CIO, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
8 Ways Agentic AI Will Transform IT Operations
Agentic AI's reasoning and planning capabilities can help supercharge your IT org by making decisions and handling tasks with little or no human intervention. more →
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Wednesday’s Briefing · November 5
CSO Online, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Top 7 Agentic AI Use Cases For Cybersecurity
Agentic AI is revolutionizing the IT world. Yet its greatest benefit may lie in strengthening cybersecurity. more →
Gartner, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Gartner Survey Finds 45% Of MarTech Leaders Say Existing Vendor-Offered AI Agents Fail To Meet Their Expectations Of Promised Business Performance
Forty-five percent of martech leaders with AI agents in pilots or production say existing vendor-offered AI agent capabilities do not meet company expectations of promised business performance, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. more →
The Register, Monday, October 27th, 2025
The Chinese Box And Turing Test: AI Has No Intelligence At All
Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake. Chatbots don't think - they've just gotten exponentially better at pretending. more →
ZDNet, Saturday, November 1st, 2025
8 Ways To Help Your Teams Build Lasting Responsible AI
Make responsible AI part of system design and deployment, not an afterthought. Industry experts offer guidelines for building and managing responsible applications. 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 →
CIO, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
The Engineering Imperative: Why AI Won't Replace Your Best Developers
AI can crank out code, but your best developers turn it into something that actually works. The future belongs to human-AI dream teams. more →
CIO, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
20 AI Workflow Tools For Adding Intelligence To Business Processes
Looking to unlock deeper data-driven insights or to build more intelligent business process automations? These popular tools make it easy to add LLM smarts to your workflows. more →
CIO, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
'Leaders Grow Leaders': CIO Ken Piddington On Developing IT Talent
Piddington's unique ability to align people to purpose and to teach and mentor tomorrow's IT leaders is tied to an intentional, data-driven approach to talent development. more →
CIODIVE, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
2026 Budget Planning Strategies For CIOs
Executives can polish up their spending plans for next year by recalibrating AI strategies, cutting waste and bolstering security spending. more →
Computerworld, Friday, October 31st, 2025
Gartner: AI Budgets Are Going To Projects That Demonstrate Value, Real-World Impact
The research firm found that IT leaders want to see results before committing big bucks. more →
InformationWeek, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
New CIOs Can Demonstrate Value Through Risk Management -- Gartner
Developing a solid risk management plan and prioritizing relationship building are critical first steps for new CIOs as they work toward demonstrating value to their organization. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
How To Build Your Own Gmail AI Agent: Easy Guide
Build Your Own Gmail AI Agent: Automate Emails, Draft Replies & Boost Productivity more →
Help Net Security, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Email Breaches Are The Silent Killers Of Business Growth
78% of organizations were hit by an email breach in the past 12 months, according to the Email Security Breach Report 2025 by Barracuda. Phishing, impersonation, and account takeover continue to drive incidents that often lead to ransomware and data loss. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, October 31st, 2025
The Next AI Bottleneck Isn't GPUs - It's How We Empower Infra Admins
Across the enterprise ecosystem, companies are racing to acquire GPUs. Cloud contracts are expanding, new data centers are being planned, and accelerator vendors are announcing new chips every quarter. more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, October 27th, 2025
After The AWS Outage: 7 Key Lessons Learned
In the aftermath of the major AWS outage, users now understand the root cause. In short: the glitch started at the DNS layer, but the collapse occurred when the downstream orchestration processes tried to catch up. more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
The $500K Compliance Crisis It Leaders Can't Ignore
IT departments are hemorrhaging resources on a crisis that shouldn't exist. Across organizations, teams are spending countless hours scrambling to address software compliance gaps, paying emergency audit penalties and making unplanned license purchases just to abide by evolving vendor policies. These activities drain time and budget away from strategic initiatives and new capabilities that could drive business value. more →
DCD, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Liquid Cooling System
Three mistakes that can sabotage your liquid cooling infrastructure more →
Gartner, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Gartner Survey Finds 54% Of Infrastructure & Operations Leaders Are Adopting AI To Cut Costs
Fifty-four percent of infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders said cost optimization is their top goal for adopting AI, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. more →
The Next Platform, Monday, October 27th, 2025
Gartner Radically Raises Datacenter Spending Forecasts
Back in early September, the prognosticators at IDC put out an ebullient but simple AI spending forecast going out to 2029, and Gartner followed suit with a much more detailed AI spending forecast, which we augmented and expanded with the help of the market researcher a few weeks later. more →
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Immutable Backups: Ransomware's Kryptonite
Ransomware remains among the most destructive security threats organizations face. A 2025 Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey of 200 IT decision makers across North America and Western Europe found two-thirds of organizations experienced ransomware attacks in the past two years, many suffering multiple attacks. more →
Search Data Backup, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
8 Data Backup Strategies And Best Practices You Need To Know
This comprehensive guide explains backup basics, common threats and eight critical best practices your backup strategy needs. more →
Search Networking, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
5G In Edge Computing: Benefits, Applications And Challenges
5G and edge computing need each other to reach their full potential. Learn the benefits and challenges of decentralizing compute power and data on ultra-fast wireless networks. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
maketecheasier, Monday, October 27th, 2025
Docker Vs. Virtual Machine: Which One You Should Use
With the rise of cloud computing and complex application architectures, businesses needed more efficient and scalable ways to deploy and manage their software. 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 →
The Next Platform, Friday, October 31st, 2025
AWS 'Bullish' On Homegrown Trainium AI Accelerators
One only need look at the incredible revenues and profits of the datacenter business at Nvidia to know that the world's biggest compute customers - the hyperscalers, the cloud builders, and now the biggest model builders - need to bend the price/performance curve to boost their own profits. more →
AWS, Monday, October 27th, 2025
Keeping Up With Cloud Security: Updates To Our AWS Assessments
As cloud environments continue to evolve, organizations have gradually refined how they approach the management and protection of their infrastructure. The complexity inherent to cloud-native platforms, along with the intricacies of security configurations, makes cloud security a domain that demands constant attention, expertise, and adaptation. more →
Google, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
100 Things To Try With The New Gemini For Home Voice Assistant
Early access for the new Gemini for Home voice assistant in the U.S. is rolling out and your feedback is much-appreciated as we build this new technology. Curious how to use it? Here's a lengthy list of things to try. more →
Google, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Amplify Your Leadership Skills With Google People Management Essentials
We're sharing a new course from The Google School for Leaders that helps managers build high-performing teams. more →
Google, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Chat In NotebookLM: A Powerful, Goal-Focused AI Research Partner
We've significantly improved chat in NotebookLM with a 8x larger context window, 6x longer conversation memory and boosting response quality by 50%. Plus, anyone can now set goals in Chat to better steer responses towards their custom needs. more →
Google, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Create On-Brand Marketing Content For Your Business With Pomelli
We're introducing Pomelli, a new AI experiment from Google Labs that helps small-to-medium-sized businesses easily generate scalable, on-brand social media campaigns. more →
The Next Platform, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Google Spends More On Servers Than The Whole World Used To
Here is a funny number to chew on. Sometime in the early part of 2026, if current trends persist, Google will have a spending rate on servers that is in excess of the inflation adjusted spending levels set by the entire world in the wake of the Dot Com bust. more →
Google, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
How Android Provides The Most Effective Protection To Keep You Safe From Mobile Scams
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, we're focusing on one of today's most pervasive digital threats: mobile scams. In the last 12 months, fraudsters have used advanced AI tools to create more convincing schemes, resulting in over $400 billion in stolen funds globally. more →
Symantec, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
5 Tips For A Healthier Cybersecurity Program
Strengthen your cybersecurity posture and resiliency with regular health checks. more →
Symantec, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
When The Call Is Coming From Inside The House
Whether careless or malicious, insiders can cause all manner of nightmares more →
Veeam, Friday, October 31st, 2025
Don't Get Haunted by Data Loss: Salesforce Backup in the Age of AI
For organizations leveraging Salesforce - especially those embracing AI-powered automation and insights - the real fright comes from unseen risks lurking in the digital shadows. But here's the treat: with the right approach, you can keep business running smoothly no matter what surprises the night may hold. more →
Veeam, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Secure Kubernetes Storage Made Easy
Earlier this year, Veeam Kasten launched support for exporting of secure snapshots to VDC Vault. This allows Kasten admins to protect their Kubernetes stateful data and take advantage of the built-in security and redundancy protection features natively provided by VDC Vault as a securely managed storage platform. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Supply Chain Risk Management: How Veeam Strengthens Your Resilience
The modern supply chain has become more than just about moving goods or delivering services. It's a complex, interconnected web of vendors, partners, platforms, and infrastructure. Every link in that chain is a potential doorway for cybercriminals. more →
Veeam, Friday, October 31st, 2025
Veeam Security: Protect Smarter, Detect Faster, Recover Clean
Data is the lifeblood of every organization. Unfortunately, with that, cyberattacks have intensified in recent times, and cyberthreats are growing more sophisticated and relentless. more →