DC: Storage, Tech Field Day, ERP, Marketing, Cloud, DDN, Microsoft, KnowBe4, Akamai Technologies, Webinars (Wed., July 30th Afternoon)
Articles Posted Week of Jul 21st, 2025 — Jul 27th, 2025 (328/4/6)
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Storage
Tech Field Day
Hedgehog At Networking Field Day: Operationalizing Open Networking For AI And Cloud Builders
Navigating the Rise of LLM-Powered Point Tools: What Every CTO Needs to Know
ERP
Marketing
Cloud
A Unified Cloud Strategy Is The Key To Accelerating AI Innovation In U.S. Enterprises
Cloud Integration, Migration, And Optimization Market: Endless Potential Of Cloud
DDN News
Microsoft News
KnowBe4 News
CyberheistNews Vol 15 #29 [Jawdropper] AI Is Luring Travelers to Places That Don't Even Exist!
Job Seekers Beware: Many People Are Falling For Employment Scams
Akamai Technologies News
How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management
Why Customer Experience Is The New Battleground In Zero Trust
Whether you're a platform engineer, DevOps leader, or software architect, this session will show you how modern IDPs are helping teams ship faster, more securely, and with less cognitive overhead. Register
Storage
Kioxia Unveils Highest Capacity SSD At 245.76 TB
Online storage capacity constraints are melting away with Kioxia announcing the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door to a 200-plus petabyte rack and a five-rack exabyte configuration....more
Storage Best Practices: How To Address The Challenge Of Scaling AI Workloads
Read what tech experts and influencers have to say about getting the most value from your storage architecture so it can scale and adapt to evolving workloads....more
Tech Field Day
Hedgehog At Networking Field Day: Operationalizing Open Networking For AI And Cloud Builders
At the recent Networking Field Day 38, Hedgehog presented its innovative strategies for operationalizing open networking, particularly focusing on the needs of AI and cloud infrastructure developers....more
Navigating the Rise of LLM-Powered Point Tools: What Every CTO Needs to Know
In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, CTOs must stay abreast of the developments surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) and their integration into point tools....more
Re-Imagining The Mainframe For The AI Era At Share
As Tech Field Day heads to SHARE in Cleveland, we are considering the many ways the mainframe has been re-imagined and re-built for the AI era....more
ERP
8 Ways ERP Software Can Improve Customer Service
By integrating sales, inventory and shipping data, ERP software helps companies avoid delays and stockouts. Learn more about how ERP software enables better customer service....more
Marketing
Beyond The Metrics: How B2B Marketing Pros Should Use Storytelling Techniques To Communicate Value
As a marketing professional, you live and breathe metrics: website traffic, leads generated (although you should be talking about buying groups engaged), pipeline contribution, engagement rates, and more. But when it comes to communicating marketing's business value, the numbers alone just don't cut it....more
Cloud
A Unified Cloud Strategy Is The Key To Accelerating AI Innovation In U.S. Enterprises
Cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing how businesses operate, innovate, and serve customers. But despite growing investment in both technologies, many U.S. organizations still struggle to unlock their full potential. The reason: a lack of unified strategy....more
Cloud Integration, Migration, And Optimization Market: Endless Potential Of Cloud
The cloud is the nucleus of innovation in the enterprise in this high-paced world of digitalization. With organizations trying to enhance their IT infrastructure, take up remote working, the demand for easy integration, migration, and optimization of the clouds has soared....more
Securing the Age of Agentic AI: Autonomy, Risk, and Resilience Register
DDN News
DDN Eliminates GPU Waste Spiral with Industry-Leading KV Cache Performance for AI Reasoning
The announcement delivers sub-millisecond latency and up to 27x faster, maximizing GPU utilization and slashing costs...more
7 Infrastructure Pitfalls Blocking AI And How To Fix Them
Deloitte recently sounded the alarm in their 2025 Tech Trends report, Hardware is Eating the World: skyrocketing power consumption, idle GPUs, and legacy architectures are threatening to stall enterprise AI adoption. But for those working deep in AI infrastructure, none of this is surprising....more
Microsoft News
AI For Business Impact Starts Here: Proven AI Use Cases By Industry
Across industries, business leaders are turning to AI to go beyond productivity-using it to accelerate innovation, fuel growth, enter new markets, and sharpen their competitive edge. As market conditions shift and regulations evolve, organizations are also using AI to boost resilience, improve efficiency, and achieve meaningful cost savings....more
Understanding What AI Means To Consumers
When we talk about new AI-powered devices and experiences, the focus often lands on the pace of technological progress. But just as quickly, the way people are using these tools-and how they feel about them-is evolving too....more
KnowBe4 News
Bridging The Gap: Human Risk In African Cybersecurity
Africa's cybersecurity landscape presents a paradox: a widespread belief in preparedness among organisations, although significant blind spots continue to exist, particularly concerning their human layer - their employees....more
CyberheistNews Vol 15 #29 [Jawdropper] AI Is Luring Travelers to Places That Don't Even Exist!
We've seen AI generate art, write code and even compose music. But now it's crafting a new kind of scam: fake travel destinations....more
Job Seekers Beware: Many People Are Falling For Employment Scams
More than one in ten people who were targeted by job scams this year fell victim, according to a report from Resume.org. Younger people, particularly young men, are more likely to fall victim....more
Akamai Technologies News
How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management
Maybe you've been having conversations with your business and security teams regarding artificial intelligence (AI) scraper bots. After a period when blocking AI scrapers seemed futile - in fact, even harmful - there has recently been a renewed interest in the question of whether to block AI bots....more
Why Customer Experience Is The New Battleground In Zero Trust
The cybersecurity industry loves to talk about features, feeds, and speeds. Zero Trust vendors especially seem caught in an endless arms race of technical capabilities - who has the most integrations, the fastest deployment, the shiniest dashboard....more
The rise of Vibe Coding - using AI tools for code generation - has boosted software development by enhancing productivity and accessibility. However, this paradigm shift introduces significant security challenges that cannot be overlooked. Register
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