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Let’s be real for a second: your CTO is probably brilliant, strategic, and maybe even a little fun in meetings. But when it comes to staying cool? That’s where the data center needs to step up. Because as AI workloads explode, heat is becoming the silent enemy of performance, efficiency, and growth.

Imagine you run a customer-facing service that’s split between on-prem servers and a public cloud. One morning, after a routine patch, the app crashed. Your team scrambles through three different consoles (on-premises virtualization, on-premises backup, Hyperscaler console) to find the latest ...

CRN® Spotlights the Top IT Channel Providers for Outstanding Performance and Growth

For decades, the web content model was simple: publishers provided content, search engines indexed it, and users were expected to visit the original site to reach the content they were looking for. Exceptions to this rule – where publishers felt that other companies were exploiting their content ...

We’ve spent decades trying to build our security systems like medieval fortresses: stone walls, perimeter moats, guards on the parapets. But the threats, like the world they thrive in, have outgrown that model. They’re not storming gates anymore; they’re finding cracks in your foundations, hiding ...

Strategic Move Enhances National Reach, Supports Executive Engagement, and Accelerates Growth in Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure Services

Arctiq, a leading North American provider of cloud, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure solutions, is proud to share that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Arctiq as a finalist in the first-ever CRN Best of the Channel Awards in the Best Solution Provider of the Year category, ...

Picture this: somewhere inside your SOC’s telemetry is a breach that both exists and doesn’t, until you decide to look at it. It’s the cyber equivalent of Schrödinger’s Cat: alive and dead in the logs, living in the ambiguity between “false positive” and “missed detection.”

The quiet hum of business as usual is the most deceptive thing about the cybersecurity risk landscape right now. If you glance at breach headlines this past quarter, you might shrug off the risk climate as more of the same. Misconfigured cloud buckets? Old news. Credential phishing? Same old song. ...

This post was originally published on Google Cloud Security Community on June 9th, 2025. You can find the original version here.

Let’s be honest: most compliance conversations are so repetitive you could finish them in your sleep. NYDFS? 72-hour breach reporting. SEC? Four-day disclosure. CMMC? Control this, assess that, supply chain everything. These surface-level discussions aren’t wrong; they’re just not enough.

Last month, I sat across from a CTO who'd just received a $2.8 million quarterly cloud bill. His face told the whole story before he even opened his mouth. "We're processing the same amount of data we were three years ago," he said, sliding the invoice across the table. "But somehow our costs have ...