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Kyndryl Report: As AI Broadens Modernization Agenda, Leaders Prioritize Business Outcomes Over Replacing Legacy Systems

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October 1, 2026

Global survey reveals how 2,000 business and technology leaders are addressing AI-driven demand across IT elements

Nearly half of organizations are behind schedule despite modernization being a top priority98% of organizations delayed modernization and experienced negative business impactsAs AI reshapes expectations for how technology can deliver results, more organizations are expanding their use of technology than consolidating themOrganizations deploying agentic AI are making faster modernization progress and seeing early benefits as AI takes on traditionally challenging tasks

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today released its first global Modernization Report, which found that as organizations expand investments across legacy and modern platforms, modernization increasingly requires business orchestration, not technology consolidation.

“AI is creating new possibilities and raising expectations for the business outcomes technology should deliver,” said Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl. “Modernization is about preparing for what comes next, and the leaders making the most progress are investing across their technology environments—strengthening resilience and putting those investments to work where they deliver the greatest value.”

Based on insights from 2,000 business and technology leaders across five continents and 12 industries, the research shows how AI is reshaping investment priorities across infrastructure and applications, while also challenging organizations’ operating models.

According to the report’s findings, the need to adopt AI now outranks priorities to reduce spending, replace legacy systems, or address a shrinking pool of legacy systems expertise. AI is the top driver of increased mainframe and edge computing use, the second-biggest driver for SaaS and private cloud expansion, and the leading reason organizations are upgrading their networks and application portfolios. Every organization with a mainframe now reports plans to deploy AI to the platform.

Together, these trends are creating more complex technology environments and new operational challenges for technology leaders.

Nearly half of respondents said they are behind schedule on their modernization goals. Agentic AI, which can autonomously plan and execute tasks, is emerging as a way to modernize faster. Ten percent of organizations have deployed agentic AI in production for modernization, applying it to typically time- and skills-intensive tasks of dependency mapping, code conversion, and generating documentation. Early adopters reported stronger outcomes, with 67% saying they are ahead of or on track with modernization goals, compared with 51% of other organizations.

The research also highlights what is slowing organizations down. Just 9% said they fully understand their applications’ dependencies, and one-quarter say they have large numbers of undocumented applications.

Among other findings, Kyndryl’s study shows that:

Modernization has become a business-wide priority, not just a technical one
The findings underscore the growing demands on CIOs, who must advance several priorities at once: AI adoption, cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and business growth. Respondents named nine distinct stakeholder groups with control over modernization, from CIOs and CTOs to boards of directors and finance and compliance teams. Modernization has outgrown the IT department and become a board-level business decision. Its growing importance also requires organizations to coordinate decision-making across more stakeholders without sacrificing speed.

Global events shape technology decisions alongside cost and performance
Sovereignty considerations are a growing factor in modernization strategies. While 65% of organizations address sovereignty selectively or primarily through a compliance lens, 63% expect sovereign cloud usage to increase and 55% expect sovereignty and regulatory requirements to place greater demands on their network architectures. The findings suggest that the geographic location of where technology runs is increasingly being shaped by governance and geopolitical considerations alongside performance, cost and innovation.

Complexity keeps compounding
The findings challenge the long-held assumption that digital transformation would lead organizations to gradually migrate toward a single preferred technology environment. Instead, their technology environments are becoming more distributed and complex as they prepare for AI. Mission-critical applications are distributed almost evenly across public cloud, private cloud, mainframe and on-premises environments, creating an increasingly hybrid enterprise. As digital transformation extends across the business, it must be underpinned by strategic, governance, and operational coordination—including a more integrated approach to cyber resilience as AI-driven threats accelerate and broaden.

Read more about Kyndryl’s 2026 Modernization Report.

About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed services across thousands of customer environments in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

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MiniTool Video Converter 6.0: All-New Video Cutting & Merging Features

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October 1, 2026

VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MiniTool Software Limited has released a new version of its video converter – MiniTool Video Converter 6.0. This update brings video cutting and merging features, GPU acceleration, a new home page, UI improvements, and bug fixes.

Key Features of MiniTool Video Converter 6.0

Cut a video into segments.Merge multiple videos into one.Added GPU acceleration management.Optimized user interface.Fixed some bugs.

Cut a Video into Segments

MiniTool Video Converter 6.0 introduces a new video-cutting feature that allows you to split videos into segments and remove unwanted parts. It also enables you to trim the start or end of a video. You can export the cut video clips separately or into a combined file.

The video cutting feature supports a wide range of input formats, including AVI, 3GP, VOB, WebM, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, MKV, MPG, MPEG, MXF, M4V, TS, F4V, M2TS, ASF, and more.

Merge Multiple Videos into One

The latest version of MiniTool Video Converter supports merging multiple videos into one file. It also provides editing options for individual clips, including cutting, trimming, and adding transitions between clips.

The video merging feature supports various input formats, including AVI, 3GP, VOB, WebM, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, MKV, MPG, MXF, M4V, Xvid, OGV, DivX, and more. The merged video can be exported in MP4 format at 1080p.

Added GPU Acceleration Management

MiniTool Video Converter 6.0 uses GPU acceleration to offload video processing tasks to the GPU, improving video conversion, compression, transcription, enhancement, cutting, and merging efficiency. It makes better use of the computer’s hardware resources to increase processing speed, especially when processing large or high-resolution videos.

Optimized UI Interface

MiniTool Video Converter 6.0 adds a new Home page for quick access to its main video tools, including Convert Video, Compress Video, Cut Video, Merge Video, Video Enhancer, Intelligent Subtitle, and more.

Fixed Some Bugs

Fixed some issues to enhance the overall user experience:

Fixed software response delays in some scenarios.Fixed missing audio after video conversion on certain devices.Optimized Instagram downloads to retrieve only video content and exclude non-video items.

About MiniTool Video Converter

MiniTool Video Converter is a Windows-based multimedia tool from MiniTool Software Ltd. that brings multiple functions together in one application. It supports video and audio conversion, video compression, audio-to-text conversion, video enhancement, video cutting, and video merging features.

MiniTool Video Converter also offers AI-powered features, including Intelligent Subtitle for transcribing video or audio into text and exporting SRT or TXT files, as well as Video Enhancer for upscaling videos and reducing video grain.

About MiniTool® Software Ltd.

MiniTool® Software Ltd. is a software development company that provides customers with complete business software solutions for screen recording, audio and video format conversion, video compression, video editing, and data management.

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IGEL Brings Now & Next® Workspace & Endpoint Security Summit to Dubai

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October 1, 2026

The event brings together customers, partners, and industry leaders to advance endpoint security, resilience, and secure workspace delivery.

DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IGEL®, a global software company delivering the IGEL Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform™, today announced it is bringing the IGEL Now & Next® Workspace & Endpoint Security Summit to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for a showcase on October 21, 2026, at Dubai Knowledge Park. The one-day program will bring together IT and security leaders to examine the endpoint security, resilience, and workspace delivery priorities shaping enterprise strategy across the region.

The Dubai event extends IGEL’s flagship Now & Next® series following its five-city European roadshow earlier this year, as well as events in Australia and the United States. It arrives as organizations across the Middle East increase investment in artificial intelligence, cloud services and digital experiences, expanding the technology environments they must manage and secure.

According to the UAE Government Cybersecurity Council, the country faces more than 90,000 to 200,000 breach attempts every day, underscoring the security pressures accompanying the region’s rapid digital transformation. As these environments become more distributed and interconnected, organizations are placing greater emphasis on strengthening cyber resilience and maintaining operational continuity while continuing to innovate.

“What we are hearing from customers is consistent: organizations want stronger control at the endpoint, greater resilience when disruption occurs, and a practical path to support both current and emerging workspace models,” said Klaus Oestermann, CEO of IGEL. “The Now & Next® summit roadshow is designed to bring those conversations closer to home, together with the customers and ecosystem partners, helping define the next phase of endpoint strategy.”

The summit will bring together IGEL leaders, customers, and ecosystem partners to share perspectives on secure endpoint strategy, resilience, and the future of digital work. Complementing the IGEL-led sessions, customers and ecosystem partners will bring real-world perspectives and expertise to the program, including event sponsors Microsoft, Omnissa, and Lenovo.

“Dubai is an important meeting point for technology leaders across the Middle East, and the Now & Next® summit gives us an opportunity to bring the region’s customers, partners and experts together around the challenges they are addressing today,” said Carsten Thomsen, VP of Sales for Emerging Markets at IGEL. “The goal is to turn those conversations into practical ideas organizations can take back to their own environments.”

The summit runs from morning sessions through the afternoon executive panel and networking lunch at Dubai Knowledge Park – Conference Centre Block 1. Attendance is open to enterprise IT and security leaders across the UAE and broader Middle East region.

To learn more about the security, resilience and workspace modernization topics that will be explored at Now & Next® Dubai, read the latest IGEL blog.

To review the full agenda, explore speakers, and register, visit the event page.

About IGEL
IGEL® is a global software company delivering the IGEL Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform™, a trusted and governed endpoint platform for secure access to cloud, VDI, DaaS, SaaS, Secure Browsers, enterprise applications, as well as OT endpoints. At its foundation is IGEL OS, an immutable operating system that helps reduce endpoint attack surface, preserve a known-good endpoint state, and support secure access across distributed work environments. Through the IGEL Preventative Security Model®, the platform adds attested workload delivery, centralized governance, and contextual enforcement, aligning endpoint security with Zero Trust and SSE/SASE architectures from key IGEL Ready partners.

IGEL Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery™ (BC&DR) helps organizations restore secure access on Windows endpoints affected by ransomware, other cyberattacks, or outages. Founded in 2001, IGEL is headquartered in Germany with U.S. offices in San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale, working with an ecosystem of 130 leading technology brands. Learn more at www.igel.com.

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SEMIFIVE Signs Turnkey Contract with Mobilint to Develop Robotics AI Chip Under ‘K-On-Device AI Semiconductor’ Program

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October 1, 2026

Accelerates commercialization of robotics AI chip through end-to-end “Spec Hand-off” developmentIntegrates next-generation memory and interface technologies, including LPDDR6, PCIe Gen6 and UCIe-SExpands applications beyond data center, HPC and edge AI into Physical AI, diversifying business portfolio

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) solutions, announced today that it has signed a turnkey development contract with Mobilint, a South Korean AI semiconductor company, to develop an AI chip for robotics applications.

The project is part of the “K-On-Device AI Semiconductor Technology Development” program led by Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR). The government-funded program supports collaboration between domestic AI semiconductor companies and end-user companies to develop and validate chips tailored to industry-specific products, with the core objective of carrying them through to commercialization.

Through this collaboration, the two companies aim to deliver a robotics chip capable of performing high-performance AI computation on its own, even in outdoor environments where connectivity to external servers is limited. The custom chip will be deployed in applications such as agricultural robots, processing vision and sensor data in real time across diverse operating conditions.

Notably, the project will be carried out under SEMIFIVE’s “Spec Hand-off” model, the earliest-stage engagement within its turnkey business. Unlike conventional approaches in which customers complete a substantial portion of the design before handing off downstream processes, Spec Hand-off allows customers to simply define their key performance targets and specifications, while SEMIFIVE delivers integrated services across the entire process, from detailed design to packaging, testing and mass production.

The chip will integrate a wide range of next-generation technologies, including LPDDR6, the latest low-power DRAM standard; PCIe Gen6, a high-speed interface; and UCIe-S (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express – Standard Package), which connects multiple function-specific chiplets at high speed within a single package so they operate as a single monolithic die. These technologies will enable the chip to achieve both high power efficiency and operational stability without data bottlenecks, even in outdoor settings such as areas with limited network coverage.

The two companies expect the collaboration to contribute to building a homegrown AI semiconductor ecosystem in Korea, while securing an early lead in next-generation robotics platforms and creating new markets.

“This contract marks a pivotal moment for SEMIFIVE as we extend our proven, end-to-end ASIC capabilities from data center and edge AI into the realm of robotics AI,” said Brandon Cho, CEO and co-founder of SEMIFIVE. “As a leader in custom semiconductors, we will continue to expand our technological footprint and influence across advanced industries.”

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