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Arctiq Named to CRN Solution Provider 500 List For 2026

Arctiq — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:34:50 GMT

For the 15^th Consecutive Year, Arctiq Has Been Honored as a Leading Solution Provider

NASHVILLE, TN — [June 9, 2026] — Arctiq, a leading provider of professional IT solutions and managed services, today announced that CRN^®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized the company on the 2026 CRN Solution Provider 500 list for the 15^th consecutive year running.

Agentic Remediation Gets Dangerous When Agents Decide Production Fixes

Arctiq — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:45:59 GMT

Article Highlights:

Modern enterprise environments are easier to automate in some ways, but harder to reason about when production issues happen.
The best remediation candidates are common, configuration-controlled issues such as memory pressure, heap sizing, or connection pool limits.
Agentic remediation gets risky when an agent interprets intent, decides the fix, and acts within the access it was given.
The safer model uses Dynatrace to detect anomalies, Ansible to validate and run defined jobs, and humans to approve production-impacting changes.

Attackers Now Move in Hours. Most Organizations Still Patch in Weeks.

Rob Steele — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:38:20 GMT

Rubrik just joined a select Anthropic security program. The headline is not the real story. What it tells us about where cyber risk is heading, and why protecting and recovering your data now matters more than ever, is what every executive should be watching.

This week, Rubrik announced it had been granted access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos Research Preview as part of Project Glasswing, a program Anthropic opens only to invited organizations that build critical software. Rubrik is using this frontier AI defensively, pointing it at its own platform to find and fix vulnerabilities before anyone else can.

Tokens Are Becoming a Line Item: What Dell Technologies World 2026 Means for Your Business

Rob Steele — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:56:46 GMT

There was a moment during the Dell Technologies World 2026 keynote this year when a single sentence went up on the screen and the room went quiet.

"Tokens are about to be a line item in your P&L."

If you have spent the last two years treating AI as an experiment, a lab project, or a budget line labeled "innovation," that sentence should land the same way it landed in that room. AI is no longer a thing the enterprise is exploring. It is becoming a thing the enterprise operates, pays for monthly, and reports on. That shift, from experiment to operating cost, is the real story of the week, and it changes how leadership should be planning right now.

I spent last week in Las Vegas, and I want to give you the executive level recap: what Dell argued, what Dell actually shipped, and how I think you should position your own initiatives around it.

Key Takeaways

• AI is no longer a lab project. It is becoming a monthly operating cost, and the companies still treating it as an experiment are already behind.

• Token consumption climbed roughly tenfold in the past year. Someone in your organization needs to own AI consumption as a managed, forecastable cost before the invoice arrives.

• Dell Private Cloud now supports VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat, and Azure Local on one hardware foundation. The VMware decision is a choice, not a crisis.

• Every weakness in your data estate becomes more visible and more expensive the moment AI touches it. The data foundation is the prerequisite, not a competing priority.

Is Kubernetes Still the Right Bet for Infrastructure Agility Over the Next Decade?

Derrick Sutherland — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:01:33 GMT

For most organizations, the VMware to Kubernetes migration decision is already made. The question now is not whether to move. It is how to build the infrastructure that replaces it without repeating the same mistake.

How do you build infrastructure that will still serve you 10 years from now, one that is agile enough not to get trapped in the same problem again?

In the full picture, year one is not cheaper. You pay to set up, migrate, refactor, and train. Break-even might come three to five years later, and even then, you are still paying in engineering time to keep systems stable and learn the new stack. Then renewals hit. And costs rise again.

Freedom comes from infrastructure agility. If that is the goal, is Kubernetes the open standard worth betting on? Has it proven it is here to stay? And if it has, who is the right partner to start with?

Navigating a Breach Blind: Responding to a Cyber Incident Without a SIEM or Proper Logs

Tim Tipton — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:04:54 GMT

There’s a certain panic that sets in when you pick up the phone and hear, “We think you might have been breached, can you take a look?” After doing this for as long as I have, I’ve learned to stay calm and methodical. But there’s one scenario that still sends a chill down my spine: arriving at a client site and discovering they have no central security information and event management (SIEM) platform and a motley collection of logs scattered across servers, clouds and applications. It's like stepping onto a crime scene and realizing the surveillance cameras were never turned on.

Four Arctiq Leaders Spotlighted on the 2026 CRN Women of the Channel List

Arctiq — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:02:09 GMT

Honorees drive innovation and deliver meaningful outcomes for customers across marketing, partnerships, and managed services

[Nashville, TN – May 4, 2026] – Arctiq, a leading provider of professional IT solutions and managed services, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized four of Arctiq’s channel leaders on the prestigious Women of the Channel list for 2026, with three named to the prestigious Power 80 Solution Provider subset.

AI Success Isn’t Just About Data

David Lavin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:54:23 GMT

A Reasonable Assumption That Leads Somewhere Wrong

“Data is the raw material for AI.” If you’ve been working with AI over the last several years, you’ve likely heard some form of that statement. And many companies, when first planning out how to apply AI to their business, often look to their data team first.

It can seem logical to place AI ownership within the data function. After all, AI models are trained on data. Data teams (hopefully) understand how to store, structure, move, and govern the data within the organization. When the board asks who should drive the company's AI strategy, the data organization looks like a natural fit. And so it’s common to see a “Data & AI” label on organizational designs.

Arctiq Named Red Hat Specialized Partner for Server and Cloud Operating System

Arctiq — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:40:42 GMT

Arctiq achieves four Red Hat specializations, following Shadow-Soft acquisition that expands expertise and delivery across North America

[Nashville, TN] — [April 23, 2026] — Arctiq, a leading provider of professional IT solutions and managed services, today announced it has achieved Red Hat Specialized Partner status for Server and Cloud Operating System in North America, becoming the first partner to earn this designation in the region. The achievement highlights Arctiq’s depth of expertise across Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud portfolio with four Red Hat specializations.

Implementing Zero‑Trust Architectures in Hybrid and Cloud Environments

Tim Tipton — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:27:11 GMT

In my previous blog post, I explored how attackers no longer break in, they log in, using valid credentials and identities to move through environments undetected.

If identity is now the primary attack vector, then traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient.

Attackers no longer “storm the perimeter” because there is no single perimeter. Employees and contractors work from home, branch offices and public clouds, while business processes span SaaS platforms and operational‑technology (OT) networks.

Traditional perimeter-based approaches break down as organizations adopt cloud services, remote work, and hybrid IT environments, making it increasingly difficult to define or enforce a single network boundary.

Lateral movement inside flat networks lets adversaries pivot from a single compromised endpoint to high‑value systems. Zero‑trust architecture (ZTA) replaces implicit trust with continuous verification for users, devices and sessions. It treats every access request as untrusted, re‑evaluating the session whenever risk factors change.

Federal policy has accelerated adoption; the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Memorandum M‑22‑09 established a government‑wide zero‑trust strategy, influencing state and local procurement requirements and cyber‑security questionnaires. The result is that ZTA is no longer an optional best practice; it is becoming a regulatory requirement for public‑sector bodies and a contractual expectation for private suppliers.