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Tuesday’s Briefing · March 24

InfoQ, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Evaluating AI Agents In Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, And Lessons Learned

You may have seen teams in your organization leveraging AI agents for demos, experiments, testing workflows where everything works perfectly. The agent plans, reasons, picks the right tool, and executes flawlessly during experiments. In production, the system fails or exhibits suboptimal behavior, and no one is quite sure whether the "smart" agent is actually reliable. more →

Evaluating AI Agents In Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, And Lessons Learned

You've Been Heard, Saturday, March 21st, 2026

Perfection Is The Enemy Of Progress W/Michael Murray #406 (31:59)

Michael Murray is VP of Information Technology at Standard BioTools, where he's learned that most IT problems aren't technical-they're human. Starting as employee number four at a Cork startup, he discovered that understanding the real problem beats building the perfect solution every time. more →

Perfection Is The Enemy Of Progress W/Michael Murray #406 (31:59)

You've Been Heard, Saturday, March 21st, 2026

The Day IT And OT Finally Talked W/Bill Markut #407 (39:19)

Bill Markut spent 36 years avoiding management, preferring hands-on technical work. Then he became IT Director at a manufacturing company running 25 years behind the tech curve and discovered something that changed everything: the power of getting IT and OT to actually talk to each other. more →

The Day IT And OT Finally Talked W/Bill Markut #407 (39:19)

Professional Security Magazine, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Understanding Identity Attacks

Identity attacks could never be described as novel or new cyber crime techniques. They have been around for years, yet they remain the biggest threat organisations face. Over the last year, security teams have faced an increase in attacks targeting corporate identities, and if defences are not prioritised, these attacks are likely to result in full-scale compromises with devastating impacts. more →

Understanding Identity Attacks

Security Bouelevard, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Automated Policy Enforcement For Quantum-Secure Prompt Engineering

Ever feel like your ai infrastructure is just a house of cards waiting for a stiff breeze? Honestly, with the way we're rushing to plug models into everything, the "secure" perimeter we spent years building is basically a screen door in a hurricane. more →

Automated Policy Enforcement For Quantum-Secure Prompt Engineering

Security Bouelevard, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

Cybercriminals Are Winning With AI

AI has become the most powerful tool for financial fraud since the dawn of the Internet. As predicted, criminals are exploiting it faster, more effectively, and at scale. more →

Cybercriminals Are Winning With AI

Security Bouelevard, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

A Guide To Agentic AI Risks In 202

Agentic AI is no longer a future-state conversation. Across enterprises, AI agents are being deployed today to execute multi-step workflows, access APIs, query databases, and make decisions with minimal human intervention. The productivity gains are real. But so are the risks. more →

A Guide To Agentic AI Risks In 202

Security Bouelevard, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

Can AI Automation Make Cybersecurity More Confident?

Are your security protocols adequately covering the vast expanse of machine identities within your organization? With the rapid shift to cloud environments, the focus on Non-Human Identities (NHIs) becomes crucial to enhancing cybersecurity measures. more →

Can AI Automation Make Cybersecurity More Confident?

Search Storage, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

12 Ways To Manage Your Data Storage Strategy

Data storage systems were never easy to manage, and with spiraling capacities it's gotten even harder. Try these 12 techs and practices to help ease the storage management burden. more →

12 Ways To Manage Your Data Storage Strategy

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

AI Demand Drives Prolonged Crunch In Global Memory Chip Supply

The tech sector has been grappling with the challenges of a memory chip shortage with the expectation that it will be relatively short-lived. Now it appears that supply constraints could persist for much of the decade, raising costs and complicating the rollout of next-gen AI systems. more →

AI Demand Drives Prolonged Crunch In Global Memory Chip Supply

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

VDURA Adds RDMA Capability to Provide AI Apps With More Context

VDURA this week added a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capability to its parallel storage platform as part of a first step toward creating a tiering capability to optimize context for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents in a way that bypasses CPU bottlenecks. more →

VDURA Adds RDMA Capability to Provide AI Apps With More Context

Techstrong.IT, Monday, March 16th, 2026

The Network Migration That Didn't Break Anything

Let's be honest: network migrations have a reputation-and not a great one. Even in well-prepared organizations, replacing live infrastructure is rarely stress-free. Brownfield environments are layered with dependencies, historical configs, and workarounds. more →

The Network Migration That Didn't Break Anything

Security Bouelevard, Monday, March 16th, 2026

How To Scale Code Review When AI Writes Code Faster Than You Can Understand It

AI agents are rapidly becoming the primary authors of pull requests, creating a volume of code that challenges traditional governance and human review capacity. This shift is creating a fundamental crisis in the software development lifecycle: we are producing code at a volume that has outpaced our ability to fully understand it. more →

How To Scale Code Review When AI Writes Code Faster Than You Can Understand It

Upcoming Event · Wed, Sep 30 · 11:00am

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 →

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The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO (Sept. 30th)

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes (Sept. 24th)

Dell, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Dell AI Factory With NVIDIA: Driving Innovation Worldwide

From 70% reductions in patient falls and enhancing customer experiences to sovereign AI infrastructure designed according to national requirements, enterprises are solving their most critical challenges with the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. more →

Dell AI Factory With NVIDIA: Driving Innovation Worldwide

Techstrong.ai, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Dell Extends Scope And Reach Of AI Infrastructure Portfolio

Dell Technologies today made a raft of additions to its infrastructure portfolio for building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents, including a data orchestration engine that automatically discovers, labels, enriches and transforms data into formats that AI applications can more easily access and consume at scale. more →

Dell Extends Scope And Reach Of AI Infrastructure Portfolio

Google, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

Introducing 'Vibe Design' With Stitch

titch is evolving into an AI-native software design canvas that allows anyone to create, iterate and collaborate on high-fidelity UI from natural language. more →

Introducing 'Vibe Design' With Stitch

KnowBe4, Friday, March 20th, 2026

Digital Cleanup: It's Not Just Your Files, It's Your Brain

Digital Cleanup Day might be seen as a digital chore: delete old files, clear the inbox, reduce your carbon footprint. It's framed as a technical exercise. But digital cleanup isn't only about your hard drive; it's also about your mind. more →

Digital Cleanup: It's Not Just Your Files, It's Your Brain

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)