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Black Hat 2026: Governing AI Agents From Access to Action

Enterprise AI agents need governance spanning identity, authorization, data security and runtime controls. more →

I Automated My Research Workflow With Open Source LLMs, and I Finally Own My Data

A local stack of Ollama, embeddings and RAG delivers private, offline document research without cloud dependencies. more →

8 Technologies Making AI Inference Faster and Cheaper

Eight technologies are cutting the cost and latency of running AI models in production. more →

Advances in AI Capabilities to Outpace Cost Savings

Gartner projects AI inference costs rising fivefold by 2028 even as per-token prices fall. more →

We're Asking the Wrong Question About the Cost of Enterprise AI

Enterprises focused on AI price tags are missing the integration and value questions that actually matter. more →

Five Pressures That Break AI Programs After the Pilot

Data foundations, not model capability, determine which AI pilots successfully scale to production. more →

4 Ways Contact Centers Are Changing in 2026

No Jitter covers four shifts as agentic AI moves from pilot projects into deployed customer experience workflows. more →

How to Work With Your Physical Security Team to Prevent Insider Threats

Insider threats cross physical and digital boundaries, so cyber and physical security teams must integrate. more →

Inside a Modern Data Centre: How Observability Keeps Services Running

A practical guide to metrics, logs and traces as the foundation of data centre reliability. more →

Beyond General-Purpose AI: Why Sovereignty Matters in Critical Services

Critical infrastructure needs specialized, sovereign AI rather than general-purpose platforms. more →

Omdia Study: 98 Percent of Enterprises Are Consolidating Infrastructure as Component Costs Reset

Enterprises are consolidating infrastructure as AI-driven demand resets memory and flash pricing. more →

IT vs. OT: Key Differences Explained

IT and OT are converging under IoT and AI, forcing integration of data, networks and security. more →

AI Data Centre Regulation Just Got a Template That Needs No New Law

Pennsylvania made AI data centre permits conditional on a signed contract, local consent and public disclosure. more →

Why Platform-Led IoT Engineering Is the Future of Scalable Development

Platform-led IoT engineering speeds delivery and cuts cost by reusing standardized capabilities. more →

What Platform Engineers Should Know About Agent Overlay Networking

Autonomous agents need overlay networking for stable connectivity across distributed endpoints and NAT. more →

CISO's Guide to Decentralized Identity: What Works and What Doesn't

Decentralized identity brings privacy and efficiency gains alongside governance and auditability challenges. more →

3 Lessons for Securing Large-Scale Events: Inside FIFA World Cup 2026

CIS draws three security lessons from protecting the 39-day, three-country, 16-city FIFA World Cup 2026. more →

Stricter Security Requirements Will Reshape the Provider Landscape

ARN argues AI, regulation and critical infrastructure rules are changing how Australian providers must deliver services. more →

Hard Reality of Surging SSD Costs Force Tech Pros to Consider Software Defined Storage

An Omdia report finds AI-driven SSD and memory price hikes are pushing storage teams to consolidate layers. more →

Vishing: An Evolving Threat to SLTT Organizations

The CIS Cyber Threat Intelligence team assesses voice phishing will pose an increased risk to US state and local government. more →

Ransomware Takes Aim at Enterprise Resilience

CIO argues attackers have turned ransomware into a business disruption strategy that outruns cyber resilience planning. more →

Why Inventory Quantity and Location Should Be Optimized as Separate Problems

C3 AI argues decoupling how much inventory to hold from where to hold it produces cleaner, more AI-ready supply chain planning. more →

Dell Targets AI Storage Growth With 9.83PB ObjectScale System

Dell's ObjectScale supports 40 KIOXIA 245.76TB SSDs in 2U, delivering 9.83PB of capacity for AI workloads. more →

How to Build a Transformation Strategy That Holds

Dell research finds fragmented AI, workplace and infrastructure strategies are why nearly half of enterprises stall on disruption. more →

How the Dell AI Data Platform Extends Your MAM

Dell positions its AI Data Platform as an enrichment layer over existing media asset management without forcing migration. more →

How to Build Enterprise AI Without Vendor Lock-In

Dell argues its AI Data Platform's open partner ecosystem lets enterprises assemble best-of-breed AI stacks without lock-in. more →

KV Cache Offload to Object Storage: GPU-Direct and Upstream

Dell and NVIDIA upstreamed an accelerated NIXL OBJ engine enabling RDMA KV cache offload from vLLM and LMCache to ObjectScale. more →

Understanding LLM GPUs, Clusters, Fabrics and Traffic for Networkers

Dell explains the fabric requirements, topology, buffering and congestion control that keep GPUs productive during LLM training. more →

Inside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating One Billion Gemma Downloads

Google DeepMind marks one billion downloads of its open Gemma models and surveys what developers have built with them. more →

What Does Full-Stack AI Actually Mean?

A Google DeepMind engineering lead breaks full-stack AI development into five layers and explains its effect on users. more →

Where Security Fits in an AI Agent Stack

NVIDIA's AI safety and security teams map where security controls belong as agents take on longer, more complex work. more →

SAP's New Industry AI Portfolio Tackles the Hardest Challenges Faced by Enterprises

SAP launches an Industry AI portfolio aimed at autonomous, end-to-end agentic execution rather than AI suggestions. more →

With Agentic AI, ABAP Takes Evolution to the Next Level

SAP's head of the ABAP platform explains what AI agents writing and translating code mean for ABAP. more →

What NASA's Return to the Moon Can Teach Leaders About Transformation at Scale

SAP draws transformation lessons from NASA's Artemis programme on incremental progress, AI and coordination at scale. more →

The AI-Powered Go-to-Market Organization Isn't Just a Vision Anymore

SAP's Jan Gilg argues GTM leaders have moved past whether AI disrupts software revenue to how it finds and keeps customers. more →

Agentic AI Could Rewrite the Economics of SAP Transformation

SAP argues agentic AI changes the cost equation for moving from SAP ECC to S/4HANA by increasing customer self-sufficiency. more →

Dynamic Model Routing and Open Models in Snowflake Cortex AI

Snowflake adds dynamic model routing and expands open model access in Cortex AI to lower cost per outcome. more →

Governed AI for Every Builder: Enterprise Controls in Snowflake CoCo

Snowflake CoCo adds per-user quotas, enterprise policy enforcement, agent access restrictions and MCP tool governance. more →

AI SRE Done Right: Why Your Data Foundation Matters

Snowflake argues most AI site reliability engineers underperform without unified telemetry and a context graph. more →

Maximize AI Impact: More Model Choice, Smarter Routing

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy argues AI usage does not equal productivity, and routing is what closes that gap. more →

The Priorities Defining CIO Success for 2027: Breaking Insights From the CIO Survey (Aug. 25th)

Gartner will share key findings from the survey, including trends in technology spending, AI adoption and sourcing strategies. The discussion will help CIOs benchmark against their peers and prioritize business, technology and leadership outcomes amid continued volatility and change. more →

A New Approach to Performance-Based Storage TCO (Aug. 26th)

Join us as we introduce a new performance-based approach to storage TCO. Learn how factors such as workload completion time, CPU utilization, energy consumption, and effective capacity influence the true cost of storage. The session will include a demonstration of SNIA's new TCO tool and show how it can help organizations make more informed storage decisions. more →

Ask a Lawyer: Law, AI, and Cyber Defense in 2026 (Aug. 26th)

In an age defined by rapid technological advancements, legal landscapes are continually evolving to address new challenges in the cybersecurity realm. Understanding the intersection of law, cybersecurity, and privacy has never been more critical. In this thought-provoking panel, legal experts will shed light on the emerging legal trends and issues that individuals, businesses, and organizations will face in the near future. more →

FreeBSD Security in Production: Vulnerability Response and Operational Best Practices (Sept. 2nd)

Join Klara’s Allan Jude and FreeBSD Security Officer Gordon Tetlow for a technical discussion on securing production FreeBSD systems. The session covers the security mechanisms available in FreeBSD, best practices for applying them, and will cover how the FreeBSD Security Team investigates vulnerabilities, publishes advisories, and delivers patches for supported releases. more →

Mainframe Data Recovery in Uncertain Times (Sept. 2nd)

Join experts from BMC and AWS for a one-hour webinar on how to address this risk directly - enabling automated, immutable disaster recovery for mainframe environments on AWS, with the speed, reliability, and security modern DR demands. Because continuity isn't defined by uptime - it's defined by recoverability and usability. more →

How SoFi Cut Recovery to Minutes Across Five AWS Regions and Made Backup Pay for Itself (Sept. 10th)

Join us for this live session featuring Shannon Bradley, Manager of DevOps Engineering at SoFi, who will cover the resilience patterns that keep it working across regions. more →

Automate, Secure and Govern Agentic Workflows (Sept. 1st)

In this session, JFrog shows you how to take full control of your agents by giving them the context, control, and governance they need to act securely without slowing them down. more →

You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation (Sept. 30th)

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 →

Expert Panel: Driving Business Impact with Real-Time Data (Aug. 31st)

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