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Thursday’s Briefing · March 12

Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

Survey: AI Spurring Increased Adoption Of Containers

A global survey of 1,600 cloud, IT, and engineering executives published today finds a full 87% expect their organizations' reliance on containers to deploy applications to increase over the next three years, with 83% reporting they are already building new applications in containers. more →

Survey: AI Spurring Increased Adoption Of Containers

Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 5th, 2026

Should Cloud Be Classed As Critical Infrastructure?

Over the past few years, large-scale cloud outages have demonstrated just how deeply digital services are woven into the fabric of modern society. When widely used cloud platforms experience disruption, the impact extends far beyond individual applications; banking services stall, transport systems falter, and connected devices across homes, factories, and hospitals can suddenly lose functionality. more →

Should Cloud Be Classed As Critical Infrastructure?

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

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 →

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AI Is Ready. Is Your Data? (Sept. 30th)

Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 5th, 2026

AI Governance Guide: Principles & Frameworks

AI adoption has outpaced AI control. In nearly every organization, artificial intelligence is already embedded across SaaS platforms, workflows, and daily operations. What began as productivity acceleration has quickly become a structural shift in how decisions are made, data is handled, and businesses are run. more →

AI Governance Guide: Principles & Frameworks

Upcoming Event · Tue, Sep 22 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System (Sept. 22nd)

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 8 · 2:00pm

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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Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth (Oct. 8th)

CRMBuyer, Thursday, March 5th, 2026

2026 CRM Outlook: AI, Humans, And Scale Converge

CRM users in 2025 could easily describe their experiences as a struggle to extract real, tangible value from sophisticated systems, often hampered by fundamental human and operational issues. more →

2026 CRM Outlook: AI, Humans, And Scale Converge

CRMBuyer, Thursday, March 5th, 2026

Silent Churn Is The Biggest Customer Support Risk

Most customer support organizations are built to serve the loudest 10% of users - the ones who open tickets. The greater risk lies with the silent majority who encounter friction, say nothing, and quietly churn. more →

Silent Churn Is The Biggest Customer Support Risk

CRMBuyer, Thursday, March 5th, 2026

Why Integrating Phone And CRM Systems Unlocks Better AI

Misconceptions about how artificial intelligence (AI) will solve customer experience (CX) problems are plaguing the CRM industry - and too many companies are slapping AI onto broken systems instead of fixing customer relationships first. more →

Why Integrating Phone And CRM Systems Unlocks Better AI

Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

Choose The Right Gpu On Akamai Cloud For Your AI Workload

AI inference, natural language processing, computer vision, video analytics, rendering, and scientific visualization all rely on GPUs. The challenge is that not all GPU workloads look the same. Some require large memory for complex models. Some are dominated by real-time video processing. Others are driven by graphics, rendering, 8K streaming, transcoding, or certified design workflows. more →

Choose The Right Gpu On Akamai Cloud For Your AI Workload

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)

Cloudflare, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

From Reactive To Proactive: Closing The Phishing Gap With LLMs

Email security has always been defined by impermanence. It is a perpetual call-and-response arms race, where defenses are only as strong as the last bypass discovered and attackers iterate relentlessly for even marginal gains. Every control we deploy eventually becomes yesterday's solution. more →

From Reactive To Proactive: Closing The Phishing Gap With LLMs

Cloudflare, Monday, March 2nd, 2026

The Truly Programmable SASE Platform

Every organization approaches security through a unique lens, shaped by their tooling, requirements, and history. No two environments look the same, and none stay static for long. We believe the platforms that protect them shouldn't be static either. more →

The Truly Programmable SASE Platform

Sophos, Thursday, March 5th, 2026

Optimize Your Sophos Firewall Security

If you're not one of the many customers that have already upgraded to Sophos Firewall v22, now is the perfect time. Optimize your Sophos Firewall security posture and take advantage of the many new Secure by Design capabilities in the release to strengthen your firewall and network security. more →

Optimize Your Sophos Firewall Security

Tierpoint, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026

Digital Infrastructure Trends To Watch In 2026

Digital technologies and tools can only progress as fast as infrastructure supports. In recent years, rapid IT advancements and evolving user expectations have driven skyrocketing digital infrastructure demand. more →

Digital Infrastructure Trends To Watch In 2026