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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Application Development, Cloud-Native, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering

CNCF Launches Cloud-Native Certification as Ecosystem Expands to 15 Vendor-Neutral Credentials

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
CNCF introduces the CNPE practical exam and CKNE networking certification, expanding its vendor-neutral cloud-native portfolio to 15 credentials for practitioners.... Read more.
Cosmonic Addresses AI Agent Security with WasmCloud 2.0 Kubernetes Integration
Application Development, Cloud-Native, Containerization, DevOps, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Kubernetes, Open Source, Software Development, WebAssembly (Wasm)

Cosmonic Addresses AI Agent Security with WasmCloud 2.0 Kubernetes Integration 

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Cosmonic launches WasmCloud 2.0 with Kubernetes integration and WebAssembly sandboxing to secure AI agent workflows and enable new stateful Wasm capabilities.... Read more.
AI, Application Development, Application Security, Authentication, DevSecOps, Governance, Infrastructure, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Security

AuthZed Positions SpiceDB Enterprise Authorization for AI Agent Security 

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
AuthZed positions SpiceDB for enterprise-grade AI agent authorization, treating agents as non-human identities to deliver fine-grained security and governance at... Read more.
Cloudsmith Provides A Security-First Artifact Management Messaging
AI, Application Development, Application Security, DevOps, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

Cloudsmith Provides A Security-First Artifact Management Messaging 

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Cloudsmith pivots to security-first artifact management, adds an ML registry for AI supply chain protection, and differentiates on reliability, pricing, and enterprise... Read more.
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Cloud-Native, Infrastructure, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

Yugabyte Positions Cloud-Native Postgres for AI Iterative Development 

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Yugabyte positions its cloud-native Postgres platform for AI iteration, API consolidation, and multi-cloud resilience, enabling rapid change and unified data operations.... Read more.
AI, Application Development, FinOps, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Kubernetes

Google GKE Evolves for Agentic AI Workloads with Inference Quick Start 

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Google upgrades GKE for agentic AI workloads and launches Inference Quick Start to help developers benchmark models, manage costs, and choose the right AI starting... Read more.
Application Development, Cloud-Native, Data Management, Data Protection, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Open Source

Percona Delivers Open-Source Transparent Data Encryption for Postgres

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Percona launches fully open-source TDE for Postgres, enabling PCI-compliant data-at-rest encryption without enterprise licensing and with optional support.... Read more.
Nirmata Launches AI Platform Engineering Assistant for Policy Automation
AI, Application Development, Application Security, DevOps, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering

Nirmata Launches AI Platform Engineering Assistant for Policy Automation

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Nirmata launches an AI Platform Engineering Assistant to automate policy remediation, ticket resolution, and reporting, reducing workload for platform engineering... Read more.
AI, Application Development, Cloud-Native, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Kubernetes

Union AI Positions Flyte V2 as Unified Platform for Agentic AI Production Deployment

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Union AI positions Flyte V2 as a unified, Kubernetes-native platform for deploying agentic AI with enterprise durability, governance, and reduced operational friction.... Read more.
Teleport Launches Visual RBAC and AI Investigation Tools as Security Responsibility Shifts to Engineering
AI, Application Development, Application Security, DevSecOps, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

Teleport Launches Visual RBAC and AI Investigation Tools as Security Responsibility Shifts to Engineering

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0
Teleport launches visual RBAC and AI investigation tools for Kubernetes, reflecting a broader shift of security responsibility from CISOs to engineering teams.... Read more.