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Managed services, data centers, and enterprise cloud adoption are driving explosive demand across the rapidly evolving technology infrastructure landscape.

NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 /CNW/ -- Market News Updates News Commentary - The IT and digital infrastructure services space has been growing quickly as companies in almost every industry push deeper into cloud computing, cybersecurity, AI integration, and large-scale digital transformation projects. Businesses today are under pressure to operate faster, smarter, and more securely, and many are turning to outside technology providers to help make that happen. Instead of managing everything internally, companies are increasingly outsourcing key IT functions to improve efficiency, cut costs, strengthen security, and modernize outdated systems. That shift has created strong demand for managed cloud services, data centers, IT consulting, network support, and workflow automation tools, especially as hybrid work and data-heavy operations become the norm. The U.S. IT services market alone reached an estimated $405.7 billion in 2023 and is expected to continue climbing steadily through the rest of the decade as enterprise spending on AI, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity keeps rising.  Several publicly traded companies operate across digital marketing, cloud infrastructure, managed IT services, and online business solutions that may include:  Sky Century Investment, Inc. (OTCID: SKYI), ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE: NOW), Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), Intellicheck, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDN), Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLTR).

Cloud and managed infrastructure services, in particular, are becoming some of the biggest growth drivers across the broader digital economy. Analysts expect the global cloud managed services market to expand from roughly $134.4 billion in 2024 to more than $305 billion by 2030, reflecting just how fast businesses are adopting outsourced cloud solutions. At the same time, the global IT outsourcing market is projected to surpass $1.2 trillion by the end of the decade as organizations rely more heavily on third-party providers to handle mission-critical technology operations. Much of this momentum is being fueled by growing demand for AI-ready infrastructure, multi-cloud environments, edge computing, compliance management, and stronger cybersecurity protection. As digital systems become more complex, companies are looking for experienced partners that can keep operations running smoothly while helping them adapt to rapidly changing technology demands.

Looking ahead, the long-term outlook for digital infrastructure services remains extremely strong. Artificial intelligence, automation, and high-performance computing are continuing to reshape how businesses invest in technology, and infrastructure providers are racing to keep up. Major cloud companies and managed service operators are pouring billions into next-generation data centers, advanced networking systems, and AI computing capacity to support future demand. Some industry forecasts suggest North America's data center market alone could approach $1 trillion in value by 2030 as cloud usage and AI workloads continue accelerating. At the same time, demand for managed IT infrastructure services is expected to rise sharply as companies place a greater focus on uptime, scalability, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity resilience. Digital transformation is no longer viewed as optional for most businesses, and that's keeping IT and infrastructure providers at the center of one of the most important long-term growth trends in the global technology market.

Sky Century Investment, Inc. (OTCID: SKYI) Announces Expansion Plans and Increased Focus on Emerging Digital Trends - Sky Century Investment Inc. (SKYI), a digital media and information technology company specializing in RSS-based content solutions, today announced plans to further expand its digital services and strengthen its focus on emerging online trends and scalable media markets.

The company stated that its operational strategy is centered around evolving audience interests, digital publishing growth, and scalable content distribution. As part of this direction, Sky Century Investment plans to continue expanding its portfolio of customizable RSS feeds, syndicated content solutions, and digital media services across trending sectors such as technology, lifestyle, finance, entertainment, and consumer-focused industries.

Management believes that increasing demand for real-time information delivery, niche media content, and automated publishing solutions creates long-term opportunities within the digital content industry. The company intends to continue evaluating new trend-focused initiatives and additional digital service opportunities aligned with changing market demand.

Sky Century Investment's primary operations remain focused on the commercialization and distribution of thematic RSS feed products designed to help digital platforms and businesses increase audience engagement and recurring traffic. As a secondary activity, the company also provides selected IT and digital infrastructure services supporting its broader digital ecosystem.  Continued…   Read this full release from SKYI by visiting:  https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SKYI/

In other tech recent and current developments and news of note:

Boomi™, the data activation company for AI, recently announced an expansion of its partnership with ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE: NOW), the AI control tower for business reinvention, to deliver enhanced data activation capabilities integrated with ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric. As part of this collaboration, Boomi will be a launch partner for the ServiceNow Workflow Data Network Passport Program, making it easier for customers to seamlessly access and deploy Boomi's integration and data activation capabilities directly within the ServiceNow AI Platform.

Together, Boomi and ServiceNow are extending the connectivity footprint of ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric -- enabling organizations to integrate enterprise systems and data external to ServiceNow, so teams and AI agents can operate with the real-time data required to scale in the agentic AI era.

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, recently announced it is collaborating with Anthropic to launch Cloudflare Environments for Claude Managed Agents. This integration allows organizations to run core agent loops on the Claude platform while using Cloudflare's global network and Workers developer platform to execute code, secure private connections, and provide agents with specialized tools. By giving developers a secure and massively-scalable environment, Cloudflare is helping ensure that the next generation of AI assistants can be built quickly, securely, and at a global scale.

For AI agents to be truly useful in the workplace, they need to be more than just smart -- they need to be secure and scalable. Cloudflare Environments for Managed Agents solves this by providing the foundation these agents need to work safely within an organization. A Workers-based control plane spins up secure sandboxes for every agent session, and security and compliance controls are applied by default. This enables businesses to maintain strict security protocols while scaling their AI initiatives from a single prototype to millions of users without infrastructure bottlenecks.

Intellicheck, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDN), an industry-leading identity company delivering on-demand digital and physical identity validation solutions, recently announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. Total revenue for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026 grew 13% to a record $5,524,000 compared to $4,894,000 in the same period of 2025. First quarter SaaS revenue grew 13% and totaled $5,514,000 compared to $4,868,000 in the same period of 2025.

"This quarter further validates our belief that Intellicheck has reached a key inflection point in the evolution of our business and our path to profitability. At our current operating run rate, incremental revenue is expected to flow meaningfully to the bottom line. We believe this demonstrates the leverage in our business model and the successful execution across the organization. We ended the quarter with more than $10 million in cash, no debt, and what we believe is a truly differentiated identity verification platform," said Intellicheck CEO Bryan Lewis.

Kaltura, Inc. (Nasdaq: KLTR), the Agentic Digital Experience company, recently announced the general availability of its Avatar Video Production Studio that transforms enterprise knowledge into structured, avatar-led video experiences that can be created in minutes, distributed at scale, and extended into real-time, interactive engagements.

Organizations generate more knowledge than they can effectively activate. Content exists across webinars, training sessions, documents, and internal communications, yet much of it remains difficult to consume, repurpose, or act on at scale. The challenge is no longer creating content - it is making knowledge accessible, structured, and actionable across every organizational journey. Avatar Video Production Studio addresses this gap by enabling any business user to convert existing knowledge assets into high-quality, avatar-narrated video experiences - without filming, editing, or traditional production workflows.

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VANCOUVER, BC, March 19, 2026 /CNW/ -- USANewsGroup.com News Commentary -- Think of it as a "digital heist" happening in slow motion. Bad actors are currently grabbing encrypted data with the plan to unlock it once quantum computers go mainstream. It is no longer a theoretical "maybe" scenario; it is an active operational risk. The World Economic Forum recently warned that this "harvest-now-decrypt-later" strategy is already well underway^[1]. For the people running our power grids and water systems, the clock is ticking because their heavy-duty tech takes years, not months, to update^[2]. This massive structural shift is opening doors for Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN8), Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) (NASDAQ:QUBT), Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS), and Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), as they race to provide the cryptographic agility institutions now require.

This is quickly moving from a "good idea" to a strict compliance mandate across the board. Gartner expects post-quantum standards to become the law of the land for banks, hospitals, and utilities within this current cycle^[3]. Industry leaders are now treating cryptographic agility as the must-have organizational capability for the next decade. As the deadline for a methodical migration gets tighter, the companies building quantum-resilient architecture at the network and data sovereignty levels are positioned for pivotal market relevance as the window for transition compresses.

Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN8) announced its first municipal government post-quantum security pilot this week, a concrete step forward for the Vancouver-based company as it pushes deeper into public-sector contracts. The pilot is being conducted through QSE's membership in MISA (Municipal Information Systems Association), which connects municipal governments across Canada on technology evaluation initiatives.

The participating municipality will use QSE's Quantum Preparedness Assessment (QPA) platform to map its cryptographic exposure and build a readiness framework for the coming shift to post-quantum security standards. In plain terms, that means figuring out which of its systems could be cracked by a powerful enough quantum computer in the future, and starting to plan how to fix that before it becomes an emergency.

"Our engagement with municipal governments reflects the growing recognition that post-quantum security planning must begin well before quantum computing capabilities reach maturity," said Ted Carefoot, CEO of QSE. "Municipal governments operate critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data systems, making early evaluation of cryptographic risk an important step in preparing for the next generation of cybersecurity challenges."

The company noted it is already in talks with additional municipalities exploring similar assessments.

The municipal pilot fits into a broader commercial story. Since November 2025, QSE has grown from four to thirteen operational markets worldwide, with eleven value-added distributors now active across its channel ecosystem and two more partnerships expected to close shortly. The company has also been building out its technology stack, adding expanded automation to the QPA platform for analyzing software, cryptographic, and hardware bills of materials, giving organizations a clearer picture of where their encryption vulnerabilities actually sit.

On the identity side, QSE integrated its quantum-resistant entropy layer into QAuth, its authentication platform, strengthening how cryptographic keys are generated at the source level. The company also joined CADSI (Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries) alongside its MISA membership, opening pathways into Canadian defence and public-sector procurement processes.

QSE is a Canadian post-quantum security company building tools to help organizations protect their data not just from today's cyber threats, but from the more powerful attacks that quantum computing is expected to eventually make possible. Its platform covers migration readiness assessment, quantum-resilient key generation, identity and authentication, and encrypted storage architecture, targeting commercial, enterprise, and government clients preparing for a long-term shift in global cryptographic standards.

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In other industry developments and happenings in the market include:

Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) has partnered with Quantum Computing Inc. (NASDAQ:QUBT) to demonstrate next-generation quantum-secured communications at OFC 2026, integrating QCi's time-frequency entanglement-based quantum key distribution technology with Ciena's Waveserver optical encryption platform supporting AES-256-GCM encryption scaling up to 1.6 Tb/s. The live demonstration showcases a layered security architecture combining quantum key distribution, quantum authentication, and NIST-certified post-quantum cryptography algorithms designed to address both current threats and future risks from quantum computers running Shor's algorithm.

"For businesses and network operators handling sensitive data, the shift towards quantum-safe communications has already begun," said Paulina Gomez, Senior Advisor, Portfolio Marketing at Ciena. "Our easy-to-deploy solution delivers high-speed quantum-safe communications straight out of the box, without impacting performance, to protect critical in-flight data today while preparing for the quantum future."

The demonstration leverages an ETSI-standard API for seamless third-party QKD system interworking, underscoring Ciena's strategy of enabling commercially deployable quantum security within existing network infrastructure. As the global leader in high-speed connectivity serving enterprise and carrier customers worldwide, Ciena is positioning its optical encryption capabilities as critical infrastructure for the quantum transition.

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) has significantly expanded its data sovereignty capabilities across its Zero Trust Exchange platform, introducing enhanced local control planes in new regions including a forthcoming Canadian deployment, building on its existing dedicated infrastructure in the US, Europe, and six logging-plane countries. The expansion features in-region SSL inspection and malware analysis ensuring sensitive data never leaves its jurisdiction, alongside a "Collect Once, Certify All" compliance framework that accelerates validation across GDPR, NIS2, and DoD IL5.

"The true measure of a security cloud isn't just global performance, but its ability to adapt to local realities," said Misha Kuperman, Chief Reliability Officer at Zscaler. "Effective data sovereignty requires customers to have verified authority over their data residency, telemetry and control data plane data. By separating control, data, and logging planes with a decentralized architecture, Zscaler enables customers to align with strict local sovereignty requirements while maintaining the resilience and availability needed for global business continuity."

Operating across 160+ data centers globally, Zscaler owns and operates its own cloud infrastructure, eliminating single-point-of-failure risk while allowing major financial institutions to conduct live fire drills validating platform resilience. The sovereignty expansion reinforces Zscaler's competitive position as enterprises face increasingly complex cross-border compliance mandates in the AI era.

Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) has published its inaugural 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report based on analysis of the approximately 230 billion threats its network blocks daily, revealing a fundamental shift in attack methodology as nation-state actors and cybercriminals increasingly favor credential-based infiltration over traditional intrusion techniques. Key findings document Chinese state-sponsored actors Salt Typhoon and Linen Typhoon targeting North American telecommunications infrastructure, North Korean operatives using AI-generated deepfakes to embed workers in corporate payrolls, and record-breaking DDoS attacks reaching 31.4 Tbps.

"Hackers thrive on the gaps left by fragmented, stale threat intelligence," said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. "By sharing this intelligence with the world, we're plugging the gaps and shifting the advantage back to the defenders."

The report documents how AI is effectively erasing the technical barrier to entry for sophisticated attacks, with threat actors using large language models to map networks in real time and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns. Cloudflare's Cloudforce One research unit, which leverages telemetry from a network protecting approximately 20% of the web, positions the company to translate this threat intelligence into platform enhancements across its connectivity cloud product suite.

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1. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/02/quantum-security-question-leaders-cannot-ignore/
2. https://bisi.org.uk/reports/assessing-quantums-risk-on-critical-infrastructure
3. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-02-05-gartner-identifies-the-top-cybersecurity-trends-for-2026

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