The Register, Saturday, August 1st, 2026
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Uptake Shows No Sign of Slowing
Cloud infrastructure revenue exceeded $143B in Q2 2026, growing 43% year on year with AI driving acceleration. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · August 14
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Why Health Systems Are Moving IT Infrastructure to the Cloud in 2026
Healthcare systems adopt varied cloud strategies driven by AI needs and infrastructure modernization. more →
InfoWorld, Friday, August 7th, 2026
3 Concepts Cloud Architects Overlook
Cloud architects must focus on unified control planes, cost observability, and team capabilities to avoid costly failures. more →
Solutions Review, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
The Best Cloud Spend Optimization Tools
An annual roundup of the leading tools for tracking, forecasting, and optimizing cloud spending. more →
SmartData Collective, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Top 8 Multi-Cloud Architecture Tools for Automated Infrastructure Design in 2026
Eight platforms automate multi-cloud infrastructure design to keep architecture synchronized with operational reality. 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 →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
How CISOs Can Use Risk Assessments to Drive Security Culture
Risk assessments become powerful culture-building tools when their findings are communicated beyond the security team. more →
CIO, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Never Mind Clean Data. Annotate As You Collect It.
Capturing metadata at collection time prevents the loss of context that accurate AI models require. more →
CIO, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
7 Use Cases for Leveraging AI in the Physical World
Physical AI systems are moving beyond prototypes into enterprise deployment across manufacturing, logistics, and infrastructure. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, August 7th, 2026
CIOs, Stop Training the Room to See You as the IT Person
CIOs should leverage technical credibility to shape executive strategy rather than just answer technical questions. more →
The Next Web, Friday, August 7th, 2026
AI Boom Forces Companies to Rethink How They Measure Business Value
Organizations struggle to demonstrate AI ROI despite near-universal adoption and heavy investment. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, August 7th, 2026
How CTOs Build Customized Scalable Technology Roadmaps
CTOs align technology investments with business goals through phased planning and scalable architecture. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, August 7th, 2026
HackerOne Extends Platform Reach to Remediate Source Code Vulnerabilities
HackerOne launches H1 Remediation to accelerate vulnerability fixing with AI-powered root cause analysis. more →
Closing the Loop on AI Coders: 3,200 Vulns Fixed with Zero Human Triage
If you're an engineering leader trying to figure out whether 'AI fixes vulnerabilities automatically' is a real operating model or a demo, this is the mechanism and the data, not the pitch. more →
The Register, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
IT Boss Left Root Session Open for Bring-Your-Kid-to-Work Day
A nine-year-old's accidental Unix command caused 36 hours of repair work on company systems. more →
The Register, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
IT Department Put Sticky Notes on the Laptops to Help Employees Log In
An IT department's sticky-note credential handout let a contractor access proprietary data remotely. more →
The Register, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Sysadmin Summoned to Explain Italics to a User With at Least Two Degrees
A highly credentialed lawyer demanded urgent IT support to learn why his email text appeared slanted. more →
Threat Exposure Analytics: Measuring and Communicating Security Risk
This webinar provides trend executive reporting tips that connect technical findings to business impact. Security leaders will gain practical approaches for implementing analytics programs that transform exposure data into actionable insights and compelling risk narratives. more →
TechRadar Pro, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Cybercrime Is Costing the World Trillions Every Year, New Report Says Victims Lose an Average of Nearly $10,000 in Every Hit
A new report puts global cybercrime damage in the trillions annually, with roughly $10,000 lost per incident. more →
TechRadar Pro, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Why Cybersecurity Must Evolve for the Age of AI Agents
Cybersecurity approaches need fundamental transformation to address emerging threats from AI agents. more →
Redmond Magazine, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Is It Time to Completely Rethink Backup Capacity Planning? Part 1
Backup capacity planning should use probability-based forecasts instead of rigid growth assumptions. more →
Redmond Magazine, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Is It Time to Completely Rethink Backup Capacity Planning? Part 2
Capacity estimates should evolve continuously like weather forecasts rather than remain static annual numbers. more →
Barracuda Networks, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
Faster, Not Different: What the Hugging Face AI Incident Really Means for Organizations
Barracuda argues the Hugging Face AI incident shows AI compresses attack timelines rather than creating new flaws. more →
Barracuda Networks, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
Your Next Insider Threat Might Not Be Human
Barracuda warns that unsecured AI agents are becoming a non-human insider threat. more →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
AI-Enabled Email Accounts Could Become the Ultimate Insider Threat
Barracuda details how a compromised AI-enabled email account becomes a powerful business email compromise tool. more →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Malware Signing: When Trust Becomes an Attack Surface
Barracuda examines how abused code-signing certificates turn digital trust into an attack surface. more →
Barracuda Networks, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Understanding Calendar Invite Phishing: How Attackers Abuse .ICS Files and How to Defend Against IT
Barracuda explains how attackers weaponize calendar invites and .ics files to bypass email security. more →
AI-Augmented Code Modernization: From Framework Migrations to Autonomous Agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Cisco, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Scaling the Future: Why Ethernet is the Backbone of AI Supercomputing
Cisco makes the case that Ethernet and its programmable Silicon One are the backbone of AI supercomputing. more →
Cisco, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
The Intelligent Store is Taking Shape
Cisco describes how AI infrastructure lets retailers build stores that observe, reason, and respond in real time. more →
Cloudflare, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The Programmable Wallet for the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets, giving AI agents native payments and verifiable identity via the x402 protocol. more →
Cloudflare, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
How Cloudflare Enforces Engineering Standards Using AI
Cloudflare built the Cloudflare Codex so AI agents enforce engineering standards across the development lifecycle. more →
Cloudflare, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
The Agent Development Lifecycle Has Arrived on Cloudflare
Cloudflare introduces the Agent Development Lifecycle and the platform primitives that support it. more →
Cloudflare, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Catching Rogue AI Behavior with Identity-Aware Analytics
Cloudflare's identity-aware AI Gateway enters open beta with User Insights for spotting rogue AI behavior. more →
Cloudflare, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Cloudflare OS: An Open Platform for Agents, Apps, and Work
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS, an open-source platform for building apps and safely accessing internal systems. more →
Cloudflare, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
How We're Rethinking Work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS
Cloudflare describes how it rebuilt its own internal ways of working on top of Cloudflare OS. more →
Commvault, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
The Biggest Mistake Organizations Make About Digital Sovereignty
Commvault argues that digital sovereignty strategies starting with data centers are solving the wrong problem. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Building Resilience Responsibly: Commvault's FY26 Sustainability Report
Commvault publishes its FY26 Sustainability Report covering cyber resilience, governance, and environmental efficiency. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
The Most Dangerous Silos in Your Organization Aren't Your Data Silos
Commvault cites new IDC research arguing organizational silos, not data silos, are what complicate recovery. more →
Commvault, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Trust - the Great Disappearing Act (or Not)
Commvault explores how AI is reshaping trust and why continuous verification matters for secure innovation. more →
DataRobot, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Your Predictive AI Foundation is the Fastest Path to Agentic AI Value
DataRobot argues existing predictive AI investments are the fastest route to agentic AI value. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
Fortinet, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
From Threat Intelligence to Action: The First Cybercrime Bounty is Now Live
Crime Stoppers International and Fortinet launch the first live cybercrime bounty, Operation Silent Vector I. more →
Fortinet, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Used to Deploy FDMTP Implant
FortiGuard Labs analyzes a QuickFox VPN supply chain attack delivering the FDMTP implant selectively. more →
Fortinet, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Cybersecurity Skills Gap: More than Just a Workforce Challenge
Fortinet's 2026 Skills Gap Report frames the security staffing shortage as a business risk. 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 →
IBM, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
From Raw Data to Trusted AI with Context: Lessons from Production IBM Watsonx.data Deployments
IBM shares watsonx.data production lessons showing up to 80% faster responses and 60% better retrieval. more →
IBM, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks
IBM and Red Hat offer Lightwell free to universities, NGOs, and think tanks. more →
IBM, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Introducing IBM Controller Disclosure Management: Simplifying Financial Reporting from Start to Finish
IBM introduces Controller Disclosure Management to connect financial data through to polished disclosures. more →
IBM, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Why Establishing Trust Matters for Quantum Computing
IBM explains why verifiability, not raw speed, is the harder problem for quantum computing. more →
IBM, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Farmers State Bank Uses Agentic AI to Deliver Digital Convenience Without Losing the Personal Touch
Farmers State Bank scaled from a single AI agent to a governed enterprise orchestration layer. more →
IBM, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Beyond Structured Data: IBM Netezza Introduces Native Unstructured Data Workflows
IBM Netezza adds native Unstructured Data Workflows in private tech preview. more →
Memeburn, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Microsoft Surged 8% to Prove Its $116 Billion AI Bet Isn't a Gamble Anymore
Microsoft's Q4 FY2026 revenue hit $90 billion and Azure crossed $100 billion annually, lifting shares 8%. 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 →
OpenAI, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Responding to the Next Frontier of Critical Cyber Capabilities
OpenAI shares preliminary cyber evaluations for Astra and the safeguards it is strengthening in response. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Oracle, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Hybrid Search for Oracle AI Agent Memory: Combining Semantic Recall with Exact Match
Oracle explains hybrid search for AI Agent Memory, combining semantic recall with exact matching. more →
Oracle, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Vector Search Sizing Guidelines for OpenSearch
Oracle publishes vector search sizing guidelines for OCI Search with OpenSearch. more →
Oracle, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Oracle AI Database Containers for DevOps: From Oracle Container Registry to Kubernetes
Oracle shows how to run AI Database containers from Oracle Container Registry on Kubernetes. more →
Oracle, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography in Long-Term Support JDK Releases
Oracle lays out its roadmap for bringing post-quantum cryptography into long-term support JDK releases. more →
Oracle, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Build an Analytics Platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Oracle details building a governed healthcare and life sciences analytics platform on OCI. more →
Oracle, Friday, August 7th, 2026
What's New in Oracle AI? August 2026 Edition
Oracle's August 2026 AI roundup covers expanded model options and updates across its OCI AI services. more →
Red Hat, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Managing Virtual Machines on Red Hat OpenShift with Service Mesh
Red Hat demonstrates managing virtual machines on OpenShift using Service Mesh. more →
Red Hat, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Stop Burning Your AI Budget: Optimize GPU Usage and Model Deployment with Workflow Navigator
Red Hat offers workflow navigator guidance for optimizing GPU usage and controlling AI budget overruns. more →
ITPro, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Red Hat Launches New Open Source Project to Drive AI Governance
Red Hat unveils asago, an open source project to automate AI governance policies for enterprises. more →
Open Source For You, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Framework Simplifies AI Governance
Red Hat launches Asago, an open-source framework automating governance for enterprise AI deployments. more →
Scale AI, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
The Cost of Control: Untangling the Myth and Realities of Sovereign AI
Scale AI argues sovereign AI requires strategic tradeoffs because location is not control. more →
The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO
This webinar explores what CEOs expect AI to deliver across technology, finance, HR, operations, and other functions, where confidence gaps remain, and how success is being measured. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CxOs can translate AI investments into business outcomes, operate in a distributed leadership model, and meet rising CEO expectations. more →
Symantec, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Things You Won't Want to Miss at Black Hat USA 2026
Symantec previews Black Hat USA 2026 sessions on weaponized drivers, governance, and IoT malvertising. more →
Symantec, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
The Detection Gap: MITRE ATT&CK T1053.005
Symantec's Detection Gap series examines MITRE ATT&CK T1053.005 scheduled task abuse. more →
Symantec, Friday, August 7th, 2026
11 Reasons Native Telemetry Correlation Matters in XDR
Symantec gives eleven reasons native telemetry correlation matters in XDR platforms. 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 →
Tierpoint, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
AI Infrastructure: A Scalable Foundation for AI Workloads
TierPoint explains what AI infrastructure requires as HPC demands outgrow traditional data centers. more →
Tierpoint, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
How to Craft a Scalable AI Adoption Framework
TierPoint offers a structured AI adoption framework for organizations struggling to show business value. more →
Zscaler, Friday, August 7th, 2026
ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Zscaler ThreatLabz scores enterprise readiness for autonomous AI attacks at just 37 out of 100. more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
