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Articles Posted Week: Dec. 15th, 2025 — Dec. 21st, 2025 (333/3/1)
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CxO
Leading Through Ambiguity: Decision-Making In Cybersecurity Leadership
CISOs View Hybrid Environments As Best Way To Manage Risk, Compliance
Platform Engineering
Marketing
Cloud
Careers
Java
Veeam News
Conversational interfaces are reshaping user experiences, but they're not a one-size-fits-all solution. Learn when and how to integrate chat, Copilot, and agents into apps - and how to design for accessibility and inclusivity while delivering business value. Register
CxO
8 Tips For Rebuilding An Ai-Ready Data Strategy
With AI ambitions outpacing data readiness, CIOs must renovate their data strategies to create unified, AI-ready foundations capable of supporting enterprise-wide use cases....more
Leading Through Ambiguity: Decision-Making In Cybersecurity Leadership
Ambiguity isn’t just a challenge. It’s a leadership test - and most fail it....more
2026: The Year Of Scale Or Fail In Enterprise AI
As AI experimentation gives way to enterprise execution, 2026 will test which organizations can scale and which will stall....more
CIOs Name AI Adoption As Top Imperative: Survey
Despite strong deployment goals, most C-suite executives believe new technology investments will take more than six years to reach 48% of expected returns....more
CISOs View Hybrid Environments As Best Way To Manage Risk, Compliance
Security leaders are also focused on the convergence of IT and operational technology as business continuity becomes a major concern....more
Platform Engineering
The Metrics That Prove Platform Engineering Delivers Value
When developers choose the platform because it makes delivery faster and safer, the business sees measurable gains....more
When Platform Engineering Matures, The Platform Disappears
A fully mature platform fades into the background and lets developers build without thinking about pipelines or permissions. Self-service, compliance, and security become automatic, turning the platform into an engine for delivery speed....more
Marketing
Beyond the AI Noise: Three MarTech Shifts That Matter for 2026
Unless you’ve been living on a desert island with no Wi-Fi, you know that in 2025 marketing was dominated by talk of AI. So instead of more predictions about generative or agentic AI, let’s look at three trends that will matter just as much in 2026....more
Join experts from Checkmarx and Techstrong Group, along with Global Engineering Platforms Lead at Thoughtworks, for a forward-looking conversation about how AI can transform DevSecOps adoption. Register
Cloud
Top 10 Cloud Automation Tools For 2026
Discover the Tools Driving Faster Deployments, Smarter Cost Control, and Resilient Multi-Cloud Operations...more
Top 10 Cloud Management Platforms In 2025
Best Cloud Management Platforms in 2025 for Seamless Enterprise Operations...more
Careers
From Business To IT: Exploring Unconventional CIO Career Paths
The traditional CIO career path often involves a computer science degree and IT experience. Yet, many CIOs emerge from business backgrounds, including supply chain and marketing....more
Java
Top Java Libraries For AI And Machine Learning In 2025
Top Java Libraries for AI and Machine Learning in 2025: Powering Smarter Applications...more
Java News Roundup: Spring Tools 5, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Hibernate ORM, Spock Framework
This week’s Java roundup for December 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Tools 5.0; milestone releases of Spring AI and Spring Shell; the December 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Hibernate ORM and Spock Framework; and maintenance releases of Spring Framework, Micronaut, Apache TomEE and Apache Tomcat....more
Veeam News
Resilience And Recovery: Mitigating Threats In The PQ Era
Majority of respondents support a ban on ransomware payments, but cyberattacks and AI automation pose the greatest threat...more
Staying Compliant, Secure, And Resilient
Modern data protection must be compliant, secure and resilient; not only to pass audits, but to recover with confidence. For most organizations, managing compliance, risk, and security can be a time-consuming, and complex challenge....more
Virtualization At A Crossroads: Adapting To A Changing Hypervisor Market
Virtualization used to be straightforward: Partition the hardware, run more workloads, and watch the savings roll in. Unfortunately, that world is behind us....more
In this forward-looking session, Cerby CEO Bel Lepe and investor and former CIO Yousuf Khan will break down what the next 18 months mean for IAM and security leaders. They will examine which legacy identity practices are slowing progress, how to modernize governance at scale, and where AI is creating new risks as well as new tooling opportunities. Register
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