InfoWorld, Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
What 'Cloud First' Can Teach Us About 'AI First'
The rush to the cloud was an expensive experiment for many. AI could be a repeat without careful evaluation and planning. more →
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ITPro, Friday, May 16th, 2025
Cloud Adoption Isn't All It's Cut Out To Be As Enterprises Report Growing Dissatisfaction
Unrealistic expectations and high costs mean many organizations are left wanting more →
SC Media, Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
Think Your Cloud Is Secure? Three Common Misconfigurations You're Probably Overlooking
Cloud environments often appear secure on the surface, but the underlying architecture can hide overlooked risks. Three recurring missteps-often in routing and access control-continue to impact performance and security posture in hybrid environments. 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 →
The Document Foundation, Monday, May 12th, 2025
LibreOffice 24.8.7 Is Available For Download
LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available more →
Cloud Native Now, Friday, May 16th, 2025
Survey: Cloud Native Technologies Driving Open Source Software Adoption
A survey of 433 IT professionals published this week by OpenLogic, an arm of Perforce, finds that 95% are using open source software, with 40% using cloud and container technologies. more →
The Register, Friday, May 16th, 2025
Dilettante Dev Wrote Rubbish, Left No Logs, And Had No Idea Why His App Wasn't Working
Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that 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 →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
5 Identity Security Risks We Found In A Regulated Enterprise
Even the most mature enterprises encounter new, subtle, and complex identity security challenges from the rapid growth of SaaS. When a Fortune 100 organization in a tightly regulated industry first partnered with Grip, we found an environment struggling with fragmented governance, unmanaged SaaS expansion, and widespread password sprawl-issues we observe across many large enterprises. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Artificial Intelligence In Cybersecurity - The Solutions You Need
Artificial Intelligence is something that we as organizations need to keep up with our technology-loving contemporaries. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 15th, 2025
Building Confidence In Your Cybersecurity Strategy
A robust cybersecurity strategy is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Whether it is financial services, healthcare, or travel, organizations are making significant shifts to the digital domain. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Building Trust Through Secure Nhis Practices
How Can We Cultivate Trust with Secure NHIs Practices? more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Continuous Improvement In NHIs Management
Can Continuous Improvement in NHIs Management Be the Key to Securing Your Operations? more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 16th, 2025
Empowering Teams With Efficient Identity Management
Why is Efficient Identity Management Key to Empowering Teams? more →
TechTalks, Monday, May 12th, 2025
Programming In The Age Of AI
In the past few weeks, I've seen a lot of commentary about programming becoming obsolete with the rise of vibe-coding and AI systems that can create full apps. Junior developer jobs and internships are dying, and some people suggest there is no point in learning programming. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 15th, 2025
Top 10 Programming Trends And Languages To Watch In 2025
AI-assisted coding is transforming software development by enhancing efficiency, reducing repetitive tasks, and improving code quality. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, May 15th, 2025
AI Programming Languages To Master By 2025: Students Pick
Python Dominates as the Foundational AI Language : Python remains the top choice for AI students due to its simplicity, vast libraries, and community support. more →
Data Science Central, Saturday, May 17th, 2025
Generative AI In Software Development: Does Faster Code Come At The Cost Of Quality?
From creating comprehensive essays to writing intriguing fiction, there's hardly anything untouched by the impact of generative AI. The technology has caught the attention of forward-thinking engineering companies, too. more →
Cyberscoop, Friday, May 16th, 2025
Preparing For The Post-Quantum Era: A CIO's Guide To Securing The Future Of Encryption
Here's why CIOs must lead post-quantum cryptography adoption in 2025 to secure digital assets and future-proof organizations. more →
Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes
Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →
Tech Field Day, Monday, May 12th, 2025
The AI Data Center Evolution: Juniper Apstra's Lifecycle Solution For Performance At Scale
Jack Poller recently explored Juniper Apstra's lifecycle solution for AI data centers, highlighting its capacity to manage performance at scale. 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 →
InfoQ, Monday, May 12th, 2025
Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hibernate Reactive, Infinispan, JHipster, Gatherers4j
This week's Java roundup for May 5th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 25; new HotSpot-related JEPs, the first release candidate of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; the first developer release of Infinispan 16.0; and the release of JHipster 8.11.0 and Gatherers4j 0.11.0. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
Search Mobile Computing, Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
5 Top Mobile Security Courses And Certifications For IT
To stay on top of new threats, IT pros can test their skills with mobile security training. Explore the top programs to learn about mobile attacks, penetration testing and more. 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 →
DDN, May 12,2025
Built to Discover: DDN's Data Intelligence Edge in the AI-Driven Life Sciences Race
The life sciences industry is undergoing a rapid transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), with applications ranging from drug discovery to real-time diagnostics. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
lenovo, May 12,2025
Driving Real IT Outcomes: Lenovo And ServiceNow At Knowledge 2025
Proven solutions and deep ServiceNow integration help enterprises modernize IT operations, strengthen security, and deliver better employee experiences. more →
lenovo, May 14,2025
Lenovo Unveils New Generation Of AI PC Desktops And Monitors Designed To Maximize Productivity And Multitasking
Selection of ThinkCentre M Series Gen 6 desktops built for AI performance; Family of ThinkVision T Series Gen 40 monitors more →
lenovo, May 13,2025
Smarter, Simpler Security - New Lenovo Thinkshield Solutions Offering
Lenovo announced the introduction of ThinkShield Solutions, security offerings tailored to protect small and medium sized business (SMBs), schools, and other organizations with limited IT resources facing significant risks. more →
lenovo, May 13,2025
Why Digital Workplace Transformation Can't Wait - Insights From Lenovo
Lenovo's latest global research report, Igniting Real Workplace Transformation, reveals a stark reality: organizations recognize the opportunity Gen AI affords, but most have yet to take meaningful action. more →
NVIDIA, Sunday, May 18th, 2025
NVIDIA Expands Omniverse Blueprint for AI Factory Digital Twins With New Ecosystem Integrations, Development Tools
Empowering engineering teams with more tools for building AI factories, NVIDIA announced a significant expansion of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, now available as a preview. more →
NVIDIA, Sunday, May 18th, 2025
NVIDIA Omniverse Digital Twins Help Taiwan Manufacturers Drive Golden Age of Industrial AI
Blueprints for building autonomous manufacturing facilities offer transformative advances for development of trillion-dollar industries. more →
NVIDIA, Sunday, May 18th, 2025
NVIDIA Grows Quantum Computing Ecosystem With Taiwan Manufacturers and Supercomputing
Silicon developers, including Compal, Quanta and Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing accelerate quantum computing research with NVIDIA AI supercomputing hardware. more →
NVIDIA, Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Semiconductor Industry Accelerates Design Manufacturing With NVIDIA Blackwell and CUDA-X
NVIDIA Blackwell adopted by TSMC, Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys and KLA for chip design and manufacturing. more →
NVIDIA, Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Ready to Reason: Storage Leaders Build Infrastructure to Fuel AI Agents With NVIDIA AI Data Platform
To drive AI agents serving the world's billion knowledge workers, leading manufacturers are introducing AI-enabled storage systems based on the NVIDIA reference design, which features NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and software. more →
NVIDIA, Sunday, May 18th, 2025
That's One Smart Hospital! Taiwan Medical Centers Deploy Life-Saving Innovations With NVIDIA System-Builder Partners
Healthcare organizations are tackling the industry's toughest challenges by adopting NVIDIA physical and digital robotics technologies, enabled by top Taiwanese computer makers. more →
Proofpoint , May 12,2025
Proofpoint Launches Next-Gen Digital Communications Governance Offering With Enhanced Capture, Archiving And Supervision Innovations
New AI-powered capabilities offer intelligent search, advanced global archiving, ML-driven supervision, and industry-leading compliance capabilities for today's complex regulatory landscape more →
Proofpoint , May 15,2025
Proofpoint Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Hornetsecurity
Strategic acquisition marks significant milestone in advancing Proofpoint's mission to deliver human-centric security solutions to businesses of all sizes across the globe more →