Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company that helps organizations thrive in a digital and AI-powered future, today announced that its 9Z Globant esports organization has been selected as an Official Partner of the Esports Foundation, one of only 40 organizations worldwide to earn this distinction. Beyond the partnership recognition, 9Z Globant has earned its place on the competitive stage through sport merit alone, qualifying for the Esports World Cup 2026, the most prestigious event in global competitive gaming, hosted in Paris.

Founded in Argentina in 2018, 9Z Globant has rapidly grown into a globally recognized brand in esports, combining elite competitive performance, content creation, and a deep-rooted connection with the next generation of fans.

“Saudi Arabia’s investment in esports has created a platform for organizations like 9Z Globant to compete and grow on the world stage. Esports is no longer a niche, it’s a multi-billion dollar industry that moves culture, drives engagement, and builds communities at a scale few sectors can match. Being part of its growth in the Kingdom, alongside an organization that has earned its place on the global stage, is exactly the kind of opportunity that defines what Globant is here to do,” said Federico Pienovi, CEO of MENA & APAC at Globant.

The Esports Foundation Partner Program represents the highest tier of recognition in global competitive gaming, a rigorously curated cohort of organizations proven to shape the industry’s future at scale. While partnership status does not guarantee competition, each of the 25 titles featured at the Esports World Cup demands qualification through its own dedicated competitive circuit, a standard rooted in the Foundation’s guiding principle: Rise Above. 9Z Globant has risen to that challenge: the team has already secured its place on the Paris stage across three premier disciplines: EA SPORTS FC, Overwatch, and Counter-Strike 2. 9Z Globant’s qualification across multiple titles signals the kind of multi-dimensional, high-performance organization that the Esports Foundation was built to elevate.

“Saudi Arabia has established itself as one of the world’s leading hubs for the future of esports. Seeing 9Z Globant join the Esports Foundation ecosystem is a recognition of everything the organization has built over the past few years. At Globant, we’re proud to support that journey and help create new opportunities for players, creators, and fans as competitive gaming continues to grow on a global scale,” said Kevin Janzen, CEO of Gaming & Education AI Studio at Globant.

The Esports World Cup 2026 will bring together the best teams across multiple titles, in front of massive global audiences. “This is bigger than one team, and bigger than one country. 9Z Globant represents a generation of Latin American players, creators, and fans who always knew this moment would come. We have the talent, the hunger, and now the stage to prove it to the world. Competing at the Esports World Cup is the realization of something an entire continent has been building toward,  and we are just getting started,” said Francisco Postiglione, Founder & CEO of 9Z Globant.

Beyond the Esports World Cup, 9Z Globant has cemented its place among global elite competitors. The team recently secured qualification for the Counter-Strike Major,  the most prestigious tournament in one of the world’s most-watched esports titles, making it the only Argentine team to achieve this milestone.

Saudi Arabia has positioned itself as a driving force in global esports, with visionary investment and an extraordinary commitment to elevating competitive gaming worldwide. 9Z Globant’s partnership with the Esports Foundation is a natural convergence: two rising forces in the global gaming world, united by a shared ambition to push boundaries. Looking ahead, 9Z Globant is committed to going beyond competition, actively exploring opportunities through the Foundation’s global network to identify and develop emerging talent, fostering the next generation of players who can compete on the world’s biggest esports stages.

NETSCOUT® (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, today announced continued investments in infrastructure and technology to double its Arbor® Cloud DDoS attack mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps, which is aimed at keeping critical digital services available during DDoS attacks, protecting revenue-generating digital operations, supporting always-on AI-driven businesses, and maintaining customer trust.

This capacity enhancement, coupled with NETSCOUT’s recent acquisition of DDoS network and infrastructure, reinforces the company’s commitment to delivering industry-leading cloud-based DDoS defense at global scale. By fully owning and securing end-to-end control over the platform, NETSCOUT has a clear path to scale innovative, resilient services for customers worldwide. Unlike cloud mitigation services that merely add bandwidth, Arbor Cloud combines global mitigation capacity with global threat intelligence, drawing on NETSCOUT’s unparalleled visibility into real-world internet attack activity. Spanning 16 global scrubbing centers, this significant increase in capacity equips customers with the ability to defend against the growing scale, frequency, and sophistication of DDoS attacks by consistently balancing mitigation capacity across all attack vectors in their environments.

According to Markets and Markets, the DDoS protection market size is expected to continue to grow, driven by increasingly sophisticated attacks and accelerated cloud adoption. Today, multi-vector attacks are the norm. Bad actors are launching more simultaneous attacks as well as quick hit and run attacks, forcing shorter response times from defenders. In addition, mega-botnets like Aisuru and Kimwolf have raised the ceiling on attack sizes with a few attacks approaching or exceeding 30 Tbps. Enterprises and service providers have a compelling need right now to improve the protection levels of their critical digital infrastructure.

“With the increased use of AI, threat actors are targeting organizations whose defenses are vulnerable to the new, more complex DDoS attacks designed to take down critical infrastructure,” stated Carlos Morales, SVP and general manager, Arbor Cloud, NETSCOUT. “As enterprises increasingly rely on AI-powered applications and cloud-native services, while at the same time, attack size and complexity continue to rise, implementing automated and proactive defenses for uninterrupted availability has become a business risk imperative. Arbor Cloud plays a key role in achieving that objective.”

Increasing Arbor Cloud capacity provides significant advantages, including:

• Greater intelligent mitigation capacity – absorbs and blocks larger volumetric and more sophisticated attacks without losing effectiveness.
• Multiple threat mitigation – handles multiple concurrent targets (e.g., from carpet bombing attacks) or multiple attack vectors simultaneously.
• Consistent operational performance – protects critical infrastructure, ensuring capacity does not become a constraint as attack size and frequency increase.
• Faster stabilization post spikes – acts as a shield wall preventing attacks from reaching customer infrastructure and creating collateral damage that lasts well beyond when the actual attack subsides.
• Operational confidence – provides added assurance for mission-critical sectors, like financial services, hospitals, retail, and the public sector, which require that protection remains available when legitimate traffic surges and cyberattacks occur simultaneously.

Arbor Cloud plays a critical role as part of NETSCOUT’s multi-layered, adaptive DDoS protection, combining on-premises DDoS defense with cloud-based traffic scrubbing services that are tightly integrated via automated cloud signaling. This hybrid design stops attacks as close to the source as possible while seamlessly absorbing loud volumetric attacks in the cloud. Offering comprehensive global protection, Arbor Cloud is supported by a 24×7 Security Operations Center staffed by NETSCOUT’s DDoS protection experts. The capacity expansion is expected to be fully completed by the end of August 2026.

This investment reinforces NETSCOUT’s long-standing leadership in DDoS protection by combining one of the world’s largest dedicated DDoS mitigation networks with decades of cyber defense expertise, industry-leading threat intelligence, and global Internet visibility. As digital infrastructures continue to evolve rapidly, and AI accelerates both innovation and cyber threats, NETSCOUT remains committed to providing organizations with the scale, intelligence, and operational resilience required to confidently protect what matters most.

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, announced major advancements to Dynatrace Intelligence that help automatically resolve incidents, prevent disruptions, and accelerate operations while maintaining the human oversight and governance enterprises require.

Building on the introduction of Dynatrace Intelligence earlier this year, Dynatrace is adding new autonomous agents for incident triage and remediation, and no-code custom agent creation capabilities. The platform is also expanding its ecosystem of integrations, bringing insights directly into the tools and workflows teams already use.

AI systems typically lack the real-time context and controls to make reliable decisions, with most AI initiatives promising automation but often unable to deliver on production goals. Dynatrace addresses this by combining agentic AI with deterministic, real-time understanding of complex environments, creating AI that acts on facts, not guesses.

“Our operations teams are under constant pressure to manage increasingly complex environments while maintaining reliability and speed,” said Angel Marchena, Director of Technical Operations at Western Governors University. “Dynatrace helps us reduce manual effort by providing automation that is grounded in real-time context, which allows our teams to focus on higher-value work while improving operational outcomes.”

How Dynatrace Intelligence Works

Dynatrace Intelligence goes beyond providing answers to acting on them automatically. The release introduces:

• Autonomous SRE Agent: Triggers autonomously on newly detected problems to determine whether they are part of an existing investigation. If confirmed, the agent enriches the investigation with additional insights and updates the detected problem with a reference to the ongoing investigation.
• Cloud SRE Agent: Coordinates remediation activities and integrates with agents across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud environments, centralizing findings to provide a single auditable record for autonomous operations.
• Agent Builder: Enables customers to create and deploy custom AI agents without code, extending autonomous operations to workflows unique to their environments.
• Enhanced Dynatrace Assist: Newcapabilities bring natural-language investigation and agent-ready workflows to even more users.
• Expanded Integration Ecosystem: New integrations with hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and Google; enterprise platforms like ServiceNow, Atlassian, and PagerDuty; developer tools and leading AI technologies enable teams to resolve and remediate across the systems they already use.

AI That Acts on Answers, Not Guesses

Unlike approaches that rely primarily on probabilistic outputs, Dynatrace Intelligence grounds every action in deterministic, real-time system understanding. Every action is rooted in environment-specific context and designed to be transparent, auditable, and governed – giving enterprises the confidence to automate increasingly complex operational workflows.

“Most observability platforms stop at data – leaving humans to find answers, determine what to do, and execute,” said Steve Tack, Chief Product Officer at Dynatrace. “With these advancements to Dynatrace Intelligence, we’re helping organizations move from understanding problems to resolving them automatically. By grounding agentic AI in deterministic context, Dynatrace enables enterprises to automate operations with confidence while maintaining governance and control.”

“Enterprises investing in AI-driven observability have an opportunity to turn data into intelligence that translates into trusted, autonomous action,” said Stephen Elliot, Group VP, IDC. “The gap between AI-generated insight and safe, governed execution is one of the biggest concerns; customers need a deterministic, real-time context with automation and auditability to drive trusted and reliable outcomes.”

Cloud SRE Agent, Enhanced Dynatrace Assist, and the expanded integration ecosystem are available to SaaS customers on DPS today. Autonomous SRE Agent and Agent Builder are expected to be available in August.

The report, titled Mega-Projects Powered by Renewables: A Practical Playbook for Saudi Arabia, highlights how integrating solar energy directly into development design can unlock significant economic, environmental, and operational benefits. The findings are based on modelling of large-scale developments in high-irradiance Gulf markets and reflect conditions increasingly common across the region.

While the underlying analysis draws on conditions observed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the implications are relevant across GCC mega-developments where high solar irradiance, large master-planned footprints, and evolving self-consumption frameworks create similar opportunities.

As GCC countries accelerate investment in new cities, mixed-use districts, and economic zones, the report identifies on-site renewables as one of the most underutilized levers in shaping cost-efficient and future-ready urban infrastructure. Analysis of large-scale developments in the region shows that up to 35% of electricity demand can be met through on-site solar, depending on design, density, and local regulatory frameworks. These findings suggest that electricity costs could be reduced by a comparable margin, particularly where developers leverage power purchase agreements or energy-as-a-service models requiring no upfront capital investment.

“The region’s mega developments represent a generational opportunity to reshape how we think about urban energy infrastructure,” said Edoardo Geraci, Managing Director & Partner, BCG. “Developers in the region who integrate renewables from the master planning stage are not only reducing their operational costs but also future-proofing their assets against evolving carbon regulations and energy price volatility. The economic case has never been stronger.”

The report reveals that individual assets can achieve meaningful levels of self-sufficiency, a single family villa can meet about 50% of its annual electricity needs, while a mid-rise building with higher load density typically achieves about 15%, depending on design and orientation. These results show that even without additional land, rooftop solar alone can deliver 35 MWh/year for single-family villas and 190 MWh/ year for mid-rise buildings, with substantial gains in both cost efficiency and emissions reductions. Early deployment is already underway across the GCC, with multi-megawatt installations in residential, commercial, and industrial assets demonstrating both technical and commercial viability.

The report challenges three common misconceptions: that solar is too space-intensive for dense urban environments, that it requires prohibitive upfront investment, and that implementation is too complex. In practice, rooftop systems, building-integrated photovoltaics, carports, and shaded structures can be incorporated without additional land, while third-party financing models can remove upfront capital requirements.

“What makes this moment particularly compelling is that the perceived barriers to adoption have largely been dismantled,” said Peter Jameson, Managing Director & Partner, BCG. “Modern solar solutions can be seamlessly integrated into rooftops, facades, and shade structures without compromising architectural vision. Financing innovations have removed upfront capital requirements entirely for many developers. The projects that act now will define the benchmark for sustainable urban development across the region.”

The report emphasizes that beyond economic advantages, renewable energy infrastructure can serve a dual purpose in Gulf developments: generating power while shaping a distinctive urban identity. Solar canopies, building-integrated photovoltaics, and interactive energy features offer developers the opportunity to transform sustainability from background infrastructure into a signature urban asset, enhancing appeal for residents, visitors, and investors. The playbook urges developers to size opportunities early, orchestrate stakeholder alignment from the outset, and embed renewable considerations into master planning to avoid costly retrofits and maximize long-term value.

By Ionut Valentin Sas, SVP Finance, UiPath

Across the GCC, processing standard invoices has become relatively straightforward. Routine invoices are no longer the problem. The real bottleneck begins the moment an invoice falls outside the expected workflow, whether that is a mismatched PO, a missing approval, incorrect coding or a supplier query. From there, the process spills into email threads and spreadsheets, and finance teams pay for it in delayed cash flow, missed early payment discounts, strained supplier relationships and tied-up working capital. The invoice itself was never really the problem. The problem is what happens when it does not follow the usual pattern.

The Trouble with Exceptions

Straight-through processing, where an invoice moves from receipt to payment without human intervention, has been one of finance teams’ most effective ways to handle higher invoice volumes at lower cost. Companies like Canon have reported up to 90 percent STP for certain invoice types.

Yet according to Ardent Partners’ State of ePayables report, even top-performing AP teams only reach around a third. That gap reflects a shift already under way in accounts payable. As routine invoices increasingly process themselves, less time goes into verifying standard transactions, and more of the team’s effort shifts toward judgment, coordination and resolving what falls outside the pattern, such as invoices missing a PO, mismatched purchase orders, supplier follow-ups and approval bottlenecks.

Most automation was built for the predictable majority of transactions. The remaining cases still get routed back to people, with no system designed to resolve them faster or more consistently. Resolving an exception often means pulling information together from ERP systems, procurement platforms, contracts, past transactions and supplier communications before a decision can be made. The challenge is rarely a lack of information. It’s that the information sits across multiple systems and requires someone to piece it together before a decision can be made. That’s where most of the time is lost.

Invoicing in the UAE

The UAE’s move toward mandatory e-invoicing is one of the clearest signals of this shift. For many organisations, this transition will expose processes that have remained largely hidden while invoices were handled manually. Standardised, machine-readable invoices make routine processing easier, but they also shine a light on the exceptions that continue to require human intervention. As a result, organisations have an opportunity to redesign how those exceptions are managed, rather than simply digitising existing processes. The mandate requires structured, machine-readable invoices in place of the PDFs and spreadsheets many finance teams still rely on, and it is pushing organisations to take a hard look at how they handle exceptions today.

Compliance is only the starting point. The bigger opportunity is using this transition to modernise broader finance operations and rethink how exceptions get managed, not just to meet the regulatory deadline.

The Importance of Governance

As more of this resolution work shifts to AI agents, visibility, auditability and control become essential. Governance is not there to slow decisions down. It is what gives organisations the confidence to automate lower risk work while keeping higher risk decisions transparent, explainable and subject to human oversight. Done well, orchestration keeps people in charge of decisions, not just faster at processing them. That becomes increasingly important as finance teams automate larger parts of the invoice lifecycle. Confidence in AI comes not from removing people altogether, but from knowing when human judgement should remain part of the process.

The UAE’s e-invoicing mandate makes this need for governance harder to ignore. But governance should not be seen as a brake on AI adoption. It is what makes that adoption trustworthy.

The Shift Finance Leaders Must Make

The old mindset was to automate invoices. The new one is to resolve exceptions.

That is the shift finance leaders now need to make, treating exception management as the next frontier in finance automation rather than an afterthought bolted onto invoice processing. The foundation for that shift is orchestration, bringing people, systems and AI agents together around each exception instead of simply flagging it for someone to pick up later.

AI agents can do much of the groundwork before a person is even involved, gathering supporting information, analysing how similar cases were resolved in the past, recommending next steps and drafting supplier communications. That does not replace judgment. It means the judgment that does happen is faster and better informed. The organisations that gain the greatest advantage will not necessarily be those processing the highest number of invoices automatically. They will be those that can resolve exceptions quickly, consistently and with the right level of oversight, turning what has traditionally been a source of delay into a competitive advantage. The GCC built its reputation in digital government and public services by fixing what was not working, not by polishing what already was. Finance now has the same opportunity in front of it. The invoices were never the hard part. The exceptions are, and the organisations that get ahead of them will be the ones setting the pace for the next phase of digital invoicing in the region.

Globally, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death, after road traffic injuries, with an estimated 684,000 people dying from falls each year and a further 37.3 million falls serious enough to require medical attention, according to the World Health Organization. Adults over 60 consistently record the highest fall-related death rates in every region of the world.

The picture across the Gulf is just as pressing. A pooled analysis of studies from Gulf Cooperation Council countries put the prevalence of falls among older adults at approximately 46.9% annually. In the UAE, one study found that around half of elderly participants had experienced a fall within the preceding two years, with women and adults over 70 at greatest risk. City-level studies from Saudi Arabia have recorded annual fall prevalence among older adults ranging from roughly 32% to as high as 58%, depending on the population studied.

“Hearing aids have quietly become one of the most capable health devices a person over 60 can wear, and most patients and families don’t yet realise it,” said Moayad Zalloom, Audiologist and Commercial Sales Manager, Starkey MEA. “Omega AI was engineered so the same sensors that process sound can also detect a fall and alert a caregiver automatically. That is a meaningful safety net for an ageing patient living independently, but only if the feature is switched on and the people around that patient know it exists.”

Starkey MEA said the region’s demographic trajectory makes the issue increasingly urgent. Life expectancy across the GCC continues to rise, and with it, the number of older adults living independently or with limited daily supervision. Fall-related injuries are a leading cause of hospitalisation, loss of independence and long-term disability among this group, yet awareness of preventive technology remains low across the region.

“We spend a lot of time telling patients about hearing performance, and not nearly enough time telling them about the safety features already sitting in the device on their ear,” added Moayad. “Fall detection only works if it is turned on, if a family member is listed as a contact, and if the patient actually wears the device consistently. That is a conversation every audiologist in this region should be having with every older patient, and it is a conversation every family should be having at home.”

Starkey is encouraging patients, caregivers and hearing care professionals across the Middle East to treat three steps as standard practice: confirm that fall detection is enabled during every fitting or follow-up visit, register at least one family member or caregiver as an alert contact, and revisit those settings at routine check-ups rather than only after an incident has already occurred.

Starkey Middle East and Africa will continue working with audiologists, clinics and health partners across the region to raise awareness of AI-enabled safety features and to help translate the technology already available today into fewer preventable injuries among older patients.

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced investments to expand chiller manufacturing and integrated testing capabilities at its Tognana campus near Padua. The company expects to double chiller production capacity in the region by the end of 2026 and complete a new large-scale testing laboratory in early 2027. The growth is also creating additional career opportunities across the campus. The site serves as one of Vertiv’s principal centers for cooling technology development, bringing together research and development, product management, manufacturing, and a Customer Experience Center, where customers and consultants can participate in witness testing of a broad range of cooling technologies across the thermal chain under real-world operating conditions.

With the growing demand for thermal systems to support high-density AI applications, Vertiv is focused on increasing manufacturing operations and new production processes at the Tognana site to support regional and global chiller capacity. The company is also investing in a new integrated testing laboratory for large-scale chillers, to validate their integration with liquid cooling systems under high-density load conditions and extreme temperature ranges. The expanded capability is intended to help customers validate thermal performance under expected site conditions and deploy increasingly complex cooling systems with greater speed and confidence.

“AI is driving thermal demands that didn’t exist two years ago, with higher densities, faster deployment demands, and no room to compromise on reliability,” said Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv. “The expansion at Tognana puts us further ahead with more manufacturing capacity, integrated testing, and advanced thermal management systems built for current and future generations of silicon. This investment reinforces our position at the front of the curve.”

Vertiv has maintained a longstanding presence at the Tognana site since the 1960s, building on the legacy of brands such as Vertiv Liebert® and Vertiv Hiross, pioneers in precision cooling. Today, the campus serves as one of Vertiv’s principal European centers for data center thermal management, integrating innovation, manufacturing, testing, and customer engagement capabilities. Together with the Castel Guelfo facility near Bologna, it forms one of Vertiv’s main European technology hubs. Bologna and Tognana are also Vertiv Academy sites, providing training programs for technicians, partners and industry professionals. They are part of a network of 30 training centers and academies worldwide, of which 15 are based in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

“The expertise of our Tognana teams is central to Vertiv’s ability to support increasingly complex cooling requirements,” said Sam Bainborough, vice president, thermal business at Vertiv in EMEA. “By expanding manufacturing, integrated testing and our local talent base, we are strengthening the campus’s role in serving customers across EMEA and other global markets while creating skilled opportunities in the region.”

Optro (formerly AuditBoard), the leading AI-powered GRC Intelligence Platform empowering enterprises to transform risk into opportunity, has announced the formal launch of Optro Partner Connect. The new partner program offers partners flexible ways to go to market, a comprehensive suite of enablement, certification, technical, and co-marketing support, and a clear, predictable path to expand into new markets, deepen their service offerings, and drive lasting customer outcomes.

Optro Partner Connect replaces legacy frameworks with a modular design centered around distinct partner tracks, initially launching with Advisory Partners and Solution Providers, and a transparent tier structure in which benefits grow as partners do. Because benefits are tiered, partners will know exactly what they can access and unlock at each stage of their journey with Optro. Supporting every partner is a dedicated Partner Center of Excellence (PCoE): a team solely focused on partner success that guides firms through onboarding and ongoing “everboarding,” helping partners reach their first wins sooner and maintain a clear line of sight on their next stage of growth.

“Partners are a critical growth engine for Optro, and Optro Partner Connect ensures our ecosystem’s experience matches the enterprise-grade quality of our platform,” said Scott Whitlock, Global VP of Alliances and Channels at Optro. “By moving away from transaction-only metrics and adopting a holistic evaluation of capacity and competency, we are giving our partners a clear blueprint to build highly profitable services practices around our GRC Intelligence Platform.”

A differentiator of the program is Optro’s roadmap to weave an AI layer throughout the partner experience to give partners back time and help them win by automating repeatable manual tasks, surfacing real-time co-sell guidance in the field, and personalizing each partner’s onboarding so they can spend less time on administration and more time on value creation.

Key Program Highlights At-A-Glance

• Flexible Tracks & Engagement Models: Partners choose how they go to market across the Advisory and Solution Provider tracks, referring, selling, or servicing with a transparent tier structure, a flexible legal framework, and recognized status as they grow. Financial and servicing incentives reward that momentum, and a services-rich platform offers eligible partners room to build a high-value practice across the full customer lifecycle — from implementation and advisory through managed services.
  
• Enablement, Expertise, and Market Presence: A comprehensive benefits suite spanning role-based training and certification, deep technical and co-sell support, and co-branded marketing resources. Beyond a searchable partner directory that helps customers find them, qualified partners have a path to build their own solutions, integrations, and accelerators with Optro — turning their expertise into valuable IP.

• A Strategic Voice for Optro: Through continuous feedback loops and a formal Partner Advisory Board, invited partners can participate in roadmap and go-to-market strategy discussions, helping to impact the future of connected GRC alongside Optro’s leadership rather than just delivering it.

“Our collaboration with Optro helps us transform how our clients handle audit and compliance,” said Adam Pajakowski, Principal at Crowe. “Through this new partner program, we can continue to help companies move away from outdated, manual processes. We look forward to expanding our work together and continuing to drive great results for our joint clients.”

“We’re excited about the launch of Optro Partner Connect and the added structure it brings to an already strong collaboration,” said Andrew Struthers-Kennedy, Global Lead, CAE Solutions, Protiviti. “The program introduces clearer alignment, more formal recognition, and a scalable framework for how we work together, which we believe will help drive greater consistency and impact as both organizations continue to grow.”

Optro Partner Connect formally goes live today. Comprehensive program briefs, regional guides, and deal registration resources are now available to active partners via a unified, updated partner portal. To learn more or apply to join Optro Partner Connect, visit optro.ai.

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, has announced that its DXC Private Cloud+ is now generally available. The solution delivers public cloud–like flexibility and pricing while maintaining full control over sensitive data and workloads. Powered by Dell Technologies infrastructure like servers, storage, and cyber resilience solutions and operated by DXC OASIS, DXC’s intelligent orchestration platform, Private Cloud+ helps organizations innovate more easily while still meeting strict requirements for data security, compliance, and sovereignty, at a time when enterprise cloud strategies are rapidly evolving.

As governance, security, data sovereignty, and industry-specific requirements become just as critical as scale, global organizations across industries are moving beyond a single-cloud approach and building multi-cloud portfolios that offer greater choice and control. In this environment, Private Cloud+ adds a powerful new option—combining the economics and agility of hyperscale with the control of private cloud, while providing a unified platform to connect data centers, integrate with public clouds, and prepare for AI workloads.

“Customers across industries from manufacturing to transportation, insurance and more want hyperscale economics, flexibility, and AI-readiness in a true hybrid environment, one that works across what they already run and the public clouds they depend on. Until now, they’ve had to compromise. Private Cloud+, powered by Dell and operated by DXC OASIS, ends that trade-off and enables them to be ready as AI workloads increase,” said Chris Drumgoole, President, Global Infrastructure Services, DXC.

Hosted in DXC’s data centers and orchestrated by DXC OASIS with a Human+ approach, Private Cloud+ supports the full range of enterprise workloads, including VMs, containers, data, backup and resiliency, and private AI. The result is a single environment where customers can reduce technical debt, strengthen security, and move faster from idea to production, supported by consumption-based economics that simplify financial planning.

Private Cloud+ is offered in three editions, enabling enterprises to choose the deployment model that matches their workload, tenancy, and compliance needs:

• Core: a multi-tenant private cloud with the full Private Cloud+ feature set on consumption-based pricing
• Dedicated: a single-tenant environment for customers requiring full isolation of compute, storage, and data sovereignty
• Government: a hardened edition with advanced security controls, operated by cleared domestic personnel, for government agencies and regulated industries

“Enterprises are juggling sensitive workloads, modernization, and AI, all at once. Many are looking for infrastructure that handles it natively, without bolt-ons. That’s exactly what we built with Private Cloud+, with DXC OASIS removing the operational burden so customers can focus on innovation,” said Benjamin Greene, Director, Global Infrastructure Services, Private Cloud, DXC.

DXC and Dell have collaborated for over 25 years, jointly serving more than 2,000 customers worldwide. DXC is a Titanium Black partner in the Dell Technologies Partner Program. Private Cloud+ is a DXC Fast Track solution, focused on AI-fueled capabilities and automation that drive exponential growth.

Delinea, the runtime identity security platform that governs what humans, machines, and AI agents do once they have access, has announced the launch of the Delinea Partner Advantage Program. The new comprehensive framework is built to deliver proven identity security technology, protected discounts, and ease of doing business.

Developed with direct partner input, including a global partner listening survey, the Delinea Partner Advantage Program is designed to address the most persistent pain points in the channel: margin erosion, channel conflict, and ambiguous rules of engagement. The program gives partners a clear, structured path to deliver identity security outcomes to their customers and provides a foundation for predictable, profitable growth. Beyond protecting discounts, the program is structured to help partners compound the value of every customer relationship they build.

“Partners don’t care about your partner program,” said Scott Goree, senior vice president of channel and alliances at Delinea. “They care about technology that works, protected discounts, and a vendor that’s easy to work with. We built this program around what partners told us they actually need.”

The Delinea Partner Advantage Program has three core tenets – Protect, Align, and Scale – and introduces a modern structure to support how partners work today. Key features of the program include:

• Codified Rules of Engagement: Clear, published deal registration, teaming protections, and Earned Incumbency discounts to ensure partners who invest in building and expanding customer relationships are protected on renewals and rewarded for their ongoing contribution.
• AI-Driven Enablement: AI-powered just-in-time training and certifications that deliver the right content at the right moment in the sales cycle alongside an AI-powered partner portal.
• Channel Autonomy: Streamlined processes, tools, and automation designed to remove friction from the full quote-to-cash journey, enabling partners to spend less time navigating vendor complexity and more time selling.

The program launches as AI reshapes what customers need from identity security. According to the Delinea 2026 Identity Security Report, 92% of organizations expect AI to amplify identity-related threats in the coming years, and 42% say AI expansion has already increased their non-human identity risk in the past 12 months. That demand is the growth opportunity the Partner Advantage Program is built to capture, giving partners a new revenue stream backed by a platform designed to govern access for every human, machine, and AI identity.

“The Delinea Partner Advantage Program reflects a strong commitment to building successful, long-term partnerships,” said Mark Thornberry, SVP Partnerships, GuidePoint Security. “The program provides a clear framework that supports how we work together in the market, while recognizing the value partners bring through the customer relationships we cultivate and support.”

To support partners at every stage of their relationship with Delinea, the program offers three tiers: Elite for leading at scale, Premier for growing practice depth, and Select for building expertise. Each tier is structured to reflect the depth of engagement and unlock the right level of access, investment, and support.

Enrollment in the Delinea Partner Advantage Program is open to selling partners across all tiers now, with roles for MSPs, GSIs, advisory, and technology partners coming soon.