Reading Time: 5 minutes In brief: SHI has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Asset Management Managed Services for the first time. We believe AI is changing what organizations need from SAM. But, as AI costs are set across the whole technology stack, SAM can’t manage them alone. This post…
Reading Time: 9 minutes In brief: SHI Fall Summit 2026 focused on applying defense in depth to build resilience as technology and threats evolve. Learn how reducing blind spots across AI investments, data, agents, third-party dependencies, and security exposures can help you make better decisions and respond quickly when something gets through. Security leadership isn’t…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In brief: AI-ready storage is no longer just about capacity. Organizations need storage platforms that discover, classify, and contextualize data so it can be trusted, governed, and used effectively by AI systems. For some time, buying data storage centered on common requirements: capacity, performance, availability, and cost. Organizations needed storage space…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In brief: This VMware cost optimization guide helps you evaluate your virtualization environment before you migrate. It helps you assess your existing assets before you make costly decisions. This guide helps you make the most of your current resources as you migrate from vSphere to…
AI cost and value management: Why the conversation is changing For the past two years, many organizations have focused on getting AI into the hands of employees as quickly as possible. Pilots have become production workloads. Individual use cases have expanded into enterprise-wide initiatives. What started as experimentation is increasingly becoming operational reality. As adoption…
Reading Time: 8 minutes In brief: Threat actors are abusing the trust organizations place in the software, services, and tools they rely on. That trust now reaches AI agents, open-source components, and fourth parties, areas that traditional third-party risk management programs weren’t designed for. Learn how to build continuous visibility into these dependencies, with practical…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In brief: AI’s growing electricity demand makes infrastructure choices harder to ignore. Responsible AI infrastructure starts by matching each workload to the right environment, then managing utilization, location, supplier accountability, cost, and business value so organizations can justify both the outcome and the footprint. AI’s infrastructure footprint is becoming harder to…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In brief: AI observability is becoming the foundation of trustworthy AI. As organizations move AI into production, they need visibility into model behavior, security risks, governance controls, performance, and costs. Splunk helps organizations monitor, govern, and secure AI systems while connecting AI outcomes to business value. Imagine an AI-powered customer service…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In brief: Artificial intelligence is transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Learn how to use NIST CSF 2.0 to adapt your defense-in-depth strategy, strengthen resilience, and securely adopt AI. Every great defensive coordinator studies the opponent and adjusts before kickoff. But what happens when the opposing team can analyze every…
Reading Time: 6 minutes In brief: AI is making its way into everyday decisions, workflows, and budgets. The challenge for leaders is how to adopt AI responsibly. Five questions can expose the gaps: Do you know where teams use AI? Who owns the outcomes? Are your employees AI literate? How will you prove its value?…
