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Thursday’s Briefing · April 23

CIO Influence, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Neoclouds Not Ready For AI Networking, Omdia Warns

Many neoclouds are not prepared for the networking demands of artificial intelligence, according to a new audit by Omdia, which warns enterprises to scrutinize suppliers beyond raw compute capacity. more →

Neoclouds Not Ready For AI Networking, Omdia Warns

LevelAct, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Hybrid Cloud Comeback 2026: Why Enterprises Are Shifting Back

The hybrid cloud comeback 2026 is gaining serious momentum as enterprises reevaluate their long-term cloud strategies. For years, organizations aggressively pursued full cloud adoption, driven by promises of scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. more →

Hybrid Cloud Comeback 2026: Why Enterprises Are Shifting Back

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Securing Today's Cloud-Native Workloads

Cloud-native architectures built on auto-scaling virtual machines, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and serverless platforms have transformed enterprise IT. However, this transformation has also expanded the attack surface and increased the complexity of east-west traffic across cloud-native and hybrid environments. more →

Securing Today's Cloud-Native Workloads

Cloudtech, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Top 10 Tools For Multi-Cloud Architecture Design

Multi-cloud architecture design is not a niche exercise for large enterprises. It has become a practical requirement for teams balancing performance, resilience, regional coverage, compliance, vendor flexibility, and cost control in more than one environment. more →

Top 10 Tools For Multi-Cloud Architecture Design

You've Been Heard, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

You Can't Be Just a Nerd Anymore w/Josh Siddon - 417 (39:32)

Josh Siddon is VP of IT Architecture at MAA, one of the largest multifamily operators in the country, and the founder of ResiQ, a consultancy helping smaller operators navigate managed Wi-Fi, cloud migration, and PropTech vendor selection. more →

You Can't Be Just a Nerd Anymore w/Josh Siddon - 417 (39:32)

You've Been Heard, Monday, April 13th, 2026

Your IT Team Should Work Without You w/Scott Kutz - 416 (49:23)

Scott Kutz is five months into his role as IT Manager at Brooks Tractor, a construction equipment dealership where service managers remote into customer excavators in real time and OEM vendors push cloud platforms faster than most dealers can upgrade their bandwidth. more →

Your IT Team Should Work Without You w/Scott Kutz - 416 (49:23)

LevelAct, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

DevSecOps Is Broken in 2026 - And It's Creating Risks

DevSecOps broken 2026 is becoming a serious concern as organizations struggle to keep security aligned with rapidly evolving development pipelines. What was once promoted as the answer to embedding security into DevOps workflows is now showing signs of strain. more →

DevSecOps Is Broken in 2026 - And It's Creating Risks

Upcoming Event · Wed, Oct 14 · 11:00am

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 →

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Modernize for the AI Era (Oct. 14th)

Help Net Security, Monday, April 13th, 2026

Why Manual Certificate Management Is Running Out Of Time

In this video, John Murray, Senior Vice President of Sales at GlobalSign, explains what's changing in the certificate industry and what companies need to do about it. Certificate validity periods are shrinking, which means companies will need to rotate certificates far more often than before. more →

Why Manual Certificate Management Is Running Out Of Time

Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Stop Planning. Start Learning. That's The AI Playbook That's Actually Working.

AI adoption isn't a project you plan and then execute, it's a journey you learn by walking. Organizations that wait for a perfect strategy before taking a step are already falling behind. The ones pulling ahead aren't the ones with the longest roadmaps. They're the ones who started small, learned fast, and kept moving. In a landscape where the tools, models, and best practices shift every few months, experience is the only reliable teacher. more →

Stop Planning. Start Learning. That's The AI Playbook That's Actually Working.

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 13th, 2026

The Conversation No One Is Having About Claude Mythos

At sufficient scale, Mythos-style breaches are inevitable. Patching matters, but no pipeline keeps pace with thousands of simultaneous zero-days. The relevant question isn't how an attacker got in - it's what they can reach once they're inside. That answer depends entirely on your IAM posture. You can control it. more →

The Conversation No One Is Having About Claude Mythos

Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Your AI Automation Platform Decision is Missing Someone

Picture this: your security engineering team spends weeks evaluating AI automation platforms. They run proof-of-concepts, stress-test integrations, and debate which tool makes building playbooks the most elegant experience. more →

Your AI Automation Platform Decision is Missing Someone

Techstrong.ai, Friday, April 17th, 2026

Agentic AI And The Race To Build AI-Ready Infrastructure

In 2026, two forces will define how enterprises build, secure and operate cloud environments. First, autonomous, agentic AI is quickly becoming a foundational part of how work gets done across security, DevOps and IT operations. Second, enterprises are investing aggressively in the infrastructure needed to support these systems at scale. more →

Agentic AI And The Race To Build AI-Ready Infrastructure

Techstrong.ai, Friday, April 17th, 2026

How AI's Evolution is Reshaping Data Systems

Enterprise AI has evolved rapidly-from predictive models answering targeted questions to generative models producing content on demand, and now to agentic AI systems that pursue goals autonomously through multi-step reasoning. more →

How AI's Evolution is Reshaping Data Systems

Techstrong.IT, Monday, April 13th, 2026

Tech Leadership In The Age of AI: Augmentation, Not Replacement

There is no shortage of discussion about what AI means for tech leadership. The dominant message is simple: The tools are smarter now, so your job gets easier. That story is appealing - and in some contexts, partially true. But it skips something important, especially if you work in regulated spaces where accountability is not optional, and consequences are real. more →

Tech Leadership In The Age of AI: Augmentation, Not Replacement

Techstrong.IT, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Taming Multi-Cloud Complexity And Sovereignt

Multi-cloud used to be something that happened to organizations by accident, the result of acquisitions, team preferences and one-off vendor decisions piling up over time. That has changed. more →

Taming Multi-Cloud Complexity And Sovereignt

HelpNet Security, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Network Segmentation Projects Fail In Predictable Patterns

SSLv3 support has been removed. The protocol was deprecated in 2015, and OpenSSL had it disabled by default since version 1.1.0 in 2016. Support for the SSLv2 Client Hello has also been removed. The engine API, which provided a mechanism for integrating external cryptographic hardware and software implementations, has been removed entirely. more →

Network Segmentation Projects Fail In Predictable Patterns

RCR Wireless, Monday, April 13th, 2026

Telcos On Notice In AI Era - Lumen's Call To Arms

Lumen chief executive Kate Johnson has penned an open letter to enterprise CEOs (and the whole telecoms industry): that there is a golden opportunity to connect the AI revolution, but legacy networks are not up to scratch, and the industry must move fast. more →

Telcos On Notice In AI Era - Lumen's Call To Arms

Ask The Headhunter, Monday, April 13th, 2026

Flip A Coin, Be A Good Mentor

Question: My company introduced a training program so managers and senior staff can learn how to mentor employees, new hires and so on. They brought in a consultant to teach it. It's so formal and structured. That's just not me. I'd feel very awkward. But I'd like to start helping some of the people under me. Have you got some tips on how I can be a good mentor? more →

Flip A Coin, Be A Good Mentor

Search CIO, Monday, April 13th, 2026

The Most In-Demand AI Skill

In-demand AI skills for enterprises include technical foundations and effective teamwork with AI, among other skills crucial for successful implementations and better productivity. more →

The Most In-Demand AI Skill

Cisco, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

Can Your Infrastructure Management Tools Do That

Managing IT infrastructure has never been more demanding. Server estates span data centers, colocation facilities, and distributed edge locations. AI workloads are accelerating. And IT teams are expected to do more with less, often juggling multiple vendor tools that barely talk to each other. more →

Can Your Infrastructure Management Tools Do That

Cisco, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Securing AI Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise

Infrastructure is evolving fast. AI workloads are scaling rapidly. Encrypted traffic is now the norm. Applications are distributed across data centers, cloud, and edge. Across enterprise, hyperscale, neocloud, and telecom environments, one thing is clear: performance expectations are rising-and security has to keep up. more →

Securing AI Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise

Cisco, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

Cisco Just Made Moves To Own The AI Infrastructure Stack

By bulking up AI observability with Galileo and identity with Astrix, Cisco is repositioning its secure network as the control plane for the agentic era. It's a calculated bet that the company best known for building the internet's infrastructure can now govern what runs on top of it. more →

Cisco Just Made Moves To Own The AI Infrastructure Stack

Upcoming Event · Tue, Oct 13 · 1:00pm

Modernization That Ships with AI

Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →

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Modernization That Ships with AI (Oct. 13th)

CrowdStrike, Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Frontier AI For Defenders: CrowdStrike And OpenAI TAC

CrowdStrike has been selected for OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program. Today, OpenAI released GPT-5.4-Cyber, a frontier model designed for defensive cybersecurity, and expanded the TAC program to give verified, selected defenders governed access through identity verification and tiered controls. more →

Frontier AI For Defenders: CrowdStrike And OpenAI TAC

CrowdStrike, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

April 2026 Patch Tuesday: Updates And Analysis

Microsoft has addressed 164 vulnerabilities in its April 2026 security update release, double the number of vulnerabilities in March 2026. These include one exploited zero-day vulnerability, one previously disclosed zero-day vulnerability, and eight Critical vulnerabilities. more →

April 2026 Patch Tuesday: Updates And Analysis

Upcoming Event · Mon, Sep 21 · 1:00pm

Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure

Kubernetes has become the universal control plane for modern infrastructure - and now AI is accelerating that evolution. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, scale model training and inference, and push toward more autonomous operations, Kubernetes is emerging as the backbone for running intelligent, distributed systems at scale. more →

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Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure (Sept. 21st)