CIO, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Gartner Ups IT Spending Growth To 13.5% In Revised Forecast
Gartner revises 2026 IT spending forecast upward to 13.5% growth, driven by AI infrastructure investments. more →
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CIO, Friday, April 24th, 2026
CIOs Struggle To Find Clarity In Their Organizations' AI Strategies
31% of CIOs cite lack of clarity on corporate AI strategy as a top challenge to AI initiatives. more →
Heller, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Cyber Means Business: Nick Kathmann on How CISOs Should Talk to the Board About Risk
CISOs should frame cybersecurity in business terms like risk appetite and strategic goals rather than technical jargon when communicating with boards. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
The Invisible Labor Crisis Inside IT: AI Work The Org Chart Can't See
AI work spreading across IT teams creates invisible labor and ownership gaps that traditional org charts cannot accommodate. more →
InformationWeek, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Why CIOs See AI Projects Stall: Speed Without Structure Kills Scale
CIOs must balance speed with structure, governance, and data readiness to successfully scale AI from pilots to production. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
The CISO Role Has Always Been Brutal. Here Is What Makes Some Survive It
A CISO explains how to succeed by presenting risk-informed options to leadership rather than trying to eliminate all risk. more →
devops.com, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
AI Agents In Devops: Hype Vs. Reality In Production Pipelines
The demos look super cool! An AI agent detects a failing deployment, rolls it back, opens a GitHub issue, and notifies Slack - all before the on-call engineer has finished reading the alert. If you've been following the DevOps tooling space over the last 18 months, you've probably seen some version of this pitch. more →
devops.com, Monday, April 20th, 2026
Can Claude Agents Replace DevOps Teams? A Practical Reality Check
Claude agents can automate repetitive DevOps tasks but cannot replace human judgment in complex production decisions. more →
devops.com, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into A
Grafana Labs announced AI agent integration, new observability platform, and Grafana 13 updates at GrafanaCON 2026. more →
devops.com, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
How To Manage Operations In DevOps Using Modern Technology
Operations in DevOps is not just about keeping systems up anymore. Teams now have to support faster releases, manage cloud-native environments, improve security, and keep services reliable at scale. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, April 24th, 2026
VMware Renewal Season Is A Platform Engineering Event Now
VMware renewal cycles are driving organizations to consolidate virtualization management under platform engineering teams. 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 →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
AI SOC: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Security Operations
AI SOCs combine artificial intelligence, automation, and orchestration to reduce manual work in security operations. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, April 20th, 2026
Continuous Compliance: How To Kill The Annual Audit Scramble For Good
Continuous compliance keeps audit readiness as an ongoing state instead of an annual emergency scramble. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Copperhelm Emerges To Launch Autonomous Cloud Security Platform
Copperhelm has launched an AI-powered autonomous cloud security platform that aggregates data and automatically remediates threats in real-time. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Every Employee Is Getting An AI Assistant, But Is Security Infrastructure Ready?
Organizations deploying AI assistants to employees must establish proper security infrastructure with distinct agent identity and audit trails. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
How To Create An MCP Server To Connect Your App With LLMs
A guide to building MCP servers that connect applications with LLMs, including security best practices. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Is Your Network Ready For Ai? A Practical Evaluation Framework
A structured framework for evaluating whether enterprise networks can support AI workloads across performance, security, resilience, and scalability. more →
Blocks & Files, Monday, April 20th, 2026
Quantum Computing And Storage
OVHcloud offers quantum computing-as-a-service using Quandela's photonic quantum computer with classical object storage. more →
HPCwire, Monday, April 20th, 2026
Inside NVIDIA's Silicon Photonics Roadmap
The incredible demand that AI is placing on technology is forcing changes to be made at every level of the stack. When it comes to moving bits between racks, computer makers increasingly are adopting silicon photonics to get beyond the limitations of copper. This includes Nvidia, which is making a myriad of investments in the area. But many of the decisions have had to be made. more →
Eric Lee, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Benefits Of GPS Tracking
Modern GPS tracking enables real-time vehicle location monitoring, route optimization, and fleet management with advanced customization features. more →
Cloud Native: The AI Stack
The same stack. Infinite possibilities -- AI-native applications are built on the same technologies, practices, and platforms that cloud native pioneered. From infrastructure to intelligence, it's all cloud native. more →
The New Stack, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Eclipse Foundation Offers Enterprise-Grade Open Source Alternative To Microsoft's VS Code Marketplace
Eclipse Foundation launches an enterprise alternative to Microsoft's VS Code Marketplace. more →
North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) 98 Miami
NANOG is, and always has been, dedicated to the people who make up our community. Meet with hundreds of individuals from network engineering, operations, and architecture, who gather in major cities across North America. more →
IT'S FOSS, Monday, April 20th, 2026
This Simple GUI Tool Takes The Pain Out Of Docker And Podman
Pods is a libadwaita-based GUI container manager supporting both Docker and Podman with bulk operations and intuitive controls. more →
silconANGLE, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Why Virtualization Modernization Remains Enterprise It's Hardest Leap
SUSE addresses virtualization modernization challenges by offering assessment services and migration tooling to help enterprises bridge legacy infrastructure gaps. more →
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Upcoming IT Webinars
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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 →
siliconANGLE, Friday, April 24th, 2026
DDN And Google Cloud Are Redefining AI Storage Infrastructure For The Agentic Era
As enterprises pivot from AI experimentation to production deployment, AI storage infrastructure is emerging as the critical bottleneck determining whether massive chip investments deliver real returns. more →
DDN, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
DDN Redefines AI And High-Performing Computing At Scale With Google Cloud Managed Lustre Innovations
Managed Lustre Innovations New Google Cloud Managed Lustre capabilities with DDN ExaScaler improves AI training, inference, and high-performance computing, delivering scale, performance, and economics more →
sdxcentral, Friday, April 24th, 2026
DDN, Google Cloud Claim Lustre Kv Cache Trick Boosts AI Inference Throughput 75%
DDN added new capabilities to the Lustre platform it manages with Google Cloud, including means to share key-value (KV) cache to boost AI inference workloads. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
Dell, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Dell Technologies Helps Power Europe's Sovereign AI Future With It4Lia AI Factory
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with E4 Computer Engineering to deploy a new AI-optimised supercomputer for the IT4LIA AI Factory in Italy, hosted and operated by CINECA at the DAMA Tecnopolo of Bologna. 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 →
siliconANGLE, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Three Insights You May Have Missed From theCUBE's Coverage Of The Oracle Data Deep Dive Event
Database powerhouse Oracle Corp. is making its case that database architecture must serve as a trusted foundation for the AI that gets built on top. more →
Oracle, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Oracle Expands Powerful AI Capabilities In Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud To Supercharge Enterprise Data Innovation
Secure, natural language access to Oracle data through Gemini Enterprise speeds insights without writing SQL more →
siliconANGLE, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
SUSE Sees Open Architectures Redefining Resilience And Digital Sovereignty
Resilience and digital sovereignty are emerging as defining priorities in enterprise IT amid rising multicloud complexity and AI adoption. In response, organizations are betting on open, modular architectures and partner ecosystems to reclaim flexibility and control. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
SUSE Extends AI Infrastructure Reach Via NVIDIA Alliance
SUSE today revealed it has allied with NVIDIA to extend the scope of its infrastructure platform for building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. more →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
SUSE CEO: Five Pressing It Needs Are Driving More Engagements
The CEO of SUSE today identified five specific areas that the company plans to focus on at a time when organizations need a more resilient approach to managing IT environments. more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
SUSE CTO: It Teams Need To Become More Resilient In The Face Of Rapid Change
The CTO for SUSE is telling IT leaders they need to focus more on making resilient platform decisions at a time when the pace of change, changes to software licensing terms and geopolitical uncertainty are all conspiring to make it more difficult than ever for them to succeed. more →
Veeam Blog, April 24,2026
Looking Ahead: How Veeam is Preparing for the Quantum Future
Veeam outlines its strategy for post-quantum cryptography readiness aligned with NIST standards and enterprise security requirements. 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 →
