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Gary Connolly shared thisAt Craxel, supporting the Armed Forces community is something we genuinely care about, so I’m delighted that we’re now supporting both RAF Angling and the RAF Small Arms Association in connection with the RAF Central Fund. What particularly resonates with me is that RAF Sport is about far more than competition. It creates opportunities to connect, develops resilience and camaraderie, and supports the wellbeing of serving personnel and veterans. We’re looking forward to working with both associations, supporting their ambitions and hopefully making a meaningful contribution to the communities behind them. Excited to see where the partnership takes us. #RAFSport #RAFAngling #RAFSmallArms #ArmedForces #Partnership RAF in Northern Ireland Engagement, Media and CommsGary Connolly shared this𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐀𝐢𝐦, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐱𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐀𝐅 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐀𝐅 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬.🎣🎯 This partnership brings together Craxel's support for the RAF community with two sports that offer much more than competition. From time on the water to time at the range, both associations provide opportunities to build resilience, develop skills and create a strong sense of community. We're hugely grateful to Craxel for their backing, helping two well-loved sports continue to grow, compete and provide opportunities across the RAF. Gary Connolly, Managing Director, Craxel, said: "Supporting the communities that serve is part of who we are. RAF Sport provides far more than competition; it builds resilience, camaraderie, discipline and wellbeing among Service personnel. We're proud to support the RAF Angling and RAF Small Arms Associations, helping them create opportunities for personnel and veterans to connect, compete and develop, while strengthening our relationship with the UK defence community." Wing Commander Karl Bird, Chair of the RAF Angling Association added: "We are excited to welcome Craxel on board as a sponsor. This support helps us grow grassroots events, look after our community, and keep our competitive teams performing at the highest level. Beyond competition, we are also developing plans to use the mental health and wellbeing benefits of angling to improve the operational efficiency of our people, building on the work I recently presented at the RAF Mental Health Symposium. This sponsorship will be a key part of that next chapter." Speaking on the partnership, Group Captain Andy Glazebrook, Chair of the RAF Small Arms Association, said: “We are delighted to welcome Craxel as the first major sponsor of the RAF Small Arms Association. Their support is particularly meaningful given their commitment to the Armed Forces community, demonstrated by formally signing the Armed Forces Covenant in May 2026. It is great to see a company with such a strong connection to the defence community supporting our Association, the continuation of the RAF’s proud shooting tradition, and the generation of new opportunities for our talented shooters.” We’re excited to see what this partnership brings for both associations. #RAFSport #RAFAngling #RAFSmallArms #Partnership
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Gary Connolly shared thisWe’re excited to announce that Craxel has joined the Intel Partner Alliance. This is an important step in demonstrating the performance, scalability, and potential of our multimodal data platform, helping organisations turn complex data into faster, more valuable insights. We look forward to building on this collaboration and accelerating what’s possible with high-performance data infrastructure . #Craxel #IntelPartnerAlliance #MultimodalAI #DataPlatform #InnovationGary Connolly shared thisCraxel is now an Intel® Partner Alliance member. Here’s what that means for teams working with data on a massive scale. Black Forest unifies graph, vector and time-series data into one platform, built to hold its performance across trillions of records without the cost or complexity of stitching systems together. This partnership means Black Forest is now featured in the Intel Partner Showcase. If your data has outgrown what's stitched together today, find out more. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gAgk6rHs
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Gary Connolly shared thisCraxel is landing at the Farnborough International Airshow 2026 in less than 10 days with our very own #BlackForest data platform. This is the runway to better decisions, faster at any scale! We will be sharing how #Craxel turns multimodal data into explainable answers, traceable decisions, and production-ready AI at scale. Built for complex, high-stakes environments. Come and catch up with us at the #NorthernIreland stand. I am very much looking forward to seeing our customers, partners, and industry colleagues there. ADS Group Ltd, Invest Northern Ireland #FIA2026 #FIA26 #FarnboroughInternationalAirshow #FarnboroughInternational #Craxel #BlackForest #AI #Aerospace #Defence #Space #ExplainableAI #DecisionIntelligence #Multimodaldata #MultimodalAI #NorthernIreland #Innovation #ADS #InvestNI
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Gary Connolly shared thisIt's great to officially welcome Lauren to the Craxel team! 🎉 Lauren joins us as Marketing Manager, bringing a wealth of experience in strategic marketing and helping organisations tell compelling stories. As we continue to grow, attracting talented people is one of the most exciting parts of the journey. I'm looking forward to working together as we build the next chapter for Craxel and continue taking our technology to a global audience. Welcome aboard, Lauren! 🚀 #WelcomeToTheTeam #Craxel #MarketingLeadership #TechInnovation #DataInfrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessGrowth #AIGary Connolly shared thisAfter 3 years working with the Financial Times’ FT Locations and fDi Intelligence team, and 8 years working in the FDI industry… it's time for a new challenge! A big thank you to everyone I've had the pleasure of working with over the years. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with investment promotion organisations, governments, and businesses around the world to help attract investment and support economic growth. As one chapter ends, another begins and I’m excited to share that I have joined Craxel as Marketing Manager. Craxel is redefining data infrastructure. Its patented Black Forest technology enables organisations to ingest, store and analyse vast amounts of data with virtually zero latency - delivering speed, security and cost efficiency. This truly scalable technology is built for the future of AI. Looking forward to what's next!
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Gary Connolly shared thisIt is fantastic to be attending the Oracle Defence Tech Summit in Brussels today. The pace of innovation in AI, cloud, and defence technology is incredible, more importantly, unlike other conferences topics today focus on sovereignty, interoperability, partnerships and end users mission requirements. We Craxel are very proud to be an #OraclePartnerNetwork member, with our own #BlackForest Knowledge Infrastructure, natively deployable on #OCI! More to be announced on this exciting topic soon! Greg Magram, Steve Rigby, Nikki Rumbold #defenceinnovation #AI #DataInfrastructure #knowledgeinfrastructure #CloudComputing #Hyperscalecloud #AnalyticsAtScale #OracleDefenceTechSummit
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Gary Connolly shared thisA big thank you to NI SPACE, Eurisy and Matrix, The Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, for inviting myself and ultimately Craxel to speak on today’s Industry Enabler session for Space! It was a fantastic opportunity to explore, #Government, #Academia and #Industry collaboration right across the Space domain. It was also good to hear from our Deputy First Minister, and particularly her support for the industry as a whole! Emma Little-Pengelly BL MLA Thanks to Robert Hill for arranging today! #Space #SpaceTechnology #Collaboration #Craxel #BlackForest #DefenceSpace Invest Northern Ireland
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Gary Connolly shared thisIts great to welcome Celine Ostermeyer and Grace Collins to the Craxel team!!Gary Connolly shared thisWe are excited to welcome Celine Ostermeyer and Grace Collins to Craxel as they as part of our first Belfast Graduate intake joining our Knowledge Engineering team! We are proud to attract ambitious and talented individuals who bring fresh perspectives, energy, and a drive to succeed and we are excited to support their growth, development, and career journeys. It's always rewarding to bring talented people into the business, and their arrival is another reflection of the continued growth we're seeing as customer demand increases. Welcome to the team! 🚀 #Craxel #CraxelUK #Belfast #KnowledgeEngineering #GraphDatabase #Newbeginnings #Graduate #FutureTalent
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Gary Connolly shared thisEvery day, we hear about new #AI partnerships, products, and breakthrough ideas. What we hear far less about are the real enterprise challenges behind AI adoption and the software infrastructure needed to support it. The reality is that most AI initiatives are not struggling because of the models. They are struggling because they lack the infrastructure and contextual intelligence required to scale it effectively. Enterprise AI is no longer just about access to powerful models. It is about delivering the right information, securely, at speed, and with confidence, augmenting the human intelligence in the loop. Our very own John Sobanski explores the missing layers in enterprise AI here: https://lnkd.in/eFdesgPE #EnterpriseAI #AI #GenAI #DataArchitecture #KnowledgeGraphs #ArtificialIntelligenceGary Connolly shared thisEnterprise AI doesn’t fail because of the models. It fails because organisations lack a trusted context layer. Without structured business context, AI struggles with accuracy, governance, and scale. The missing layer in enterprise AI is contextual intelligence. Find out how Craxel is changing the game with Black Forest Knowledge Infrastructure https://lnkd.in/edCbcUsB #EnterpriseAI #AI #GenAI #KnowledgeGraphs #DataArchitecture #ContextAwareDecisionsThe Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Knowledge Infrastructure for Secure Retrieval at ScaleThe Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Knowledge Infrastructure for Secure Retrieval at Scale
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Gary Connolly reacted on thisGary Connolly reacted on thisAI is changing the economics of cyberattacks. But there’s another problem emerging underneath the AI arms race: data access. As attackers increasingly operate at machine speed, defensive AI needs to do the same. That means being able to reach the evidence. Not just today's alerts, but months or years of identity events, endpoint telemetry, network activity, cloud logs and security history. At enterprise scale that is already a petabyte problem. Across the broader security ecosystem it becomes an exabyte-scale data challenge. In our latest blog, Craxel's CEO and founder David Enga explores why traditional approaches to storing and searching that data could become a fundamental constraint on AI-powered cybersecurity. If AI is going to fight AI, the infrastructure underneath it has to keep up. Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/eE6kUd3Y #Cybersecurity #AI #DataInfrastructure #SecurityAI #BlackForest
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Gary Connolly liked thisGary Connolly liked thisCraxel is now a proud sponsor of the Royal Air Force Small Arms Association. The Association is supported by the RAF Central Fund and has been developing marksmanship in the RAF since 1921, across Target Pistol, Rifle, Small Bore and Clay Pigeon shooting. Over a century of training, competition and standards held steady. We're supporting that work through Craxel Causes, so personnel at every level of experience can keep training and competing. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5YDYfKC
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Gary Connolly reacted on thisGary Connolly reacted on thisCraxel is proud to announce our sponsorship of the UK Armed Forces Polo Association for the 2026 season. Supporting those who serve goes beyond technology. Through Craxel Causes, we're investing in organisations that build resilience, leadership and community across the Armed Forces. We're looking forward to backing UKAFPA throughout the season, including Rundle Cup Day. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAMKpVG3
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Gary Connolly reacted on thisIt’s great to welcome Craxel to the Intel Partner Alliance. These folks are wonderful to work and collaborate with and have incredible solutions for the enterprise and disconnected edge environments. I’m looking forward to deeper partnership! Matt Kelley David Enga Gary ConnollyGary Connolly reacted on thisCraxel is now an Intel® Partner Alliance member. Here’s what that means for teams working with data on a massive scale. Black Forest unifies graph, vector and time-series data into one platform, built to hold its performance across trillions of records without the cost or complexity of stitching systems together. This partnership means Black Forest is now featured in the Intel Partner Showcase. If your data has outgrown what's stitched together today, find out more. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gAgk6rHs
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Gary Connolly reacted on thisGary Connolly reacted on this𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐀𝐢𝐦, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐱𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐀𝐅 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐀𝐅 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬.🎣🎯 This partnership brings together Craxel's support for the RAF community with two sports that offer much more than competition. From time on the water to time at the range, both associations provide opportunities to build resilience, develop skills and create a strong sense of community. We're hugely grateful to Craxel for their backing, helping two well-loved sports continue to grow, compete and provide opportunities across the RAF. Gary Connolly, Managing Director, Craxel, said: "Supporting the communities that serve is part of who we are. RAF Sport provides far more than competition; it builds resilience, camaraderie, discipline and wellbeing among Service personnel. We're proud to support the RAF Angling and RAF Small Arms Associations, helping them create opportunities for personnel and veterans to connect, compete and develop, while strengthening our relationship with the UK defence community." Wing Commander Karl Bird, Chair of the RAF Angling Association added: "We are excited to welcome Craxel on board as a sponsor. This support helps us grow grassroots events, look after our community, and keep our competitive teams performing at the highest level. Beyond competition, we are also developing plans to use the mental health and wellbeing benefits of angling to improve the operational efficiency of our people, building on the work I recently presented at the RAF Mental Health Symposium. This sponsorship will be a key part of that next chapter." Speaking on the partnership, Group Captain Andy Glazebrook, Chair of the RAF Small Arms Association, said: “We are delighted to welcome Craxel as the first major sponsor of the RAF Small Arms Association. Their support is particularly meaningful given their commitment to the Armed Forces community, demonstrated by formally signing the Armed Forces Covenant in May 2026. It is great to see a company with such a strong connection to the defence community supporting our Association, the continuation of the RAF’s proud shooting tradition, and the generation of new opportunities for our talented shooters.” We’re excited to see what this partnership brings for both associations. #RAFSport #RAFAngling #RAFSmallArms #Partnership
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