Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ is making Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM) available at no additional cost with all RLC Pro subscriptions. Migrating fleets get a local mirror, curated content views, rollback and network provisioning before the first host is converted.

CIQ treats OS conversion and lifecycle tooling as separate workstreams

For RHEL, Oracle Linux and CentOS-family sources, CIQ's migrate2rlc script converts each host to RLC Pro within the same major version. The conversion changes what runs on the host. It leaves three questions open: where hosts pull packages afterward, which content each host group may install, and how teams build replacement machines. ELM answers all three, and CIQ advises putting that layer into the migration plan from the first week.

Paris – October 12, 2026 -- GAC became the Official Automotive Partner of Chelsea FC at the 91st Paris Motor Show, adding a second Premier League-calibre European football tie to its push into the region after Villarreal CF.

Chelsea deal follows pre-season tour collaboration

GAC and Chelsea held a global partnership signing ceremony at the GAC booth at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, following a strategic cooperation agreement. The two sides first worked together during the club's 2026 pre-season tour. Chelsea legend Claude Makélélé attended, met GAC owners and signed an autograph for a robotic "young fan".

Chelsea is the second European club to sign a strategic partnership with GAC, after Villarreal CF. GAC plans to use both clubs to engage fans and build locally relevant brand experiences for European users.

Los Angeles – October 12, 2026 -- Marketing Maven, an integrated marketing and public relations agency, ranked No. 22 among the nation's top professional services PR firms in O'Dwyer's annual rankings, placing it inside the category's top 25.

O'Dwyer's has compiled its PR firm rankings since 1968. The Professional Services category covers PR work for law firms, accounting firms, financial advisors, architects and consultants. Rankings draw on documentation submitted by participating firms and allow industry-specific comparisons across numerous PR specialties.

Veteran Frank Tortorici leads the professional services practice

Frank Tortorici, VP of Media Relations, runs the practice and has worked in public relations and media relations since 1984. His expertise covers business-to-business and financial PR, along with tech, crisis communications and pharmaceutical media relations.

Luoyang – October 12, 2026 -- Luoyang relocated 973 households, nearly 3,300 villagers and 63 enterprises between 2007 and 2024 to clear the Sui-Tang Luoyang City site, freeing 62 hectares in its palace core zone for heritage display. The city presented the results at the seventh International Ancient Capitals Forum and the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue in Henan province, held from Friday to Sunday.

Sui-Tang site relocation balanced heritage protection with residents' living conditions

The Sui-Tang Luoyang City site served as a capital or secondary capital for more than 530 years, across the Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and Northern Song periods. Around 2005, low-rise dwellings, enterprises and factories dotted the site. Residents wanted better living conditions and enterprises wanted to expand production, while the site needed standardized protection.

Columbus – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has appointed Frieda He as Chief Procurement Officer, placing a executive who oversaw more than $3 billion in annual global spend at Polestar in charge of its global procurement organization.

He will focus on strengthening supply chain resilience, enabling growth, optimizing cost and value, and driving supplier quality. Her remit covers Vertiv's portfolio of end-to-end power and thermal management solutions for data centers, communications networks, and commercial and industrial applications.

Columbus – – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has acquired Strategic Thermal Labs LLC (STL), a specialist in advanced liquid-cooling technologies, to strengthen its engineering capability where server-side liquid cooling meets supporting infrastructure in AI and high-performance computing environments. Financial terms were not disclosed.

STL adds cold-plate design and high-density thermal validation expertise

STL brings cold-plate design, server-side liquid cooling and high-density thermal validation capabilities. Vertiv expects the expertise to improve its ability to simulate and emulate real high-density compute conditions.

The company also expects to optimize the interaction between the thermal chain and the power train. It plans to support customers across design, integration, commissioning and lifecycle operations.

Columbus – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has advanced a production-grade digital twin for its VertivTM SmartRun system, integrated into the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, as the first phase of a multi-phase AI factory digital twin roadmap.

Model-based design replaces document-based handoffs across power, cooling and controls

Vertiv says document-based processes and siloed handoffs between power, cooling, controls and deployment teams cannot keep pace as AI deployments scale to higher densities and larger capacities. The SmartRun digital twin captures system configurations and dependencies in a virtual environment, so infrastructure can be designed, simulated and validated as a single system before build-out.

Vertiv expects this to reduce late-stage design changes and integration risk, and to shorten the time from planning to operational readiness.

Columbus – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has completed its acquisition of ThermoKey S.p.A., adding heat rejection and heat-exchange manufacturing capacity in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as AI factories and high-density data centers drive demand for thermal systems. The release does not disclose financial terms.

ThermoKey adds heat-exchange and dry cooler technology to Vertiv's thermal chain

ThermoKey supplies heat-exchange solutions and dry coolers, and its technology is compatible with low-GWP and natural refrigerants. Vertiv says this complements its existing portfolio and lets customers optimize for performance, site conditions and growth. The company already uses ThermoKey technologies in select thermal solutions.

Columbus, Ohio – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has opened a manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, to serve rising demand for AI and high-density computing infrastructure across Southeast Asia, North Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The site is expected to bring hundreds of skilled jobs to the region once fully operational in 2027.

The plant adds regional manufacturing, engineering, logistics and deployment capacity in one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing industrial markets. Vertiv cites the site's regional connectivity and proximity to key technology and customer hubs.

Johor plant handles manufacturing, assembly and full-scale witness testing

The facility covers end-to-end manufacturing, assembly and full-scale witness testing of thermal and power infrastructure. Vertiv says validated performance reduces deployment risk and speeds time to capacity for enterprise, cloud and colocation customers.

Tognana, Italy – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv expects to double chiller production capacity at its Tognana campus near Padua by the end of 2026, as demand for AI and high-density computing infrastructure drives investment in data center cooling.

The NYSE-listed company will also complete a new large-scale testing laboratory in early 2027, adding integrated validation capacity to the site.

New laboratory will test chillers with liquid cooling under extreme loads

The facility will test large-scale chillers and validate how they integrate with liquid cooling systems under high-density load conditions and extreme temperature ranges. Vertiv says the capability lets customers verify thermal performance under expected site conditions. The aim is to deploy increasingly complex cooling systems with greater speed and confidence.