CIO, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Choosing Your AI Stack: The Benefits of Vendor Lock-In
AI's tightly integrated stacks force CIOs to strategically embrace vendor lock-in rather than avoid it. more →
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Fairwinds, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
How Do Self-Hosted AI Models Change Your Kubernetes Decisions?
Self-hosting AI models on Kubernetes shifts complexity to platform teams needing GPU and observability expertise. more →
SSOJet, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
AI Agent Identity: How to Authenticate and Govern AI Agents
AI agents need distinct identities with OAuth 2.0 flows, short-lived credentials, and least-privilege scopes. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
5 Advantages of a Semantic Layer for Enterprise AI
Semantic layers give enterprise AI unified data definitions that boost accuracy, cut costs, and enable safe agents. more →
eWeek, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Agentic AI Cheat Sheet: A Guide to AI Agents, Tools, and Risks
A guide to agentic AI systems that autonomously plan and execute tasks, plus their tools, protocols, and risks. more →
Kovrr, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Implementing AI Governance to Identify and Mitigate Critical AI Risks
Continuous AI governance that maps, measures, and manages risks helps organizations prioritize mitigation. more →
CIO Dive, Friday, June 26th, 2026
CEOs, CIOs Clash Over AI's Value
Only 31 percent of CEOs see AI driving revenue versus 61 percent of CIOs, exposing a leadership confidence gap. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
DDN, Monday, June 29th, 2026
How DDN’s Focus On First Principles Has Helped Power More Than 1 Million GPUs worldwide
The AI era rewards builders who know how to make every GPU count. more →
CIO, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
Antonio Marin on Navigating Change and Growth
USME CIO Antonio Marin discusses digital transformation, AI, and automation in delivering medical equipment. more →
OrionX (HPCpodcast), Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
HPCpodcast-109: TOP500 at ISC26, China Re-Enters Race in Top Spot - In Depth
The HPCpodcast covers the ISC26 TOP500 list as China returns to the top with a 2-exaflop system. more →
Oxide and Friends, Saturday, June 27th, 2026
The Oxide 3D Explorer
Oxide's design lead discusses building an interactive 3D rack explorer from CAD drawings. more →
X (DDN Intelligence), Monday, June 22nd, 2026
DDN Intelligence Video Post
A video post from DDN Intelligence's X account on enterprise AI data infrastructure and IT leadership. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Can You Build an Incorruptible AI Company? A Conversation With Eric Ries
Eric Ries discusses whether AI companies can stay true to their mission amid pressure to monetize. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Credentials Lost the Top Spot. They Didn't Lose Their Teeth
Vulnerability exploitation overtook credential abuse as the top breach vector, but stolen credentials remain a threat. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Defenders Race to Keep Up With AI-Driven Vulnerability Discovery
AI finds vulnerabilities faster than security teams can rank them, flipping the defender's problem to prioritization. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, June 26th, 2026
What CISOs Need to Know About AI-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization Tools
AI-driven prioritization helps CISOs focus on top threats and cut alert fatigue, but opaque risk scores pose challenges. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
XDR Security Platform
XDR unifies endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and application data into one platform that automates detection. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
To Infinity and Beyond... But Don't Leave Imagination Behind
Using Toy Story 5, Alan Shimel warns that technology risks replacing imaginative play with passive consumption. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
Why AI Can Finally Help Banks Understand Their Own Systems
AI can read undocumented legacy bank code at scale, enabling safer modernization without losing knowledge. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
The Age of Innocence Is Over
Cisco's intelligent observability strategy correlates signals to cut Mean Time to Innocence in complex AI environments. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward
Yann LeCun argues open-source AI is essential for global digital sovereignty and cultural diversity. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
The Top Enterprise AI and Data Management Trends So Far in 2026
Ten 2026 trends stress that strong data strategy and unstructured data management drive enterprise AI success. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Voice Never Needed Saving. It Needed Strategy.
Generative AI turns the costly voice channel into a strategic, data-rich customer touchpoint at scale. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Engineering Needs Every Great Mind It Can Find
An argument that engineering cannot afford to draw talent from only a fraction of the available pool. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Survey Sees Orchestration Tools Creating Higher Levels of IT Friction
A survey findings indicating that orchestration tools, often intended to streamline IT, are instead increasing operational friction. more →
Analytics Insight, Sunday, June 21st, 2026
Data Visualization Trends in 2026: What's Shaping the Future of Analytics
Data visualization is evolving via AI, real-time analytics, conversational interfaces, and storytelling to speed decisions. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, June 27th, 2026
Best 10 Dashboard Tools for Business Intelligence in 2026
A roundup of the top 10 BI dashboard tools that turn data into actionable insights for 2026. more →
michaelpeters.org, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
SOC 2 AI/ML Audits: Governance With Continuum GRC Risk Management
AI and ML providers increasingly need rigorous SOC 2 audits backed by strong governance to meet compliance demands. more →
Kratikal, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
Risk Prioritization Is Becoming More Important Than Risk Detection
Security teams overwhelmed by findings must prioritize the riskiest vulnerabilities rather than just detecting more. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Why Tech Giants Are Investing in a Screen-Free Future
Tech giants are building AI wearables and ambient devices to reduce smartphone dependence with context-aware interaction. more →
CIO Influence, Friday, June 26th, 2026
CIO Leadership and the Enterprise Metaverse
Strong CIO leadership is critical to implementing enterprise metaverse technologies integrating AI, AR/VR, and collaboration. more →
Anthropic, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Introducing Claude Tag
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, letting Slack teams @mention Claude to delegate tasks asynchronously. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Barracuda Networks, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
SOC Threat Radar June 2026: LemonDuck, GoldBrute and VPN Attacks
Barracuda's June threat report flags LemonDuck mining, GoldBrute RDP attacks, and a surge in VPN password spraying. more →
CIO Influence, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
BarracudaONE Named Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform by The Hacker News
Barracuda's BarracudaONE platform won Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform in The Hacker News 2026 awards. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Maximizing Uptime: The Power of AI Troubleshooting for Industrial Networks
Cisco introduced an AI troubleshooting agent for industrial networks that diagnoses root causes to cut factory-floor downtime. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Uplevelling Black Hat Threat Hunters
Cisco's threat-hunting team upgraded its Black Hat Asia NOC malware workflow, shifting to Splunk Attack Analyzer for sharper detection. more →
Cisco, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
SoftBank Corp.'s SOC Triaging Workflow Automated With Cisco Foundation AI's Open-Source Model
SoftBank automated SOC triage using Cisco Foundation AI's open-source model, reaching 90% workflow accuracy on-premises. more →
Cisco, Sunday, June 21st, 2026
Engineering Resilience: Lessons From the Front Lines of Cisco's SSE Deployment
Cisco IT shares lessons from consolidating fragmented security into a unified SSE platform as customer zero. more →
Cohere, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Automating Fork Maintenance With AI Agents
Cohere applies control-theory principles and AI coding agents to automate keeping software forks in sync with upstream. more →
Cohere, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Creating a Security Agent With Cohere North and Wiz
Cohere built an automated security incident-response agent using its North platform and Wiz via a custom MCP server. more →
Cohere, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Why Cultural Awareness Is Essential for Global AI
Cohere Labs research finds AI systems consistently underserve non-English speaking and non-Western users. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
DDN, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
DDN Unveils Next-Generation AI and HPC Data Intelligence Innovations at ISC 2026, Redefining Performance, Efficiency, Security, and Scale for Enterprise AI Factories
At ISC 2026, DDN unveiled the AI400X3M appliance and distributed KV Cache acceleration for AI and HPC data pipelines. more →
SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
NVIDIA and DDN Target the Economics of AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA and DDN are collaborating to make GPUs more productive and lower AI infrastructure cost per token. more →
DDN Blog, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Why Is Inference Efficiency Harder Than It Looks?
DDN argues measuring AI inference efficiency now requires accounting for reasoning depth, disaggregation, and caching. more →
DDN Blog, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Improving AI Efficiency: How Fast Model Loading Slashes GPU Costs
DDN shows how fast model loading enables just-in-time GPU provisioning and lower infrastructure costs. more →
Blocks & Files, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
DDN Launches Faster Array HW and KV Cache SW for AI
DDN unveiled the A1400X3M array and NVIDIA Dynamo-integrated KV Cache software to accelerate AI inference. more →
DDN Blog, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
DDN Becomes the First Storage Vendor Natively Integrated Into NVIDIA KV Cache Management
DDN's Infinia plugin ships natively in NVIDIA's NIXL package, simplifying KV cache acceleration for inference. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
NVIDIA Powers Over 400 of the World's 500 Fastest Supercomputers
NVIDIA technologies power over 400 of the TOP500 supercomputers and sweep the Green500 efficiency rankings. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust
NVIDIA introduces an Agent Toolkit of models, tools, skills, and secure runtime to build specialized AI agents. more →
SiliconANGLE, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
NVIDIA Introduces Halos for Robotics to Bridge the Physical AI Safety Gap
NVIDIA launches Halos for Robotics, a full safety framework for building, testing, and managing AI robotics. more →
HPCwire, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
NVIDIA Vera Rubin Delivers World-Class Supercomputers for Science
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform brings over 7 exaflops of AI and strong FP64 performance to scientific supercomputing. more →
theCUBE Research, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
How Oracle Became the Operational Brain of Agentic AI
Oracle embeds agentic AI capabilities directly in its database to cut complexity and risk for autonomous agents. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
From Cost to Currency With Sovereign AI
Red Hat argues telcos should treat digital sovereignty as a competitive AI advantage, not just a compliance burden. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
The AI Code Paradox: Moving Fast Without Breaking Security
Red Hat offers a policy, skills, and automation framework to adopt AI coding assistants without sacrificing security. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Sit, Stay, Deploy: Lessons From a Real-World Robotic Blueprint on Scaling Edge Computer Vision
A robotic-dog project shows how Red Hat OpenShift AI accelerates enterprise edge computer vision deployment. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Govern Privileged Workload Boundaries With Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and Identity Management
Red Hat presents 'Blastwall,' a reference pattern for governing privileged workloads across hybrid cloud. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
From Alert Fatigue to Automated Action: Automated Patching in the AI Era
Red Hat shows how event-driven Ansible automation can triage and remediate vulnerabilities to cut alert fatigue. more →
Red Hat, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Empower Your AI Tools With New Agent Skills for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat introduces two developer-preview agent skills that make AI tools more accurate for RHEL management. more →
SentinelOne, Friday, June 26th, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 26
SentinelOne's weekly roundup covers malware takedowns, a North Korean macOS threat, and exploited Cisco flaws. 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 →
Sysdig, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Understanding Langflow CVE-2026-55255, and Why Higher CVSS Vulnerabilities Aren't Always the Most Exploited
Sysdig finds a higher-scored Langflow CVE drew less attacker interest than a lower-scored, easier-to-exploit flaw. more →
Sysdig, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
The FulcrumSec Playbook: How to Detect and Stop the Group Behind the Novo Nordisk Breach
Sysdig breaks down FulcrumSec's five-stage attack playbook and how defenders can disrupt it. more →
Sysdig, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Build to Learn, Buy to Scale: When to Build Your Own AI SOC (and When to Stop)
Sysdig weighs building versus buying an AI SOC, recommending custom builds for learning but vendors for scale. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
Blocks & Files, Friday, June 26th, 2026
TrueNAS Head Honcho Talks
TrueNAS CEO discusses storage cost pressures, AI workload demands, and the platform's open, flexible positioning. 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 →
