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Articles Posted Week: Feb. 2nd, 2026 — Feb. 8th, 2026 (335/1/2)
IT News You Can Use - Full Weekly Issue - Vol 335 Issue 1
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CxO
Inside A CIO’s Mind: Mastering Time And Knowing The Business
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Practical Playbook For Engineering Leaders
Futurum Group
ERP
Techstrong.IT
Networks
Java
Hitachi Vantara News
Hitachi Vantara Warns Poor Data Foundations Are Stalling AI Projects
A Memory-Centric Approach To System Strategy: 6 Takeaways From Supercomputing 2025
Veeam News
Red Hat News
Fast and Simple AI Deployment on Intel Xeon with Red Hat OpenShift
Cracking The Inference Code: 3 Proven Strategies For High-Performance AI
IT Automation With Agentic AI: Introducing The MCP Server For Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Leidos News
TechTalk Summits - Live
TechTalk: Sitecore in the Stadium - Chicago, IL - United Center (Feb. 24th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Dinner - Dallas, TX - Truluck’s (Feb. 26th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Summit - Denver, CO (Feb. 26th)
CxO
Recap Of The 66th IT Press Tour In Silicon Valley, Ca
Eight companies joined the 66th edition of The IT Press Tour, listed here in alphabetical order: Globus, Helikai, InfoScale, The Lustre Collective, Novodisq, Scale Computing, VergeIO and Zettalane Systems....more
Inside A CIO’s Mind: Mastering Time And Knowing The Business
CIO Sean McCormack explains how he balances strategy, vendors and frontline engagement -- and why his to-do list lives on his calendar....more
How One CIO Focuses On Small Wins To Shape AI Adoption
Gold Bond Inc.’s Matt Price says the promotional products supplier has found value in targeted use cases, including workflow automation....more
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Practical Playbook For Engineering Leaders
Engineering leaders rarely get perfect information, so the job is learning how to decide, experiment and communicate clearly when the data is messy....more
Big Tech To Spend $650B This Year As AI Race Intensifies
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are driving unprecedented AI spending, surpassing budgets and setting records this decade....more
Futurum Group
AI Execution Surged, Markets Reacted, And Enterprise Leaders Doubled Down On ROI, Governance, And Trust
Welcome to The Futurum Weekly, featuring our latest analyst research, market and earnings coverage. While much of the coverage below is complimentary to access, some requires a subscription to the Futurum Intelligence Platform....more
ERP
The Best ERP Software: Expert Tested
Learn about the best ERP software available right now, including SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite ERP, and Microsoft Dynamics 365....more
Techstrong.IT
Backblaze Data Shows AI Is Changing Network Traffic
Artificial intelligence is no longer just reshaping compute infrastructure, it is now fundamentally altering how data moves across networks. That’s the central conclusion of Backblaze’s Q4 2025 Network Stats report, which draws on real-world production traffic to reveal how AI workloads are driving new trends in network traffic....more
Is SaaS Dead? The Stock Market Thinks So
A few months back, when Satya Nadella suggested that SaaS was dead, or at least dying, plenty of people dismissed it as provocation. Bold, maybe. Wrong, definitely. Except here we are. And the stock market, which has a habit of cutting through comfortable narratives, seems to be nodding along....more
Western Digital Is Reengineering Hard Drives For AI Era
Western Digital is laying out an ambitious hard disk drive roadmap, signaling its belief that spinning media will remain a core part of AI infrastructure well into the next decade. At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital detailed a multi-year strategy built around HDD capacity increases, significant gains in performance, lower power consumption, and a software layer designed to simplify deployment at scale....more
A Model For Measuring And Improving Data Center Fabric Reliability (6:53)
Drawing on Nokia Bell Labs’ reliability model, Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn show why configuration, automation, and disciplined operations - not just infrastructure - are the real levers behind five-nines data center availability....more
Networks
Kubernetes And IPv6: Together At Last?
As administrators migrate their clusters from Ingress NGINX, which is being retired from the Kubernetes line-up next month, they might want to consider adding another task to their job: migrating their network to IPv6....more
Java
Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 12, Spring Shell, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Tomcat, JHipster, Gradle
This week’s Java roundup for January 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: an update on milestone and GA release schedule for Jakarta EE 12; the January 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of Quarkus; maintenance releases of Spring Shell, Apache Tomcat and Gradle; and the first and second beta releases of JHipster 9.0....more
Hitachi Vantara News
Hitachi Vantara Warns Poor Data Foundations Are Stalling AI Projects
Hitachi Vantara data infrastructure research shows that failings in data management, governance, and security are stalling AI projects....more
A Memory-Centric Approach To System Strategy: 6 Takeaways From Supercomputing 2025
Artificial intelligence workloads are reshaping how memory is produced, priced, and prioritized. Not because the supply chain has fundamentally broken, but because manufacturers are making deliberate decisions about where to place capacity and capital. Wafer lines are being steered toward high-margin, long-term AI demand, not toward broad, undifferentiated expansion....more
Veeam News
Securing Kubernetes Compliance: From Risk To Resilience
Kubernetes, an open‑source platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, has become the engine of modern application delivery. It powers everything from financial services to healthcare and government workloads. As organizations scale their container environments, Kubernetes compliance has evolved from a regulatory obligation into a strategic pillar of data resilience and trust....more
Red Hat News
Fast and Simple AI Deployment on Intel Xeon with Red Hat OpenShift
AI adoption and development have accelerated with generative and agentic AI reaching the masses. As new markets emerge, businesses have been struggling to take advantage of AI for real returns on investment....more
Friday Five - February 6, 2026
Cracking The Inference Code: 3 Proven Strategies For High-Performance AI
IT Automation With Agentic AI: Introducing The MCP Server For Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Leidos News
GEOINT, AI and Analysis: Achieving Speed to Mission with Human Analysts as Guardians
TechTalk Summits - Live
TechTalk: Sitecore in the Stadium - Chicago, IL - United Center (Feb. 24th)
TechTalk: Soho House Series - Austin, TX (Feb. 25th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Dinner - Dallas, TX - Truluck’s (Feb. 26th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Summit - Denver, CO (Feb. 26th)
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