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Alcohol’s Place in America’s Drug Crisis

November 9th, 2026 |
Alcohol’s Place in America’s Drug Crisis

One of the deadliest drugs in the United States isn’t often what gets headlines but is ubiquitous in society. Alcohol is responsible for an estimated 187,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, yet because drinking is culturally ingrained, its health [See the full post…]

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Hardware Shortages, Price Hikes & AI Ambitions Rattle IT Decisions

November 6th, 2026 |
Hardware Shortages, Price Hikes & AI Ambitions Rattle IT Decisions

AI infrastructure is straining under memory shortages and supply chain constraints, forcing IT teams to rethink how they manage workloads across cloud and on-prem. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The [See the full post…]

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How Agentic Engineering Keeps Enterprise AI Up to Speed

November 5th, 2026 |
How Agentic Engineering Keeps Enterprise AI Up to Speed

Agentic AI engineering lets teams orchestrate GPU resources, models and agents. Daemon Behr of Nutanix explains how he uses agent swarms to stay ahead. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The [See the full post…]

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Databases for AI: How Agents Reshape Database Operations

October 29th, 2026 |
Databases for AI: How Agents Reshape Database Operations

AI agents are transforming database management, automating provisioning, patching and migration while cutting migration time by up to 82% and doubling performance. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast. Related: [See the full post…]

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Rethinking What We Know About Smoking, Vaping, and Nicotine

October 26th, 2026 |
Rethinking What We Know About Smoking, Vaping, and Nicotine

Smoking rates are down, but what people smoke and how they consume nicotine has changed. Vaping and nicotine pouches are increasingly part of the landscape, raising an important question for employers: How broadly should they define smoking when some alternatives [See the full post…]

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Expedient Cloud Service Provider Sells Outcomes Over Science Projects

October 21st, 2026 |
Expedient Cloud Service Provider Sells Outcomes Over Science Projects

Expedient’s Anthony Jackman says cloud service providers can turn VMware, AI and cloud repatriation pressures into opportunity by selling managed outcomes, not one-off science projects. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to [See the full post…]

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IT Modernization: Navigating a Tangle of Simultaneous Shifts

October 13th, 2026 |
IT Modernization: Navigating a Tangle of Simultaneous Shifts

In this Tech Barometer podcast interview, Insight CTO Juan Orlandini describes IT modernization challenges hitting simultaneously with the rise of AI. This interview was recorded before CRN reported that Broadcom had deauthorized Insight to sell VMware licenses and Broadcom-funded VCF [See the full post…]

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Menopause Trends, Treatments, and Truths

October 12th, 2026 |
Menopause Trends, Treatments, and Truths

Nearly half of women in the workforce are navigating perimenopause or menopause, yet misinformation, social media influence, and a rapidly expanding menopause marketplace are increasing demand for care and making it harder than ever to separate evidence-based guidance from hype. [See the full post…]

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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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