CIO, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
The Cost of Intelligence?
AI's real constraint isn't intelligence but the inability to measure the economic value it creates versus its cost. more →
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SC Media, Friday, September 25th, 2026
The Four AI Questions CISOs Will Hear From the Board the Next Time They Meet
A CISO op-ed lists four evidence-based questions boards now expect CISOs to answer about AI risk. more →
TechTarget, Monday, September 21st, 2026
The Quiet Rise of AI Technical Debt
AI technical debt is quietly accumulating across prompts, data, and models as enterprises scale pilots without governance. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, September 25th, 2026
What Is Prompt Engineering? A Complete Guide to AI Prompting
Analytics Insight explains prompt engineering fundamentals, from prompt structure to evaluation in production. more →
TechRadar, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Where Should AI Agents Stop and Human Judgement Begin?
AI ad agents can execute campaign changes directly, but clear rules must define where automation ends and human judgment begins. more →
ITPro, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Why AI Adoption Is a People Problem, Not a Technology Problem
ITPro argues AI rollouts fail from poor change management, not weak tech, citing cases where 80% of licensed users logged in once and quit. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Why Shift Left Is Dead
DevOps.com argues shift-left security can't handle AI-era risks that appear before any code is written. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Why Software Supply Chain Security Is Moving to the Gate
Package registries are shifting from post-install scanning to blocking malicious packages before installation. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Boring Is the Flex
A survey gap - 86% confident they can govern AI-assisted changes, only 30% have a written policy - shows slowness used to be governance. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Cutting CI Pipeline Time by 64%: What Actually Works in Production
An engineering manager details how his team cut CI pipeline time from an hour to 22 minutes while growing test coverage 90%. more →
Platform Engineering, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Harness Engineering and the Future of Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering proposes 'harness engineering' as a governance framework for autonomous AI agents. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Platform Observability Is Broad but Still Too Shallow
Wide telemetry coverage doesn't equal useful observability; platform teams need shared conventions and AI-aware metrics. more →
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Platform Teams Own the Pipeline. Nobody Owns the Data
Platform engineering solved infrastructure ownership but left data quality accountability undefined, requiring declarative data contracts. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Your Engineering Budget Isn't Just Headcount Anymore
Engineering leaders should treat AI spend as a predictable budget line judged by value delivered, not just consumption. more →
StorageReview, Monday, September 21st, 2026
IDC External Storage Tracker: $10.3 Billion in Q2 2026 as Server Market Tops $166 Billion on AI Demand
IDC reports Q2 2026 enterprise storage revenue hit $10.3B and server revenue hit a record $166.3B, both driven by AI demand. more →
SecurityWeek, Monday, September 21st, 2026
CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis, the Accidental Global CISO at Comcast
Comcast Global CISO Noopur Davis credits her unplanned rise from developer to security leader to seizing interesting opportunities. more →
Blocks & Files, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
IDC's Latest Enterprise Storage Tracker Shows Booming Storage Market Growth
IDC recorded 33.6% annual enterprise storage market growth in Q2 2026, with all-flash arrays taking over half of revenue. more →
StorageReview, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Solidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S Review: Gen4 QLC for Mixed Workloads
StorageReview tests Solidigm's 30.72TB D5-P5430 Gen4 QLC SSD for mixed data center workloads. more →
Techstrong IT, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Enterprise IT Spending Set to Rise 5% in 2027 as AI Budgets Expand
IT spending is forecast to grow 5% in 2027 as AI absorbs budget once spent on hardware and consulting. more →
Tech Spotlight - What AI Means for Identity Security
In this session, Nathan O'Bryan (5x Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master, 30+ year veteran Active Directory administrator) will cover how changes in technology have shaped the way IT departments do Identity and Access Management. more →
AIwire, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
What's Hot in AI Infra Now: Power and Cooling
The recent AI Infra Summit had a lot of great presentations on innovations happening at the chip, memory, system, network, and storage levels. But there’s also quite a bit happening further down the five-layer cake, in the underlying power and cooling that’s needed to make the racks of AI infrastructure work. more →
The Register, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Your Cloud Survived Everything Except the Real World
Rupert Goodwins argues cloud resilience fails against real-world threats like war, weak backups, and an AI-driven storage crunch. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
AI Safely Deploys and Tests Your Infrastructure Code
A Tech Field Day podcast explores how to use AI for infrastructure automation safely without reckless "vibe coding." more →
Google Cloud Security Summit
As AI keeps reshaping the enterprise, security must move faster than ever. Join security experts from Google Cloud, Mandiant, and Wiz to learn how to securely build and govern AI agents, safeguard applications from the ground up, protect your systems against new AI-driven attacks, and respond quickly when risks appear. more →
InfoQ, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Java News Roundup: JDK 27, Open J Proxy, A2A Jakarta, Azul Payara, BoxLang, Netflix
InfoQ's weekly roundup covers JDK 27, OpenJProxy 1.0, A2A Jakarta, Azul Payara 7.4.0, BoxLang, and a new Netflix Java tool. more →
The Economics of Infrastructure Modernization
In this session, Evolve Cloud Services will examine the economics of moving Microsoft workloads toward open-source & license-free infrastructure and databases, and container-based architectures on AWS. We'll discuss how to establish a baseline for current infrastructure and licensing costs, identify modernization opportunities, evaluate the trade-offs of different target architectures, and build a defensible TCO and ROI case for modernization. more →
Architecture & Governance Magazine, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Forrester Posits, 'Will AI Eliminate Enterprise Architects?' Experts Chime In
Forrester and experts argue AI will transform, not eliminate, the enterprise architect role by shifting it toward governance. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, September 26th, 2026
How to Identify Your Career Strengths and Use Them to Grow Professionally
A guide to spotting your career strengths and applying them daily to accelerate professional growth. more →
Analytics Insight, Sunday, September 20th, 2026
Top Skills Every Computer Science Student Should Learn for a Tech Career
CS students need core programming, AI literacy, cloud, and cybersecurity skills to build a resilient tech career. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
What Will Be the Impact of AI on Data Centre Job Roles
AI is reshaping data centre jobs, automating routine tasks while creating new automation and AI-infrastructure roles. more →
AMD, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Advanced Insights: How Zen Architecture Evolves for the Agentic AI Era
AMD's CTO and chief CPU architect discuss how Zen x86 architecture is evolving to meet agentic AI demands. more →
AMD, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Hyperloom: A Multi-Agent Harness for Autonomous Inference Optimization on AMD GPUs
AMD's Hyperloom uses a multi-agent harness to autonomously optimize inference, achieving a median 1.73x throughput gain. more →
AMD, Friday, September 25th, 2026
UltraQuant on AMD Instinct: More Efficient Agentic Serving for Qwen3.8-MXFP4
AMD's ROCm blog details UltraQuant, a native 4-bit MXFP4 KV cache that speeds up Qwen3.8 decoding on Instinct MI355X GPUs. more →
C-Suite AI Conversations: Ready to Fail vs Ready to Scale
In this session, Gartner shares the inconvenient truths emerging from interviews with chairpersons and CEOs from organizations including IBM, Accenture, Tata Group and PwC. Explore what it takes to move from being ready to fail to being ready to scale, and learn the leadership, operating model and organizational shifts required to turn AI investments into sustained business value. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Friday, September 25th, 2026
How the Aurora Agentic SOC Is Building the Next Generation of SOC Analysts
Arctic Wolf outlines how its Aurora Agentic SOC balances AI-driven automation with human analyst judgment and accountability. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
The Psychedelic Stealer: When a CAPTCHA Becomes an Installer
Arctic Wolf Labs tracked a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA campaign using a Ukrainian ClickFix lure to deliver Psychedelic Stealer malware in 32 countries. more →
Broadcom, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Optimizing AI Deployments with VMware Cloud Foundation (Part 1)
Broadcom details how VMware Cloud Foundation maximizes performance and resource efficiency for multi-tenant AI deployments. more →
Broadcom, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Shattering the Resilience Illusion: Cyber Resilience in the Era of AI-Driven Threats
Broadcom argues most enterprises overestimate their ransomware readiness even as AI-driven, fileless attacks surge. more →
Broadcom, Friday, September 25th, 2026
The Complete Guide to Workload Mobility with VMware Cloud Foundation Operations HCX 9.1 (Part 3: Extending Networks and Migrating Workloads)
Part 3 of Broadcom's VCF Operations HCX 9.1 guide covers network extension and choosing the right workload migration type. more →
Broadcom, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Webinar Recap: Operationalizing VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service with Add-Ons
A Broadcom webinar recap details how VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service uses Supervisor Services and Cluster Add-Ons to ease Day 2 operations. more →
Commvault, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Architect for Tomorrow: Unified Data Protection as the Foundation for Resilience
Commvault argues unified data protection reduces the operational complexity that years of fragmented tooling have added to resilience. more →
Commvault, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Business Continuity Planning for the Cloud-Native Era
Commvault describes how business continuity planning has shifted from protecting physical servers to safeguarding cloud-native data and workloads. more →
Commvault, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Configuring S3 Backup and Recovery with Clumio
Commvault detailed how Clumio backs up and restores Amazon S3 data with immutable, air-gapped copies and point-in-time recovery. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Importance of Recovery Point Objective (RPO) in Your Business Continuity Plan
Commvault explains recovery point objective (RPO), how it pairs with RTO, and how to set tiered RPO targets for critical data. more →
Commvault, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Your Modern Playbook for Identity Resilience: Rapid Response and Clean Recovery
Commvault outlined how its Cloud Identity Resilience product protects, monitors, and recovers Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta from attacks. more →
The AI Audit Trail: Proving AI-Generated Code Is Safe to Ship
This session gets above the daily cycle of model and tool announcements and turns practical. Futurum analyst Mitch Ashley and Veracode's Chris Wysopal separate what is real from what is noise, then walk through what proof actually looks like for AI-generated code. We cover the audit trail security leaders need, the controls that hold up under scrutiny, and the steps AppSec teams can take today. more →
Dell, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Why Higher Education Needs Dell AI Data Platform
Dell's AI Data Platform aims to unify university data for research, teaching, and administrative AI use. more →
How CIOs Can Guide Board Conversations on AI Risk in Higher Education
This webinar explores how CIOs are framing AI risk for boards and senior executives through four critical lenses: regulatory and compliance exposure, operational and cybersecurity risk, academic and research integrity, and the strategic opportunities and ROI that AI presents. more →
Elastic, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Elastic Cloud on Azure Gets a Speed Boost: Compute-Optimized Instances on Azure Cobalt ARM
Elastic Cloud on Azure added Cobalt ARM compute-optimized instances, delivering up to 44% better price-performance for CPU-bound workloads. more →
Elastic, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Trust, but Verify: Atomic Claim Checking Against LLM Hallucinations
Elastic used atomic claim checking to safely let an LLM merge duplicate knowledge base articles, clearing a four-year backlog. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
A Guide to Speeding up Your Video Processing with AlphaEvolve
Google shows how its AlphaEvolve evolutionary coding tool can optimize latency-critical video processing beyond what AI coding assistants achieve. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
A New Wave of Connected Apps Is Rolling Out to Gemini
Google rolled out new Connected Apps in Gemini, including Adobe, Airtable, Linear, and Peloton, to manage tasks without switching tabs. more →
Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
A New, No-Compromises Database Architecture for the Agentic Era
Google Cloud argues scaling OLTP databases for AI agents needs a new architecture that avoids trading off scale, latency, or isolation. more →
Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Agent Factory Recap: Agent Harnesses, Shifting Left, and Autonomous Coding
Google's Agent Factory podcast recap explains what an 'agent harness' is and how grounding models in context enables greater agent autonomy. more →
Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
AlloyDB Delivers PostgreSQL for Agents: Real-Time Data at Agent Scale, with Full Workload Isolation
AlloyDB's new agentic database architecture (preview) gives AI agents real-time, read-only access to production data via isolated instances. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Anyone Can Make Stunning HD Videos with Gemini Omni in Google Vids
Google added its Gemini Omni model to Google Vids, letting anyone generate free 1080p HD videos with creative scene controls. more →
Intel, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Googlebook Launches With Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Processors
Intel announced Google's new Googlebook laptop platform launched with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. more →
Intel, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Intel On the Ground at the AI Infra Summit
Intel recapped its presence at the AI Infra Summit, including a CEO Lip-Bu Tan fireside chat on AI strategy. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, September 21st, 2026
AI Security Is an Engineering Problem - How to Solve It at Every Layer of the Agent Stack
NVIDIA argues AI agent security requires defined controls, ownership and evidence across the model, harness and runtime layers of the agent stack. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and partners highlighted AI deployments across the region, including Nemotron models for public-safety research. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development
NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, adding agentic workflows and ROS Lyrical/Ubuntu 24.04 support for its GPU-accelerated robotics packages. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, September 21st, 2026
NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
NVIDIA launched DSX Ready, a qualification program certifying partner power and cooling products against its AI factory reference designs. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
NVIDIA argues physical AI safety must span hardware, software, AI behavior and the full deployment lifecycle as autonomous machines scale up. more →
Network World, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Can NVIDIA's GeForce Gaming GPU Really Be Repurposed for AI Computing?
Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 cards are being pressed into AI duty, but 32GB of memory limits them to smaller models. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Friday, September 25th, 2026
3 Consulting Myths Debunked by Unit 42 Experts
Unit 42 consultants warn that buying new security tools without a unified strategy causes alert fatigue and operational overload. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Monday, September 21st, 2026
From Exposure to Lockdown: How AWS Neutralizes Compromised IAM Credentials Through Managed Policies
Unit 42 details how AWS's AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantine policy automatically locks down exposed IAM keys, aided by GitHub secret scanning. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Introducing Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 launched an always-on AI-driven service using Anthropic and OpenAI models to find and fix vulnerabilities faster. more →
The Shift From SDLC To ADLC: How The Human Role Is Changing In Software Development
As AI agents take on more of the build, test, and deploy work in software development, the developer's job changes from authoring code to specifying intent, setting constraints, and reviewing outcomes. more →
Red Hat, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG Automation Now Matches DISA STIG V1R2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 now has a complete DISA STIG profile matching V1R2, giving DoD and contractors a compliance baseline. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Unify VMs and Containers with Everpure Cloud on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Everpure Cloud is now available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, letting IT teams manage legacy VMs and cloud-native containers together. more →
SAP, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
What Implementation Teams Wish Organizations Knew About Enterprise RFPs
A systems integrator explains why many enterprise software RFPs fail to reach a vendor decision or add real value. more →
CloudFest Americas - Miami
A new era begins: CloudFest USA steps forward as CloudFest Americas. The business platform that unites Cloud, hosting, and infrastructure leaders from across North, Central, and South America into one globally-connected community experience. more →
Snowflake, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
AI Agent Observability Coming to Observe by Snowflake
Snowflake is adding Agent Observability to Observe to help teams trace AI agent quality, cost and performance. more →
Snowflake, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 is now in public preview across Snowflake Cortex AI with lower costs and faster output. more →
Snowflake, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Kimi K3 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model is now in private preview on Snowflake Cortex AI. more →
Snowflake, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Stop Prompting, Start Employing: A Blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise
A Snowflake exec argues enterprises should treat AI agents as hired roles with accountability, not just prompts. more →
Trend Micro, Friday, September 25th, 2026
AI Agents Can Be Secured. We Can Do It.
Trend Micro's CEO argues AI agents can be secured using established cybersecurity practices, not rejected outright. more →
When Agents Go Rogue: Building a Recovery Plan for the AI Age
In this Tech Talk, we'll explore why identity systems themselves should be treated as Tier 0 infrastructure. We'll look at how a known-good backup of an identity environment can provide a reliable reset point when forensic reconstruction is incomplete, and why restoring trusted access should be one of the first steps toward bringing the rest of the business back online. more →
