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The three winners cut manual work, sped up deployments and bolstered resilience across transport, defence research and banking in Australia and New Zealand.
Enterprises in Australia and New Zealand are being pushed to balance AI adoption with tighter control over cost, security and data sovereignty.
Persistent AI agents can now run for up to seven days on Google Cloud Run instances, with fixed endpoints and no autoscaling.
Enterprises seeking to run AI and containers together will gain tighter governance and lower-latency inference from Nutanix's latest platform update.
Enterprises in Asia-Pacific are moving AI from trials to production, driving demand for low-latency, distributed computing closer to users and data.
The recognition underlines Google Cloud's push to keep developers on one platform as enterprises move AI agents from prototypes into production.
Australian miners, shippers and utilities could be next to benefit as SUSE pushes edge computing and AI inference beyond data centres.
Customers can now build AI apps with live web data and vector search in one AWS stack, reducing database sprawl and latency.
Production AI agents on Bedrock can now share sessions for up to 14 days, making long-running workflows easier to run and coordinate.
Security teams must now track AI agents and machine accounts as well as staff, as BeyondTrust expands Pathfinder to cover privileged access.
Malicious packages are now spreading faster across code repositories, with Google saying open source ecosystems face the sharpest rise in risk.
Most government and education IT leaders say unvetted AI is a security risk, as 73% of public sector infrastructure cannot run complex workloads.
Customers seeking tighter data control may favour Leaseweb's new Pinnacle status, which widens its managed VMware services across three regions.
Free workshop sandboxes should make it easier for developers to try AWS training without a personal account, credit card or cleanup.
Enterprises facing tighter data and cyber controls will get more support as Kyndryl deepens its Broadcom alliance around VMware Cloud Foundation.
Enterprises seeking tighter control over sensitive workloads now have a new option as Rackspace rolls out a managed VMware cloud for regulated sectors.
It strengthens Synextra's appeal to UK firms seeking one provider for cloud migration, app development and data projects across Azure.
Developers can now run OpenClaw and Hermes without setting up servers, as Cloudways adds managed hosting to cut deployment and maintenance work.
The recognition bolsters Park Place's cloud credentials as enterprises seek tighter control over data location, governance and operational risk.
The update aims to cut remediation costs and stop teams wasting time by re-analysing vulnerabilities without enough business context.
