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July 2026 in enterprise technology: sovereign AI, inference money and the VMware exit

July 2026 was about control and capital: enterprises demanded say over where AI runs, investors poured money into inference hardware, SASE consolidation kept growing, and more service providers mapped their route off VMware.

Techarda·
Original

August 2026 in enterprise technology: agents meet governance, inference M&A and trust as the attack surface

August 2026 put guardrails around AI agents, from enterprise auth for MCP to data isolation at the database. Meanwhile AMD bought into inference, attackers exploited trust, and VMware alternatives started guaranteeing migration timelines.

Techarda·
Cloud Infrastructure

AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filters

Today, AWS announces feature-level availability notifications and advanced filters for AWS Capabilities by Region in AWS Builder Center. Builders can now set availability notifications for AWS service, or to an individual feature of an AWS service, in the AWS Regions they are interested in, and receive an in-app notification and a weekly email digest covering all the capabilities that became…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
Security

September 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Global Attacks Jump 48% as Phishing and GenAI Data Exposure Rise

Key takeaways Organizations experienced 2,803 weekly cyber attacks on average in September, up 16% month over month and 48% year over year. Education remained the most targeted sector, averaging 6,656 weekly attacks per organization, a 59% year-over-year increase. Europe recorded the sharpest regional rise at 61% year over year, while Latin America faced the highest volume at 3,813 weekly attacks…

Check Point Software·via Check Point Software Blog
DevOps & Platform EngineeringWhy it matters

Secure AI agents with HashiCorp Boundary

Enable AI agents to securely access your resources while operating within enterprise identity, access, and audit controls.

HashiCorp·via HashiCorp Blog
Observability

Forrester study models 466% ROI from unified observability with Dynatrace

AI is adding new operational demands to already complex technology environments. Technology leaders must improve reliability and developer productivity, control costs, and demonstrate business value while understanding how AI models and agents affect the applications and infrastructure around them. Dynatrace commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the potential business value of unified…

Dynatrace·via Dynatrace News
Networking

Why Cisco Continues to invest in AI Native RunOn: Bringing Context, Visibility, and AI to Multi-Cloud

Cisco’s RunOn eliminates multi-cloud fragmentation by unifying data with organizational context. Using AI and persona-based views, it turns siloed info into actionable intelligence for cost, security, and lifecycle management.

Cisco·via Cisco Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37

Kubernetes version 1.37 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.37. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.37 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.37 using the EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
Data & Analytics

GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Snowflake Cortex AI

GPT-6 Sol and Luna are now in public preview through Cortex AI Functions and Cortex Inference, and coming soon to Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake CoWork, and Cortex Agents.

Snowflake·via Snowflake Blog
SecurityWhy it matters

Threat Actors Use Google Ads To Target Ledger Users

In August 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzed a phishing campaign that used fraudulent Google ads to target Ledger hardware wallet users. The ads redirected users through Google Cloud Storage and Vercel to a Google Sites page containing a phishing page impersonating Ledger in an iframe. During our analysis, the Vercel redirect appeared to change every 15-20 minutes. There, a fake…

Zscaler·via Zscaler ThreatLabz
Data & Analytics

Announcing Workday Data Connect federation in Unity Catalog

We're excited to announce the publicly available Beta of the Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog...

Databricks·via Databricks Blog
Containers & Kubernetes

Reference architecture cross-cluster routing using API gateways and service mesh | Solo.io

Learn how Gloo Platform, an API gateway and service mesh platform, helps simplify management of multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with Istio, Envoy, and Cilium.

Solo.io·via Solo.io Blog
AI Agents & Automation

Caller ID in the age of agents

Introducing fleming-1, Sierra’s own model for detecting when the caller on a phone call is another agent.

Sierra·via Sierra Blog
Developer Tools

How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

GitHub·via GitHub Blog
AI Agents & Automation

Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack

Salesforce·via Salesforce News
ObservabilityOriginal research

Take Grafana Labs' 5th annual Observability Survey

Over the past year, "agentic" has gone from an emerging buzzword to an integral part of worklife for many engineers, and that's just scratching the surface on all that's changed. With so much upheaval, there's never been a better time to capture the pulse of the industry, which is why we want you to take Grafana Labs' fifth annual Observability Survey . We're asking the questions you're probably…

Grafana Labs·via Grafana Labs Blog
Data & Analytics

The Plane, Not the Fleet

Imagine you are an engineer on call, looking at a failed CI run at 2am …

Starburst·via Starburst Blog
Databases

Introducing JWT authentication in ClickHouse Cloud

Connect to ClickHouse Cloud with short-lived tokens from your identity provider instead of database passwords.

ClickHouse·via ClickHouse Blog
Developer ToolsComparison

RustRover vs VS Code + rust-analyzer: What Changes in Your Rust Workflow

As the team behind a dedicated Rust IDE, we’re naturally curious to see how RustRover stacks up against other popular setups for Rust development and the strengths and trade-offs of each one. This article is the first in a series where we’ll look at different Rust workflows. We’re not unbiased, but we want to give […]

JetBrains·via JetBrains Blog
Observability

How we extended Apache DataFusion to execute one query across many machines

Learn how Datadog built Distributed DataFusion to scale interactive Apache DataFusion queries across multiple machines.

Datadog·via Datadog Blog
DevOps & Platform Engineering

Harness acquires Augment Code to advance the Autonomous SDLC

Harness Cosmos Software Factory Agent automates engineering from idea to code, connecting code context with delivery, security, testing, and production workflow | Blog

Harness·via Harness Blog
Networking

Automating Post-Quantum IPsec on Cisco Routers: IPsec Series, Part 12

No more CLI typing. This is where years of DevNet programmability skills land on a real world scenario: Ansible over NETCONF, one file for the posture, and proof the IPsec tunnels actually negotiated ML-KEM and ML-DSA.

Cisco·via Cisco Blog
Developer Tools

Introducing Warm Agents, a TeamCity Plugin

Waiting on “waiting for a starting agent” is a special kind of annoying when you just want your PR tests to run. It stings most when a quick one-minute build sits in the queue for ten minutes while that one slow Windows cloud instance spins up. The Warm Agents plugin is our answer to this […]

JetBrains·via JetBrains Blog
AI Agents & Automation

Leading from the front: How BetterHelp’s Chief Growth Officer is building an AI-native marketing engine

Sara Brooks, Chief Growth Officer at BetterHelp, shares how her team built their brand into every AI agent, and why adoption starts with a leader willing to do the work themselves. The post Leading from the front: How BetterHelp’s Chief Growth Officer is building an AI-native marketing engine appeared first on WRITER .

Writer·via Writer Blog
Security

2026 Birthday week: network performance update

Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages, we have expanded our real-user measurement scale while maintaining user privacy.

Cloudflare·via Cloudflare Blog
Security

Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration

We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

Cloudflare·via Cloudflare Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

Managed Hosting for WordPress: why hosting a site is no longer about disk space or compute

Hosting WordPress is no longer about disk space. Discover how managed WordPress hosting absorbs updates, security, and backups without locking you in.

OVHcloud·via OVHcloud Blog
AI & ML Platforms

Ray Data LLM enables 2x throughput over vLLM’s synchronous LLM engine at production-scale

Anyscale·via Anyscale Blog
Containers & Kubernetes

Creating a private 5G network

As private 5G evolves from experimentation into production readiness, its success hinges on a fundamental architectural shift: replacing heavyweight, legacy virtualization stacks with agile, softwarized infrastructure that reduces operational expenditure (OpEx) and accelerates service delivery.

Canonical·via Canonical Blog
DevOps & Platform Engineering

External Interfaces: Build Your Own UI on Top of Port's Catalog

External Interfaces let you build standalone apps on Port's catalog, where users log in with Port and keep their own permissions.

Port·via Port Blog
Developer Tools

Laya decision model now available on AI Gateway, free through October 31

Vercel·via Vercel Blog
DevOps & Platform Engineering

Self-driving infrastructure with Pulumi and Jev

It’s been a weirdly great time to be building software. We’ve never had so many tools that help us get things done: endless cloud providers, regions, deployment frameworks, and now AI agents that can actually build and manage infrastructure for us. That’s part of what made this past week feel so big. TypeSafe AI opened early access to Jev, their SystemOne model, and we here at…

Pulumi·via Pulumi Blog
Developer Tools

Trust Center is now in the Netlify Dashboard

Netlify's security and compliance document library has moved into the Netlify Dashboard. To request access and learn more about the certifications and documents available, go to https://www.netlify.com/trust-center/. Any signed-in user, on any plan, can view our certifications, subprocessor list, and available compliance documents from their user settings. More sensitive documents, such as our…

Netlify·via Netlify Blog
Developer Tools

Security Update: Multiple vulnerabilities in Next.js

The Next.js team has disclosed seven security vulnerabilities in Next.js (one high, five medium, one low), patched on September 30, 2026 in 15.5.27 and 16.3.8. The issues span server-side request forgery (SSRF), cache poisoning, and information disclosure. Several of them do not affect apps hosted on Netlify. Here's what Netlify customers need to know. Summary Some of these vulnerabilities affect…

Netlify·via Netlify Blog
Databases

Why Real-Time Healthcare Data Still Produces Late Decisions

Healthcare bets billions on data and AI to decide faster, yet the intelligence keeps arriving late and fragmented. The reason is structural, and it points somewhere specific.

SingleStore·via SingleStore Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work

The organizations pulling ahead are not simply adding AI to what they already have. They are designing for a different kind of software. The post Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Microsoft·via Microsoft Azure Blog
Data & Analytics

In Capital Markets, the Buy Side Runs on NAV. Finance Protects the Fee.

Ask a capital markets CFO on the buy side how the quarter looks, and the answer starts...

Databricks·via Databricks Blog
Developer Tools

Scale without limits: Multigres, OrioleDB, and dbarena

The app your agent built in minutes stays on the same Postgres from prototype to petabyte.

Supabase·via Supabase Blog
Developer Tools

Operate with confidence

More data, more tools and more control so your agent has what it needs to observe your project, investigate issues and propose fixes, autonomously.

Supabase·via Supabase Blog
Developer Tools

Build anything: Supabase from code, and an MCP server for your app

Your agent sets up the backend from code, your users' agents work with your app through its own MCP server, and long-running tasks run in Supabase Compute.

Supabase·via Supabase Blog