ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Forrester: AI And Cyber Security Drive Up IT Spending
Despite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets more →
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ComputerWeekly, Friday, February 14th, 2025
Gartner: CISOs Struggling To Balance Security, Business Objectives
Only 14% of security leaders can 'effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives', according to Gartner more →
Forrester, Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Global Technology Spending In 2025 Will Reach $4.9 Trillion With Robust 5.6% Growth
The growing digital economy will capture 17% of global GDP by 2028 and see a 7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2028, which will in turn drive robust technology spending growth across the globe. more →
Gartner, Monday, February 10th, 2025
Gartner Survey Reveals Only 14% Of Security Leaders Successfully Balance Data Security And Business Objectives
Leaders Can Take Five Actions to Protect Data Assets While Also Effectively Enabling the Business more →
Gartner, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Gartner Survey Shows Majority Of CFOs Plan To Boost Technology Budgets In 2025
Despite Economic Challenges, Finance Leaders Plan to Prioritize Digital Investments to Drive Growth and Efficiency more →
InformationWeek, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Top Cybersecurity Trends That Will Impact This Year
Navigating the most pressing challenges for CISOs and cyber security teams in the year ahead. more →
The Register, Friday, February 14th, 2025
Techie Cleaned Up Criminally Bad Tech Support That Was Probably Also An Actual Crime
Outsourcing is not supposed to involve taking clients' hardware out of their building to your house more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era is here. Is your data ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backblaze Reveals Best And Worst Disk Drives With 2024 Failure Rate Stats
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report. more →
Blocks&Files, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
It's HAMR Time For Wd As It Outlines Drive Migration Plans
Western Digital revealed its HAMR disk technology migration plans in an Investor Day session and already has HAMR drives undergoing qualification by customers. more →
StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Global Software Defined Storage Market Size, Trends And Projections
According to the Market Research Intellect, the global Software Defined Storage (SDS) Solutions market is projected to grow at a robust CAGR of 15.41% from 2024 to 2031. more →
StorageReview.com, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backblaze 2024 Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failures Drop As High-Capacity Models Take Over
Backblaze has released its 2024 Drive Stats Report, providing a detailed look at the failure rates of over 301,000 data drives in its storage infrastructure. more →
Digital CxO, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Undisrupted By Ian Khan: A Roadmap To Future Readiness
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, disruption is not a matter of 'if' but 'when.' 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 →
Solutions Review, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
The When, Why & How In Switching To Open Source Databases
For well over a decade, enterprise adoption of open-source database technologies has been on a steady rise. more →
HelpNet Security, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Making Sense Of Database Complexity
IT leaders are grappling with increasingly complex database environments. According to a new survey from Redgate, key concerns include protecting sensitive data, navigating regulatory compliance, and managing the rise of multi-database platforms. more →
InfoQ, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
JDK 24 and JDK 25: What We Know So Far
JDK 24, the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its first release candidate phase as declared by Mark Reinhold, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle. more →
InfoQ, Monday, February 10th, 2025
Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0-Beta1, JHipster Lite, GlassFish, Spring Cloud Stream Applications
This week's Java roundup for February 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the first beta release of LangChain4j 1.0; versions 1.27.0 and 1.28.0 of JHipster Lite; GlassFish 7.0.22; and versions 2025.0.0 and 2024.0.1 of Spring Cloud Stream Applications. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Top Trends to Watch in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Industry in 2025
AIoT combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to form Artificial Intelligence of Things, driving a wide range of technologies forward. more →
OpenSource For U, Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Open Source IoT: A Primer For Everyone
Open source IoT platforms promise to play a central role in shaping the future, making it possible for more people and businesses to benefit from smarter, more efficient solutions. We look at a brief history of this tech and explore emerging trends. more →
OpenSource For U, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Using Open Source And Blockchain To Build Decentralised Iot Networks
Explore how blockchain is being integrated with IoT to create decentralised networks. Find out how leading open source projects like IOTA and Streamr use blockchain to ensure data integrity, security, and privacy in IoT ecosystems. more →
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 →
HP News, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Real Madrid Foundation And HP Join Forces To Empower Communities With Digital Skills And Sport For Good Initiatives
Multi-year collaboration will start with projects in Spain and Indonesia supporting disconnected communities. more →
StorageReview.com, Monday, February 10th, 2025
HP T660 Thin Client Review: Four 4K Displays And Serious Performance
Storagereview has reviewed many of HP's top-of-the-line thin clients, including the HP t640, and last year, we reviewed the t655 equipped with a couple of monitors. more →
StorageReview.com, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
HPE Proliant Gen12 Servers: Unleashing Intel Xeon 6 Performance And Direct Liquid Cooling
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced its ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio, featuring eight new servers boasting Intel Xeon 6 series processors. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
Red Hat News, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
10 Enterprise Linux Myths Debunked
Linux is over 30 years old, powering businesses all over the world, and yet there are still misconceptions about what it is and how it works. more →
Red Hat News, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Democratize Security Processes In Your Software Development Lifecycle
IT security is no longer the responsibility of a single, specialized team. To help protect your organization from growing cyber threats, IT security should be a priority for everyone. more →
Red Hat News, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
EPMS: The Cornerstone Of Cybersecurity In Defense Operations
In a landscape where cyber threats evolve daily, the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Enterprise Patch Management System (EPMS) plays a critical role in maintaining the cybersecurity of the Department of Defense (DoD). more →
Red Hat News, Friday, February 14th, 2025
Friday Five - February 14, 2025
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your we ekly digest of things that caught our eye. more →
Red Hat News, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Introducing RHEL AI 1.4: Powering the Next Wave of Generative AI Innovation
The field of generative AI (gen AI) is evolving rapidly, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) is at the forefront of this transformation. RHEL AI 1.4 introduces support for a new, powerful Granite 3.1 model with multi-language support and a larger context window. more →
Red Hat News, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Virtualization In 2025 And Beyond
Looking back, every decade has brought a new wave of innovation based on unmet customer needs and technology advancements. more →