LibreOffice, Monday, July 21st, 2025
The Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 25.2.5
LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release more →
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Friday’s Briefing · August 1
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
From Pipelines to Platforms: The Evolution of CI/CD in Enterprise DevOps
The evolution of CI/CD in Enterprise DevOps has moved from simple pipelines to more sophisticated platforms. Initially, CI/CD focused on automating the build, test and deployment phases of software development using pipelines. more →
Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Platform Engineering & Backstage: A Chicken And Egg Story
Platform engineering is at the heart of modern software delivery. It is squarely in the spotlight. But take a step back - and you'll find a situation that reminds me of the old chicken-and-egg question: Which came first, the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or the platform that enables it? more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Autonomous Infrastructure And Trustworthy AI: The Next Revolution In Platform Engineering
As AI systems evolve from support tools to autonomous infrastructure layers, platform engineering is undergoing a fundamental transformation. 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 →
DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Decoding Cloud Terminology: What 'Cloud-Native' Really Means
Here's how cloud-native compares in meaning to cloud-based, cloud-ready, cloud-hosted, and cloud-first. more →
HelpNet Security, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Most Data Breaches Have Unknown Causes As Transparency Continues To Fall
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports 1,732 publicly disclosed data breaches in H1 2025, marking a 5% increase over the same period in 2024. The ITRC could track a record number of compromises in 2025 if the current data breach trend continues through Q3 and Q4. more →
HelpNet Security, Friday, July 25th, 2025
What 50 Companies Got Wrong About Cloud Identity Security
Most organizations still miss basic identity security controls in the cloud, leaving them exposed to breaches, audit failures, and compliance violations. A new midyear benchmark from Unosecur found that nearly every company scanned had at least one high-risk issue, with an average of 40 control failures per organization. more →
ITPro, Monday, July 21st, 2025
IT Leaders Are Facing Major Work Device Blind Spots - And It's Putting Security At Risk
The use of unauthorized devices is putting enterprises at huge risk more →
techradar, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
I Am A Cybersecurity Pro And Here's The Most Powerful Strategy Criminals Are Using Against Retailers Right Now
Retail ransomware surges via trusted tools, insiders more →
techradar, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Marks & Spencer's Cyberattack Isn't An Exception - It's A Warning
Cyber attacks on retail are on the rise, and businesses are struggling to keep up more →
ITWire, Friday, July 25th, 2025
The Edge Of Telcos' AI Opportunity
As sectors like finance and healthcare charge ahead with AI deployments and the data centre industry lays claim to the 'nuts and bolts of the revolution' territory, much of the telecoms sector has remained extremely cautious with investment - with only a few early movers signalling real intent. more →
Agile Telco, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Agile Telcos Must Keep Track Of Industry Changes To Move Forward
The agile telco needs frameworks, standards and a lively ecosystem to succeed. Antony Savvas looks at some of the latest developments that can help drive this success more →
Agile Telco, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Transform The Telecoms Industry Through OSS/BSS Evolution
In the rapidly evolving telecoms sector, agility is not just a desirable attribute - it is now an essential competitive requirement. Telecoms providers worldwide are increasingly adopting agile telco strategies, significantly transforming their operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS). more →
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
The 'Hub And The Highway' - The Telco Edge AI Advantage
Telcos are seizing the AI moment by transforming old infrastructure into edge assets and positioning themselves as critical players in the AI value chain. more →
RCRWirelessNews, Friday, July 25th, 2025
4G Was For Humans, 5G Was For Machines, 6G Will Be For AI Agents
In the 6G era, AI agents will issue requests, negotiate prices, and buy and sell network slices or compute, connectivity, and energy in real time more →
How to Scale AI Agents Without Losing Control
This webinar explores practical approaches for governing AI agents at scale. Learn how to embed governance into workflows, define accountability, and establish the oversight needed to maintain control as AI capabilities evolve. more →
RTInsights, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Real-Time Analytics News For The Week Ending July 19
In this week's real-time analytics news: Multiple companies make their solutions available in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace. 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 →
HPCWire, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
LTO Tape Shipments Reach 176.5 EB in 2024, Marking 15.4% Growth
The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, have released their annual tape media shipment report, detailing year-over-year shipments through the fourth quarter of 2024. more →
The Register, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
And Now For Our Annual 'Tape Is Still Not Dead' Update
Shipments of tape storage media increased again in 2024, according to HPE, IBM, and Quantum - the three companies that back the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Format. more →
Cisco, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Creating a NetAI Playground for Agentic AI Experimentation
Hey there, everyone, and welcome to the latest installment of 'Hank shares his AI journey.' 🙂 Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be all the rage, and coming back from Cisco Live in San Diego, I was excited to dive into the world of agentic AI. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
74% Of Tech Pros Use AI Weekly - Here's What They're Doing With It
The AI survey results are in! Thanks to all of you who participated in our recent survey asking how you're thinking about-and using-AI. Now it's time to reveal the results. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Preventing Container Escape Attempts With Falcon Cloud Security's Enhanced Runtime Capabilities
Container escape represents one of the most significant security threats in modern cloud computing environments. This allows attackers to break free from container isolation mechanisms, potentially leading to complete compromise of host systems and broader cloud infrastructure. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
F5, Monday, July 21st, 2025
API Security Risks And Challenges
APIs are the connectors that allow different applications to communicate and exchange data with other applications, services, and platforms. more →
F5, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Context Is The New Perimeter: Governing AI Agents With Programmable Application Delivery
There's a persistent, dangerous myth in AIOps: 'MCP is just another API.' Sure. And SOAP was just XML with delusions of grandeur. more →
F5, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Optimizing Application Delivery And Security In Microsoft Azure
As cloud-native architectures drive digital transformation, engineers and architects face increasing challenges in modernizing application delivery and security. Balancing scalability, operational efficiency, and robust security is essential to ensure future-ready infrastructures that meet evolving demands. more →
Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Saturday, July 26th, 2025
Muddled Libra: From Social Engineering To Enterprise-Scale Disruption
The cybercrime landscape has fundamentally shifted. What began as small-scale social engineering attacks have evolved into sophisticated, team-based operations capable of bringing entire organizations to a standstill. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Security by Design - UX and AI in Modern Cybersecurity
In a recent Threat Vector podcast, host David Moulton sat down with Nelson Lee to discuss how user experience and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing cybersecurity operations. more →
Rapid7, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Q2 2025 Ransomware Trends Analysis: Boom And Bust
"Tumultuous times" would be an accurate summary of Q2 2025 where ransomware threat actors are concerned. Rapid7's internal and publicly-available data analysis reveals a dynamic environment where major players come and go, newer groups work their way up the heavy-hitters ladder, and threat actors jostle for top dog status. 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 →
Sophos, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Sharepoint 'Toolshell' Vulnerabilities Being Exploited In The Wild
Sophos X-Ops sees exploitation across multiple customer estates more →
Sophos, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Five Fundamentals For A Cyber-Resilient Future
How to stay adaptive and reduce risk in an evolving threat landscape. more →
Sophos, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Small World: The Revitalization Of Small AI Models For Cybersecurity
Sophos X-Ops explores why larger isn't always better when it comes to solving security challenges with AI more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
Tenable, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Tenable Boosts Vulnerability Priority Rating With Advanced AI
Tenable has announced advancements to its Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR), incorporating AI-powered capabilities for heightened precision in identifying and addressing critical cybersecurity risks. more →
siliconANGLE, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Tenable Enhances Vulnerability Rating System With AI To Improve Risk Prioritization
Network security company Tenable Holdings Inc. today unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered update to its Vulnerability Priority Rating system, designed to help organizations better identify and respond to the vulnerabilities that pose the most serious threats. more →
Tenable, Monday, July 21st, 2025
How Exposure Management Can Turn A Torrent Of Data Into Insight
In this post, we look at the results of a survey taken during a recent Tenable webinar on the greatest cybersecurity challenges. more →
Tenable, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Tackling Shadow AI In Cloud Workloads
As enterprise adoption of cloud AI systems balloons, protecting them has become a priority for cybersecurity teams. Shadow AI - the rampant, unsanctioned use of AI apps and services - has emerged as a particularly critical threat. more →
Tenable, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Cybersecurity Snapshot: SharePoint Attacks Trigger Urgent Patching Calls, While U.S. Gov't Unveils AI Innovation Plan
Check out the latest on attackers' cyber siege of SharePoint servers. Plus, the White House releases plan to spur AI innovation. more →
AI Threat Readiness: Deep Dive Workshop
Your AI Systems Are Already Under Attack. Is Your Team Ready to Respond? more →
Tierpoint, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Observability Vs. Monitoring: The Difference In Your IT Environment
Do you experience a repeat problem in your life? Maybe it's losing track of your keys or forgetting the lunch you packed in the fridge before you head to the office. Noticing you are experiencing a problem and identifying the root cause of the issue are two different things. This, in essence, is the difference between observability and monitoring. more →
Tierpoint, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
6 Tips For Controlling Cloud Spend In A Migration
Cloud migration can offer a lot of benefits for your overall IT budget. On-premises IT environments largely operate on a capital expenditure (CapEx) model, where businesses must invest in significant hardware, maintenance, and physical space. more →