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We track which vendor articles generate the most engagement during the week. These are the most clicked vendor articles from the current issue, grouped by vendor.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB Now Supports MariaDB 12.3

Amazon RDS for MariaDB adds support for MariaDB 12.3, the community's latest long-term support release. more →

AI-Related Software Vulnerabilities: 2025-2026

Barracuda research finds AI-related CVEs are more severe and more likely to be exploited than other flaws. more →

The State of Ransomware Q2 2026

Check Point's State of Ransomware Q2 2026 finds the ecosystem spreading out rather than concentrating further. 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 →

Announcing Citrix SecurSpaces Flex: A Different Operating Model for Modern Development Needs

Citrix launches SecurSpaces Flex, delivering secure ready-to-use development environments without new infrastructure. more →

Why workspace experience has become a business problem

Modern work no longer happens in a single system. It spans virtual desktops and sessions, SaaS and browser workflows, physical endpoints (including BYOD), network connections, security, and cloud services across distributed environments. 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 →

The Future of Data Analytics: Why AI Is Rewriting the Analyst's Job Description

Databricks argues AI automating SQL and dashboards shifts analysts toward judgment rather than query writing. more →

Local Tracing in the DataRobot CLI: Catch Issues Before Production

DataRobot adds local tracing to its CLI, putting an OpenTelemetry dashboard on localhost from the first line of code. more →

Stop Rate-Limiting Requests. Start Scheduling Tokens: Introducing DataRobot TokenGrid

DataRobot launches TokenGrid, which schedules LLM tokens rather than rate-limiting requests. more →

DDN Collaborates with NVIDIA to Advance GPU-Initiated Data Access for Next-Generation AI

New capabilities for the DDN Infinia platform are designed to enable GPUs to initiate data operations directly, accelerating data access and improving efficiency at massive scale more →

Dell AI Data Platform Delivers Breakthrough Storage Density

Dell AI Data Platform adds the first object storage supporting 245.76TB SSDs, hitting 9.83PB raw in 2U. more →

Capability Is Closing the Open-Closed Gap; Security Is Not

F5 Labs' August CASI evaluation adds 16 models, with Anthropic's Claude Fable topping security and capability. more →

Omni Experts Share What Excites Them Most About the Model.

Google DeepMind researchers discuss what excites them about the Gemini Omni model. more →

Google Cloud Sets Out Post-Quantum Roadmap With 2029 Readiness Goal

Google Cloud targets full post-quantum cryptography readiness by 2029, in three priority tracks. more →

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google introduces Gemini 3.7 Flash, its most intelligent workhorse model for coding and agents. more →

NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents

NVIDIA spotlights the open source community driving local AI models, applications and agents. more →

Why Scaling AI Compute Performance Requires a New Power Architecture

NVIDIA argues scaling AI compute requires 800 VDC power architecture beyond traditional distribution limits. more →

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI

NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for faster, more efficient agentic AI. more →

What Building an AI-Native Finance Function Taught Me

OpenAI's CFO shares five lessons from building an AI-native finance function. more →

Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.6-Cyber through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research and security testing. more →

The Builder's Guide to GPT-5.6

OpenAI publishes a builder's guide to GPT-5.6 covering model selection and new Responses API capabilities. more →

From Assistance to Execution: How Enterprises Put AI to Work

OpenAI research examines how enterprises are moving from AI assistance to agentic execution. more →

Model ML Completes Finance Work More Efficiently With GPT-5.6 Sol

Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work through to editable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks. more →

Daybreak Models Are Now Available on AWS

OpenAI's Daybreak cybersecurity models become available through Amazon Bedrock. more →

Operationalizing Agentic AI: The Day 0-2 Blueprint for Enterprise Infrastructure

Red Hat sets out a Day 0-2 blueprint for operationalizing agentic AI on enterprise infrastructure. more →

Breaking Free From Lock-In: How a Leading Insurance Provider Migrated 1,500 Workloads to ROSA in 10 Months

State Farm migrated 1,500 workloads from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Red Hat OpenShift on AWS in 10 months. more →

Policy as Code: What Happens When You Layer Policy Enforcement Onto the Automation You Already Have

Red Hat explains what changes when policy enforcement is layered onto existing automation. more →

Friday Five - August 14, 2026

Red Hat's Friday Five rounds up coverage on open source AI, AI security mistakes and enterprise visibility. more →

Manage Bare Metal Like a Cloud With Red Hat Bare-Metal-As-A-Service for OpenShift

Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service for OpenShift reaches general availability in OpenShift 4.22. more →

Rubrik's Lessons From One Month With Mythos Preview

AI found vulnerability chains humans missed, then buried the security team in findings it could not triage. more →

When the Incident Hits: How Autonomous Business Recovery Executes Your M365 Plan

Rubrik's Autonomous Business Recovery targets a minimum viable Microsoft 365 business state in under three hours. more →

Why Headless Architecture Is the Future of ITSM (and Why CIOs Are Choosing Buy + Build)

Salesforce argues headless architecture and a buy-plus-build approach are the future of agentic ITSM. more →

Agentic AI Workforce Is More Than Doubling Year on Year, Says Salesforce

Salesforce's Agentic Enterprise Index finds customers more than doubled their agentic workforces year on year. more →

The Agentic AI Threat Cluster: Seven Incidents, Three Actors, and What They Mean for Your Exposure

Tenable tracks seven agentic AI incidents across three actors, including a near-autonomous attack on Taiwan. more →

Signed, Sealed, Injected: The Mechanics of DCRat in 2026

Trellix analyses a DCRat campaign using SVG-based HTML smuggling, DLL sideloading and process hollowing. more →

Oracle Application Change Deserves Business-Level Confidence

UiPath argues Oracle application changes need AI-powered, governed testing to protect business workflows. 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 →

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DC: Popular Vendor Articles Posted Week of August 16th, 2026

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