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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RapidFort + CrowdStrike: Closing the Container Vulnerability Gap
Application Development, Cloud, Cyber Security, DevSecOps

RapidFort + CrowdStrike: Closing the Container Vulnerability Gap

RapidFort's new integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security targets the gap between vulnerability detection and remediation in Kubernetes environments. By... Read more.
Dalet IBC2026: Agentic AI With Built-In Media Governance
AI, Application Development, Automation, Enterprise Software

Dalet IBC2026: Agentic AI With Built-In Media Governance

Dalet is using IBC2026 to announce agentic AI expansions across Dalet Flex, Dalet Pyramid, and its Dalia platform, with governance and identity controls at the center... Read more.
Echo Acquires Minimus: Secure-by-Default Market Consolidates
Application Development, Cloud, Infrastructure, Marketing Strategy, Security

Echo Acquires Minimus: Secure-by-Default Market Consolidates

Echo has acquired key technology assets from Minimus, positioning itself as the first distro-agnostic, secure-by-default software platform. The deal signals market... Read more.
Mirantis k0rdent Certified for High-Performance GPU Virtualization
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Enterprise IT Strategy, Infrastructure

Mirantis k0rdent Certified for High-Performance GPU Virtualization

Mirantis has earned NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisors program validation for its k0rdent AI platform, demonstrating GPU virtualization performance within 5% of bare metal... Read more.
AI Budget Accountability: FinOps, Tokenomics, and the Governance Gap
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Enterprise IT Strategy, FinOps

AI Budget Accountability: FinOps, Tokenomics, and the Governance Gap

AI spend is materializing faster than the governance frameworks needed to manage it. The FinOps Foundation's August content cluster addresses the convergence of... Read more.
Everpure Q2 2027: Data Primacy and the Agentic Storage Bet
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Infrastructure, Machine Learning

Everpure Q2 2027: Data Primacy and the Agentic Storage Bet

Everpure reported record Q2 revenue of $1.2 billion, up 38% year-over-year, backed by back-to-back hyperscaler design wins and a new Data Primacy architecture aimed... Read more.
AI A/B Testing: Why Nondeterminism Changes Everything
AI, Application Development, DevOps, Machine Learning, Platform Engineering, Software Development

AI A/B Testing: Why Nondeterminism Changes Everything

Generative AI breaks the foundational assumptions of traditional A/B testing, but Pearl EVP Rob Ellison argues that nondeterminism creates new experimental surface... Read more.
Lumen Expands Multi-Cloud Gateway to 10M+ Business Locations
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Infrastructure

Lumen Expands Multi-Cloud Gateway to 10M+ Business Locations

Lumen Technologies has expanded its Multi-Cloud Gateway service to cover more than 10 million U.S. business locations, extending consistent private cloud networking... Read more.
AI Risk Governance Drives CISO Confidence, Not Controls
AI, Application Development, Enterprise IT Strategy, Security

AI Risk Governance Drives CISO Confidence, Not Controls

IANS and Artico Search surveyed 113 CISOs to identify what separates those confident in managing AI risk from those who are not. The answer is organizational readiness,... Read more.