CIO, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
How I Turned Our IT Dashboard Into A Strategic Control Tower
We ditched static dashboards for a live, AI-driven control tower that predicts issues and guides smarter decisions. more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · August 21
CIODIVE, Friday, August 15th, 2025
Should CIOs Care About New AI Models?
Discussion about diminishing returns picked up momentum following OpenAI's release of GPT-5. Other analysts say: Not so fast. more →
Tripwire, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Taming Shadow IT: What Security Teams Can Do About Unapproved Apps and Extensions
Shadow IT is one of the most pressing issues in cybersecurity today. As more employees use unsanctioned browser extensions, productivity plugins, and generative AI tools, organizations are exposed to more risk. more →
techiexpert, Friday, August 15th, 2025
The Best Resource Management & Planning Software In 2025
Choosing the right resource management software in 2025 is all about choosing the right tool that can transform how your organisation plans projects, allocates skills, forecasts capacity, and ultimately delivers results. more →
InformationWeek, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Ways A CIO Might Derail An AI Strategy Inadvertently
Seemingly innocent mistakes may lead to a failed AI game plan. Here's how to keep a flaw or oversight from ruining your project. more →
CIO, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Ways CIOs Can Set More Realistic Expectations With Vendors
Flexibility, expertise, and proactivity are main qualities CIOs look for in a partnership. Vendors have to fit the bill, too, in terms of affordability, and providing potential to scale and grow. Whatever the arrangement, make sure to have a clear understanding with your CEO. more →
cxotalk.com, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
AI Misadventures And The Adversarial Economy
Why AI fails in the real world: the adversarial economy-opposition, change, wrong objectives-with cross-industry cases and early warning signals. Learn from two brilliant speakers. more →
Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
DPIT: Leading Through Company Failure w/Tom Shock #369 (46:15)
Crisis leadership: How to achieve 100% team placement during organizational failure more →
theCUBE research, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Hybrid AI Is Inevitable: Bringing Intelligence To The Data
Why banks and regulated industries are building on‑prem/hybrid AI stacks - In conversation with Starburst CEO Justin Borgman more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
The Next Platform, Monday, August 11th, 2025
AMD Rides The HPC Tiger In The Datacente
Being in the high performance computing business, as AMD most definitely is, has its ups and downs. Choppiness of revenues and profits was a way of life for Cray and Silicon Graphics as well as for the HPC divisions of IBM, Dell, and Hewlett Packard as well. more →
Same Curve, Twice the Speed: Why AI Cost Management Isn't Cloud FinOps 2.0
In this session, we'll break down what actually separates AI cost management from cloud cost management: different unit economics, different owners, different attribution models, and a waste rate of 25% of cloud and AI spend, which took cloud a decade to reach and AI hit almost overnight. more →
Search Security, Friday, August 15th, 2025
An Explanation Of Post-Quantum Cryptography
In this video, Informa TechTarget senior site editor Michaela Goss explains how quantum computers threaten modern encryption standards and why post-quantum cryptography is critical for protecting data in the quantum era. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Quantum Threat Is Real: Act Now With Post Quantum Cryptography
Cybersecurity has always had to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks. These attacks started gaining prominence in the late 80s, in line with the spread of internet access. Initially, viruses, worms and different types of malware were configured to target laptops and desktops. more →
Search Data Backup, Monday, August 11th, 2025
Backup Audit Checklist And Best Practices For Preparation
What must-have items satisfy an audit of your backup platform? Why is auditing important? Discover how the audit process can help your organization improve its backup process. more →
What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets In the Age of AI
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, August 11th, 2025
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: The Easy Path from Day 0 to Private Cloud
Managing modern IT infrastructure means constantly balancing complexity with agility, performance with security, and automation with control. more →
How to Scale AI Agents Without Losing Control
This webinar explores practical approaches for governing AI agents at scale. Learn how to embed governance into workflows, define accountability, and establish the oversight needed to maintain control as AI capabilities evolve. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, August 15th, 2025
The Edge Of Agency: Defending Against The Risks Of Agentic AI
Agentic AI delivers greater autonomy, but at the cost of increased complexity and unpredictability. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
The Reality Of Modern Cyberattacks: Lessons From Recent Retail Breaches
In the digital age, cyberattacks have evolved from occasional nuisances to existential threats that can cripple even the most established businesses. Major retail ransomware attacks and data breaches can not only provide unprecedented understanding of modern cyber warfare's reality, but also offer crucial lessons for business leaders who are navigating an increasingly dangerous digital landscape. more →
CyberArk, Monday, August 11th, 2025
CIP POV: What Am I Actually Supposed To Do With Agentic AI?
For every enterprise CISO in the world right now, the burning question isn't about cloud, TPRM, or internal threats. It's about how to securely and responsibly adopt AI-specifically, agentic AI, the buzziest of today's AI buzzwords. 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 →
Dell, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Cyber-Resilient AI: Building A Secure Foundation With Dell
Discover how Dell's AI Factory and PowerProtect solutions empower secure AI innovation with a robust cyber-resilient foundation. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Dell Storage: The Right Technical Strategy For AI Data Optimization
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment, data optimization has become one of the most critical enablers of success. Enterprises need an AI-ready data architecture that delivers speed, consistency, and scale from day one. more →
Dell, Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
Dell Technologies Enhances AI Data Platform With New Capabilities, Sets Stage For AI Growth
Dell Technologies has updated its AI Data Platform with a new unstructured data engine, improved AI inferencing and analytics, and integration with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform for enhanced performance. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
How Dell's New AI Platform Turns Data Into Instant Insights
Dell's updated AI Data Platform uses Elastic vector search and Nvidia GPUs to transform enterprise data into high-speed generative AI intelligence more →
Oracle, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Supercharge Your AI Workloads With Oracle Cloud And DDN
As AI workloads mature from training-focused experiments to real-time, production-scale systems, enterprises are starting to look for infrastructure that meets the performance demands of each stage - from model training to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and real-time inference. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Varonis, Monday, August 11th, 2025
Rusty Pearl: Remote Code Execution In Postgres Instances
Varonis uncovers an RCE vulnerability in PostgreSQL via PL/Perl and PL/Rust. Learn how AWS RDS responded and how to secure your Postgres environmen more →
Varonis, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Understanding And Defending Against The Model Context Protocol DNS Rebind Attack
As organizations increasingly rely on MCP servers to bridge AI capabilities with business systems, understanding and defending against threats is critical. more →