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Overlapping AI Outages Expose an Enterprise Resilience Gap
Four leading AI services had problems within the same few hours on September 3, 2026. OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI confirmed service interruptions affecting ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, while Gemini saw a surge in reported interruptions without confirmation.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of August 24, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of August 17, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Black Hat 2026 Trends – Security Buyers Want Proof, Not More Tools
The following trends reflect themes that emerged from conversations, vendor briefings, and conference sessions at Black Hat 2026, with an emphasis on what they mean for CIOs and security leaders.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of August 10, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Veeam Adds 6 Hypervisors, Launches Cloud Archive Tier to Replace Tape
Veeam wants IT leaders to bet on one platform instead of five. Data Platform v13.1 adds six hypervisors, native protection that finally unites healthcare and non-x86 workload customers under Epic and Db2/Oracle, and a new archive tier built to replace tape. The real question is: Does putting recovery, security, and archiving under one vendor close the fragmented-visibility and standards-drift risk of running five separate tools, or does it just trade that for one giant backup target that’s easier for an attacker, or an admin, to break?
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of August 3, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of July 27, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of July 20, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of July 13, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
AWS Seeks to Remove the Friction Around Government AI Adoption
At AWS Summit DC 2026, Amazon Web Services unveiled new AI modernization and security automation tools built for federal agencies with classified cloud infrastructure and billions of dollars in credits, with thousands of engineers embedded on top. The pitch is speed.
A Closer Look at Google's Agentic Data Cloud Enhancements in H1-2026
Info-Tech has already provided a brief summary of updates to Agentic Data Cloud announced by Google in April 2026. Here’s a closer look at some of the updates important from the perspective of Data and Analytics.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 29, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 22, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 15, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 8, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 1, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Cisco Makes Its Bid to Run the Agentic Enterprise at Cisco Live US 2026
Cisco Live wrapped up in Las Vegas on June 4, and the theme was pretty consistent across announcements and sessions. Cisco wants to be the layer the agentic enterprise runs on, not a vendor of boxes that carry agent traffic.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 25, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 18, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 11, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.