Kovrr, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Top AI Governance Tools for Shadow and Agentic Risks
Enterprises need integrated AI governance platforms to manage shadow AI and autonomous agentic risks. more →
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michaelpeters.org, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
SOC 2 Automation: Continuum GRC Continuous Compliance Assessments
SOC 2 automation with continuous monitoring is replacing periodic audits for managing ongoing compliance demands. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
How to Use AI to Enforce Data Governance Policies
AI can automate data governance enforcement, shifting organizations from reactive reviews to proactive real-time policy control. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, July 11th, 2026
How AI Is Changing the Way Enterprises Detect Compliance and Configuration Risk
Enterprises are moving from audit-based compliance to continuous, AI-powered configuration and risk intelligence. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
2026 AI Risk Monitoring: Continuum GRC Cybersecurity Audits
AI risk monitoring is becoming essential to scale cybersecurity audits and governance across complex frameworks in 2026. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
IT Security Guru, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Pentesting Is Dead, Long Live Pentesting
Traditional annual pentests are obsolete as AI-speed threats drive a shift to continuous, programmatic testing. more →
Doppel Blog, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Why Security Awareness Needs to Be a Response, Not a Calendar Event
Static calendar-based security training fails; responsive, threat-driven human risk management builds real resilience. more →
TechTarget (SearchSecurity), Monday, July 6th, 2026
The AI Vulnerability Storm Is Here: Is Your Security Program Ready?
AI collapses the vulnerability-to-exploit timeline to hours, forcing a fundamental rethink of security programs. more →
D3 Security Blog, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Does "AI SOC" Solve Alert Fatigue?
AI SOC can end alert fatigue only if it fully investigates, triages, and responds rather than merely summarizes. more →
TechTarget (SearchITOperations), Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Top IT Security Challenges in Modern Infrastructures
Seven major security challenges, from AI-powered attacks to human error, threaten modern distributed IT environments. more →
Clear Path Security, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Preparing Your Organisation for Security Incidents
Advance planning, clear roles, and regular testing minimize disruption when security incidents strike. more →
SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Storage Gets Promoted in the Agentic AI Era
Agentic AI's massive context memory needs are making storage a strategic part of the inference engine. more →
HighFens, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Why AI Storage Standards Matter for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
SNIA's open storage standards make storage a first-order AI design decision that cuts GPU idle time. more →
Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze: High-Capacity Disk Drives Are Looking Good
Backblaze's latest drive stats show high-capacity 20TB-plus drives delivering strong reliability. more →
Backblaze Blog, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2026
Backblaze's Q1 2026 drive report, delayed by a data anomaly, shows high-capacity drives excelling. more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
When the Have-Nots Become the Haves
China's shift from open-source AI to potential export restrictions mirrors how underdogs embrace openness then close it. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Why Enterprise Knowledge Is Becoming More Valuable Than AI Models
As models commoditize, enterprises' organized internal knowledge becomes the real AI advantage. more →
InfoQ, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Switching From PostgreSQL to ClickHouse for Improved Performance and Scalability
Momentic migrated caching from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse, scaling to 20 billion entries at ~250ms latency. more →
The Future of AI Pricing: What Every CIO Needs to Know (Sept. 15h)
This session explores the evolution of AI pricing models and what they mean for enterprise decision making. Gartner experts examine the challenges emerging pricing approaches create for budgeting, governance and financial planning, and discuss how organizations can adapt. more →
Cloud Native Now, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Most Container Images You Pull Today Are Already Full of Vulnerabilities
In an interview, Minimus co-founder John Morello explains why container images stay full of unpatched vulnerabilities. more →
Deepak Gupta (guptadeepak.com), Friday, July 10th, 2026
Building Customer Identity at Scale: Lessons from 1 Billion Users
Eight lessons on building CIAM infrastructure that serves over a billion users while balancing trust and scale. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, July 11th, 2026
Top 10 Data Center Efficiency Monitoring Companies in 2026
A roundup of 2026's leading data center efficiency monitoring vendors using AI and real-time analytics. more →
OSTechNix, Friday, July 10th, 2026
How Network Time Protocol (NTP) Works: Clock Synchronization Explained
An explainer on how NTP synchronizes device clocks across IP networks using timestamps and stratum hierarchy. more →
Computer Weekly, Friday, July 10th, 2026
AI Is Making the Mainframe Harder to Retire, Not Easier
AI is reinforcing the business case for mainframes, with most organizations modernizing rather than retiring them. more →
The Missing VPN Layer In Endpoint Security
As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and the complexities of hybrid workforces, these sessions deliver expert guidance on implementing robust Zero Trust architectures, SASE strategies, and centralized VPN management. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
The Board-Level Economics of Downtime
Downtime is now a board-level strategic issue, not just an IT cost. more →
The Agentic Control Plane: Bringing Order to AI Agent Sprawl
Join IBM experts to discover how IBM watsonx Orchestrate serves as the enterprise agentic control plane, helping organizations manage, govern, observe, evaluate, and optimize AI agents across IBM, third-party, custom, and open-source environments-without vendor lock-in. more →
AMD, Monday, July 6th, 2026
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Now Available at Micro Center
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo local-AI development system is now available at Micro Center starting at $3,999. more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with at Zscaler Zero Trust Security Platform on AWS
In this webinar, we'll explore how teams can identify private applications and usage patterns to inform migration planning, maintain visibility into performance during and after migration, and secure workload-to-workload communications across AWS, data centers, and multicloud environments. more →
Anthropic, Monday, July 6th, 2026
The Making of Claude Code
The inside story of how Claude Code evolved from an internal CLI into Anthropic's flagship coding agent. more →
Anthropic, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Inviting Hard Questions
Anthropic invites the public to submit their hardest questions about AI and commits to publicly tracking its responses. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5: New Features, API Access, and Supported Platforms Explained
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 emphasizes reliability, better coding, and lower hallucination rates. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenA
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
Anysphere, Monday, July 6th, 2026
CFOs and the New Economics of AI
Cursor launches a CFO Council to help finance leaders connect AI investments to measurable business returns. more →
Anysphere, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Introducing Grok 4.5
Cursor released Grok 4.5, a mixture-of-experts model built for long-running, tool-heavy tasks beyond software engineering. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
5 Smart Ways to Use AI for Certification Exam Prep
Cisco outlines five practical ways candidates can use AI tools to prepare more efficiently for certification exams. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Unifying Operations With Cisco Cloud Control
Cisco introduces Cloud Control, a unified platform consolidating data center operations across multiple tools and domains. more →
Cisco, Friday, July 10th, 2026
The Fundamentals of AI: Making AI Practical
The final part of Cisco's AI series covers the engineering techniques that turn research models into deployable products. more →
SiliconANGLE, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Cisco Brings Enterprise AI Infrastructure to the Edge: CUBEd Award Winner
Cisco's Unified Edge converges compute, networking, and storage for enterprise AI at the edge. more →
Databricks, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Barracuda Makes Security Logs Conversational With Genie
Barracuda uses Databricks Genie to let analysts query security logs in natural language instead of SQL. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
How Imperial College London Is Accelerating Dementia Research With a Modern Data Platform
Imperial College London modernized its dementia research data platform on Databricks, cutting integration time from months to weeks. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Contextual Policies in Omnigent: Using Session State to Better Govern AI Agents
Databricks introduces Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness enabling contextual, session-aware policies for AI agents. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Navigating a Synapse Migration to Databricks
Databricks offers a practical playbook for migrating from Azure Synapse to the Databricks Lakehouse. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks' Multi-Million Line Codebase
Databricks benchmarks coding agents on real tasks from its own multi-million-line codebase, finding the harness matters most. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Ask, Build, Compose: What Our 5th Genie Hackathon Taught Us About Databricks Genie
Databricks' fifth Genie hackathon showcased projects across agents, code, and composed autonomous systems. more →
Fortinet, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
The AI Era Needs a New SASE. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.
Fortinet explains what a SASE architecture built for the AI era should actually include. more →
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 →
IBM, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
IBM Launches Compact z17 and LinuxONE Systems to Address Data Center Space and Cost Constraints
IBM launches compact, rack-mount z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems to help data centers save space and cut costs. more →
IBM, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
IBM Advances Enterprise AI Software Development With Multi-Agent Capabilities and Specialized Modernization Workflows
IBM upgrades its Bob agentic development platform with multi-agent capabilities and specialized modernization workflows for enterprises. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
IBM Extends Mainframe Reach Deeper Into the Data Center
IBM launches rack-mountable z17 and LinuxONE 5 configs to fit mainframes into standard data centers. more →
What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets In the Age of AI
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. more →
Mistral AI, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral unveils Robostral Navigate, an 8B model letting robots navigate complex spaces with a single RGB camera. more →
Mistral AI, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Your Prompts and Skills Need a System of Record
Mistral Studio adds version control and governance so AI prompts and skills become traceable production assets. more →
Proofpoint, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
One Email Closer to the Edge: UNK_MassTraction & the Physics of Exploitation
Proofpoint threat researchers detail UNK_MassTraction, a campaign exploiting email edge devices to compromise targets. more →
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 →
Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Rival Espionage Actors Converge on Pakistani Law Enforcement
One Target, Two Flags - Rival Espionage Actors Converge On Pakistani Law Enforcement more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
