Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Justifying Investments In Machine Identity Management
Why is Investment Justification in Machine Identity Management Essential? more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · May 8
CIO, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
IT Leaders See Big Business Potential In Small AI Models
Better equipped to deliver business-specific AI apps, small language models (SLMs) could soon outpace LLM use in the enterprise, thanks to their agile, cost-efficient, task-targeted nature. more →
CIO, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
How IT Leaders Use Agentic AI For Business Workflows
Tech-forward execs share how they tap agentic AI to automate tedious tasks and supercharge business-critical activities. more →
DARKReading, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Enterprises Need To Beware Of These 5 Threats
A panel of SANS Institute leaders detailed current threats and provided actionable steps for enterprises to consider. more →
Technative, Monday, April 28th, 2025
Cybersecurity Is Not Working: Time To Try Something Else
The bottom-up approaches most have been pushing for 20 years around cybersecurity have simply failed more →
InformationWeek, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Confidential Computing: CIOs Move To Secure Data In Use
Chief information officers are embracing confidential computing to secure sensitive data in use, but successful deployment requires careful integration, performance planning, and regulatory alignment. more →
IT'S FOSS, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
FOSS Weekly #25.18: Linux Magazine, Modern Terminals, Muse Pi, apt Guide and More
Before the age of blogs, forums, and YouTube tutorials, Linux users relied on printed magazines to stay informed and inspired. Titles like Linux Journal, Linux Format, and Maximum Linux were lifelines for enthusiasts, packed with tutorials, distro reviews, and CD/DVDs. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
The Register, Monday, April 28th, 2025
What The **** Did You Put In That Code? The Client Thinks It's A Cyberattack
When your customers work in super-sensitive situations, bad jokes make for bad business more →
The Register, Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Techie Solved Supposed Software Problem By Waving His Arms In The Air
Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage more →
How-To Geek, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
10 Legendary Pranks That Tech Companies Pulled Off Perfectly
Every year, nearly all tech companies come up with new prank concepts that are fun to experience. more →
AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, April 28th, 2025
Best SQL Databases to Enhance Your Data Skills in 2025
In 2025, it is essential to know SQL if one wants to be successful in their career in data science or analysis. more →
Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
As AI becomes part of production operations, engineering teams face new challenges in interpreting system behavior, automating routine tasks, and accelerating incident response. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Cisco Moves To Secure Data Centers With Breakthrough AI-Native Architecture
In this article Sulagna Saha covers Cisco's strategic move to reinforce data center security by launching a groundbreaking AI-native architecture. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Big Takeaways From The HPE Proliant Gen12 Deep Dive With Tech Field Day
Stephen Foskett provides three important points about the HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers during our recent Tech Field Day event. more →
Tech Field Day, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
AI Infrastructure Space Is Red Hot
As Alan Shimel points out, the AI infrastructure market is currently experiencing significant growth, marked by increased investment and innovation. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
AI Field Day 5: One Cat's Opinion
AI Field Day 5 brought together delegates to hear from companies enabling enterprise AI. more →
Contact Center Pipeline, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Top 5 Contact Center Pipeline Posts In April
This month, Brendan kicks off the top 5 with leading contact center experts' insights on staffing and retention. Next, Rick shares his three-part series on solving the 'CX Calculation Discrepancy.' Then, we head over to Jim, who offers guidelines on transcending customer expectations. more →
Contact Center Pipeline, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Sun Tzu And The Art Of Contact Center Planning
In the renowned ancient treatise The Art of War, Sun Tzu famously states that every battle is won before it is fought. more →
techstrong.ai, Monday, April 28th, 2025
How Agentic AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers
Today, customer experience (CX) is a crucial differentiator across industries, prompting businesses to continuously seek service improvements. more →
Contact Center Pipeline, Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our May 2025 Issue
Our May issue marks a sign of the times. As the technologies we deploy in our centers help with operational efficiencies and enhance customer experiences, they can also make us more vulnerable as an industry. more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Will AI Replace Engineers?
Will AI replace engineers? Learn how AI is reshaping the future of engineering, creating new jobs, and changing old ones forever. more →
Ask The Headhunter, Monday, April 28th, 2025
Where's The Behavior In A Behavioral Interview?
Question: "I had a behavioral interview with a company that I was dying to work for. If you've never had one, they can be brutal...' more →
CIO, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
What Does A Cloud Architect Do?
As cloud strategies become increasingly vital and complex, cloud architects can help organizations avoid risk and ensure a successful, cost-effective transition to the cloud. more →
SC Media, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
SC Award Winners 2025 ISACA - Best Professional Certification Program
ISACA's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification has been named the Best Professional Certification Program at the 2025 SC Awards, recognized for its pivotal role in preparing cybersecurity professionals for leadership in an increasingly complex threat landscape. more →
ZDNet, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
How To Make LinkedIn Work For You: 3 Things You Must Get Right
Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer, shares his top tips for getting the most from the networkinTomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer, shares his top tips for getting the most from the networking site - and what comes next for the platform.g site - and what comes next for the platform. more →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →
AWS, May 2,2025
'We're Not Dabbling Here': AWS Backs Infrastructure Investments As Revenues Soar
The largest hyperscaler poured billions into cloud capacity during Q1 to meet rising AI demand, CEO Andy Jassy said. more →
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 →
Check Point, April 28,2025
Check Point Software Achieves FedRAMP 'n Process' Milestone To Deliver AI-Powered Cyber Security Solutions To U.S. Government
The Check Point Infinity Platform for Government will deliver industry-leading threat prevention, zero trust architecture and AI-powered cyber defense more →
Check Point, April 30,2025
Check Point Research Launches AI Security Report: Exposing The Rise Of AI-Powered Cybercrime And Defenses
New report unveils four key AI-driven cyber threats and how organizations can outsmart attackers in an AI-driven world more →
Commvault, April 28,2025
Commvault Wins Coveted 'Outstanding Cyber Resilience' Global Infosec Award For 2025
Commvault Recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine for Innovation in Cyber Resilience During RSAC Conference 2025. more →
Commvault, April 28,2025
Commvault Announces Next Evolution Of Cleanroom Recovery That Further Reduces Risk Of Restoring Compromised Infrastructure
Commvault extends the power of its advanced Cleanroom Recovery technology to managed service providers focused on keeping enterprises resilient more →
StorageNewsLetter, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Commvault and CrowdStrike Expand Their Partnership
Together, the companies are delivering a trusted pathway to CrowdStrike's elite incident response services, supported by Commvault's recovery expertise - helping organizations worldwide recover faster and stay better prepared for cyberattacks. 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 →
HPE, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
The next wave of virtualization is containerized
With the rising costs of hypervisor licensing, many organizations are evaluating their virtualization needs and exploring industry and market trends. 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 →
IBM, April 28,2025
IBM Unveils $150 Billion Investment In America To Accelerate Technology Opportunity
IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in America over the next five years to fuel the economy and to accelerate its role as the global leader in computing. This includes an investment of more than $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue IBM's American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers. more →
IBM, May 1,2025
IBM Launches Microsoft Practice To Deliver Transformative Business Value For Clients
IBM announced the establishment of a new Microsoft Practice within IBM Consulting. This announcement builds upon a multi-year partnership aimed to deliver stronger and more measurable business outcomes for clients who are navigating complex AI, cloud, and security transformations. more →
IBM, Monday, April 28,2025
IBM Delivers Autonomous Security Operations With Cutting-Edge Agentic AI
New advanced AI capabilities help transform cybersecurity operations, driving efficiency and precision in threat hunting, detection, investigation and response more →
IBM, May 1,2025
IBM And Scuderia Ferrari HP Debut Reimagined Mobile App To Supercharge Global Formula 1 Fan Experience
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP introduced a newly reimagined mobile app experience designed to bring the passionate global fanbase of nearly 400 million Tifosi closer than ever to cars, drivers and races they love. more →
IBM, April 29,2025
Box And IBM Partner To Bring New Enterprise-Level AI Models To Support Content Generation And Productivity
Box, the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, and IBM announced they are partnering to help organizations accelerate the adoption of enterprise-level AI for content-driven workflows using IBM watsonx and Box AI. more →
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 →
Oracle, May 1,2025
Sphere Powers Its AI Platform With Oracle Database 23ai
Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI enabled Sphere to build and deploy applications on its AI platform in just 45 days more →
Oracle, April 30,2025
Izzi Improves Customer Experience and Revenue Growth with Oracle
Mexican telecommunications operator reduces bill run times by 70% and achieves greater agility with Oracle Digital Business Experience on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure more →
Oracle, April 29,2025
Innovative Food Brands Orders Up Oracle Cloud For Chopped Leaf Restaurants
North American restaurant chain taps Simphony point-of-sale to centralize dine-in and third-party delivery orders and enhance customer service across locations more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
Palo Alto Networks, April 30,2025
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM Delivers Industry's First AI-Driven SecOps Platform to Span Proactive and Reactive Security
Evolves industry-leading capabilities with AI-driven Cortex Exposure management and Advanced Email Security more →
Autonomous Operations Starts with Resilience
In this session, we'll explore how organizations are evolving from reactive operations to autonomous operational resilience: systems that continuously observe application health, understand dependencies, anticipate operational risk, and take intelligent action before users and the business feel the impact. more →
Sophos, May 1,2025
Sophos Firewall v21.5: Entra ID SSO for Sophos Connect
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5. more →
Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise
This virtual event explores the implications of this new world order of AI agents joining the business, including AI discovery, governance, identity, and how to put in place the proper guardrails. more →
