CIO, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Delivering Resilience And Continuity For AI
You're investing too much to get the basics wrong. Here's what architecture, infrastructure, and networking look like when done right for AI. more →
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Infoworld, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Understanding Ai-Native Cloud: From Microservices To Model-Serving
Traditional cloud architectures are buckling under the weight of generative AI. To move from pilots to production, enterprises must adopt a 'design-first' architecture that treats intelligence as a core utility. more →
ITPro, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
AI Fatigue: Is The Backlash Against AI Already Here?
The proliferation of AI tools in the market is creating confusion, decision paralysis, and declining productivity... more →
techradar, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
5 Predictions For AI In 2026 - What's Next For ChatGPT, Gemini, And You
A year where AI becomes even more present in your life more →
As is our wont, it's helpful to look at LLM use through the lens of our values, several of which come to mind
Using LLMs at Oxide
Large language models (LLMs) are an indisputable breakthrough of the last five years, potentially profoundly changing the way that we work. As with any extraordinarily powerful tool, LLM use has both promise and peril - and that they are so general-purpose leaves real questions about how and when they should be used. more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Are We Ready To Be Governed By Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) overlords are a common trope in science-fiction dystopias, but the reality looks much more prosaic. The technologies of artificial intelligence are already pervading many aspects of democratic government, affecting our lives in ways both large and small. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
devops.com, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Best of 2025: Survey: AI Tools Are Increasing Amount Of Bad Code Needing To Be Fixed
A survey of 500 software engineering leaders and practitioners published this week finds that while nearly all (95%+) believe artificial intelligence tools can reduce burnout well over half (59%) report AI tools at least half the time are creating deployment errors in their code. more →
devops.com, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Best of 2025: The DevOps Bottleneck: Why Iac Orchestration Is The Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you've heard it a thousand times: 'Do more with less.' More automation, more security, more reliability-but with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep growing, pushing out new features at breakneck speed. more →
Infoworld, Monday, December 29th, 2025
4 New Year's Resolutions For DevOps Success
AI-driven development will continue to redefine the software industry in 2026, and successful devops teams will embrace the transformation. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Best of 2025: 5 Crucial Benefits Of Internal Developer Platforms
Nowadays, developers face a paradox: While technology advances rapidly, the complexity of managing infrastructure slows them down. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) solve this challenge by streamlining workflows, reducing cognitive load and enhancing productivity. more →
Platform Engineering, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Best of 2025: Build vs. Buy: The Platform Engineer's Conundrum
Congratulations - you've either built a platform or you're deep into the process of creating one. But here's the uncomfortable reality: Many engineering teams conflate 'building the platform' with the ultimate goal. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Best of 2025: How Platform Engineering Turns Compliance Into A Built-In Advantage
For many IT teams, compliance has long been a bottleneck - slowing projects, creating friction between developers and security teams, and introducing manual processes that add risk rather than reduce it. more →
Platform Engineering, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Best of 2025: How To Harness Kubernetes For Platform Engineering
As software development lifecycles (SDLCs) continue to compress to meet the relentless demands of modern businesses, they are becoming more complex. This is forcing the traditional DevOps model to start showing some cracks. Originally intended to bridge the gap between development and operations, DevOps has increasingly become a burden on both developers and operations teams. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Best of 2025: Platform Engineering: A First-Class Citizen In DevOps, Not Its Replacement
In response to a barrage of emails, to both personal and work email, asking if I am looking for a platform engineering certification (spoiler, I am not), I visited a website focused on platform engineering where I found a little surprise buried way down deep at the bottom of the page, just a small icon with no description. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Best of 2025: Platform Engineering: Hitting $40B+ Valuation By 2032 And Finally Getting The Spotlight
If you've been tracking platform engineering's steady rise, it's time to buckle up. According to the latest SNS Insider report, the Platform Engineering Services market is projected to explode from about $5.8 billion in 2023 to $40.17 billion by 2032, riding an incredible 23.99% CAGR. Let that sink in: nearly four times growth every three years. That's not just growth-it's a digital seismic event. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Why Visibility Alone Fails And Context Wins In 2026
For more than a decade, cybersecurity teams have chased visibility through logs, dashboards, alerts, and tools that promised a single pane of glass. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Zero-Day Vulnerabilities: What They Are And How To Respond
Zero-day vulnerabilities often attract attention and concern because of their unpredictability. They are, by definition, weaknesses that are unknown to software vendors and therefore have no official fix at the point of discovery. When discovered and exploited by malicious actors, they allow attackers to bypass controls before organisations even realise there is a problem. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Are Passkeys Ready For Use In Enterprises?
Why we even care about api testing more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
How AutoSecT Helps Security Teams Handle 1000+ Endpoints Effortlessly?
Managing security across 1000+ endpoints is no longer a scale problem alone; it is a complexity problem. Modern enterprise environments are dynamic, hybrid, and API-driven. Cloud workloads, remote employees, containerized services, and third-party integrations constantly introduce new endpoints. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
The MSSP Security Management Platform: Enabling Scalable, Intelligence-Driven Cyber Defense
Introduction: Why MSSPs Need a New Security Backbone more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Types Of Authentication: Complete Guide To Authentication Methods & Mechanisms
The comeback of the phone call in a digital world more →
StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Why Storage Architecture is the New Bottleneck for HPC and AI Teams
Every year at Supercomputing, the conversations reveal where the industry's pressure points really are. This year in St. Louis, the pattern was unmistakable: as GPU clusters scale, organizations are hitting a wall that has nothing to do with compute power. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Best of 2025: Riding the Wave: A Mid-Year Look at CNCF Project Momentum
At this point, it's almost cliche to say Kubernetes is king in the cloud native world. But sometimes cliches exist for a reason - and the data doesn't lie. more →
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Best of 2025: The Observability Evolution: How AI And Open Source Are Taming Kubernetes Complexity
As Kubernetes environments grow increasingly complex, next-generation observability tools featuring intuitive dashboards, AI-driven insights and open-source innovations are helping DevOps teams reduce complexity and democratize access across IT roles. more →
Contact Center Pipeline, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Contact Center Pipeline: Top 5 Posts In December
Dina begins our Top 5 by delving into the benefits of cross-industry benchmarking. She provides insights on how and where to begin, ways benchmarking leads to greater advancements for your organization, and what the future holds for benchmarking. more →
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 →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Best IT Certifications To Boost Your Career In 2026
Elevate Your Professional Standing with These Highly Valued Technical Credentials for 2026 more →
CIO, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
11 In-Demand Cloud Roles Companies Are Hiring For
Increased cloud adoption has companies adding new roles to ensure success in the cloud. From security architects to FinOps managers, here's where they're expanding their IT talent rosters. more →
ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Top 10 IT Careers And Skills Stories Of 2025
Looking back at the skills and hiring landscape in 2025, Computer Weekly shares key moments for IT careers and skills over the past 12 months more →
ZDNET, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Why Your Coding Skills Are More Essential Than Ever In The AI Age
We've been hearing incessantly how AI tools and vibe coding mean less need for human coders and programmers. Maybe it's time to rethink the logic of that argument. more →
ZDnet, Monday, December 29th, 2025
I Took Harvard's Free Online Coding Classes To Better Catch AI's Errors - And They're Legit
Harvard's free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever. 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 →
InfoQ, Monday, December 29th, 2025
AWS Expands Well Architected Guidance With Data Residency And Hybrid Cloud Lens
Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of the Well‑Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services Lens, a new extension of the AWS Well‑Architected Framework aimed at helping organizations design and operate hybrid cloud workloads that must comply with complex data residency and sovereignty requirements. more →
InfoQ, Saturday, January 3rd, 2026
AWS Introduces Fifth-Generation Graviton Processor With M9G Instances
AWS recently announced the new Graviton5 processor and the preview of the first EC2 instances running on it, the general-purpose M9g instances. According to the cloud provider, the latest chip delivers up to 25% higher performance than Graviton4, introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine, and provides a larger L3 cache, improving latency, memory bandwidth, and network throughput. more →
Cisco, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Neocloud Providers Are Making Waves - And Cisco Is Helping Them Do It
The rapid adoption of generative AI and agentic AI is spurring demand for AI infrastructure and the need for a rich ecosystem that can deliver the complete AI lifecycle. In this environment, a new breed of AI cloud providers-often referred to as neoclouds-has emerged as agile, technically sophisticated players building highly specialized AI cloud services to serve new markets and needs. more →
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 →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Best of 2025: HPE Network Bring Smart City To Life At Ryder Cup
As the Ryder Cup golf tournament gets underway today, a sprawling network spanning roughly 1,500 acres was rolled out in 12 weeks to bring to life the equivalent of a small smart city that will be put to the ultimate test. more →
HPE, Monday, December 29th, 2025
2025 Wrapped: HPE's Highlights, Headlines, And High-Fives
2025 wasn't just another year in tech. It was a seismic shift when AI transformed the world. While others struggled to tame complexity, HPE reimagined what's possible. We didn't just deliver solutions; we set the pace for a new era of intelligent more →
Microsoft, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Startups Can Do More Right Now With AI: 5 Insights From Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
This is an unusually promising moment for early-stage builders. That's what Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott told a group of entrepreneurs and technologists last week at South Park Commons in San Francisco. Tools such as coding agents and large-context models are more capable, he said, and the cost of experimentation is lower than ever. Entire categories are still wide open for people who are willing to test ideas quickly. more →
Microsoft, Monday, December 29th, 2025
How Microsoft Is Taking Down AI Hackers Who Create Harmful Images Of Celebrities And Others
It was a slow Friday afternoon in July when a seemingly isolated problem appeared on the radar of Phillip Misner, head of Microsoft's AI Incident Detection and Response team. Someone had stolen a customer's unique access code for an AI image generator and was going around safeguards to create sexualized images of celebrities. more →
Microsoft, Monday, December 29th, 2025
What's Next In AI: 7 Trends To Watch In 2026
AI is entering a new phase, one defined by real-world impact. more →
Microsoft, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Microsoft In 2025: Year In Review
Microsoft pushed AI even harder this year - and Windows 11 users rebelled more →
Sophos, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Game of Clones: Sophos and the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise 2025 Evaluations
Winter is coming - so it must be time for Sophos X-Ops' report on this year's MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations 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 →
