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Mean time to innocence - Splunk's case for why your observability data is as much a political problem as a technical one
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1009+ words) Look up "observability" in a dictionary and you will find "the capacity for being observed" " a meaning that predates IT by nearly two centuries. What you will not find is an agreed-upon definition of what the cloud native industry actually…...
A firm like ours will never replace lawyers with AI' - but Goughs' IT chief has his ear to the ground
1+ week, 5+ day ago (826+ words) Like many legal firms, Goughs - a 130-staff family law, commercial, and property services outfit in Wiltshire, England - was pushed into urgent digital modernization during the pandemic. With hindsight, he wishes he'd used the pandemic to embrace the cloud more decisively…...
Open SSF's CRob on why open source security is still a people problem - and why AI is making it worse before it makes it better
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1078+ words) Christopher "CRob" Robinson has been in technology long enough to have replaced thin net cable with cat five and installed TCP/IP on lawyers' desktops. That foundational understanding of how systems interconnect is, he argues, what makes AI-driven threats so…...
Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated security noise - $12. 5 million is being deployed to throw them a lifeline
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (701+ words) The easy version of this story is that AI tools are finding more vulnerabilities in open source code, and now the industry is funding efforts to fix them. That's true, but it flattens the fundamental issue. The real problem is…...
Cisco 360 Partner Program - the channel strategy quietly determining Cisco's fate.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (229+ words) A few weeks ago, Cisco launched its new'Cisco 360 Partner Program program to deliver durable growth for both Cisco and its partners. The new program aims to provide consistent, predictable, profitable growth.' It is informed by two main ideas: firstly, to…...
Tech disruption as a day job - Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charles Dunn on AI, digital transformation, and why his bank just isn't playing the same game as upstart fintechs
3+ week, 5+ day ago (358+ words) Disruption of our industry with technology is what we do. Now, it's 2026, so, of course, the topic du jour is AI, We've seen many organizations stake a claim to having AI credentials in place long before the current hype cycle,…...
What's next for Net Suite? CEO Evan Goldberg fields the questions at Suite Connect NYC
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1108+ words) Approximately four months ago, at its Fall 2025 show in Las Vegas, Net Suite unveiled a flurry of announcements and shared how the product line would evolve in the years to come. AI was a very big part of that show....
Planful's Analyst Assistant tackles Finance workflow friction - but the GENCFO Trends Report 2026 shows the real bottleneck is cultural
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (245+ words) Finance teams are busier than ever, yet many struggle to translate that effort into strategic influence. A recent Planful webinar on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finance, alongside findings from the GENCFO Trends Report 2026 (published in partnership with Planful), paint a…...
Zero Trust World 2026 " why failure is not an option!
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (554+ words) Failure is not an option," were the immortal words credited to NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz, who in the 1960s took America into space on the Mercury program and thence to the Moon and back " via the tragedy of Apollo One…...
Zero Trust World 2026 " don't trust AI to secure your business or replace your juniors, warns Threat Locker CEO
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (826+ words) Threat Locker CEO Danny Jenkins is in ebullient if edgy mood, as well he might be just minutes after delivering a complex keynote on Day Two of the Zero Trust World conference in Orlando. The entertaining, hour-long presentation, in tandem…...