There is always an abundance of AI technology announcements, here are some interesting ones that can aid the channel.
-MinIO is rolling out the MinIO Academy, a centralised education hub to provide the skills and training needed to master its MinIO AIStor object store, used for generative and agentic AI workloads.
As data storage demands for AI reach unprecedented scale, object storage is emerging as a de facto standard in enabling enterprise organisations to build AI-powered applications. An object store underpins all of the major Large Language Models, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Google's Gemini.
With AI adoption proliferating across the enterprise, the demand for skilled professionals who can effectively manage object storage technology is increasing exponentially, creating a growing skill gap opportunity for organisations.
The MinIO Academy aims to address this challenge by providing specialised training and educational content tailored to administrators, developers, and data engineers working with petabyte and even exabyte namespaces.
-Oracle and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to offer customers access to Google’s most advanced AI models, starting with Gemini 2.5, via the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service.
Oracle customers can now utilise the latest Gemini models to build AI agents for a wide range of use cases including multimodal understanding, advanced coding and software development tasks, productivity and workflow automation, and research and knowledge retrieval.
Oracle plans to make Google’s entire range of Gemini models available via the OCI Generative AI service through new integrations with Vertex AI, including “cutting edge” models for video, image, speech, and music generation, and specialised industry models like MedLM.
“In the future”, Oracle says it will collaborate with Google Cloud to make Gemini models via Vertex AI available as an option within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, providing customers with a broader choice to enhance workflows in finance, HR, supply chain, sales, service, and marketing.
-Enterprise software runs on APIs but connecting those APIs remains frustratingly manual. Every new workflow, system upgrade, or edge case spawns new tickets. Refold AI, a new startup “rethinking” integrations from the agent up, has come out of stealth with $6.5m in funding and a platform that replaces outsourced service work with AI-native infrastructure.
The round in seed funding was led by Eniac Ventures, Tidal Ventures with participation from Better Capital, Ahead VC, Karman Ventures, Z21, and notable angels.
The company will use the new capital to expand its engineering team, deepen product integrations, and support its growing enterprise customer base.
Refold AI was founded by the team behind JustDoc (acquired by Reliance), who experienced problems first hand inside massive SAP environments, where a single field change triggered days of downtime and six-figure escalations.
“We were spending more time managing chaos than building software,” said Jugal Anchalia, Refold’s co-founder and CEO. “We started Refold with a simple idea: integrations are repeatable and cumbersome, it should not need humans.”
The company currently works with over 30 paying enterprise customers, including Incorta and Naehas, and has grown 2x in two months, supporting more than 1,500 active users, and processing 30+ million API calls per month, with ARR “already in the seven figures”.
-Oracle NetSuite has launched its AI Connector Service, a protocol-driven integration service supporting Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is emerging as a critical standard for structured communication between large language model (LLM)-powered agents and other systems.
The technology is marketed as a “foundational step” in making NetSuite the “most intelligent, extensible, and AI-ready ERP system”. The AI Connector Service gives customers a “secure, flexible, and scalable way” to connect their own AI to NetSuite.
It enables developers to define exactly what their AI system can see and do, with full permissions and role-based access, and supports multiple assistants and agent platforms in a standards-based way, allowing for a “bring your own AI” model, said the supplier.
-Rubrik has unveiled Agent Rewind, following the close of Rubrik's acquisition of Predibase. Agent Rewind, powered by Predibase AI infrastructure, will enable organisations to undo mistakes made by agentic AI, by providing visibility into agents' actions and enabling enterprises to rewind those changes to applications and data.
Agent Rewind makes previously opaque AI actions visible, auditable, and reversible, creating an audit trail and immutable snapshots that facilitate safe rollback. Current observability tools usually show only what happened, but not why, or how to reverse high-risk actions.
"As AI agents gain autonomy and optimise for outcomes, unintended errors can lead to business downtime," said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer at Rubrik. "Agent Rewind integrates Predibase's advanced AI infrastructure with Rubrik's recovery capabilities to enable enterprises to embrace agentic AI confidently. Today's organisations will now have a clear process to trace, audit, and safely rewind undesired AI actions."
-Xerox has announced the EveryDoc IDP App, a solution built on its Intelligent Document Processing platform. Supported by advanced AI models, the app automates data extraction and verification, streamlining document workflows and enabling faster decision making.
Designed for both large enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses, the app “minimises” manual document processing and streamlines operations by enabling “faster, smarter decision-making without the need for a major IT overhaul”, said the provider.
Xerox EveryDoc IDP App enables multi-channel document ingestion and “smooth” integration with business applications. It enhances the process of identifying and extracting key fields from contracts, invoices, identity documents, legal documents, transcripts, and other business-critical documents across industries.
-F5 has expanded its partnership with Equinix to simplify the deployment and security of modern, distributed applications and AI workloads across hybrid multi-cloud environments. The broadened solution brings together the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with Equinix’s Network Edge and Equinix Fabric.
As large enterprises face pressure to quickly deploy and secure applications, Equinix and F5 say they are offering a streamlined way to deliver high-performance applications securely across locations while reducing infrastructure costs and management overhead.
The solution helps joint customers tackle challenges like operational complexity, rising costs, cyber-risk, and regulatory compliance in hybrid multi-cloud environments.
F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge, which is a critical component of the F5 ADSP, is now available as a virtual network function (VNF) on Equinix Network Edge, enabling “near-instant provisioning” of F5’s app delivery and security services across Equinix’s global footprint.
By leveraging Equinix’s extensive global data centre infrastructure and interconnection, businesses can “dynamically adapt” to changing demands while maintaining seamless connectivity. This includes support for low-latency, high-performance environments for AI inference and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), while also addressing regulatory requirements for data sovereignty and privacy.
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