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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Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05: One Model for K8s, VMs, and LB
Application Development, Cloud, Compliance, Platform Engineering, Security

Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05: One Model for K8s, VMs, and LB

Isovalent's 26.05 release promotes VM networking to GA, introduces shared load balancing for tenant clusters, and advances Hubble Timescape as a policy authoring... Read more.
PDQ Summer 2026: Endpoint Management Consolidation Arrives
Application Development, Enterprise IT Strategy

Endpoint Management Consolidation Arrives with PDQ

PDQ's summer 2026 update adds macOS Package Library support, Windows update visibility, one-click reboots, and a new insights dashboard. ECI Research analysts examine... Read more.
AI Agent Memory Governance: The Debt Enterprises Are Ignoring
Agentic AI, AI Governance, Application Development, Security

AI Agent Memory Governance: The Debt Enterprises Are Ignoring

As AI agents move from stateless tools to systems with persistent memory, enterprises are accumulating context and action histories with no governance infrastructure... Read more.
AI Translation at Events Is Becoming a Content Engine | ECI Research
AI, Application Development, Automation, Enterprise Applications

AI Translation at Events Is Becoming a Content Engine | ECI Research

Wordly's 2026 State of AI Translation & Captions report reveals a major shift: enterprise event leaders no longer want AI just for live interpretation. They want... Read more.
Google Cloud Agentic AI: From Pilots to Production in 2026
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning

Google Cloud Agentic AI: From Pilots to Production in 2026

Google Cloud's June 2026 newsletter reveals enterprise customers moving agentic AI from proof of concept to measurable production outcomes across healthcare, retail,... Read more.
NVIDIA's Agentic AI Platform Push: What Enterprise Leaders Must Know
AI, Application Development, DevOps, Infrastructure

NVIDIA’s Agentic AI Platform Push: What Enterprise Leaders Must Know

NVIDIA's June 2026 newsletter signals a decisive shift from GPU supplier to full-stack agentic AI platform provider. From BioNeMo to Halos to a unified Microsoft... Read more.
Cycloid's Sovereign IDP: Exit-by-Design for Regulated Enterprises
Application Development, Cloud, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering

Cycloid’s Sovereign IDP: Exit-by-Design for Regulated Enterprises

Cycloid has published a reference architecture for sovereign Internal Developer Platforms built around an exit-by-design philosophy. The report argues that data... Read more.
Cisco Live 2026: Agentic AI Security and the WideField Bet
AI, Application Development, Automation, Security

Cisco Live 2026: Agentic AI Security and the WideField Bet

Cisco used Cisco Live US 2026 to announce the acquisition of WideField Security, expanding Splunk's Agentic SOC with non-human identity intelligence. Combined with... Read more.
Mirantis k0rdent AI: Future-Proofing NVIDIA Infrastructure
AI, Application Development, Cloud-Native, Enterprise IT Strategy, Infrastructure

Mirantis k0rdent AI: Future-Proofing NVIDIA Infrastructure

Mirantis has announced that its k0rdent AI platform provides day-zero support for NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and forward-declared readiness for Vera Rubin. The announcement... Read more.