprise clients access to managed bug bounty engagements and vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs), enabled by Bugcrowd’s AI-powered platform, with access to a global network of trusted ethical hackers and “rigorous triage methodology”.
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