ITTech pulse Roundup: Essential IT Trends Shaping the Week (Feb 16 – Feb 20)
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Catch up on the biggest stories in tech with ITTech Pulse’s weekly update. From February 02 to 06, we highlight the latest advancements across Agentic AI, Natural Language Processing, cloud, cybersecurity, data management, ChatGPT, Generative AI, Digital Transformation, and beyond. Discover expert viewpoints, track evolving trends, and stay prepared for upcoming IT events and essential industry concepts driving innovation forward.
Tech Trends Weekly: Major Updates from the IT World
Cognizant Deepens Google Cloud Alliance for Enterprise Agentic AI
Cognizant is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to help enterprises deploy agentic AI at scale. It uses its AI builder approach, proprietary tools, and Gemini Enterprise to turn AI strategy into real, governed business solutions. Cognizant is also deploying Google Workspace internally to improve productivity and delivery speed. It will offer clients integrated AI-driven workflows for content creation and operations. The company is launching a Gemini Enterprise Center of Excellence and using its Agent Development Lifecycle to ensure consistent delivery. Tools like Cognizant Ignition and Agent Foundry help clients prototype, automate processes, and achieve measurable outcomes faster.
Lenovo Expands Global R&D with AI Centers and Trust Lab
Lenovo is expanding its global R&D by opening new AI Technology Center facilities in London, Edinburgh, and Riyadh, and a Digital Trust Lab in Tel Aviv. These centers support Lenovo’s hybrid-AI vision by advancing agentic AI, foundation models, and intelligent systems. The new labs will focus on secure, scalable, and real-world AI deployment across devices, infrastructure, and cloud. Led by CTO Tolga Kurtoglu and AI leader Anwar Ghuloum, Lenovo aims to accelerate innovation, strengthen security and privacy, and build trusted AI solutions for enterprise and personal use.
Palo Alto Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Koi for Agentic Endpoint Security
Palo Alto Networks plans to acquire Koi to address new security risks created by AI agents on enterprise endpoints. These agents can access sensitive data and perform actions beyond traditional security controls, creating new vulnerabilities. Koi’s Agentic Endpoint Security will integrate with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS and Cortex XDR platforms to improve visibility, governance, and threat prevention. This acquisition helps enterprises securely deploy AI tools by protecting AI-driven systems, plugins, and scripts, reducing risks, and ensuring safer adoption of AI across modern workplaces.
Fujitsu Launches AI-Driven Platform to Fully Automate Software Development
Fujitsu Limited has launched an AI-Driven Software Development Platform to modernize software engineering. The platform automates the full development lifecycle—from requirements to testing—using its Takane LLM and agentic AI. Multiple AI agents collaborate to manage complex enterprise and public-sector systems without human intervention. Fujitsu plans to update 67 medical and government software products by fiscal 2026 and already uses the platform for Japan’s 2026 medical fee revisions. In one case, it reduced a three-month task to four hours. Fujitsu aims to boost productivity, enable faster updates, and shift toward value-based software development.
Fortanix and NTT DATA Partner for Secure, Compliant AI Factories in India
Fortanix, and NTT DATA, have partnered to help enterprises in India build secure and compliant AI Factories. The solution combines Fortanix’s data security platform, NTT DATA’s managed services, and NVIDIA Confidential Computing to protect AI workloads during training and processing. It ensures compliance with India’s data protection laws and safeguards sensitive data and AI models, even during use. The service supports regulated industries like finance and healthcare, enabling organizations to adopt AI confidently while maintaining strong security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
Microsoft and CrowdStrike Bring Falcon Platform to Microsoft Marketplace
CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp. have expanded their partnership to let customers buy the Falcon security platform through the Microsoft Marketplace using existing Azure Consumption Commitment funds. This simplifies procurement, billing, and deployment while helping organizations maximize their cloud investments. Falcon provides AI-native protection across endpoints, cloud, identity, AI, and data to prevent breaches. The integration helps businesses accelerate security adoption, reduce operational complexity, and improve protection without increasing budgets, enabling faster and more efficient cloud and cybersecurity management.
Grid Dynamics Launches NVIDIA Solution Center for Cost-Efficient AI Adoption
Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. has launched the NVIDIA Solution Center to help retail and manufacturing enterprises deploy scalable, cost-efficient AI solutions. Built on NVIDIA technologies, the suite reduces reliance on expensive SaaS subscriptions and supports deployment across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments. It enables use cases like video analytics, warehouse automation, quality control, and AI-driven content creation. The platform improves operational efficiency, lowers costs, and enhances flexibility while ensuring compliance and security. Grid Dynamics aims to help enterprises modernize AI infrastructure and scale intelligent operations with faster deployment and measurable business value.
Don’t Miss These Must-Read Articles of the Week
AI Agents and the Redefinition of Knowledge Work in Enterprises
Must-catch Staff Article
AI agents are transforming enterprise knowledge work by moving beyond task automation to decision-making and coordination. They can analyze data, interpret documents, generate reports, detect issues, and take actions automatically. This shifts workflows from human-led analysis to agent-led execution, improving speed, consistency, and scalability. In IT and other functions, agents now handle incident response, monitoring, and reporting, while humans focus on governance, strategy, and system design. Knowledge workers are evolving into policy designers and supervisors.
Why CISOs Are Nervous About AI Agents and What Governance Actually Works
AI agents improve productivity and automate decisions, but CISOs see new security and governance risks. Unlike traditional software, agents act autonomously, access sensitive data, and make dynamic decisions, increasing the risk of data leaks, over-permissions, and unintended actions. The main challenge is the governance gap, as many enterprises lack clear controls, ownership, and monitoring. To reduce risk, organizations must implement policy-based access, audit trails, human oversight, continuous monitoring, and centralized control. With proper governance, enterprises can safely use AI agents, balance innovation with security, and ensure accountability while benefiting from faster, autonomous operations.
