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Articles Posted Week of Sept. 15th, 2025 — Sept. 21st, 2025 (330/3/7)
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Storage
New Enterprise Storage Platforms Magic Quadrant From Gartner For 2025
Storage Deduplication Is A Commodity - Infrastructure-Wide Makes It Strategic
Security Boulevard
Server
Java
Google News
Power Up Your Data Analysis: The Data Science Agent Now Supports Bigquery Ml, Dataframes, And Spark
Powering AI Commerce With The New Agent Payments Protocol (Ap2)
Microsoft News
CrowdStrike News
Crowdstrike And Meta Just Made Evaluating AI Security Tools Easier
Crowdstrike Targets Patching And Threat Intelligence Gaps With New AI-Powered Tools
Crowdstrike Unveils Falcon Data Protection For GenAI Security
Crowdstrike Unveils AI-Powered Agents To Automate Security Tasks
If you're passionate about cybersecurity, whether you're knee-deep in code or steering the ship at the C-suite level, there's one event you absolutely need to attend this year: the inaugural BSides South Florida Cybersecurity Conference Register
Storage
New Enterprise Storage Platforms Magic Quadrant From Gartner For 2025
A few weeks ago Gartner published a new report about storage and this one is named Enterprise Storage Platforms as the analyst firm as to go beyond primary storage as it didn't reflect completely the market reality....more
Storage Deduplication Is A Commodity - Infrastructure-Wide Makes It Strategic
We have enough silo-based problems. Deduplication shouldn't be another....more
Security Boulevard
SQL Injection
SQL Injection (SQLi) remains one of the most persistent and dangerous web application vulnerabilities....more
Recap Of Our 'Passkeys Pwned' Talk At Def Con
What the 'Passkeys Pwned' talk is and isn't about, and what it reveals about the importance of correct implementation of the standard...more
What Is A Phishing Attack?
Phishing remains one of the most successful cyberattack techniques today. Despite decades of awareness campaigns, it continues to deceive individuals and organizations into giving away sensitive information, from login credentials to financial details. Why? Because phishing exploits the human element, which is often the weakest link in cybersecurity....more
Implementing Single Sign-On Solutions
Understanding the SSO Landscape...more
Server
What Is Rack-Scale Computing, And Why Is It Relevant Again?
As AI transforms computing demands, rack-scale architecture emerges as the solution - treating entire racks as unified computing platforms rather than collections of servers....more
Java
Oracle Delivers Java 25 Edition Of Venerable Programming Language For The AI Era
Oracle today announced the availability of Java 25, which provides capabilities that make it simpler to build both artificial intelligence (AI) applications....more
Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25
But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity...more
Join us as we explore both the leadership and technology landscapes, and provide useful operational guidance for seizing the opportunities for integrating machine learning, maturing our cloud capabilities, data management, and C-suite participation; and the rising challenges before us including the talent gaps, the never-ending security gaps, and the disconnected technology initiatives across many of our organizations. Register
Google News
Power Up Your Data Analysis: The Data Science Agent Now Supports Bigquery Ml, Dataframes, And Spark
We recently announced AI-first Colab Enterprise notebook experience in BigQuery and Vertex AI to help you simplify and transform your data science and analytics workflows....more
Powering AI Commerce With The New Agent Payments Protocol (Ap2)
Today, Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol developed with leading payments and technology companies to securely initiate and transact agent-led payments across platforms....more
Microsoft News
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enabling Human-Agent Teams
Work is fundamentally a team sport, yet until now AI has largely been a personal assistant....more
Inside The World's Most Powerful AI Datacenter
This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services....more
Microsoft Leads Shift Beyond Data Unification To Organization, Delivering Next-Gen AI Readiness With New Microsoft Fabric Capabilities
We're in a hinge moment for AI. The experiments are over and the real work has begun. Centralizing data, once the finish line, is now the starting point. The definition of 'AI readiness' is evolving as increasingly sophisticated agents demand rich, contextualized data grounded in business operations to deliver meaningful results....more
CrowdStrike News
Crowdstrike And Meta Just Made Evaluating AI Security Tools Easier
AI is creating new cybersecurity threats - and solutions. A new tool from Crowdstrike and Meta aims to help businesses find the right models for their needs....more
Crowdstrike Targets Patching And Threat Intelligence Gaps With New AI-Powered Tools
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today deepened its strategy of blending automation with intelligence with the launch of two new products at its Fal.con 2025 conference: Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching and Threat AI. The new offerings are designed to unify fragmented workflows and give enterprises a faster, more reliable defense against adversaries that are increasingly weaponizing artificial intelligence....more
Crowdstrike Unveils Falcon Data Protection For GenAI Security
CrowdStrike has announced new developments in its Falcon Data Protection product, focusing on addressing data protection challenges associated with generative AI and hybrid cloud environments....more
Crowdstrike Unveils AI-Powered Agents To Automate Security Tasks
CrowdStrike has announced the launch of its new Agentic Security Platform and a series of mission-ready artificial intelligence agents designed to automate security operations....more
Every October, organizations across the country recognize Cybersecurity Awareness Month— but too often, the effort becomes a box-checking exercise. Employees skim a few slides, click through an online module, and move on without truly changing their behaviors. At DC Edge, we believe awareness should be engaging, memorable, and impactful.
That’s why we’ve partnered with an industry leader to bring you Virtual Cyber Escape Rooms—a fun, interactive way to teach critical cybersecurity skills. Instead of passively watching or reading, your team steps into a high-energy challenge where they must collaborate, solve puzzles, and outsmart a hacker.
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