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Intellyx BrainCandy -- March 11, 2025

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Whew, so many disruptive vendor briefs, including a huge batch from Jason from MWC Conference in Barcelona. 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.

 Latest BrainCandy Briefs

An electronic SIM (eSIM) is a software-only virtual SIM card that can provide connectivity for smartphones and other digital devices.


1oT offers eSIM connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that is independent of any particular telco provider or protocol ... [Read more]

     

Adriel offers a centralized data platform for the advertising operations (AdOps) market.


The platform features hundreds of no-code data connectors that enable organizations to centralize, normalize, and visualize data. They can also import and unify dimensions and metrics across data sources  [Read more]

     

We last covered Aeris in March 2022. In 2023, the company acquired the IoT Accelerator and Connected Vehicle Cloud businesses and related assets from Ericsson, transforming Aeris into a global IoT powerhouse.


The ‘new’ Aeris offers a global IoT connectivity platform that competes with Cisco’s portfolio of Industrial IoT solutions, but unlike Cisco ... [Read more]

     

Aice offers a generative AI (genAI)-based tool that helps marketing professionals with their creative tasks.


The tool can help marketers formulate strategies, understand competitors’ brands, develop promotional strategies, amplify social buzz, and brainstorm marketing ideas ... [Read more]

     

Airtool offers a surprisingly complete low-code application creation platform, leveraging form builder and spreadsheet visual metaphors and JavaScript-based actions to support enterprise application construction needs.


The secret to Airtool’s unusual level of maturity: instead of building the platform from scratch, Airtool is a spinoff from parent company Deister Software, a vendor of midsize and enterprise ERP  [Read More]

     

ltilia offers a low-code generative AI (genAI) application construction platform that ingests structured and unstructured data, feeding into a graph-based knowledge base that supports AI agents and process orchestration ‘skills.’


Altilia’s AI agents include chatbots, search engines, and other common applications of genAI. To orchestrate these agents, analysts use the platform’s low-code interface to construct skills ... [Read more]

     

Anomalo combines machine learning and AI inference capabilities concentrated on finding, reporting and resolving problematic data quality issues at scale within massive data lakes and pipelines.


Since our 2024 briefing with this well-backed startup, they have put the pedal to the metal on partnerships with most of the leading cloud data warehouse and data catalog vendors on the market. Sure, those platforms usually have some kind of automated utility ... [Read more]

     

Applivery gives organizations complete control over the security and usage of their devices via a unified endpoint management (UEM) solution that enables organizations to lock down their devices.


Applivery is especially useful in situations where there is no reason why the employee using a device should ever diverge from the official usage of that device ... [Read more]

     

We last covered Arrcus at Mobile World Congress in March 2024.


At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Arrcus announced a new telco-grade ethernet switch that enables telco service providers to deliver value-added AI-based services with the emerging AI-RAN architecture ... [Read more]

     

Babylon Cloud built its object storage offering from the ground up (hardware, infrastructure, and API stack) to support telcos who want to offer white-label cloud storage value-added services.


If a telco, say, wants to offer a DropBox competitor, it can white label Babylon Cloud’s storage to build its own file storage and backup service it can offer directly to its customers ... [Read more]

     

BlackDice provides cybersecurity for homes and small and midsize businesses by enabling Internet connectivity service providers to implement security in the routers in customers’ homes and offices.


BlackDice leverages AI to anticipate and block emerging threats, protecting against advanced persistent threats, ransomware, adware, and other malware ... [Read more]

     

Deepgram offers custom voice-centric AI models and a cloud native platform that support speech-to-text, text-to-speech, as well as speech-to-speech capabilities for a range of enterprise applications.


The company’s offering is developer-centric, with APIs and an SDK for access to its voice AI capabilities ... [Read more]

     

An electronic SIM (eSIM) is a software-only virtual SIM card that can provide connectivity for smartphones and other digital devices. It enables devices to switch between carriers without roaming charges.


eSIM Go empowers businesses to build eSIM-based offerings via APIs ... [Read more]

     

Enterprises rely on their communications systems more than ever. Ecommerce continuously grows as more and more people use their mobile phones for shopping, banking, travel, email, and texting, increasingly putting new demands on corporate networks. 


Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly integrated into corporate networks. And corporate networks are increasingly connected to public cloud providers ... [Read more]

     

We last covered IBM in March 2024 when it spoke about its Hybrid Cloud Mesh at last year’s Mobile World Congress.


At this year’s Mobile World Congress, IBM’s emphasis was on agentic AI ... [Read more]

     

We last covered Infobip in October 2022. At that time, the company offered a communications platform that brought together SMS, email, voice, WhatsApp, and many other communications channels, providing interconnection across channels and telcos and facilitating the construction of applications that crossed channels.


To this platform, Infobip is adding agentic AI and generative AI (genAI) to deliver ... [Read more]

     

Inmanta offers an intent-based service orchestration platform for telcos that provides turnkey network automation with simple deployment and lifecycle management for mobile private networks and dynamic network slices.


Intent-based networking ensures that the configurations of devices on the network don’t drift from their business intent by ... [Read more]

     

iOPEX offers an AI platform for building AI agents that are industry-agnostic, adaptive, and outcome-oriented.


With the assistance of the company’s professional services expertise, iOPEX customers can build data and AI solutions, digital marketing and monetization application ... [Read more]

     

Kanerika is leveraging its years of experience providing data and AI professional services to offer Flip, its low-code DataOps-empowered AI platform.


For Kanerika, DataOps comprises core data operations for both unstructured and structured data, including ingestion, staging, transformation, and validation ... [Read more]

     

Langcode offers a conversational experience platform that leverages generative AI (genAI) to provide AI-powered customer experiences.


The Langcode platform supports integration, prompt engineering, reinforcement learning, hybrid search (semantic and vector), and the creation and management of AI agents ... [Read more]

     

lightenUp offers Hyperflow, a no-code AI automation platform that enables companies to build and run AI-based, automated processes.


The platform ingests and manages data and supports API integrations. It enables process analysts to create roles based on pre-trained AI models ... [Read more]

     

Lunar.dev’s API gateway manages and governs calls to third-party APIs such as those exposed by business partners, SaaS applications, and gen AI LLMs.


While most API gateway products are designed for incoming (ingress) API traffic, Lunar.dev is designed for outgoing (egress) API traffic ... [Read more]

     

IT costs are always difficult to estimate, especially project costs. Application development, maintenance, or modernization projects often run late and over budget, and the cost to host and run them isn’t easy to calculate. 


Mavvrik offers comprehensive public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, AI, and SaaS cost optimization, control, and governance to help an organization understand and manage these expenses ... [Read more]

     

Monarrch offers technology that creates digital tokens that uniquely identify a musical artist’s style as represented in one or more of their original pieces.


The company then provides a transaction engine for managing the rights of intellectual property (IP) holders, a clearinghouse for IP compliance for AI technology companies ... [Read more]

     

We last covered NETSCOUT in March 2024 at Mobile World Congress.


At this year’s Mobile World Congress, NETSCOUT discussed its Omnis AI Insights offering which leverages curated, enriched packet data to support AIOps, security, and operational decision making capabilities ... [Read more]

     

NeuralTrust offers a generative AI (genAI) security platform that uncovers vulnerabilities, blocks attacks, monitors performance, and ensures compliance. The platform also offers automated penetration testing and observability.


With NeuralTrust, organizations can secure, test, monitor and scale LLMs via end-to-end protection and global security policies ... [Read more]

     

LiFi is a standard communications protocol similar to Wi-Fi, except that it uses near-infrared light instead of radio waves. The result offers better security and less interference than Wi-Fi but requires line-of-sight. It also goes through windows much better than Wi-Fi can.


pureLiFi leverages the LiFi light protocol to provide a range of networking solutions. In particular, it offers a bridge that connects exterior high-speed 5G broadband modems... [Read more]

     

Resizes offers a DevOps platform consisting of a set of open source tools for platform engineers to deploy in any cloud or on premises.


The Resizes platform is opinionated, providing a best-of-breed set of tools rather than encouraging the selection of different tools ... [Read more]

     

SimSpace packages complete emulated infrastructure and software environments populated with usage and attack scenario data for security teams to conduct cyber range tests and training exercises.


Simulated environments and synthetic data have already become a fixture of software development and test automation practices. However, the SOC team requires a much grittier level of realism ... [Read more]

     

We last covered Telco Systems in March 2024 when it spoke about its Edgility on-premises virtualized edge infrastructure solution.


This year, Telco Systems is providing its Flex Connect pre-integrated packages containing the Edgility router/firewall and next-generation firewall offerings, as well as a partnership that enables the company to expand its portfolio to include SD-WAN and SASE ... [Read more]

     

VDURA provides scalable and resilient network-attached storage (NAS) atop local and cloud infrastructures, with checkpoint optimization for faster continuous reads and writes, while optimizing GPU utilization, in order to keep up with the demands of AI workloads and high performance computing.


Most enterprises expect high-traffic ecommerce websites, streaming media and financial transaction services to produce high volumes of data. However, AI-based applications and training models can generate ... [Read more]

     

Wind River has long been a leader in the embedded software market, delivering mission-critical, real-time software for a wide range of vehicles, devices, and other elements of the intelligent edge.


nullThe company is rolling out new capabilities for the Wind River Studio Operator which provides a cloud native, Kubernetes-based distributed cloud architecture for managing the full lifecycle of distributed networks ... [Read more]

     

 Upcoming Events & Webinars

     

KubeCon/CloudNativeCon EU 2025

April 1-5, 2025
London, UK

Jason Bloomberg to attend and interact in person. Vendors who want to set up a briefing during or around the time of this event -- tell us what you are up to, just contact pr@intellyx.com.


April 1-4, 2025, London, England.  The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities ...[Register for the event here]

     

RSA Conference 2025

April 28-May 1, 2025
San Francisco, CA

Intellyx analyst Jason English “JE” to attend and cover in person. Contact us at pr@intellyx.com to arrange a briefing or booth visit after April 1st, note that these spots will fill up fast!


At RSAC 2025, you’re not just attending a conference—you’re stepping into a vibrant, thriving community of thinkers, innovators, and achievers. Though we come from different corners of the cybersecurity world, we are united by a common mission: to foresee risks, counter threats, and embrace the challenges ahead. Together, we shape the future of security. Together, we shine as one.


Join us to be a part of something bigger. Many Voices. One Community.

[Register for the event here]

     

DTW Ignite

June 17-19, 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark

Our industry is on a mission for growth, and DTW Ignite is where you’ll find your path. Whether it is agility through Composable IT & Ecosystems, efficiency through Autonomous Networks, or innovation with AI and Data, you’ll be inspired, learn from others, and get hands-on at DTW Ignite with these proven pathways to growth, beyond profit.


Join the industry’s biggest alliance as we face challenges, delve into solutions, and deliver real change together.


The Pathways to Growth are Here: Find Yours at DTW Ignite

Jason Bloomberg will be attending DTW Ignite and is available to meet in person. Please email him to set up a meeting ... [Register for the event here]

     

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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