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Articles Posted Week of Oct. 6th, 2025 — Oct. 12th, 2025 (331/3/1)
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Tech Field Day
Bringing Agentic AI Applications To Market With Brad Shimmin Of The Futurum Group
Your Edge Projects Will Fail Without Fleet Lifecycle Management With ZEDEDA
AI
Developer
Cisco News
Cisco And Splunk: Redefining Security, Observability, And AI Operations For The Next Decade
Find Yourself In The Future: How Generative AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Cybersecurity Job Roles
Zscaler News
Three Lessons Learned While Upgrading From Legacy Security To Zero Trust
Under The Radar: How Non-Web Protocols Are Redefining The Attack Surface
Join this complimentary Gartner webinar as a Gartner expert shares how to identify and invest in high-impact AI techniques, including multimodal AI, AI agents and ModelOps. Register
Tech Field Day
The Evolution Of Cloud At Cloud Field Day 24
We’re excited to see the future and evolution of Cloud as Cloud Field Day returns to San Francisco on October 22nd and 23rd. You can tune in and watch live on the Tech Field Day website, on LinkedIn, or on our sister site Techstrong TV....more
Bringing Agentic AI Applications To Market With Brad Shimmin Of The Futurum Group
From the very first episode of this podcast back in 2020, we’ve been focused on practical applications for AI technology, and we’re starting to see these come to market with agentic tools. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead for Data and Analytics at The Futurum Group discussing the ways AI is gaining autonomy with hosts Frederic Van Haren of HighFens and Stephen Foskett, organizer of AI Field Day....more
Your Edge Projects Will Fail Without Fleet Lifecycle Management With ZEDEDA
Projects to deliver applications to edge locations will fail without comprehensive fleet lifecycle management....more
AI
CIOs’ AI Confidence Yet To Match Results
While a large percentage of IT and business leaders believe their AI efforts will meet or exceed expectations, only a small number have successfully deployed projects thus far....more
Is America Behind The Ball When It Comes To AI Regulation?
When it comes to regulating AI, America seems to be, at best, taking a wait-and-see or perhaps a laissez-faire approach. Meanwhile, other countries (particularly in Europe and China) are actively regulating what AI can do, how it can be used, and how it is to operate. Who is right?...more
Measuring ROI For AI Agents In The Enterprise
Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, president & CTO of 360 Platform, Apps, Industries and Agentforce at Salesforce, dives into how organizations should be thinking about justifying the return on investment (ROI) for artificial intelligence (AI) agents....more
AI Is Changing The CIO Role: Manager, Coach, Referee And ... Therapist?
AI isn’t breaking your company - it’s revealing what’s already broken. Today’s CIO has to be the therapist who helps the enterprise heal....more
It used to be that cloud native was just for the public cloud crowd-a smooth pour straight from the hyperscalers. But times have changed, and now cloud native is everywhere. Whether you’re sipping from a public cloud, private cloud, hypervisor, or going full throttle on bare metal, there’s no wrong way to enjoy it. Register
Developer
The Best No-Code AI App Builder Platforms You Should Check Before 2026
When you consider that only 0.5% of the world knows how to code, it becomes clear why AI app builders have taken off so drastically in recent years....more
Designing Security For Developers, Not Around Them
Generative AI (GenAI) is improving productivity across many roles, especially for developers. There is no question about that. In fact, a 2023 study by McKinsey found that with GenAI, developers can document code in half the time, write new code nearly twice as fast and optimize existing code in about one-third the time....more
Cisco News
Cisco And Splunk: Redefining Security, Observability, And AI Operations For The Next Decade
At Splunk .conf 2025, held in Boston MA, Cisco’s SVP of Infrastructure and Security, Tom Gillis, joined me to discuss how the integration of Splunk within Cisco’s broader platform strategy is reshaping the future of security, observability, and AI operations....more
Cisco Enables ‘Scale-Across’ AI Environments
Cisco has unveiled its most powerful and efficient routing platform this week, the Cisco 8223, powered by the company’s new Silicon One P200 chip....more
Cisco: Most Companies Don’t Know What They’re Doing With AI
Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI...more
Find Yourself In The Future: How Generative AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Cybersecurity Job Roles
This October, as we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re diving deep into a topic that’s on everyone’s mind: the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on careers, particularly in cybersecurity....more
Zscaler News
Level Up Your Data Security With Zscaler DSPM And Snowflake
Zscaler DSPM now helps secure data within the Snowflake platform. Unlock deep visibility, secure sensitive data and ensure compliance....more
Three Lessons Learned While Upgrading From Legacy Security To Zero Trust
At Oxfordshire County Council, our existing network and security infrastructure was nearing end-of-life, and we were at a crossroads....more
Under The Radar: How Non-Web Protocols Are Redefining The Attack Surface
Attackers have a new favorite playground, and it isn’t on the web. The real action is happening below the surface, where they are hijacking non-web protocols like DNSP, RDP and SMB....more
This session shows how these issues are tied together, and how to tackle both at once. You’ll learn how to take bigger swings and tackle projects that deliver real impact - projects like integrating AI tools into your development workflow. Register
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