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Cyber resilience in the age of AI: Dell's data-first approach
The breakneck expansion of AI is forcing enterprise IT leaders to urgently rethink how infrastructure and cyber resilience work together to protect critical assets. Above all else, securing foundational data is now paramount for enterprises as they forge ahead with agentic AI deployments.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Google Cloud is assembling an ambitious agentic enterprise stack it believes will close the gap between AI ambition and real business outcomes. But the transition from traditional, linear workflows to autonomous systems requires a shift in how organizations view their entire operating model.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Agentic transformation is reshaping how enterprises operate, moving beyond basic automation to AI systems that can manage entire business processes on their own. But unlocking the full potential of the agentic moment demands more than deploying AI. Instead, it requires embedding it within a secure, structured environment, according to Scott Van Valkenburgh (pictured, right), senior vice president of global partners and alliances at Appian Corp.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Global AI ambitions keep colliding with the same wall: cloud infrastructure that can’t keep up with performance demands without compromising where data lives and who controls it. As organizations look to roll out agentic applications, they require a foundation that is both compliant and performant. This infrastructure inflection point demands a scalable platform that balances open ecosystems with strict data sovereignty, according to Kevin Cochrane (pictured), chief marketing officer of Vultr LLC.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
As organizations transition from experimentation with AI to full-scale production, the demand for mission-critical security and absolute data availability has become the primary benchmark for enterprise success. In this era of autonomous agents and increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats, the underlying data infrastructure must provide resilience that is inherent in the system rather than bolted onto it after the fact.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Healthcare IT finds itself at a critical intersection where significant data opportunities are colliding with escalating cybersecurity threats. Rural and community hospitals, in particular, are facing intense cost strains as ransomware attacks proliferate.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
As AI drives a surge in software output, security teams are under mounting pressure to use runtime testing to catch risks in running applications. With the volume of machine-generated code exploding across the modern enterprise, security teams are discovering that static code analysis is no longer enough. This disconnect highlights the urgent need to establish dynamic guardrails that protect applications as they operate, according to Joe Sullivan (pictured, left), board member at StackHawk Inc.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
The sharp rise of autonomous systems has created a critical need for enterprises to secure AI agent identity with the same rigor used for human employees. But as these digital actors gain access to sensitive systems, who is keeping watch over what they do next? As digital actors start to handle sensitive transactions and access core systems of record, the risk of unmanaged non-human identities becomes a significant vulnerability for global brands.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Modern cybersecurity teams are being bogged down by a heavy security tax that stems from fragmented tools and restrictive pricing models, putting faster, broader protection out of reach when organizations need it most. The traditional industry model forces organizations to choose which assets to protect based on cost, rather than risk.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
In the modern AI threat management landscape, security operations teams face the possibility of defending against more than 7,000 password attacks per second. Against those odds, human analysts alone simply cannot keep pace. Those immense stakes make automated threat management a necessity for modern enterprise resilience.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
As the RSAC 2026 Conference hit its stride on day two, it became apparent that while AI and agentic security dominate seller messaging, there remains a significant gap in communicating the actual business value to enterprise leaders. The technology sector has rapidly adopted AI capabilities, but enterprise buyers are just beginning their journey.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Original
With development moving at breakneck speed, many enterprise leaders are scrambling to understand AI security risks and protect their organizations from emergent threats. In fact, the “unknown unknowns” of the current era are driving a level of industry tension rarely seen before, according to Jon Oltsik (pictured, left), principal analyst at theCUBE Research. Many organizations are still in the early stages of preparedness, even as adoption outpaces the policies and controls needed to manage it.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Original
In today’s market, organizations that fail to invest in forward-looking AI infrastructure risk being left behind as the race to support more complex workflows accelerates. But as demand for real-time data processing and super-intelligence hits a fever pitch, the next generation of applied AI applications, from advanced robotics to large-scale autonomous agents, requires a total paradigm shift.
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Companies are increasingly focused on enterprise data transformation, using AI to turn vast stores of unstructured information into actionable intelligence for automated agents. But what does it take to make decades of unstructured data usable for AI systems?
“The Past Survives in the Telling”: Eight Questions for Esther Kinsky
When I bought Rombo by Esther Kinsky, I was on my lunch break and I was getting flustered. I was at a bookshop in Sydney’s business district and they didn’t have any of the titles I had noted down. My time was limited and there were walls of books to choose from, just not the ones I’d come to buy. It was also raining and the prospect of trying to smuggle a book back to the office without it getting soggy was growing less and less appealing.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva on “Candelaria”
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a New York–based author who grew up in Boston and calls herself a “Guatelombian” writer—half Guatemalan, half Colombian. We had a lively conversation about her second novel, Candelaria—an intergenerational family drama set during the apocalypse.
Harald Voetmann
I first read Harald Voetmann’s novel Awake over a year ago. It almost feels shameful to mention—like I’m letting slip a dirty secret—but, initially, I read the book in fits and starts. It arrived at the end of a strict, four-month lockdown; I was bleary-eyed, fatigued, my brain scrambled, and slowly reacquainting myself with outside.
‘Rainbow Days Volume 1’ Review
Skip to content Let me start by answering a glaring question that I found a lot of people, including myself, wondering: is Rainbow Days a Boys Love manga? Although the title and cover art may lead you to believe that it is, the truthful answer is no. There are many cute and playful ‘bromance’ moments, but the series is classified as a shōjo. The premise of the story is following the daily life of four high school friends and their different paths in their love lives.
Just Friends by Ana Oncina – Review > Fandom Spotlite
A sweet and heartfelt tale of young love flourishing into a relationship later on in life, Just Friends was a wonderful and easy read. There is a fluidity in the transitions between Emi and Erika’s adulthood and their childhood memories that keeps the story engaging. This novel is filled with the bittersweet nostalgia of adolescence, scattered between awkward moments, bad decisions, and growing pains.
Harry Potter Actor Robbie Coltrane Passes at 72
It’s fair to say that Robbie Coltrane in his role of Hagrid from the Harry Potter movie franchise helped to shape a generation. His performance as Rubeus Hagrid was stellar, enough to gain him worldwide recognition. He embodied the role for roughly ten years and was even at the top of the list of actors to play Hagrid for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. It is clear in his astounding work why.
The Dreamer II
‘Doesn’t it bother you that we live so briefly? I think it does.’ Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues, trans. by Gini Alhadeff, New York: New Directions, 2021 (1980) The thought has occurred to me more than once: what if these are the best times of my life? My days are brimming with simple joys: I wake in a bed warmed by a night spent with the woman I love. Doves are cooing and the morning sun filters through the bedroom blinds.
The Dreamer I
‘All was exotic—or nothing.’ Roberto Calasso, Tiepolo Pink, trans. by Alastair McEwen, London: Penguin Classics, 2020 (2006) My reading has changed in the pandemic—I read for enjoyment now. Reading is something I have always done, since I was a small and watchful child, and is something I believe I will always do. But only in recent times has it shifted from an activity of duty or obligation to one of fun.
Anne Serre’s The Fool — Music & Literature
In “How I Write My Books,” French writer Anne Serre states that before she begins work for the day, she reads all she has written of a piece to that point. “During the writing, the part already written is always entirely present in my mind, with its details and micro-details.
Sick Days Harm Amazon -
By MH. Heike Geissler, Seasonal Associate, translated by Katy Derbyshire (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents, 2018) In Women as Lovers, Elfriede Jelinek writes that “work on the line leaves brigitte her femininity, because it is a women’s factory with only female employees (women workers), so it is not difficult to maintain cleanliness,” in a not-so-subtle hint at the gendered nature of factory work and reproductive labor.
Anonymous Sessions - Chamber II: Interview with The Syndicate -
…so narrow is the thought, that it chops like a blade the one that thinks it. Absolute headlessness, enhanced with idealism, the pride of the beheaded head, and a sort of arcane heritage that makes every innovation a repetition of stasis. (DNS p. 10). If the body without organs speaks primeval sounds of earthly sorrows and desires, the head without body murmurs hushed words that are alien to this world. (p. 12).
Drift: A review of The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner -
Rachel Kushner published her first novel Telex from Cuba only 10 years ago. In the years since, Kushner has garnered an impressive reputation in America literature through her penetrating prose that does not so much as search for subjects of scrutiny but scrutinises everything it contains. Kushner’s fiction is admirably capacious and speaks of a writer with ambitions not only of her own but also about and around the scope of fiction itself.
Scorpio Rising: Gothic Hybridity and the Occult - A Discussion Between Laura Joyce and James Pate -
In the late summer of 2017, Johannes Göransson suggested that James Pate and Laura Joyce interview each other about their work. As co-director of Action Books (along with Joyelle McSweeney), and Montevidayo.com, Johannes has supported both James and Laura by publishing and championing their work. He felt that they both had similar critical and creative interests, and that this would lead to a fruitful discussion.
Letter to the Author of the Letter to the Father -
Letter to the Author of the Letter to the Father, the debut short fiction collection by 3:AM Magazine co-editor-in-chief Tristan Foster, is forthcoming from Melbourne-based publisher Transmission Press. Astrologers and mandarins. Delhi and Parramatta, Byzantium and Cappadocia. The texts in this collection hunt down the lost and the dead, tracing their paths from small apartments in the suburbs of Sydney to Malpensa Airport in Milan, bearing witness to what they get up to when our backs are turned.
- The Collagist - The Collagist
In one of the pieces near the end of Tristan Foster's début collection, there's a guest appearance by the late John Berger.
Impossible Friends
In The Art of the Publisher, Roberto Calasso writes: ‘Literature loses all of its magic unless there’s an element of impossibility concealed deep within it.’ O Roberto! How cute he is with his quaint ideas—I want to pinch his cheek. Who talks of the impossible and magic anymore, let alone tucking it deep within literature? These subjects are not polite dinner party conversation—I wonder if they ever were.
Binding Cartesianism(s): on Anne Boyer's A Handbook of Disappointed Fate -
At its very best, interrogative writing can be angry and unapologetic, bypassing our beliefs and picking at our sensibilities because it couldn’t care less. Anne Boyer’s latest collection of essays, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate inflicts writing that perfects its own oppositions and rehearses riotous tonalities of no against the mandatory, capitalist yes.
Nicanor Parra, the Alpha-Male Poet
Nicanor Parra died last week at the age of one-hundred and three. Here, David Unger remembers a collaboration with Parra that seemed doomed from the start. Nicanor Parra (Photo: Fundación Iberoamericana) I first began translating the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra in 1973, on the recommendation of Frank MacShane, the professor of my Graduate Translation course at Columbia University.
Staff Picks: Sinners, Slavery, and Shults
Adrienne Kennedy and her son in 1970. Photo: Jack Robinson On Sunday, I’ll be in the audience of Adrienne Kennedy’s latest play, He Brought Her Home in a Box. To prepare for it, I thought I’d revisit a few of the playwright’s earlier works, such as Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Owl Answers, and A Lesson in Dead Language. These one-act plays, along with Kennedy’s interwoven commentary, are bound together in one compendium, The Adrienne Kennedy Reader.
Staff Picks: Sinners, Slavery, and Shults
Adrienne Kennedy and her son in 1970. Photo: Jack Robinson On Sunday, I’ll be in the audience of Adrienne Kennedy’s latest play, He Brought Her Home in a Box. To prepare for it, I thought I’d revisit a few of the playwright’s earlier works, such as Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Owl Answers, and A Lesson in Dead Language. These one-act plays, along with Kennedy’s interwoven commentary, are bound together in one compendium, The Adrienne Kennedy Reader.
Scenes from Gerald Murnane's Golf Club
The Goroke Golf Club in Victoria, Australia. Photo: Tristan Foster The Australian writer Gerald Murnane is a man of profound contradictions. A recluse who craves attention. A Luddite who uses his smartphone to google himself. An author who retired long ago, then went on to produce his richest work. He was recently treated for prostate cancer, and yet he’s still the sprightliest person in the room.
Scenes From Gerald Murnane's Golf Club
The Goroke Golf Club in Victoria, Australia (Photo: Tristan Foster) Australian writer Gerald Murnane is a man of profound contradictions. A recluse who craves attention. A Luddite who uses his smartphone to Google himself. An author who retired long ago then went on to produce his richest work. He was recently treated for prostate cancer, and yet he’s still the sprightliest person in the room.
The indie press interviews 4: Andrew Latimer -
Before the title, or even the author’s name, it’s the design of Little Island Press’s books that catch the eye. The sharp and minimalistic covers, designed by the award-winning studio typographic research unit, are just one way that the UK-based small press is setting itself apart in a burgeoning independent publishing scene.
Coast of Utopia: Star Trek: Discovery's odd future -
From its opening moments, there’s something off about Star Trek: Discovery, the seventh series in the long-running franchise. As the pilot episode begins, images of the swirling firmament above a dark planet, maybe Qo’noS, dissolve into the black pupil of T’Kuvma, a Klingon warrior. “They are coming,” he incants, “Atom by atom.
Staff changes + Calls for submissions -
Tristan Foster will join 3:AM founder Andrew Gallix and David Winters as a Co-editor in chief. He will continue to accept your reviews and nonfiction submissions. Welcome to Isabella Streffen who joins the team as a Contributing editor. She is now accepting reviews and nonfiction submissions with a focus on art, tactical media, institutional critique, objects and agents, writing art and visual culture. Submit here + follow her on twitter: @minxmarple Poetry editor Steven J.
Vanguard Collectibles: Isabel Waidner’s Gaudy Bauble -
Playing with syntax and polysemy has long been the hallmark of narrative experimentation in a bid to subvert coherence and clear distinctions between various literary genres. In a similar shot, Isabel Waidner’s Gaudy Bauble juggles with dichotomies instead, somehow counterfeiting the ambiguities in the sexual identities we are so keen on wrapping and delivering as unitary, compact versions of ourselves.
The White Review No. 9
This is a review of The White Review No. 9 by Tristan Foster. 1. This is not a review. 2. The White Review, an arts and culture quarterly launched in 2011 and based in London, is the most stylish of literary journals. White pages, white space, hard black type – it is the literary equivalent of an art gallery in the rough end of town, the icy glow of halogen lamps in the gallery's ceiling keeping the grimy street corner lit through the night, moths dinking off the plate glass window. 3.
3:AM / Facebook - 3:AM Magazine
We’ve started to spread the word and so it’s of course worth mentioning here that 3:AM Magazine is back on Facebook. Visit our page, like it, comment, tell us what you think of us, share our content, whatever – do your worst. First posted: Friday, May 5th, 2017. Comments are closed.
Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class -
Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class is crowdfunding on Kickstarter now. In less than three days it has overtaken the halfway mark of Dead Ink’s target. The book asks various working class writers to reflect on aspects of their lived experience as it relates to the UK’s class system. There are 22 essays in total, with contributions from Kit De Waal, Andrew McMillan, Yvonne Singh, Kate Fox, Catherine O’Flynn, Lee Rourke and Sam Mills.
Just a Little Bit Brilliant: Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway - a love story
Posted on March 19, 2013 by Verity La in Verity La Reviews One thing is clear: we live in strange times. The influence of the market has seeped into every facet – every wrinkle – of our existence, leaving the individual spliced and atomised and spliced again. But, if who we are indeed so fragmented, how do we love and be loved back? Forget about connecting with someone else, how do you connect with yourself?
Stupid cultures: on our obsession with Literature
I need to apologise – this is another piece on the death of the novel. On the death of the novel, but also on a fractured, stupefied publishing industry. More than that, it’s a piece on the decline in the public’s investment in literature as a cultural phenomenon. But before I begin, it could be useful to try to offer a definition of what I mean by ‘literature’ here. Zadie Smith characterises it simply as writing that engages with the culture – as opposed to that which doesn’t.
The Obsessions of the Lonely: On death and life and Zero K
I think about death all the time. Every day. I have a muscle ache or an indistinct pain and I think I’m dying. If, on a run, my heart flutters from the effort, I imagine collapsing on the spot and estimate how long it’d be before somebody found me. If I find myself in a discussion about livers or lungs or sickness and disease, I leave the room. If it’s a television show, I turn it off. If it’s online or in a book, I skip ahead to a safe paragraph. I know why.
Selected passages from the diary of P
June 2. Yesterday, right on time, winter lingered at the door, but only today did it shoulder in. … I unfolded a sheet of drafting paper and used the palm of my hand to smooth out the fold-lines and creases. With a brown pencil I sketched a chair. Only a chair. June 3. Wood comes from trees come from soil. Soil comes from stones that for millions of years wind and water buffeted and broke down as tides rose and receded.
The Invention of the Word “Serendipity”
Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in a letter to another Horace—Mann—dated January 28, 1754. The occasion was pretty unremarkable—it was a happy accident, after all—and almost archetypally British: Walpole had used a talisman to discover a link between two families by investigating their coats of arms in an old book.
A History of the Quaalude, Jordan Belfort's Drug of Choice
When Jordan Belfort—played by Leonardo DiCaprio in a truly masterful moment of full-body acting—wrenches himself from the steps of a country club into a white Lamborghini that he drives to his mansion, moviegoers, having already watched some two hours of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, are meant to be horrified. His addiction to quaaludes (and money, and cocaine, and sex, and giving motivational speeches) has rendered him not just a metaphorical monster but a literal one.
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