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Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty
InformationWeek Podcast: Recovery Leadership During a Security Breach
Squirrel Soup, Ghostjacking, OpenSource, Gunra, Beesafe, AI Threats, SBOMs, and More - SWN #606
From Technology to Intelligence: The Agentic Shift Transforming Enterprise Operations
Risk, Memory, and Orchestration: The New Enterprise AI Agenda
IT Infrastructure Shortages Are Real and Lasting - Here's How to Cope
Google, Microsoft and NVIDIA Back 800V DC Standard for AI Data Centers
NVIDIA Moves 800-VDC Power Architecture From Concept to Production
Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams
The Talent Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime
Expert Panel: How to Operationalize AI Beyond Pilots (Aug. 17th)
When AI Becomes an Insider: Rethinking Risk in Critical Infrastructure (Aug. 18th)
Signal vs Noise: A comparison of AI Code Review Tools (Sept. 1st)
Podcast: The New Reality of Connected Infrastructure - Continuous Connectivity in an Unpredictable World
Industry leaders discuss how resilient connectivity is transforming critical infrastructure and remote operations. more →
On theCUBE Pod: Agentic Systems Expose Vulnerabilities
AI agents demonstrate autonomous attack capabilities, prompting cybersecurity experts to adopt systems-based defenses. more →
Top VC Perspective: Where Enterprise AI Is Headed
Seed investor Ed Sim explains what current AI investment patterns mean for enterprise buyers. more →
Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty
Experts discuss cloud and DevOps trends including AI infrastructure investment, reliability, and digital sovereignty. more →
InformationWeek Podcast: Recovery Leadership During a Security Breach
CIOs and CTOs discuss effective leadership strategies during cybersecurity breaches and recovery operations. more →
Squirrel Soup, Ghostjacking, OpenSource, Gunra, Beesafe, AI Threats, SBOMs, and More - SWN #606
Security Weekly News covers ghostjacking, abandoned open source risk, Gunra ransomware, and AI agent threats. more →
From Technology to Intelligence: The Agentic Shift Transforming Enterprise Operations
Enterprise AI systems are shifting from providing assistance to autonomously performing business operations. more →
Risk, Memory, and Orchestration: The New Enterprise AI Agenda
Enterprise AI governance emerges as a critical priority as agent proliferation creates coordination challenges. more →
Who Pays, Who Builds, Who Controls: AI's Next Chapter
Enterprise AI shifts focus from raw capability to infrastructure costs, pricing models, and measurable outcomes. more →
Introducing Automation in Change Management
Classify changes by reversibility, then automate evidence collection to justify lighter approvals. more →
IT Infrastructure Shortages Are Real and Lasting - Here's How to Cope
Enterprises face 9-18 month lead times and steep price increases for IT gear as hyperscalers absorb memory capacity. more →
North American Data Center Vacancy Holds at Just 1%
Over 66 GW is under construction yet vacancy has stayed at 1% for a third straight year. more →
Google, Microsoft and NVIDIA Back 800V DC Standard for AI Data Centers
OCP push for 800-volt DC power aims to cut copper use 50-80% in high-density AI data centers. more →
NVIDIA Moves 800-VDC Power Architecture From Concept to Production
An MGX-compatible 800-VDC power rack enters production in H2 2026, with AC facility power still in place. more →
C3 AI Named Leader in AI Platforms
Forrester names C3 AI a Leader in AI platforms, scoring it highest in the current offering category. more →
Monitoring Beyond SNMP: Turning Your Network Into a Sensor
Cisco argues rich telemetry and AI-driven assurance should replace legacy SNMP polling for network monitoring. more →
How Identity Drives MSP Profitability: An Analyst's Perspective
A Cisco partner blog argues identity-first security drives managed service provider profitability. more →
The AI Loop: Launch Day Is Day One
CoreWeave argues model launch day is the start of the improvement loop, not the finish line. more →
What Comes Next: Operating and Evolving the Production AI Factory
CoreWeave and NVIDIA cover operating a production AI factory at scale and preparing for the next hardware generation. more →
Why AI Factories Need Proof Before Production
CoreWeave argues AI factories need full-stack validation before production, not just racked and powered GPUs. more →
Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams
A Trustmi survey finds employees still rely on typos and other outdated cues to spot AI-crafted phishing. more →
Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever
KnowBe4 outlines the prompt injection and shadow AI risks introduced by autonomous AI agents. more →
Shadow AI: The New Frontier of Shadow IT
A KnowBe4 CISO advisor argues shadow IT is evolving into ungoverned shadow AI use. more →
Unmasking the Invisible: How to Identify AI Tools, Hidden Devices, and Other Unknown Assets on Your Network
KnowBe4 sets out how to find unmanaged devices, shadow IT and unauthorised AI tools on enterprise networks. more →
Why You Can't Arrest Your Way Out of Youth Cybercrime
KnowBe4 reports INTERPOL findings on why arrests alone cannot address youth cybercrime recruitment. more →
The Talent Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime
KnowBe4 research examines how criminal networks recruit young people and how academies can redirect them. more →
The Cyber Resilience Act Explained
ServiceNow explains the EU Cyber Resilience Act, its phased deadlines and penalties of up to EUR 15 million. more →
Expert Panel: How to Operationalize AI Beyond Pilots (Aug. 17th)
Join TDWI research fellow Donald Farmer and experts from Reltio as we examine what it actually takes to operationalize AI across the enterprise. Drawing on TDWI research and real-world implementations, this session explores why production-ready data, not model sophistication, determines whether AI delivers sustained business value. more →
When AI Becomes an Insider: Rethinking Risk in Critical Infrastructure (Aug. 18th)
In this 60-minute fireside chat, Scott Hooper, Enterprise Sales Director at DTEX, will moderate a discussion with Dawn Haley, Senior Manager of Threat Intelligence & Investigations at Duke Energy, and Lynsey Wolf, Senior Manager, Program Services Americas at DTEX, on how critical infrastructure organizations are adapting insider risk strategies as AI becomes more embedded into everyday work, security operations, and business workflows. more →
The Six five Summit - AI UNLEASHED: 2026 (Aug 25 - Aug 27)
The Six Five Summit: AI Unleashed 2026 delivers 3 days of exclusive, on-demand programming built for leaders ready to move beyond AI experimentation and into real deployment. more →
The Future of ITSM: No-Code Automation Meets AI (Aug. 26th)
In this session, you'll see how leading IT teams are modernizing operations while reducing manual effort and improving experiences for both technicians and end users. Find out what it takes to move faster without increasing complexity. more →
Signal vs Noise: A comparison of AI Code Review Tools (Sept. 1st)
This session takes a data-driven look at what actually works. We'll share head-to-head results from independent testing of five leading AI code review tools across 60 real bugs and six languages, and show why both precision and critical bug detection matter. more →
Give Your AI Investigator a Complete Case File (Sept. 9th)
This session reframes the classic cost-versus-fidelity trade-off for the agentic era. When an AI investigator hits a sampled-out span, a rolled-up metric that no longer holds the dimension it needs, or a retention wall just short of the pattern it's chasing, it doesn't error out. It reaches a confident, wrong conclusion and you find out one incident at a time. We'll unpack that quiet failure mode and give you a vendor-neutral way to audit your own pipeline before you hand an agent the case. more →
M-Trends 2026: The Cascading Impact of Third-Party SaaS, Cloud, and Software Compromises (Aug. 25th)
The Priorities Defining CIO Success for 2027: Breaking Insights From the CIO Survey (Aug. 25th)
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Chicago, IL (Aug. 25th)
AI Has Moved Your Competitive Moat: How Leaders Can Turn Threat Into Advantage
Experts Explain How to Develop a Framework for Cyber-Fraud Fusion (Aug. 27th)
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