ComputerWeekly, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Neoclouds: Meeting Demand For AI Acceleration
We look at how neoclouds can deliver access to artificial intelligence acceleration faster and cheaper than public cloud providers more →
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Levelact, Friday, February 27th, 2026
Enterprise Cloud Modernization: Rebuilding Legacy Infrastructure For An AI-Driven Era
Enterprise cloud modernization is no longer a cost-efficiency initiative - it is a structural transformation required to compete in an AI-driven economy. more →
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Hybrid Cloud At Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes For Portability And Control
For more than a decade, enterprises have chased the promise of hybrid cloud - elasticity, cost optimization, workload portability and the freedom to avoid vendor lock-in. Yet very few organizations actually achieve it at scale. more →
Cloud Native Now, Friday, February 27th, 2026
From PagerDuty To 'Agentic Ops': The Rise Of Self-Healing Kubernetes
For the last decade, the life of a site reliability engineer (SRE) has been defined by the 3 a.m. PagerDuty test. When the alert fires, a human wakes up, logs in, checks dashboards and frantically searches for a runbook. more →
AiThority.com, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Avoiding The Hazards Of Cloud Cost Optimization
Forecasts estimate global cloud spend to finally exceed a trillion dollars in 2026 (that's TRILLion, with a 'T'). Furthermore, approximately 30% of that is estimated to be wasted (that's $300,000,000+) more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with 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 →
devops.com, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving The Way For The Rise Of The Observability Warehouse
Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse By: Mike Vizard on February 25, 2026 Please accept cookies to access this content Eric Tschetter, chief architect at Imply and creator of Apache Druid, explains how the rapid adoption of open source OpenTelemetry for instrumenting applications is reshaping modern observability architectures. more →
devops.com, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
The Great Infrastructure Migration: Why Teams Are Moving From Manual Provisioning To Autonomous Platforms
Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger. more →
devops.com, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
The Future Of AI In Software Quality: How Autonomous Platforms Are Transforming Devops
Continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines have transformed the practice of delivering software, resulting in higher quality and faster results. This is the way in which the infrastructure that supports CI/CD enables teams to shift left many test and verification tasks. more →
devops.com, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
The AI Productivity Paradox: How Developer Throughput Can Stall
Software engineering leaders have invested heavily in generative AI coding assistants for over two years-and for good reason. For many teams, the productivity gains appear significant. I hear the same story in conversations with leadership at dozens of enterprises: thanks to AI, developers complete tasks faster, write more code, and spend less time on boilerplate activities. more →
devops.com, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
How OPA Changed Our Go-No-Go Forever
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a policy engine that streamlines policy management across your stack for improved development, security and audit capability. more →
devops.com, Friday, February 27th, 2026
Harness Readies Resilience Testing Platform To Make Applications More Robust
Harness today revealed that it will make available a set of open source tools for testing the resiliency of applications that are based on a chaos engineering platform the company gained with the acquisition of LitmusChaos. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Model Inversion Attacks: Growing AI Business Risk
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are driving unprecedented innovation and efficiency, a new class of cyber threats has emerged that puts sensitive data and entire business operations at serious risk. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, February 28th, 2026
How vCISO Services Reduce Cyber Risk Without Increasing Costs?
Smaller organizations are increasingly under attack, with ransomware emerging as the dominant threat. According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware was involved in 88% of breaches affecting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), compared to 39% among large enterprises. Such incidents can disrupt operations, expose sensitive information, and drive up recovery costs. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
How To Understand And Avoid Advanced Persistent Threats
By definition, an advanced persistent threat (APT) is a prolonged, targeted attack on a specific victim with the intention to compromise their system and gain information from or about that target. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
How To Prepare Your Business Before Implementing Enterprise SSO
Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) promises something every organization wants; namely, fewer passwords, stronger security, and smoother access to key systems. Using only one set of credentials, employees can move between platforms without friction, and IT teams gain centralized visibility and control. It sounds simple. However, in reality, it is a total transformation. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
How the CISO's Role is Evolving From Technologist to Chief Educator
The chief information security officer (CISO) is no longer just a technical operator confined to incident response and system architecture. As the pace of digital transformation accelerates and cyberthreats grow more complex, business leaders expect security to be a strategic function. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
How Small Security Teams Scale And Optimize Workflows In Decentralized Environments
If you're an application security engineer on a small team inside a large, decentralized organization, you already know the feeling: hundreds of products shipping continuously, engineering teams moving fast, and you and your colleagues outnumbered by 100x trying to keep it all secure. more →
Blocks & Files, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Hdd Is Back: The Return Of The Hard Drive
Other World Computing (OWC) sees disk drives returning to favor as NAND price rises and delivery shortages reduce SSD sales. more →
How-To Geek, Sunday, March 1st, 2026
The 2026 Storage Crisis: Why AI Data Centers Are Hoarding Every Hard Drive On The Market
HDDs were, until not too long ago, seen as the premier option for escaping price hikes as SSDs began being affected by the ongoing global RAM shortage. more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
What Microsoft Learned Building An MCP Server
Despite their similarities, an MCP Server is not an API Gateway, Microsoft engineers advise. It can do so much more, so let it. Slapping a protocol wrapper over an internal API may be a tempting shortcut to quickly build a MCP server, but the end product may only flummox an agent by offering too many choices, which would lead to context confusion, and subpar results more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
AI's Electricity Use Is Driving Tech Firms To Build Private Energy Networks
Across the United States, leading tech companies are advancing plans to construct data centers that operate independently of the traditional power grid. Rather than wait years for utilities to approve new grid connections, these firms are pairing server campuses with on-site power generation, often fueled by natural gas. The result is the early formation of a parallel energy network built to serve the demands of AI. more →
Techstrong.IT, Friday, February 27th, 2026
Green Cloud Computing - Achieving Sustainable Business Growth
As organizations migrate to the cloud platform, they have been exploring ways to better leverage its advantages while minimizing the environmental impact. To do this, organizations must utilize green cloud computing. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Top 10 Network Security Companies In 2026
Network security is now a boardroom priority. As enterprises extend into hybrid cloud relationships and integrate AI-assisted tools, cyberattacks have also become advanced. Organizations need proactive, intelligent, and scalable security solutions to protect their infrastructure against Ransomware-as-a-Service, AI-based phishing methods, and zero-day vulnerabilities. Let's take a look at the top 10 network security companies. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenAI
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 →
HRDIVE, Friday, February 27th, 2026
AI Literacy And Change Management Among Most-Needed HR Skills
Much of the HR profession remains human-oriented, LinkedIn's report showed. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
How To Improve Employee Feedback Systems To Retain Top Performers
Leaders consistently express a desire for more feedback, while employees often feel that their voices go unheard. This disconnect is not a minor cultural issue; it significantly impacts retention, engagement, and performance. more →
AWS, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
AWS Security Hub Extended Brings Enterprise Security Under One Roof
AWS Security Hub Extended is a plan within Security Hub that simplifies how customers procure, deploy, and integrate a full-stack enterprise security solution across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, and security operations. more →
Data & AI Leaders Summit (Sept. 21-23)
This three-day summit is designed for enterprise technology and business leaders responsible for turning AI potential into operational reality. It brings together leaders and practitioners to build modern data foundations, operationalize AI, and govern it for trust. more →
Citrix, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Securing High Privileged Admin Access Doesn'T Have To Be Complicated
At Citrix, we spend a lot of time thinking about secure access: how work has changed, how security expectations have changed, and how organizations are trying to keep up without slowing their teams down. We're focused on solutions which simplify secure access, reduce complexity, and reduce the cost of operations. more →
Citrix, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Understanding The Cognitive Stack: Why Your AI Strategy Is Focused On The Wrong Layer
2025 was often declared as 'the year of the agent,' and it seemed like every vendor, analyst, and keynote talked about them. So I thought it was interesting that once I started using AI to manage a second brain, I stopped thinking about agents entirely. more →
Dell, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
OTEL Unveils Game-Changing AI-Assisted Telecom Testing & Validation
OTEL unveils AI-Assisted Telecom Testing, automating validation with predictive insights to accelerate 5G rollout. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
F5, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Banking On Resilience In The AI Era: Why 2026 Is Different
Instant payments are now the norm, outages are more visible and more costly, and artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from experiments to production across banking and financial services intuitions. more →
F5, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
F5 AI Runtime Security Is A Game Changer For The Public Sector
Government agencies stand at the forefront of delivering critical services to the public, often amidst tight budgets, legacy infrastructure, strict compliance mandates, and rapidly evolving cyber threats. more →
F5, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Operational Sovereignty: Why Digital Portability Drives Resilience
In a fast-changing and unpredictable geopolitical landscape, policymakers and business leaders increasingly talk about the need for digital sovereignty. But this high-level concept can be slippery; it means different things to different people. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
CyberheistNews Vol 16 #08 Do Passwords Need to Be 25+ Characters Due to AI and Quantum Attacks?
Do Passwords Need to Be 25+ Characters Due to AI and Quantum Attacks? more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Fake Video Meeting Invites Trick Users Into Installing RMM Tools
Threat actors are using phony meeting invites for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and other video conferencing applications to trick users into installing remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools, according to researchers at Netskope. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Introducing the AIDA Orchestration Agent: Always-On Human Risk Management Has Arrived
Social engineering remains the most reliable way into an organization-and attackers are getting better at it every day. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, February 27th, 2026
The Rise Of Kratos: How The New Phishing-As-A-Service Kit Industrializes Cybercrime
By the end of 2026, over 90% of all credential compromise attacks are estimated to be enabled by modular Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) kits like the sophisticated, global threat, Kratos. more →
Leidos, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Defensive Cyber In Action: Resilience With Josh Salmanson
In a recent interview with GovCon Conversation, Josh Salmanson, Vice President of Defensive Cyber at Leidos, shared his insights on how defensive cyber is transforming into a mission-critical pillar of digital modernization. more →
Leidos, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
From Open Source To Operational Insight: How Osint Is Shaping Modern Intelligence
Once viewed as a niche capability, open source intelligence (OSINT) serves as a foundational element of modern intelligence, incorporated in nearly all finished intelligence products and informing decision-makers at all levels. more →
Proofpoint, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
From Initial Access To Post-Compromise Abuse: What Our Latest ATO Analysis Reveals
In today's agentic workspace, user credentials have become attackers' highest-value targets. Organizations rely on cloud platforms, collaboration tools, browsers, and third-party applications to get work done. When threat actors compromise an account, they can use it to abuse trust, automate malicious activities, and expand attacks across all these channels and more. more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era is here. Is your data ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Red Hat AI Factory With Nvidia Accelerates The Path To Scalable Production AI
New co-engineered offering combines Red Hat AI Enterprise and NVIDIA's accelerated computing software to provide a unified foundation for building, deploying, and scaling AI-enabled applications more →
Red Hat, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
AI In Telco - The Catalyst For Scaling Digital Business
If you aren't currently architecting for AI, you are part of a rapidly dwindling minority. By 2026, the pivot is no longer optional: AI has moved from a peripheral tool to the primary engine for transforming digital businesses, slashing operational complexity and driving revenue growth. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
MCP Security: The Current Situation
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Rather than relying on ad hoc, model-specific integrations, MCP defines a structured client-server architecture that allows AI applications to request context and invoke tools in a more consistent and interoperable way. more →
Red Hat, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Metrics That Matter: How To Prove The Business Value Of DevEx
Developer experience (DevEx) is often dismissed as a "soft" cultural metric. But I can prove to you that DevEx is a reliable predictor of whether your developer platform will actually deliver business value. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Migrate Your VMs Faster With The Migration Toolkit For Virtualization 2.11
Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload migrations in the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11, included in Red Hat OpenShift. This update allows you to migrate with speed and confidence. more →
Red Hat, Friday, February 27th, 2026
More Than Meets The Eye: Behind The Scenes Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 6)
This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we'll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being. more →