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In the Mind of a CXO | Where Did the BEAD Funds Go!?

Cliff Johnson, Broadband Initiative Director at NRECA, and Ribbon’s Marketing & Product Director, Mitch Simcoe, cut through the noise to clarify where BEAD funding truly stands—what has been allocated, where significant dollars remain, and how emerging middle‑mile opportunities are reshaping the competitive landscape.

Resolve Webinar: ITSM is Not Your Orchestration Platform

Is your ITSM platform quietly limiting your automation strategy? In this webinar, Resolve breaks down a critical misconception in modern IT operations: why ITSM systems were never designed to serve as orchestration engines, and what it’s costing your organization when they do. You’ll learn.

Introducing kosli evaluate: Rego Policy Evaluation for Your Compliance Data

If you’re evaluating compliance controls against your Kosli trail data today, there’s a good chance you’ve written some glue code to make it work. A script that pulls trail data from the API. Another that downloads attestations one by one. Something that mangles the JSON together into a shape that your chosen compliance engine can evaluate. And then that engine itself, whether it’s OPA, a custom Python script, or something else, installed and configured in your pipeline.

2026 CMA investigation: What it means for the cloud industry

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has now set out its latest actions under the Digital Markets Competition Regime (DMCR), following its multi-year Cloud Services Market Investigation. While the regulator has now expanded its focus into business software ecosystems, we must not lose sight of the core issue: the entrenched dominance within the UK's cloud infrastructure.

How to Measure & Improve Engineering Ops (with Cortex)

Is your engineering org actually getting better, or just shipping more? In this overview, we dive into how leadership and platform teams use Cortex to move beyond manual audits and spreadsheets. Learn how to transform "tribal knowledge" into a data-driven culture of engineering excellence by centralizing visibility and automating operational standards. Key Highlights: Mission Control: Using the Service Catalog to map dependencies and ownership without the Slack-pinging or Wiki-hunting.

Secure and Compliant DevOps in an AI-Enabled World

Is Your DevOps Strategy Ready for the AI Era? AI is accelerating modern software delivery—but it’s also raising the stakes for security, compliance, and auditability. As AI-driven change increases, many organizations are discovering that incomplete DevOps practices are creating new risk. Based on insights from 800+ global IT professionals, the 2026 State of DevOps Report reveals why vendor‑backed, enterprise‑grade DevOps platforms are becoming critical for managing AI‑driven risk and meeting evolving regulatory demands.

Why True Operational Security Requires an Unmanaged Cloud VPS

When deploying infrastructure for sensitive communications, penetration testing, or privacy-centric applications, your threat model must account for the human element. Handing over the root access of your server to a "managed" hosting provider fundamentally breaks that model. In 2026, serious security practitioners know that true OPSEC cannot exist in an environment where support staff have administrative backdoors into your operating system.