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Product Keynote: The Platform for Your Agentic Enterprise

The future of operations is predictive, unified, and AI-powered. Dive into how Splunk and Cisco help organizations unlock cross-domain insights at massive scale, provide intelligent context across security and observability, and build trust in AI with end-to-end visibility. Hear directly from product leaders on the latest innovations shaping agentic enterprises.

Say No Without Becoming the IT Dept People Avoid

You can still say no in IT without becoming the department everyone avoids. The person asking today might be key to winning a project two years from now. So the reflex shouldn’t be yes. It should be: here’s what’s on our plate, help me understand the ask. You still get to the no, but you keep the relationship, and you show up as a business partner, not tactical support. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.

What Does AI Need to Know Before You Trust It? | AI SREDo you like this personality?

AI can make decisions. But can it make the right ones across your entire IT environment? For enterprise SRE teams, trustworthy AI requires three things: operational context, institutional memory, and guardrails. Without them, autonomous action becomes a risk instead of an advantage. In our latest webinar, we explore what it takes to bring AI SRE capabilities to enterprise scale.

Microsoft Offers 60,000 Employees Buyouts. Here's the AI Problem.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees—more than a quarter of its workforce—while investing billions into AI infrastructure. But here's the bigger question: What happens when experienced engineers leave and AI-generated code keeps accelerating? AI can write code faster than ever. But deploying it safely, securely, and at scale? That's becoming the real bottleneck. Is Microsoft funding AI with headcount instead of efficiency?

Was Saudi Arabia Secretly Listening to OpenAI's Biggest Secrets?

A hidden recording device. A former OpenAI engineer. And a possible connection to the Saudi government. What started as a suspicious discovery behind a television inside OpenAI has turned into a federal investigation with potential national security implications. The FBI is investigating whether former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was involved in corporate espionage, with prosecutors pointing to alleged connections to a member of the Saudi royal family.

Grafana Campfire - What's New in Table & Text Panel - (Grafana Community Call - Oct 2026)

Join us for a Grafana Campfire on the New Text and Table panels. See how the redesigned Text editor lets you write and preview side by side, and how Handlebars templates, value mappings, thresholds and Mermaid diagrams turn your query results into rich, data-driven content. Then we’ll look at Table’s new ad hoc interactions (hide, filter and group, right in the table) and a first look at how Table works with Grafana Assistant.

Microsoft Has a Bigger Problem Than Anyone Realizes

Microsoft just released over 1,400 security patches, including three zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is already being exploited. But is this a sign of better security or a much bigger problem? In this ShipTalk discussion, we break down Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday release, the challenges of managing thousands of vulnerabilities across enterprise environments, and whether AI is helping Microsoft find problems too late in the software development process.