Security Boulevard, Friday, October 17th, 2025
Finding Joy In Secure Cloud Migrations
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Wednesday’s Briefing · October 22
CIODIVE, Friday, October 17th, 2025
Tech Vendors Switch Up Pricing Models To Offset Rising Cloud Costs
Significant delivery costs for AI products and soaring cloud spend is driving providers to reassess pricing structures, according to a Revenera report. more →
InfoWorld, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
The Rise Of Purpose-Built Clouds
Specialized cloud solutions continue to drive multicloud adoption as AI requirements and compliance regulations grow. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
CIO, Friday, October 17th, 2025
The CIO As Orchestrator: From Running Systems To Building Ecosystems
Today's smartest CIOs don't just run systems - they orchestrate partners to unlock growth, innovation and real business results. more →
CIO, Friday, October 17th, 2025
How CIOs Can Negotiate Data, AI And Politics While Avoiding Snake Oil
Not all data gold glitters - smart CIOs know when to invest, how to measure value and how to steer clear of AI snake oil. more →
Data Center Knowledge, Friday, October 17th, 2025
How CIOs Can Close The IT Workforce Skills Gap For An AI-First Organization
CIOs investing in targeted AI upskilling and change management will drive long-term organizational success. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, October 17th, 2025
Who's in Charge of Your AI Strategy? SAS CIO Explains Why It Matters
CIOs face the challenges of not only deploying AI but also understanding who is responsible for leading their organizations' AI strategy, according to Jay Upchurch. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
CISOs Rethink Strategy Amid AI-Driven Cyber Risks
A new global study by Gigamon reveals that chief information security officers are rethinking their priorities as artificial intelligence reshapes both digital transformation and cybersecurity risks, according to IT Brief Australia. more →
Search CIO, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
CIOs: Ignore IT Maturity And Your Upskilling Will Fail
CIOs face mounting IT talent shortages. Aligning upskilling with IT maturity helps build future-ready teams, optimize resources and sustain competitiveness. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Beyond The Platform: How Enterprises Can Unify Their DevOps Toolchains For Better Governance And AI Readiness
For over a decade, the core mission of enterprise IT has been to accelerate innovation. This drive has led to a fundamental shift in how software is built, favoring team autonomy and the freedom to choose the best tools for the job. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Secure By Design, Secure By Default
'Shift left' has become a favorite mantra of engineering, IT and software teams. The idea is simple: Move critical practices earlier in the development process so that problems can be caught sooner and fixed more cheaply. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, October 18th, 2025
What Is The Best HDD Brand In 2025: Reliability, Speed & Storage
From Western Digital to Samsung: Top Hard Drive Brands in 2025 for Performance and Durability more →
HPC Wire, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Future Of Storage: HPC And AI Storage By The Numbers
In the first story of our 'Future of AI and HPC Storage' series, we looked at the overall market for HPC and AI storage and some of the big challenges that organizations are facing and trends shaping the market. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Designing Security For Developers, Not Around Them
Generative AI (GenAI) is improving productivity across many roles, especially for developers. There is no question about that. In fact, a 2023 study by McKinsey found that with GenAI, developers can document code in half the time, write new code nearly twice as fast and optimize existing code in about one-third the time. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
The Best No-Code AI App Builder Platforms You Should Check Before 2026
When you consider that only 0.5% of the world knows how to code, it becomes clear why AI app builders have taken off so drastically in recent years. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, October 18th, 2025
What To Consider When Choosing Embedded Linux Solutions For Intelligent Edge Systems
Many embedded Linux solutions exist. However, while free options are convenient, they can be challenging to manage since they rely on community support, which typically lasts only a few years at most. Maintenance and common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) mitigation are time-consuming. more →
Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth
As AI, cloud, and connected technologies rapidly expand the attack surface, security teams must focus on the risks that matter most. Join CISO leaders to explore how exposure management strengthens visibility, prioritization, and resilience, thus enabling organizations to innovate confidently while reducing their most critical cyber risks. more →
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The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO
This webinar explores what CEOs expect AI to deliver across technology, finance, HR, operations, and other functions, where confidence gaps remain, and how success is being measured. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CxOs can translate AI investments into business outcomes, operate in a distributed leadership model, and meet rising CEO expectations. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Ultra Ethernet For Scalable AI Network Deployment
As data centers scale up, scale out, and scale across to meet the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, networks face growing challenges. Increasing network failures, fabric congestion, and uneven load balancing are becoming critical pain points, threatening both performance and reliability. more →
Cisco, Monday, October 13th, 2025
Unlock GPU Clouds with Cisco AI PODs and Rafay
Enterprises are making bold moves into AI, and Cisco AI PODs provide a powerful, pre-validated foundation for deploying AI infrastructure at scale. more →
DDN, Monday, October 13th, 2025
DDN And Yotta Power Sovereign AI For India With Multi-Million-Dollar Exascaler Deployment
DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced a landmark partnership with Yotta Data Services, India's leading provider of cloud and AI infrastructure, to deliver the high-performance foundation for India's sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission. more →
DDN, Monday, October 13th, 2025
DDN Expands Global Reach With Exascaler Deployment Driving India's Sovereign AI Initiative
DDN announced a new partnership with Yotta Data Services, India's leading provider of cloud and AI infrastructure, to deliver the high-performance foundation for India's sovereign AI initiative under the IndiaAI Mission. more →
DDN, Monday, October 13th, 2025
DDN Infinia Now Available In Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Powering Enterprise-Grade AI with High-Performance, Low-Latency Object Storage more →
DDN, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
DDN Named To Fast Company's 2025 Next Big Things In Tech List For Breakthrough Innovation In AI And Data Intelligence
Fast Company has named DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence, to its prestigious Next Big Things in Tech list for 2025 - recognizing the companies defining the next era of innovation. This distinction celebrates the technologies and ideas that reshape how the world works, learns, and creates. more →
DDN, Friday, October 17th, 2025
How DDN And NVIDIA Are Accelerating The Next Generation Of Autonomous Vehicles In Europe
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are shifting from concept to reality, and Europe is emerging as a key innovation hub. NVIDIA's recent announcement to bring its full-stack autonomous driving software platform into Europe marks a major milestone in this transformation. more →
AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Dell, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Smart Cybersecurity Moves Every Smb Should Make
Cybercriminals target SMBs. Discover 8 strategies to boost cyber resilience and stay ahead of attackers. more →
Modernize for the AI Era
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →
KnowBe4, Monday, October 13th, 2025
[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] The Rise Of Dr. Deepfake: Combatting Social Engineering's Newest Weapon
Deepfakes are easier to create than ever and are being used to attack organizations, families and individuals. more →
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KnowBe4, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Protect Yourself From Voice Phishing Attacks Targeting Salesforce Instances
Google's Mandiant has published guidance on defending against an ongoing wave of social engineering attacks targeting organizations' Salesforce instances. more →
KnowBe4, Monday, October 13th, 2025
The Engine Room: Powering Your Human Risk Management Strategy With Intelligent Tech
We've come a long way. We've deconstructed the problem, explored the complexity of humans, and laid out a strategic framework and a practical map-all of which can be explored in more detail in our Human Risk Management (HRM) whitepaper. more →
Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
As AI becomes part of production operations, engineering teams face new challenges in interpreting system behavior, automating routine tasks, and accelerating incident response. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, October 13th, 2025
NVIDIA Offers A Preview Of What's Next For Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories At The OCP Global Summit
NVIDIA has announced the specifications for its Vera Rubin NVL144 MGX-generation open-architecture rack servers. Over 50 MGX partners are preparing for this release, along with ecosystem support for NVIDIA Kyber, which links 576 Rubin Ultra GPUs and is built to meet increasing inference demands. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
NVIDIA's Desk-Size Supercomputer Puts Big AI Models Within Arm's Reach
NVIDIA has begun shipping DGX Spark, a book-sized AI supercomputer that brings a full NVIDIA software stack and a robust amount of memory to a desk or lab bench, at a list price of $3,999. more →
Symantec, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
The Architecture Of Trust: How To Build With A Zero Trust Creed
Why never trust, always verify is the oath your business needs more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Veeam Data Cloud For Microsoft Azure: The SaaS Solution You've Been Searching For Secure Backup With No Surprises
Are you ready for a data protection experience that's truly effortless, scalable, and built for the future? Look no further-Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure is the SaaS solution you've been waiting for. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Veeam Data Cloud For MSPS: Effortless SaaS, Unified Data Resiliency, And MSP Success Simplified
In December 2024, Veeam released Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 to the Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) rental licensing program, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. more →