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Report: Content Infrastructure, Governance Lag Behind Agentic AI Adoption

AI agents have quickly moved into mainstream enterprise use, but the content infrastructure needed to support them has struggled to keep up, according to a new report from cloud content management company Box.

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Phishing Report Emphasizes Importance of Building a Security Culture

While cybersecurity teams have invested heavily in e-mail protection, endpoint security, and identity controls, new research from Fortra suggests one challenge remains difficult to solve: users.

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Report: Basic Security Failures Continue to Fuel Enterprise Breaches

Despite years of investment in cybersecurity technologies, many enterprise breaches still begin with familiar weaknesses, according to a new report from SonicWall.

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Research: Enterprise AI Workloads Are Tipping Toward Private Cloud

Broadcom's 2026 private cloud report says enterprise AI is moving from experimentation into production, with private cloud emerging as the preferred deployment environment for AI inference among surveyed organizations.

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Report: AI Impact Starts with Strong Data Foundation

High-impact AI implementations are more likely to treat data architecture, governance, and operationalization as strategic requirements, according to TDWI's 2026 Blueprint report.

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Gartner: Half of Gen AI Projects Could Exceed Budget by 2028

Organizations may be underestimating the actual cost of generative AI as they move from experimentation to production, according to Gartner's "10 Best Practices for Optimizing Generative and Agentic AI Costs" report.

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Report: AI Is Moving Faster than Data Trust

AI agents are already in use or pilot at most organizations, but data visibility, governance and precision recovery capabilities have not kept pace, according to Veeam's new Data & AI Trust Gap report.

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AI Budgets in Education Show No Sign of Decline

The vast majority of education organizations (98%) expect their AI infrastructure budgets to either increase or hold steady over the next year, according to a recent report from cloud storage provider Wasabi.

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Gartner Estimates Worldwide IT Spending at $6.31T for 2026

Gartner recently forecast that worldwide IT spending will total $6.31 trillion in 2026, a 13.5% increase from 2025. Sectors experiencing the largest growth include data center systems, software, and IT services.

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Report: Global AI Use Rises as Adoption Gap Continues to Widen

AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.