Windhof – October 31, 2026 -- A consortium led by Sword Services Greece has been ranked first for a four-year framework contract worth an estimated €93 million to develop and maintain the EU's Entry/Exit System (EES). The award came under the Dynamic Purchasing System of eu-LISA, the EU agency for large-scale IT systems.

Switzerland – October 31, 2026 -- Sword Switzerland has extended the internship of Elio Biffiger, its digital marketing intern, by a further six months. The initial placement ran six months from November 2025 and forms part of his Master's degree at CREA Geneva.

Intern runs social channels and editorial calendar for Sword Switzerland

Biffiger works alongside the marketing team on brand visibility and communication initiatives. He produces LinkedIn content, newsletters and marketing materials, including posts, carousels, visuals and partner announcements.

EMEA – October 31, 2026 -- Sword has won the 2026 Splunk EMEA Services Partner of the Year award, Splunk's regional recognition for a services partner that combines technical delivery with AI-focused customer outcomes.

Windhof – October 31, 2026 -- Sword Group posted third-quarter 2026 revenue of €100.2 million, with organic growth of +16.6% at constant scope and exchange rates, and confirmed its full-year targets for organic growth and profitability. The figures are unaudited.

San Francisco – October 31, 2026 -- Merchant-built server-class Ethernet NIC revenue rose 40% year-over-year in calendar Q2 2024, reaching an annualized run-rate close to $5 billion, according to Crehan Research. The figures cover adapters, controllers and LOMs.

SmartNICs grow over 50% while mainstream NICs gain over 30%

Foundational/Performance Ethernet NIC revenue increased more than 30% year-over-year. DPU/IPU Ethernet SmartNIC revenue grew more than 50%. Crehan attributes the growth largely to numerous concurrent Ethernet speed and technology upgrades.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 31, 2026 -- Server-class Ethernet NIC revenues rose by $2 billion in calendar-year 2024, according to the latest report from Crehan Research. Market revenues have doubled in just three years, even though one of those years was weak because of a general market inventory correction.

Data center buyers shift more networking budget to NICs

Crehan's analysis shows data center customers are spending a greater portion of their networking budgets on Ethernet NICs. That share has risen even as the overall budgets grew robustly.

San Francisco – October 31, 2026 -- The DPU/SmartNIC Ethernet market grew revenues and shipments by nearly 30% in 2024, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure accounting for most deployments, according to a Crehan Research report.

Two hyperscalers take most of the volume

Cloud service providers remained the main growth driver. Alibaba, CoreWeave, Google, IBM, Oracle and xAI made up most of the remaining shipments after AWS and Azure.

San Francisco – October 31, 2026 -- Fibre Channel networking sales grew 6% in calendar-year 2025, according to Crehan Research, extending a strong 2024 and lifting cumulative sales by more than 20% over two years. Both switches and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) contributed to the increase.

Crehan Research said the 2025 results exceeded its own forecast for a growth year. Seamus Crehan, the firm's president, said enterprises continue to rely on the products for their most important applications.

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – October 31, 2026 -- Glance Networks released "The Human Edge in AI Customer Service," a guide aimed at the AI-to-human handoff gap, as 76% of consumers say they get frustrated by repeating themselves when switching channels.

The Glance 2026 Customer Experience Trends Report found that 44% of consumers almost always have to repeat themselves when switching channels. Only 7% say they rarely or never do. Respondents described being stuck in an "endless loop" with AI when they needed a human.

RESTON, Va. – October 31, 2026 -- Leidos Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) raised its quarterly cash dividend by 4.7% to $0.45 per outstanding share of common stock, up $0.02 from the prior quarterly payout of $0.43.

Board declares $0.45 payout, lifting the annualized rate to $1.80

The board of directors approved the increase. At the new quarterly rate, the annualized dividend comes to $1.80 per share, against $1.72 under the previous rate.