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Intellyx Cortex for February 26, 2026. Eric digs into the year-long agentic AI discussion. Are agents always autonomous? With content for Auguria, Boomi, Broadcom, Conviva, and Teleport, plus news & events.
Sometimes, disruptive new technologies can make our systems and applications more resilient and future-proof against unexpected change. With Adaptive ML, Airrived, BeyondTrucks, Congruity360, Cyware, Heaan, Netarx, Next Pathway, Oteligence, Skene, Squalify, Tauth, Tetrate, ThreatModeler.
JE discusses repositioning Intellyx as the change agent analysts. While digital transformation never really ends, we're just not talking about it that much anymore. Plus, new content for Auguria and BMC Helix, plus news and events.
New year, new innovative tech briefs for our research readers. With Blue Yonder, Coder, ShardSecure, Salesforce Agentforce, Straiker, Token Security.
Jason takes down JE's 2025 predictions and spills next year's. No surprise, there's AI, but some new plot twists. Plus, content for Aviatrix and Wavelo, news and events. Share with your peers and friends, they can subscribe to Cortex/BrainCandy newsletters for free.
In our last Brain Candy News of the year, check out this last batch of digital disruptors, and and congrats to all the Winter winners of the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award!
Once again a blockbuster, or, "kube-buster" sized Intellyx Brain Candy newsletter full of disruptive vendors from KubeCon NA 2025 and beyond. Want to appear in an upcoming #BrainCandy brief with Intellyx B.V., or invite us to your upcoming (virtual) event? Email us at pr@intellyx.com.
JE tries to make AI agents feel at home through the AR Department bureaucracy, plus new Intellyx Advisory packages, and content for Arrcus, Aviatrix, BMC, and Wavelo, plus a new Agenit AI Testing story in SiliconANGLE and upcoming events.
Our late October Intellyx Brain Candy Newsletter would be a great place to try out some more Halloween candy-related puns. But we're not suckers for that. Want to appear in an upcoming #BrainCandy brief with Intellyx B.V., or invite us to your upcoming (virtual) event? Email us at pr@intellyx.com.
Jason gives our readers tips for avoiding AI transformation pitfalls, plus content for Cockroach, Crogl and Verimatrix, and upcoming events. Share with your peers and friends, they can subscribe to Cortex/BrainCandy newsletters for free.
Lots of completely fresh vendors here, including a batch of media, mobile, and communications tech from the recent IBC conference.
Eric ponders how developers and product managers interact with GenAI coding and agents, plus content for Crogl, Globalgig, Mezmo, NETSCOUT, Tines, Verimatrix, events & news. Share with your peers and friends, they can subscribe to Cortex/BrainCandy newsletters for free.
Whether you are a startup or a mature enterprise software vendor, it's good to have a cool name, but it's even more important to have cool and useful technology that solves critical business problems. Want to appear in an upcoming #BrainCandy brief with Intellyx B.V., or invite us to your upcoming (virtual) event? Email us at pr@intellyx.com.
JE introduces our new AI Brain Chat for novelty purposes only, plus content for Akka, BMC, Zoho, events & news.
The person who titled the previous BrainSausages News has been sacked, because that's what the AI deems reasonable. As we ride out July, check out these excellent startups and leading enterprise software vendors with new products.
Jason takes us to the future point of AI agents, plus new content for BMC, Cockroach DB, Nebius, SmartBear and Tines, plus a killer Rocket Software webinar, events & news.
Summer briefing season has produced an excellent variety of vendor Brain Candy beyond just AI, mixed into many unique links of little summer BrainSausages -- each one leading to data optimization, networking, identity, security, supply chain, and other things. Just don't ask us how they're made.
Eric opines on the current state of Agentic AI and its many interpretations, plus new content for Conviva, Globalgig, and Zoho, plus Agentic AI and Boomi events & news.
Brain Candy is both hard and soft, sweet and sour. We virtually scan the world to bring you the best bite-sized mind confections from innovative vendors.
JE comes up with a social movement solution for AI-washing, plus RSAC event coverage, plus new content for BMC, Cloud Foundry, Epicor, Juxt, and Verimatrix
Oh boy are we in a bind. We need new AI cybersecurity and development tools to save us from new AI attackers and global technology failures. But there are some possible reprieves in these little brieves, er, briefs.
Jason explores the nightmare world of Shadow AI usage and reports back from KubeCon EU, JE discusses the impact of AI on observability, client content for BMC, Conviva, Mezmo, and Tines
Here we are, showered with an abundance of springtime event season vendor briefs, including a huge batch from Jason from KubeCon EU in London.
Hear about Eric's deep transaction processing experiences and how it has changed today, take our 2025 Cortex Reader Survey, and enjoy content with BMC, Zoho and Appdome
Whew, so many disruptive vendor briefs, including a huge batch from Jason from MWC Conference in Barcelona.
Hear from Jason on the challenges of maintaining state for Agentic AI, take our 2025 Cortex Reader Survey, and enjoy content with Appdome, Rocket Software, Zoho, plus new BrainRiffs podcasts, events & news, and fun.
Celebrating this 200th Brain Candy Newsletter from your favorite independent technology analyst firm. Read disruptive vendor briefs from AppOmni, Fabrix, Graphiant, LambdaTest, Magnify, Monitaur, Splashtop, and Visier.
Eric Newcomer muses on the word and code salad generated by LLMs in today's contentious GenAI space, plus new thought leadership for Chronosphere, JUXT, Hydrolix, Tines, Amberflo
Kicking off 2025 with a few fresh vendor briefs from Bria, Cobalt Iron, Deepchecks, Distributional, NEO, Socket, SWEAR and Vultr.
JE makes his analyst predictions for 2025 and review's Eric's 2024 picks, 2025 Intellyx Digital Innovator award winneers, event reviews from AWS re:Invent and TBM, plus new thought leadership for JUXT, Cloud Foundry, BMC Software, Conviva, GenAI governance, news and more.
Cortex: AI and loneliness, Predictive Analytics, Mainframe & Cloud, Headless eCommerce, Low-Code, OSS supply chain, more.
BrainCandy #182: 20 new Intellyx Vendor Briefs, from Approov to Zetaly and 18 more in between
Cortex: AI Model Collapse, Black Hat event coverage, JE in SD Times, and new content for Nacelle, Evolven, Kasten by Veeam, IBM, Sentry and Tanium. Share Intellyx Cortex with a friend!
BrainCandy #181: Ambiq, AppViewX, LeenaAI, Krista, NETSCOUT, Siometrics, Speakeasy more
Cortex: Database Convergence, Mainframe modernization, Architectural Drift and more
BrainCandy #180: AgilityObjectives, Avantra, BMC, InfluxData, Imply, Masthead Data, Moveworks, Ridecell, Robocorp, Upbound, Wiremock, more
Cortex: Analyzing Analysts, Automated Decisioning, Hadoop Lessons, API Security, ITSM/Ops Dreams, 0day DevSecOps, CloudOps Platform, Risk & Compliance
BrainCandy #179: AppDome, Astera, Chronosphere, CloudFrame, incident.io, ManageEngine, Metomic, Moesif, Noteable, Qrvey, Tines, Velotix
Cortex: CN Platform Engineering, Data Eradication, Attack Surface, Digital Merchandising, CIO security trends, Real-time data, Scaling K8s, more
BrainCandy Briefs #176: Aryaka, Cloudbrink, Gigamon, Inigo, Nstream, VRdirect, Xcitium, Zoho Workplace, more
Cortex: Technical Debt Response, DevOps to DataOps, GraphQL Power, Human-Centric Testing, K8s Scaling Tradeoffs, Bots Attack
BrainCandy Briefs #175: Dig Security, Evolven, Lineaje, Macrometa, Nethopper, Onehouse, Prediktica, Produce8, Virtana, VirtualZ
Cortex: What ChatGPT means for AI, NetOps/SecOps, Risk Management, CN Observability
BrainCandy Briefs Lite #174: Alluxio, Model9, ncScale, OpsMx, that's all
Cortex: Jason's 2023 Predictions and 2022 Retro, Tectonic Zoho story, Cyber Hygiene, AI-based CSR knowledge, more
BC #173: Apptio, Armory, Arrcus, AWS, CloudSaver, Couchbase, Endor Labs, Fermyon, Flexera, Kion, Kubecost, Octopai, Propel, vFunction, more
Cortex: Web3's Crypto-Hangover, Modernization, User Journeys, Zoho Dev Stories, AWS recap, Secury Risk Collab, K8s Multitenancy, CN portability
BC #172: Calamu, Cerby, CIQ, CodeLogic, DCPL, gopaddle, Kyndi, Nacelle, Numurus, Seqera, Sosivio, VAST, Vaultree, more
Cortex: Too Much Automation? Digitizing banking, K8s Guardrails, Codifying, Observability, Mainframe, Kubecon, Mobile-first, Low-code, Tech Debt
BC-XL #171: Cosmonic, Dynatrace, Infobip, Jeli, Keysight, Loko, Mezmo, Nastel, Percona, Selector AI, StackHawk & more
Cortex: AI bias, User Journeys, App Authorization, Workflow Patterns, STE or SRE, Cyber Mainframe, CIAM, Low-code, Fiorano demo
BC-XL #170: Acceldata, Anomali, Cogniteam, Corsair M360, EvolveWare, Graphiant, Knack, Materialize, Shortcut, ThreatModeler, more
Cortex: Balancing Big Data, Monoliths to CN, Conversational AI, Tech debt, Infra Monitoring, Low-Code, VMware Explore, more
BC-XL #169: BLST, Bolster, Deepfence, eG, Finout, Kore.ai, LogRhythm, NETSCOUT, nVisium, Object First, OVHcloud, StorMagic, Stamus, more
When Ideology Bends Technology, Legacy Modernization, Black Hat & BMC & Zoho recaps, Open source permissions
BC #168: Open Systems, Radiant Logic, StarRocks, Tray.io, WEBCON, Zeblok
Service Threat Engineering (out of SRE), GitOps & RPA, CN Authorization, Auto-Modernization, JOBOL, Low-Code
BC #167: 24 Vendors, incl. Amberflo, Atrigam, Baseten, Coherent, DoControl, EdgeIQ, LinearB, Mezmo, Mona, Observe, observIQ, Pointee
The DX Crucible, DataOps, Cloud Native Design, Solution Architects, Progressive Delivery, more
BC #166: Clastix, EPIC iO, HAProxy, Mondoo, NinjaOne, Opsly, Ridge, Stacklet, many more updates
2022 IDI Awards Edition, Crypto Implodes, K8s inflection, hyperautomation, RPA, Edge DCs, Stability Game,
BrainCandy Briefs #165: Avesha, Catalogic, vFunction Update
Cortex: Low-Code assisted DevOps, new modernization, intelligent caching, architect DX secrets, Max App Mod ROI, data mgmt, robots, cloud native
Aeris, CloudFabrix, Confluera, Datadobi, Foundries.io, Rockset, PractiTest, Shoreline, SmartBear, Starmind, Super.AI, Titaniam
Cortex: Is the Metaverse Good for Anything? Design Thinking, Mainframe Off-Ramps, Low-Code, Software Supply Chain, Sensitive Data Workloads, more
AI Dynamics, BrandOps, Calyptia, Census, Cerebra, Charli AI, Gravitee, Iguazio, Infrrd, Imply, Iterate.ai, Jellyfish, Netreo, NETSCOUT, Ori, Permit.io, Rafay, Redpanda, Singulos, StormForge, TackleAI
Design-led CX, Future App Dev, Open Source RPA, Modernize COBOL, Efficient data mgmt, DPA, EDA eBook
BrainCandy #162: Ambiq, Forwrd, Infragistics, Kintaba, Onehouse, Panzura, ValueBlue
Cortex Feb 1: AIOps Will Change IT, Overcome AI Fear, 4 No-Code Shortcuts, App Mod Fails, Observability & SRE
BrainCandy #161: Coalesce, InfluxData, Uground, Multi-App Webinar Tomorrow
Cortex Jan 19: Cryptocalypse Horsemen, App Modernization Fails, RPA Distortion, Supply Chain Disruption
BrainCandy #160: Apica, Cloudify,Cosmonic, Openstream, Sentry, Tigera, UP9, Wirepas
Cortex Dec. 14: Enterprise Metaverse, WSO2 Podcast, Intent-based Automation, Architecture, Real-time Platforms, Beyond APM,
BrainCandy #159: Allstacks, Nylas, Octopai, OpenBots, Toca, Xplenty
Cortex Nov. 30: Crypto Megarug-Pull, RPA Gen2 Uptake, New OutSystems platform, DevSecOps, On-Prem+Edge K8s Installs
BrainCandy #158: CloudNatix, Codefresh, EvolveWare Intellisys, SIOS, Spell, Sysdig, TIE Kinetix
BrainCandy #157: Credo AI, Oxeye, Satori, Verica
Cortex Oct 26: Abstracted CN Endpoints, LC/NC Vid, Splunk .conf21, Low-Code Hole, KubeCon 2021 Stories, Zoho Analytics Brai
Final Intellyx 2021 Digital Innovator Winners & BrainCandy #156: Kentik, Mattermost, Zoho
5 Facebook Outage Lessons, Refactor vs. Lift-and-Shift, UiPath Recap, Low-Code & Cloud Native, How CDOs Integrate
Intellyx BrainCandy #155: Arrcus Connected Edge, Juniper Apstra System, Launchable, Unqork
Cortex: Low-Code Locomotion, Citizen Automation, Thwarted Ransomware, Breaking Down Silos, Positive Incident Culture
Intellyx BrainCandy #153: ABBYY, Alef Edge, ALTR, Aunalytics, Odesso, Tecton, Visier
Cortex: Cryptocurrency's Ponzi-like Long Con, 3 Modern Integration Myths, Cloud Migration's Hidden UX Risk
Intellyx BrainCandy #152: Cleo Update, Speedscale
Tough IT Leaders, Conversation Integration, Rethink Modern Apps, Cloud-Native Thinking, Air Gap Use Cases, Pay Off Technical Debt
BC#150: Appian, Brain, Clubhouse, Couchbase, Dasera, Elevate, Hunters, Screendragon, SPHERE, Tetrate
Cortex News 8/17: Are we there yet? DX Dead Weight, Black Hat Recap, Change Experts, Hidden Testing
BC#149: Appify, Graphite GTC, Krista, Lightspin, Platform9, SingleStore, Traefik Labs
Cortex 8/3: Fight the Coming Latency Wars, On-Prem Air Gap is Back, GitOps & SRE , AutomationOps Whitepaper
BC#148: Applitools, Aparavi, CAST.AI, Honeycomb, HPE, Newgen, Salto, Shamaym, Striim, Visier, TriggerMesh
Cortex 7/20: Real Future of Remote Work, Get Real About Tech Debt, Cyber Protection, Balanced Test Automation
BC#147: BIZZdesign, Capsifi, CAST, Eccentex, Gluware, Kaloom, Pepperdata, Plutora, Propel, Open Systems, Uplogix, Zero
Cortex 7/7: Innoficiency or Effivation? People at the Center of Hyperautomation
BrainCandy #146: Lightrun, MachineMetrics Update, ServiceNow Webinar Tomorrow
Cortex 6/22: Can Cloud-Native Computing Eliminate Technical Debt?
BrainCandy #145: Ataccama, Caspio, Komodor, Lightbend, Neutrinos, Pillir, PlanetScale
Cortex 6/8: Apple’s Product Approach, Citizen Development Truths, Cloud-Native Business Logic, 2021 Innovator Awards
2021 Digital Innovator Awards & BC #144: Alkira, Apollo, Convertigo, Kobiton, PacketFabric, SUSE, Upbound
BrainCandy #143: Auristor, Caveonix, Kasten, Re:infer, Skuid, TruSTAR, Yellowbrick
Cortex 5/11: What's Happening to Low-Code? Cyber Protection Market, Why Broken Business Processes, Webinars
Cortex 4/27: Risk-Fraught AI Future, Broken Biz Processes, Optimize DX w/SLOs, AIOps on Mainframe, Shift-Right Stories
BrainCandy #141: Alluxio, Armo, EdgeQ, Okera, OpsVeda, Pulzze, Snorkel AI, Solace, Vasion
Cortex Apr 13: DX No-Man’s Land, Mainframe Surprises, So-What SLOs, Data Hyper-Protection, Hybrid Integration Platform
BrainCandy #140: Equinix Metal, PatSnap, Robocorp, Smarten Spaces. Tasktop
Cortex Mar. 30: Hollywood AI Constraints, WSO2 CTO Podcast, Valet CI Cloud Optimization, Multi-Access Edge
BrainCandy #138: Buurst, Ephesoft, Flagsmith, DH2i, Haptik, Mobilize.net, Opsani, Unitas Global
Cortex Mar. 16: Unique Transformation Moment, CIO’s Observability View, Mobile Experience DX Imperative, Long Tail IT Backlog
BrainCandy #137: Bridgecrew, Shoreline, SoftIron, Mphasis
Cortex Mar. 2: Shift-Right gets left, Forget SLAs for SLOs, Process Management, Cloud-Native w/Open Source Observability
BrainCandy #136: Sequitur Labs, YouTube Channel, Upcoming Digital Events
Cortex Feb. 17: Process Transformation, Data Visualization & Observability, Jumpstart AIOps, Is ‘hyperautomation’ hype?
BrainCandy #135: Boardwalktech, Catalytic, Chronosphere, Datamatics, GigaSpaces, MariaDB, Model9, OpsMx
Cortex Feb. 2: RPA Eats World, Edge UX, Covid Transformation, VSM Infographic
BrainCandy #134: Octopai update, Zettabytes Roost.io
Cortex Jan. 20: Digital Transcendence Meditation, Composable Business Platform, Observability for All, Modernization
BrainCandy Special Edition: Thinking Back on 2020
Cortex Jan. 5: 2021 Predictions, DevSecOps Risk Mitigation, Legacy Modernization, OpenRAN, Zoho Lo-code Podcast
BrainCandy #132: Bionic, Blaize, ClearBlade, Dataloop, DECENT, FIOS Insight, Hailo, Kintaba, Kubermatic, Lightbits, Nobl9, Trilio
Cortex Dec. 14: Salesforce/Slack merge, DX vs disruption, How work changed, Mature VSM, Observability w/Context
BrainCandy #131: Isovalent, StackRox, Umajin, Virtana
Cortex Dec. 1: Cloud-Native Washing, KubeCon 2020 Hindsight, Enterprise Low-Code Webinar
BrainCandy #130: 1touch.io, Banyan, Garden, Kemp, MayaData, Next Pathway, Nimbella, Sysdig, Tricentis
Cortex Nov. 10: Better Virtues of DX, Understandability, Observability, DDoS, Cyberattacks, Process Orchestration
BrainCandy #129: 1Kosmos, Lightstep, Opsera, Replicated, Silk
Cortex Oct. 27: Intelligent Process Automation & Agility, Operationalize SIEM & SOAR, Software Understandability...
BrainCandy #128: Acceldata, Flexential, Infiot, Netlify, Polyverse, SL...
Cortex Oct. 13: 5G-Enabled Cloud-Native Edge, Data Streaming Tech, Re-Run Runbook, Imbalanced Test Automation...
BrainCandy #127: Catchpoint, CloudFabrix, Refactr, Secondmind, SmartBear, Yugabyte...
Cortex Sept 29: IT Vendor Consolidation (for customers), BPM/Low-Code/AI Transformation...
BrainCandy #126: AlefEdge, ALTR, Circonus, Fiorano, Portshift, SheetKraft, WekaIO
Cortex Sept 15: Practical Wisdom & Satisficing, Meet GitOps, The Role of Automation in Modernization
BrainCandy #125: GT Software, Journey Apps, that's all
Cortex: Cloud-Native Control Plane, Lori Mac Vittie Brainwave, IT Modernization, Robots Coming, Threat Hunting
BrainCandy #124: Ananda Networks, Morpheus, Solo.io, Terbine, TORO Cloud, 42Crunch
Cortex: Software Theory of Constraints & Supply Chain, Cloud-Native Observability, Brainwave CNC Poster Series
BrainCandy #123: CloudBees, Digibee, dotData, E2open, Ivanti, Krista, Postman, ShiftLeft, VirtualZ
Cortex: Enterprise Debt Crisis, Cloud-Native Observability, IBM Power & Cloud, Brainwave CNC Podcasts, Autonomous Teams
It's here! Download the new Intellyx Cloud-Native Computing Poster
Cortex: Cloud-Native Computing Poster is HERE! Podcast, Mainstream Mainframe, Change Awareness, Secure Edge
BrainCandy Briefs #121: Buoyant, Hasura, Hyland, Logz.io, Pinpoint
Cortex 2020.7.7: Software Grudge Match, WAN & Secure Edge, Reopening Offices, Digital Transformation and Process Automation, Autonomous Enterprise
BrainCandy #120: ABBYY, Authenticiti, Diamanti, Fluree & Events
Future-Proof software, Enterprise Self-driving DevOps, Tech saves the PPP, Podcast w/ Mike Kavis, more
BrainCandy #119: CircleCI, Coralogix, KloudGin, NS1, Quick Base, SafeDeploy, Splice Machine, UCBOS, Unqork
Cortex 2020.6.9: BPM Rise or Fall, ThoughtCast Podcast Premiere, Shift-Left PerfTest, Chaos Pops DevOps
BrainCandy Vol. 118: Happeo, Logility, Kobiton, Nrby, Tecton, Vamp, Vantiq
Cortex 2020.5.27: Supply Chain DX, Cloud-Native Migration and Architecture, No-Job Future, Product-Centric Innovation
BrainCandy Vol. 117: Asana, Cumulus, MangoApp, Platform9, Pyze, Rookout, Scalyr, ShuttleOps
5.12: Place IT Bets, AIOps Alert Vortex, Jump Platform Train, DX in Crisis Times, Reinvented Intranet
Vendors featured in BrainCandy Vol. 116: Appvia, Crosser, GeneXus, Nureva
Cortex 2020.9a: Big Data Pandemic, Modernize Now, Process Automation, AI Limits
Issue #115: Blameless, Cockroach Labs, HashiCorp Vault, Magalix, Promethium, Pulumi, Stackery
Cortex 2020.8: Digital Survivor's Guilt, Culture Reinvention, Open Source Dev Risk, Atlassian visit
Intellyx #BrainCandy, Vol. 114 - PlanetScale, Snapt, Stratapp & Events: Securonix, iGrafx
Cortex 2020.7: Double Down on Tech, Low-Code Citizen Dev, KubeCon non-recap
Select BrainCandy Briefs: Biami, BlueFinity, Cato Networks, Pepperdata
A Not-So-Digital World After All
Select BrainCandy Briefs: Lightbend, Lumigo, MobiledgeX, UiPath
By all recent reports, cloud developers are falling in love with serverless computing
How Does Low-Code Fit into the Cloud-Native World?
Select BrainCandy Briefs: Gyrfalcon, Kasada, Nexthink, Stateless
Select BrainCandy Briefs: Appnomic, Delve Security, Elastic, RunSafe Security
Who’ll drive the autonomous self-driving business?
Select BrainCandy Briefs: Confluera, Cyber Armor, DivvyCloud, Excelleo, Infoworks, Kadena, MachineMetrics, Packet, Sentry, Turbot, Weaveworks
Hot or Not? My Cloud-Native Predictions from 2013