IBM, Monday, May 4th, 2026
IBM Study: CEOs are Reshaping C-suite Roles for the AI Era
IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs finds 76% of organizations now have a Chief AI Officer, up from 26% a year ago. more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · May 14
TechTarget, Friday, May 8th, 2026
The AI Factory Model: What CIOs Need To Know
Enterprises are adopting AI factories as purpose-built platforms to scale AI operations and deliver measurable ROI. more →
Solutions Review, Friday, May 8th, 2026
The CIO as a Value Creator: Moving Beyond Cost Centers to Revenue Drivers
CIOs are evolving from cost-center managers to strategic leaders driving revenue growth and innovation. more →
CIO, Friday, May 8th, 2026
The CIO Succession Gap Nobody Admits
CIOs often lack credible internal successors because they promote technical architects rather than leaders. more →
CIO, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
The Fake IT Worker Problem CIOs Can't Ignore
Fake IT workers using AI are infiltrating organizations as insider threats, requiring coordinated defensive measures. more →
Forrester, Friday, May 8th, 2026
The Most Expensive Customer Complaint Is The One You Ignore
Organizations that ignore customer complaints risk significant indirect costs including brand damage, customer churn, and employee burnout. more →
InfoQ, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Three Pillars of Platform Engineering: a Virtuous Cycle
Platform engineering succeeds through automated reliability, developer ergonomics, and operator ergonomics working together as a virtuous cycle. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 8th, 2026
How Mythos Signals Cybersecurity Disruption
Anthropic's new Mythos AI model - which discovered thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities (including a 27-year-old flaw) before its release - isn't a one-off event but a signal that AI's accelerating ability to find, exploit, and chain vulnerabilities will overturn current cybersecurity norms and force the industry to adapt at machine speed. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Identity Risk Intelligence vs Threat Intelligence: What's the Difference?
In cybersecurity conversations today, two terms are showing up more frequently: Threat Intelligence and Identity Risk Intelligence. At a glance, they sound similar. Both deal with data, risk, and security insights. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Inside the 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Data-Driven Security Priorities
In 2026, the cyber threat landscape operates as a single connected system - identity, malware, and infrastructure are now part of the same automated attack chain, compressing the time between initial access and impact and forcing security teams to prioritize defenses that address these threats together rather than in silos. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Security for AI: A strategic framework for closing the AI exposure gap
Tenable's five-step framework offers CISOs a systematic approach to closing the AI exposure gap - securing enterprise AI use through discovery, workload and infrastructure protection, prompt-level visibility, unified risk analysis, and acceptable-use policy enforcement - without slowing innovation. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, May 9th, 2026
The 2026 Roadmap to Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security
By 2026, the divide between organizations that have implemented cryptographic agility and those that haven't will be measured in their ability to survive automated, quantum-accelerated attacks - and the article lays out an MCP-endpoint audit, hybrid post-quantum cryptography, and zero-knowledge proofs as the urgent roadmap. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
The Half of Agent Security You're Not Governing
AI agent security frameworks focus on observable MCP servers while ignoring the opaque reasoning layer where most damage occurs. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, May 4th, 2026
The Continuity Problem Hiding Inside Modern Work
Modern work tools create coordination failures by losing organizational memory and context between systems. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Warp Rethinks Agentic Open Source Development
Warp uses AI agents to manage open source development, automating code review and maintenance tasks. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Why Energy Infrastructure Is the Critical Path for AI Data Centers
A power-first methodology prioritizing energy infrastructure access is emerging as essential for accelerating AI data center deployment. 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 →
TechTarget, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
How To Calculate The Total Cost Of Ownership Of ERP Software
Guide to calculating total cost of ownership (TCO) for ERP systems beyond initial licensing fees. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
CIO, Friday, May 8th, 2026
How To Create An Effective Business Continuity Plan
A comprehensive guide to building effective business continuity plans that help organizations survive disasters and disruptions. more →
TechCrunch, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail in Geopolitical Crises
Geopolitical conflicts are exposing how quickly disruptions cascade across cloud and telecom systems, forcing CIOs to rethink disaster recovery plans. more →
StorageReview.com, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Positions Private Cloud as the Home for Enterprise AI
Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 with AI optimizations, cost reductions, and unified infrastructure for enterprise deployments. more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
Cisco Blogs, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Spotlight on Digital Transformation - FY25 Purpose Report
Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration program and learning initiatives advance digital transformation and skills development globally. more →
Autonomous Operations Starts with Resilience
In this session, we'll explore how organizations are evolving from reactive operations to autonomous operational resilience: systems that continuously observe application health, understand dependencies, anticipate operational risk, and take intelligent action before users and the business feel the impact. more →
Commvault Blog, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Aligning Data Recovery with Infrastructure as Code Principles
Clumio Backtrack enables in-place data recovery that preserves Terraform state and prevents infrastructure drift. more →
Commvault Blog, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Securing AI with Unified Data Access Governance
Commvault's data access governance unifies visibility, access control, and auditability across structured data, unstructured files, SaaS apps, and AI workloads. more →
Commvault Blog, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Your Identity Infrastructure Is A Target. Here's What Commvault Is Doing About It
Commvault offers vulnerability assessment, real-time auditing, and automated recovery tools to protect identity infrastructure from attacks. more →
Commvault, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Your Tabletop Exercise Proved You Can Talk. It Did Not Prove You Can Recover.
Tabletop exercises often validate competence rather than expose real incident response gaps and recovery capabilities. more →
Glean, Friday, May 8th, 2026
The Enterprise AI Coworker: Proactively Manage Tasks, Execute Multiple Workstreams, and Collaborate on Your Terms
Glean launches AI coworker capabilities for proactive task management, multi-workstream execution, and personalized enterprise collaboration. more →
Glean, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Glean Skills Know How Your Business Works
Glean Skills packages institutional knowledge into reusable instructions and workflows to help enterprises operationalize AI with consistency and context. more →
PRNewswire, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Think 2026: IBM Makes Digital Sovereignty Operational with General Availability of IBM Sovereign Core
IBM launches IBM Sovereign Core, a software platform enabling organizations to build and operate AI-ready sovereign environments with continuous compliance and control. more →
IBM Research, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Using Quantum to Understand The OS Of The Universe
IBM Research demonstrates practical quantum computing applications in molecular simulation, fusion energy, and materials science. more →
IBM Press Release, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Think 2026: IBM Delivers the Blueprint for the AI Operating Model as the AI Divide Widens
IBM unveils comprehensive AI and hybrid cloud capabilities including watsonx Orchestrate, Confluent integration, and Concert platform. more →
IBM, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Without an AI Operating Model, You Cannot Survive in This World: DevOps at Think 2026
IBM reveals AI-powered DevOps tools and platforms designed to manage the complexity of hybrid cloud environments and agentic systems. more →
IBM, Friday, May 8th, 2026
What Identity Means in the Age of Agentic AI: Insights from Think 2026
IBM unveils security solutions for managing non-human identities and agentic AI at enterprise scale. more →
IBM, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Announcing IBM Concert Secure Coder: Bringing Security to the Moment Code is Written
IBM introduces Concert Secure Coder to address vulnerabilities in real-time within developers' IDEs. more →
Oracle, Friday, May 8th, 2026
What's New in AI? May 2026 Edition
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI updates have recently focused on a common theme: making it easier for customers to move from experimenting with AI toM-BM- puttingM-BM- it to work.M-BM- more →
Oracle, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Announcing General Availability of OCI Compute with RTX PRO
As organizations scale AI-driven applications, real-time rendering, and advanced simulation workloads, they face a growing challenge: fragmented infrastructure that separates AI, visualization, and simulation across different systems. This leads to higher costs, inefficient resource utilization, and complexity in moving from experimentation to production more →
Oracle, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Manage Access To Google Workspace With OCI IAM
One of our key objectives for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM) is to enable a secure and seamless access experience for our end users across their enterprise. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
Oxide, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Oxide and Friends: Mechanical Engineering at Oxide
Oxide's engineering team discusses mechanical challenges and manufacturing scaling for rack-scale computers. more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
