Analysis, surveys, Reports - August 2025 to December 2025

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Information Week - Executives and Employees Aren’t on the Same Page With AI

But if you dig deeper, cracks begin to show. Only 32% of learning and development respondents believe their current training programs are effectively closing verified skills gaps. When you ask employees for their view, the confidence drops off a cliff.

AI

Dark Reading - SIEMs: Dying a Slow Death or Poised for AI Rebirth?

In a recent online poll, Dark Reading asked readers about the future of security information and event management (SIEM) platforms in security operations. With more than 1,400 responses, 40% said SIEMs should be folded into extended detection and response (XDR) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms or other security tools, while 35% said the product category still has legs as it incorporates AI and modernizes.

Security

Forbes - How ‘Vibe Coding’ Is Creating A New AI Economy

This is the story of the moment. AI is redefining entrepreneurship, allowing people with a vision and cultural understanding — but not necessarily computer-science degrees — to ship platform-level products. But questions are mounting: Can this new model of entrepreneurship scale beyond prototype success without deeper engineering muscle?

AI

SiliconANGLE - Cloud breaches and identity hacks explode in CrowdStrike’s latest threat report

Headlining the report was a finding that interactive intrusions rose 27% year-over-year between July 2024 and June 2025, with a highly surprising 81% of attacks found to be malware-free. CrowdStrike said the shift away from leading with malware signals a move toward stealthier techniques such as credential abuse, lateral movement and defense evasion.

Security

ITPro Today - The Resilience Paradox: Why 90% of IT Teams Overestimate Their Operational Readiness

Confidence vs. Reality Gap: 90% of IT professionals describe their organizations as resilient, yet fewer than half feel confident handling core challenges like BYOD policies (26%), AI integration (38%), and remote workforce management (45%).

IT Management

InfoWorld - Dedicated servers outpace public clouds for AI

The core promise of the public cloud—“pay only for what you use”—can become a double-edged sword for AI. High-performance AI systems rely on specialized hardware, such as Nvidia GPUs or TPUs, which are costly to rent and often underutilized without continuous workload optimization. Furthermore, many AI tasks require scaling across fleets of compute instances, a process that generates additional expenses for network traffic, storage retrieval, and latency reduction.

Cloud

Computerworld - Apple’s results show the Windows-to-Mac switch is happening

It seems clear the forced need to upgrade Windows is motivating many business users to move to the Mac instead. This trend has been ongoing for some time, but seems to have become even more apparent in recent months — Apple’s most recent quarterly financial call confirmed double-digit growth in Mac sales during Q3 ’25.

IT Management

ZDNet - Anthropic beats OpenAI as the top LLM provider for business - and it's not even close

In other words, Menlo Ventures has billions of reasons to praise Anthropic. That said, others also view Anthropic as the top enterprise AI company. As AI Magazine put it, "Anthropic has established itself as the premier enterprise AI company through its Claude family of LLMs, achieving remarkable 1,000% year-over-year growth to reach $3 billion in annual recurring revenue." Even by hyper-aggressive AI standards, that's real growth.  

LLM

Information Week - 2026 Budgets: What’s on Top of CIOs’ Lists (and What Should Be)

So much competitive advantage is going to whether or not you have full-stack engineering capability with cyber and cloud AI embedded. “Have you invested in tooling and platforms, so your teams don't have to do everything from environments and pre-configured cloud hosting to the tool chain for your full CI/CD?” Briggs asks.

IT Management