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Friday’s Briefing · March 27

Heller, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

Now More Than Ever, CIO Means Chief Integration Officer

After six decades in IT leadership, Charlie Feld, founder of The Feld Group Institute, argues the CIO role is more critical than ever-but only if it evolves. For executives who can communicate how emerging technologies like AI produce results in the context of their business while demonstrating the value of the role, now is the best time to be a CIO. more →

Now More Than Ever, CIO Means Chief Integration Officer

InfoQ, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

All Tech Debt Is Not Created Equal

At QCon London 2026, Joy Ebertz, principal engineer at Imprint, presented a practical framework for prioritizing technical debt, arguing that in an era where AI tools are accelerating code production, the question is no longer how to eliminate tech debt, but which debt actually matters. more →

All Tech Debt Is Not Created Equal

InformationWeek, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

Why CIOs Can't Let Users Wait On IT

As citizen development expands, CIOs can't take a hands-off approach and still ensure that technology serves the broader business. more →

Why CIOs Can't Let Users Wait On IT

The Futurum Group, Friday, March 20th, 2026

The Futurum Weekly, March 2026

Welcome to The Futurum Weekly, featuring our latest analyst research, market and earnings coverage. While much of the coverage below is complimentary to access, some requires a subscription to the Futurum Intelligence Platform. more →

The Futurum Weekly, March 2026

SC Media, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Report: Cloud Identity Compromise Drove 80% Of 2025 Incidents

Field Effect's 2026 Cyber Threat Outlook reveals that compromised cloud identities were the primary driver behind more than 80% of incident-related alerts investigated last year, signaling a fundamental shift in attacker focus, reports Security Brief Asia. more →

Report: Cloud Identity Compromise Drove 80% Of 2025 Incidents

Security Bouelevard, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

Identity-Centric Security Strategies For Hybrid Workforces

The shift to hybrid work arrangements has revolutionized the cybersecurity perimeter. Currently, roughly half of all employees who are remotely accessible are working from both their offices and homes, using different devices. In this fluid environment, experts are unanimous that identity, and not the network, is the new perimeter. more →

Identity-Centric Security Strategies For Hybrid Workforces

Security Bouelevard, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

PowerShell Is a Security Risk - Here's How to Fix It

If you run a Windows environment, you already know how critical PowerShell is. It's the backbone of modern administration, used for automation, configuration, and day-to-day operations at scale. more →

PowerShell Is a Security Risk - Here's How to Fix It

Security Bouelevard, Saturday, March 21st, 2026

Secrets Management Vs. Secrets Elimination: Where Should You Invest?

Most organizations still treat credentials as something that must be protected, stored, and rotated. But a second model is quietly reshaping how machine authentication works: eliminate static secrets altogether and authenticate workloads using identity and just-in-time access. These two approaches represent different philosophies, different operational realities, and different long-term costs. more →

Secrets Management Vs. Secrets Elimination: Where Should You Invest?

Security Bouelevard, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

Security Architecture For Hybrid Work: Enterprise Guide

According to Gallup, more than half (52%) of U.S. employers now follow a hybrid working model. For enterprises, there is a clear logic behind this approach. Hybrid work is more flexible, favored by employees and crucially, powers a more productive team. more →

Security Architecture For Hybrid Work: Enterprise Guide

Techstrong.ai, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

AI & Jobs: The Futurum Files

I recently did something I don't recommend unless you enjoy cognitive whiplash. I dove headfirst into as much research on AI and jobs as I could stand. Academic papers. Policy analysis. Economic models. Vendor forecasts. Think tank reports. The whole buffet. more →

AI & Jobs: The Futurum Files

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

Fedex To Deploy AI Agent Workforce In Global Operational Overhaul

FedEx Corp. plans to embed artificial intelligence (AI) agents into more than half of its operational workflows by 2028, a hard turn for the logistics titan that radically moves it beyond simple software tools and toward autonomous systems capable of executing complex, real-time operational tasks. more →

Fedex To Deploy AI Agent Workforce In Global Operational Overhaul

Techstrong.ai, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

Techstrong Is Eating Its Own Agentic AI Dog Foo

It's funny. For a company that has spent the last two-plus years covering artificial intelligence from every possible angle, we were actually pretty conservative about using it ourselves. more →

Techstrong Is Eating Its Own Agentic AI Dog Foo

Citrix, Thursday, March 19th, 2026

When Session Recording Stops Scaling

When a serious breach or security incident hits, enterprises rarely suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from a lack of usable evidence. And the longer it takes to find that evidence, the higher the business risk: audit exposure grows, downtime extends, and customer (not to mention, government regulator) trust erodes. more →

When Session Recording Stops Scaling

IBM, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Doubling Down On Open-Access Quantum Computing

As part of our ongoing commitment to open quantum computing, we're rolling out new learning resources, opening up new hardware, and introducing a special promotion for users on the IBM Quantum Open Plan. more →

Doubling Down On Open-Access Quantum Computing

The Next Platform, Monday, March 16th, 2026

IBM Unrolls Blueprint For Quantum-Classical HPC Computing

When the commercial, scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing era really begins, when it becomes widely available, it will - least at the start - be a cloud service that is integrated with classical, powerful supercomputers, accelerator-like nodes that will run alongside with CPUs and GPUs and take on the workloads that are too powerful for their classical kin. more →

IBM Unrolls Blueprint For Quantum-Classical HPC Computing

IBM, Friday, March 20th, 2026

Turning Turbulence Into Transcripts

IBM worked with Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service to aid clinicians on the ground and in the air using IBM Granite's high-performing speech recognition technology. more →

Turning Turbulence Into Transcripts

Red Hat, Friday, March 20th, 2026

Beyond The Move: Introducing The Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded

For a long time, organizations treated their infrastructure's virtualization layer as steady and predictable. You built on it and you trusted it. Lately, that stability has been disrupted by complex shifts, including rising licensing costs and the urgent requirement to get ready for AI by adding more compute, storage, and other hardware resources. The infrastructure that used to feel settled now feels like it's at a crossroads. more →

Beyond The Move: Introducing The Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded

Red Hat, Friday, March 20th, 2026

Friday Five - March 20, 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 - March 20, 2026

Red Hat, Friday, March 20th, 2026

Get The Most Out Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux For AWS

Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several benefits, including enhanced scalability, flexibility, cost-efficiency, and access to a wide range of managed services more →

Get The Most Out Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux For AWS

Tierpoint, Monday, March 16th, 2026

Future Of Disaster Recovery: Key Trends In 2026

The ability to respond to disruptions quickly used to be the gold standard. However, the future of disaster recovery requires even faster intervention, often before an incident occurs. more →

Future Of Disaster Recovery: Key Trends In 2026

Tierpoint, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

Top Cloud Security Trends In 2026: Key Strategies & Risks

The ubiquity of cloud computing has made cloud security concerns the top security priority for IT decision-makers through 2030. With new threats emerging in these environments, security teams are focused on strengthening their proactive approach with identity-based protection, AI-enabled tools, and more modern strategies. more →

Top Cloud Security Trends In 2026: Key Strategies & Risks