Samantha Weston

Author: Samantha Weston

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  • With over 15 years of hands-on experience in operations roles across legal, financial, and technology sectors, Sam Weston brings deep expertise in the systems that power modern enterprises such as ERP, CRM, HCM, CX, and beyond. Her career has spanned the full spectrum of enterprise applications, from optimizing business processes and managing platforms to leading digital transformation initiatives.

    Sam has transitioned her expertise into the analyst arena, focusing on enterprise applications and the evolving role they play in business productivity and transformation. She provides independent insights that bridge technology capabilities with business outcomes, helping organizations and vendors alike navigate a changing enterprise software landscape.

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HPE Self-Driving Networks: Agentic AIOps Arrives at Scale
AI, Application Development, Enterprise IT Strategy, Networking

HPE Self-Driving Networks: Agentic AIOps Arrives at Scale

HPE has announced production-grade autonomous networking capabilities across its HPE Mist and HPE Aruba Central platforms, claiming the industry's first fully agentic... Read more.
Airbyte Agents: Context Infrastructure for Production AI Agents
AI, Application Development, Data Analytics, Enterprise Software

Airbyte Agents: Context Infrastructure for Production AI Agents

Airbyte has launched Airbyte Agents, a context infrastructure layer that pre-replicates enterprise data into a unified, search-optimized index before AI agents run.... Read more.
Industrial Data Sovereignty: When Conflict Zones Put Your Data at Risk
Application Development, Cloud, Data Management, Enterprise IT Strategy

Industrial Data Sovereignty: When Conflict Zones Put Your Data at Risk

Geopolitical tensions are exposing a critical flaw in enterprise data sovereignty strategies: existing frameworks were built for regulatory compliance, not wartime... Read more.
VCF 9.1: Broadcom Bets on Private AI Infrastructure
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Kubernetes

VCF 9.1: Broadcom Bets on Private AI Infrastructure

Broadcom has released VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, positioning private cloud as the preferred platform for production AI inference and agentic workloads. The release... Read more.
IREN Acquires Mirantis: AI Cloud Delivery Gets an Operational Layer
AI, Application Development, CloudOps, Infrastructure

IREN Acquires Mirantis: AI Cloud Delivery Gets an Operational Layer

IREN Limited has agreed to acquire Mirantis for approximately $625 million in stock, adding Kubernetes-based orchestration, operational tooling, and enterprise support... Read more.
IBM Think 2026: Sovereign Core and the AI Governance Imperative
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Compliance, Digital Sovereignty, Infrastructure

IBM Think 2026: Sovereign Core and the AI Governance Imperative

At Think 2026, IBM announced general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, a platform embedding compliance and AI governance at the infrastructure runtime level. Alongside... Read more.
Nerdio MSP 7.0: Scaling Microsoft 365 Management at Scale
Application Development, Cloud, Managed Services

Nerdio MSP 7.0: Scaling Microsoft 365 Management at Scale

Nerdio has launched Manager for MSP 7.0 alongside triple-digit MSP user base growth, with Microsoft 365 users surging 300% year-over-year. The release adds PSA integrations,... Read more.
Azure Integrated HSM: Open-Source Cloud Security at Silicon Level
Application Development, Cloud, Compliance, Enterprise IT Strategy, Security

Azure Integrated HSM: Open-Source Cloud Security at Silicon Level

Microsoft has integrated a tamper-resistant hardware security module into every new Azure server and open-sourced the firmware through the Open Compute Project.... Read more.
Cielara Code: AI Coding Agent Accuracy Beyond Claude & OpenAI
AI, Application Development, DevOps, Enterprise Software

Cielara Code: AI Coding Agent Accuracy Beyond Claude & OpenAI

Causal Dynamics Lab has released Cielara Code, an AI coding agent layer that beats both Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on code localization benchmarks. The product... Read more.