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Five Horizons CTO on Thoughtful Adoption of AI in Healthcare IT

September 30th, 2026 |
Five Horizons CTO on Thoughtful Adoption of AI in Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT veteran Benjamin Urquhart says AI can transform patient care, but only if it fits clinician workflows and tames shadow AI before it scales. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to [See the full post…]

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Nonprofit Healthcare Provider Builds Scalable IT Stack from Scratch

September 21st, 2026 |
Nonprofit Healthcare Provider Builds Scalable IT Stack from Scratch

In a video interview, Five Horizons CTO Benjamin Urquhart explains how hyperconverged infrastructure let a nonprofit healthcare provider scale from zero servers to over 50 virtual machines. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by [See the full post…]

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Can We Afford the Future of Medicine? The Promise and Price of Cell and Gene Therapies

September 21st, 2026 |
Can We Afford the Future of Medicine? The Promise and Price of Cell and Gene Therapies

The promise of cell and gene therapies is big. They have the ability to address the underlying genetic causes of disease, offering new possibilities for people with serious and previously difficult-to-treat conditions. But as cell and gene therapies move beyond [See the full post…]

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Own Your Token Machine

September 15th, 2026 |
Own Your Token Machine

In this video interview, Liqid Founder and CTO Sumit Puri argues the path to affordable inference runs through composable AI infrastructure that dynamically taps into pools of GPUs, CPUs and DRAM while optimizing usage to manage costs. He says Liqid [See the full post…]

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Scienceploitation: Separating Health Facts from Hype

September 8th, 2026 |
Scienceploitation: Separating Health Facts from Hype

Nearly half of all adults turn to social media, at least in part, for health information. This represents a growing concern when considering how the spread of health misinformation has ballooned in recent years. The consequences are significant for individuals [See the full post…]

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AI in Financial Services: Costs, Risks and Path Forward

August 27th, 2026 |
AI in Financial Services: Costs, Risks and Path Forward

Financial services firms are pouring money into AI but face soaring token costs, shadow AI risks and data sovereignty pressures. The 2026 Nutanix ECI reveals the gaps. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by [See the full post…]

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How Cisco teams with Nutanix to build IT infrastructure for Enterprise AI

August 26th, 2026 |
How Cisco teams with Nutanix to build IT infrastructure for Enterprise AI

As agentic AI rewires enterprise IT, Cisco and Nutanix are turning a three-year strategic partnership into a full-stack answer for infrastructure under pressure. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast. [See the full post…]

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Can AI to Bring Fairness to Job Hiring

August 25th, 2026 |
Can AI to Bring Fairness to Job Hiring

In this Tech Barometer podcast, Eightfold AI CMO Navneet Singh makes the case for using AI to improve routine human resources processes. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast. Audio [See the full post…]

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Understanding Dad Brain: Fatherhood, Well-being and Work

August 24th, 2026 |
Understanding Dad Brain: Fatherhood, Well-being and Work

Fatherhood changes many aspects of day-to-day life and research shows that it is also changes men physiologically by altering hormones and affecting mental and physical health. In this episode, Darby Saxbe, professor of psychology at University of Southern California and [See the full post…]

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Why Neo-Clouds and the CPU Are Quietly Winning the AI Inference Race

August 19th, 2026 |
Why Neo-Clouds and the CPU Are Quietly Winning the AI Inference Race

As AI shifts from training to inference and call-and-response chatbots give way to autonomous agents, AMD’s Brayden Mahdavi explains why enterprises are rebalancing the CPU-to-GPU ratio and turning to nimble neo-clouds for cheaper, faster compute. Get tech leader insights to [See the full post…]

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Data Storage Steers AI Strategies

August 13th, 2026 |
Data Storage Steers AI Strategies

In this video interview, HyperFrame Analyst Don Gentile explains how data storage is shifting from a passive to an active participant in AI, raising a defining question: bring compute to the data, or data to the compute? He says months [See the full post…]

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Rise of AI Agents Forges IT Industry Partnerships

August 11th, 2026 |
Rise of AI Agents Forges IT Industry Partnerships

As artificial intelligence innovation outpaces the early days of public cloud, CIOs face the burden of parsing through noise to build a cohesive infrastructure stack, says analyst Scott Sinclair, practice director at Omdia, in a video interview. Get tech leader [See the full post…]

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Heading Off Data Harvesting Ahead of Q-Day

August 3rd, 2026 |
Heading Off Data Harvesting Ahead of Q-Day

Data harvest is already underway as bad actors await the description power of quantum computers. In this Tech Barometer podcast, technology experts Marco Graziano, Steve McDowell and Don Gentile explain why IT organizations must implement quantum-resistant encryption now, not later. [See the full post…]

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Lung Cancer Awareness: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up

July 31st, 2026 |
Lung Cancer Awareness: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up

When an MRI revealed a small mass in her right lung, Shira Boehler, by her own admission, ignored it. A young, active, non-smoker, Shira had no symptoms and seemingly no predisposition to lung cancer. Conversations with experts led her to [See the full post…]

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Unlocking Unstructured Data for Enterprise AI Success

July 29th, 2026 |
Unlocking Unstructured Data for Enterprise AI Success

An estimated 80% of all existing digital data isn’t neatly organized in rows and columns, but that unstructured data can unlock significant value and fuel enterprise AI applications, explains data solutions specialist Kailin Hart. Get tech leader insights to move [See the full post…]

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The Real Story Behind Today’s Drug Price Headlines

July 27th, 2026 |
The Real Story Behind Today’s Drug Price Headlines

Pharmacy costs have an outsized impact on overall healthcare spend for employers. But much happens before a drug’s price is set. It is important to understand how the complex and lengthy drug development process really works and where there are [See the full post…]

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How Database Automation Is Redefining the DBA Role

July 9th, 2026 |
How Database Automation Is Redefining the DBA Role

In this Tech Barometer podcast, database experts from a U.S. insurer, a Saudi bank and Nutanix describe the growing need for automated enterprise database management as organizations scale their AI readiness. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. [See the full post…]

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Psychological Strength and Well-being: The Key to Peak Performance

June 24th, 2026 |
Psychological Strength and Well-being: The Key to Peak Performance

While it is crucial for employees to perform at their highest level in any organization, it is especially critical when it comes to national security. In this podcast episode, Dr. Jennifer Posa, former Chief Well-being Officer at the Central Intelligence [See the full post…]

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Decoding the Science of Chronic Pain

June 2nd, 2026 |
Decoding the Science of Chronic Pain

Chronic pain affects one quarter of adults globally, costing employers roughly half a trillion dollars in lost productivity, absenteeism, and healthcare costs every year. In this episode, Dr. Sean Mackey, a pain medicine specialist at Stanford University, explains why the [See the full post…]

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Enterprise AI and Data Security: Navigating the Unprecedented Pace of IT Innovation

May 19th, 2026 |
Enterprise AI and Data Security: Navigating the Unprecedented Pace of IT Innovation

Omdia’s Scott Sinclair discusses how Enterprise AI is driving infrastructure modernization, the critical role of Data Security, and the unprecedented pace of IT innovation. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The [See the full post…]

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Beyond Burnout: Supporting the Emerging Mental Health Challenges Facing Millennials and Gen Z

May 18th, 2026 |
Beyond Burnout: Supporting the Emerging Mental Health Challenges Facing Millennials and Gen Z

Nearly 40 percent of Gen Z and 35 percent of millennials say they’re stressed or anxious most of the time. While not always evident, the workplace impact is difficult to ignore. In this episode, Dr. Smita Das, psychiatrist and professor [See the full post…]

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Dissecting Fruits of the AI Boom

May 14th, 2026 |
Dissecting Fruits of the AI Boom

Industry analyst Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, hosts of the archived “DataCentric” podcast, reunite in this Tech Barometer segment to break through the hype surrounding enterprise AI, NewClouds, cloud native and data storage trends, and supply chain constraints. Get tech [See the full post…]

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Simple Screening; Big Impact: Kidney Care Around the Globe

April 29th, 2026 |
Simple Screening; Big Impact: Kidney Care Around the Globe

Chronic kidney disease affects 10% of the world’s population, including 37 million adults in the U.S.; 90% of those impacted may be unaware they are afflicted with the condition. In this episode, Marcello Tonelli, President of the International Society of [See the full post…]

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The Promise and Risk of Multi-Cancer Blood Tests

April 13th, 2026 |
The Promise and Risk of Multi-Cancer Blood Tests

Liquid biopsy tests, blood tests with the potential to detect up to 50 types of cancers, are being embraced by some in the health care community but viewed with careful consideration by others. In this episode, Jason Oke, medical statistician [See the full post…]

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ECI 2026 report shows strain between AI innovation and IT governance

March 30th, 2026 |
ECI 2026 report shows strain between AI innovation and IT governance

The 2026 Enterprise Cloud Index, a survey of IT professionals, reveals tension between the need for IT oversight and the reality of easy-to-build-and-deploy containerized apps. Demand for AI capabilities is driving up shadow IT use, forcing IT teams to manage [See the full post…]

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