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Friday’s Briefing · April 10

StorageReview, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

Backblaze Publishes Q1 2026 Cloud Storage Performance Results

Backblaze has published its Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, a quarterly series comparing cloud storage performance across Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage. The report covers testing in US-East and EU-Central and includes both the results and the methodology used, with the stated goal of letting others review, reproduce, and compare the findings. As with any vendor-produced benchmark, the data comes from the company running the tests, so the results should be read with that context in mind. more →

Backblaze Publishes Q1 2026 Cloud Storage Performance Results

Techstrong.tv, Monday, March 30th, 2026

Prediction Markets, AI Drones And The Future Of Cloud Computing

On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Anne Ahola Ward and Gina Rosenthal dive into the implications of a $12.5 million initiative to help open source software maintainers fix vulnerabilities in the age of AI. more →

Prediction Markets, AI Drones And The Future Of Cloud Computing

Platform Engineering, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

Platform Engineering Drives Merger of Env Zero and CloudQuery

The merger of env zero, a provider of an infrastructure as code (IaC) management platform, and CloudQuery, a provider of a cloud asset management platform, is being driven by an effort to create a platform engineering solution that will make it simpler to programmatically manage IT environments on an end-to-end basis. more →

Platform Engineering Drives Merger of Env Zero and CloudQuery

Security Boulevard, Friday, April 3rd, 2026

How To Protect Your Data With Agentic AI

Have you ever considered the scale of machine identities within your organization? With the expansive growth of digital, Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are becoming crucial in effective data protection strategies. more →

How To Protect Your Data With Agentic AI

Tech Field Day, Monday, March 30th, 2026

AI Meets The Future Of Networking At Networking Field Day 40

AI is redefining not just applications, but the very networks they run on, that transformation comes into focus at Networking Field Day 40 April 8th through 10, 2026. This milestone event gathers industry leaders to explore how networking must evolve to support AI-driven infrastructure, from data centers to cloud-scale operations. more →

AI Meets The Future Of Networking At Networking Field Day 40

Tech Field Day, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

The Internet Still Delivers Massive Public Good

The Internet is often characterized as full of cat pictures and manipulative social media, yet the Internet is home to thousands of websites and communities that deliver massive public benefit. more →

The Internet Still Delivers Massive Public Good

destination CRM, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

Companies Must Transform Their CRM Architectures, ISG Advises

Companies can measurably improve sales productivity, forecast reliability, and customer retention using CRM with advanced artificial intelligence, but they need to transform their CRM architectures first, according to new research from technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG). more →

Companies Must Transform Their CRM Architectures, ISG Advises

destination CRM, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

The Top Marketing Trends And Technologies For 2026: Marketing's Age Of AI Has Arrived, Now Comes The Hard Part

Three months into 2026, the verdict is in: Artificial intelligence is no longer a pilot program. It's become a critical era. Marketing teams that have spent the past few years experimenting with generative AI are now being asked to restructure their workflows, demonstrate real ROI, and defend their strategies based on measurable and meaningful results more →

The Top Marketing Trends And Technologies For 2026: Marketing's Age Of AI Has Arrived, Now Comes The Hard Part

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Upcoming IT Webinars

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Upcoming IT Webinars

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)

How-To Geek, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

Google's $3 USB Stick Turns Your Old PC Into A ChromeOS Machine

Google has long offered ChromeOS Flex to turn your ancient PC or Intel Mac into an up-to-date computer, but the process hasn't been intuitive for newcomers. Thankfully, it just got easier: Google has teamed up with refurbished electronics store Back Market to sell a $3 ChromeOS Flex USB Kit. more →

Google's $3 USB Stick Turns Your Old PC Into A ChromeOS Machine

RCR Wireless, Monday, March 30th, 2026

HPE Talks Up AI Network Infrastructure, From Cloud To Edge

HPE reinforced the telco shift at MWC: the urgent mid-gen upgrade of fiber interconnect and longhaul networks for the AI era, plus the edge inference agenda just coming on-stream - as served by its PTX and MX portfolios, respectively, as supported by its modular hardware, custom ASICs, and AI management software. more →

HPE Talks Up AI Network Infrastructure, From Cloud To Edge

Upcoming Event · Tue, Oct 20 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint (Oct. 20th)

Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

Five Browser And AI Security Questions Keeping CxOs Up At Night

Work has fundamentally shifted from applications and networks to the browser itself. Today, the browser is where employees access SaaS, collaborate and interact with AI, making it the true operating system of modern work. But as work moved into the browser, security controls didn't follow. Within the last year, 95% of organizations have reported a security incident originating in the browser, as attackers shift their focus from hardened networks to exposed web sessions. more →

Five Browser And AI Security Questions Keeping CxOs Up At Night

Palo Alto Networks, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

Closing The Gap By Enhancing Visibility And Mitigating Risks

In the race to digitise public services, the UK's digital estate has grown into a vast, borderless ecosystem that manual audits can no longer track. For UK Government departments, local authorities and NHS trusts, it is a sprawling, shifting landscape of cloud workloads, legacy infrastructure, shadow IT and third-party supplier connections. more →

Closing The Gap By Enhancing Visibility And Mitigating Risks

Red Hat, Monday, March 30th, 2026

Announcing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security For Kubernetes 4.10

Security is an important aspect of any digital undertaking, and Kubernetes is no different. We've built Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes to form a foundational layer of security across fleets, estates, and platforms, be it public, private, or hybrid clouds. more →

Announcing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security For Kubernetes 4.10

Red Hat, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

Automating The Modern Network: A Q1 Network Automation Recap

As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, we have seen a shift in the role of network automation. It's no longer a "nice to have" and instead is a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments more →

Automating The Modern Network: A Q1 Network Automation Recap

Red Hat, Friday, April 3rd, 2026

Friday Five - April 3, 2026

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 →

Friday Five - April 3, 2026

Red Hat, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

Our Journey To AI-Centricity, Part 2: Crafting A Strategy That Scales

In the first part of this series, we discussed the messy and challenging work of fixing our foundation - standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift and cleaning up years of fragmented data. With that foundation in place, we faced a new challenge: how to integrate AI into how Red Hatters work without creating new internal barriers or security risks. more →

Our Journey To AI-Centricity, Part 2: Crafting A Strategy That Scales

SUSE, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

The 2026 It Investment Benchmark: Navigating Sovereignty, AI And Resilience

If you've followed my work for a while, you know I care deeply about three things: open source, hybrid cloud and data. So when we had the opportunity to survey nearly 600 enterprise technology leaders across the U.S., UK, Japan, India and Germany on how AI is reshaping infrastructure priorities, I had to see it firsthand. more →

The 2026 It Investment Benchmark: Navigating Sovereignty, AI And Resilience

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)