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Oracle's database chief says AI is turning up hundreds of security issues in code his teams spent decades hardening. His prescription for agents is authorization enforced inside the database, keyed to the end user's identity.
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Josh Robinson, chief audit executive at Vast Space, told theCUBE that the notes and Slack messages showing a human exercising judgment are gone from agent work, and his remedy is the completeness and accuracy tests internal audit already runs.
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DigiCert chief executive Amit Sinha says the 47-day certificate mandate and the post-quantum rebuild share a 2029 deadline, so the renewal automation a PKI team is already budgeting is the migration's first floor. The interview is a vendor's account of its own customers.
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Microsoft's Trusted Root Program is running a pilot where participating certificate authorities can test issuance and compatibility against its platform in a controlled environment. DigiCert is the only participant named.
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Workiva's research finds executive appetite for unreviewed AI reporting running well ahead of the data those reports would sit on, and the interview it came from was recorded at the vendor's own event.
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Workiva's chief product officer says agents run unattended only where the task is repeatable and rules-based, and everything else routes to a person who approves the wording. theCUBE, which ran the interview, is a paid Amplify partner.
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CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report carries both numbers, and the gap between them decides whether a control has to run without a person or can wait for someone on shift to look.
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At theCUBE's contact center summit, analysts Bob Laliberte and Zeus Kerravala argued that agentic support should be scored on whether the customer's problem got completed. Their scorecard asks for five kinds of numbers, including cost and growth.
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Amit Mathradas, who took over Five9 in February, says the misconception is that humans are going away from the contact center. The customer result he offers is a containment rate above 50%.
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Zoom's Ram Rajagopalan says buyers who measured only containment a year ago now ask about end-to-end resolution. Neither he nor the implementation partner beside him gave a figure for either metric.
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Amazon EVS now spans 22 regions with support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1, and AWS says the calls it fields almost weekly start with an expiring data centre contract. The licence arithmetic sits outside the pitch.
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VCF 9.1 pushes rarely used pages onto NVMe flash while DRAM stays expensive, and a customer at VMware Explore told Broadcom the switch saved up to $70,000 a server. Whether that number holds on your own hosts is something you can check yourself.
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SafeMind pairs an attacking model with a defending one and, Kurtz says, runs 98% cheaper than the frontier alternative. The test is CrowdStrike's own, while the harder problem underneath is finding the agents in the first place.
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CrowdStrike is enrolling each AI agent onto the endpoint asset inventory with an identity and a data footprint attached, and Box has already wired its content decisions to that score, which tells you where agent governance gets enforced.
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Jeff Clarke says Dell lifted its annual guidance after repricing for rising component costs, and buyers paid it. If your hardware plan was written before this quarter, that pass-through is what your next quote will carry.
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A vendor panel at Supermicro's Open Storage Summit argues GPUs no longer set token cost alone. The useful corollary: chat, batch and agentic work each need their own capacity plan.
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