iTech Series

DXC and Primary Launch AI-Native Zero Trust Platform

DXC Technology has formed a strategic partnership with Primary to become the exclusive managed services provider for Primary’s AI-native Zero Trust Platform. The joint offering, delivered through DXC’s global cybersecurity organization, combines consulting, implementation, integration, governance and managed security services to help enterprises govern how AI agents and enterprise AI applications access data while strengthening security, identity, and compliance. The platform embeds Zero Trust principles into AI workflows and is positioned for organizations operating in highly regulated environments to accelerate safe, enterprise-scale AI deployment.

Zilliz Adds Cost-Aware Benchmarking to VDBBench

Zilliz announced an update to VDBBench, its open-source, vendor-neutral vector database benchmark, adding cost as a first-class dimension alongside production-oriented performance metrics. The release introduces four cloud-focused test cases—insert readiness/write cost, payload-aware search, multitenant search, and cold-start latency—and a new Cost Leaderboard that models operating cost at target QPS. VDBBench supports over 30 vector databases; the Cost Leaderboard sample evaluation includes Pinecone, Turbopuffer, and Zilliz Cloud. Zilliz positions the change to help teams measure real production behavior and total cost of ownership rather than relying solely on peak QPS on idealized datasets.

Nutshell Adds Free Bulk Duplicate Cleanup

Nutshell announced a new feature that lets account administrators find, review, and merge duplicate Person and Company records in bulk at no additional cost. The platform’s duplicate detection uses fields like name, email, and phone (for people) and company name (for companies). Users can review cases individually or accept Nutshell’s recommendations to merge 100+ cases with one click. The capability is available on the vendor’s entry-level plan and is intended to reduce time and cost spent on CRM data cleanup.