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Bringing Clarity to AI: What to Know and Where to Start
Get an inside look at how CNXN Helix Center for Applied AI and Robotics can help you cut through hype, streamline data challenges, and accelerate AI adoption with a secure, scalable approach.
Agentic AI
Move from AI assistance to AI action. Agentic AI can help organizations automate workflows, support decision-making, and improve how teams interact with systems, data, and processes.
Transforming Healthcare Security Operations with AI Automation
Discover how a national healthcare organization implemented an AI-driven security operations center to autonomously triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts.
AI Articles
The Coming Disorder Over Artificial General Intelligence
The race to AGI is about more than who gets there first. Jamal Khan and Robert Muggah examine how AI could reshape work, governance, and the balance of power, and what leaders can do to prepare.
The Model Cannot Be Trusted: Why Zero Trust Was Never Built for AI and What Anthropic's Mythos Means for All of Us
The cybersecurity industry applied its most trusted framework to the one component it cannot verify. Mythos just made the consequences impossible to ignore. Read this article to learn how this marks a turning point for Zero Trust and what comes next.
The Constraint Engine
As the government adopts AI at a breakneck pace, the gap between what AI promises and what it safely delivers grows. Check out this article to learn about the dangers of unchecked growth and what changes need to be made to keep agencies from ungoverned risk, vendor dependency, and more.
The AI Commoditization Wave Is Here
Due diligence in the AI era has never been more critical. Read this article to understand why AI startups built on generic features may struggle to survive and how leaders can build lasting advantage through proprietary data, deep expertise, and smarter use of major AI platforms.
Closing the AI ROI Gap: Why Most Software Engineering Investments Are Missing Half the Story
The landscape of malware analysis has significantly evolved, driven by the increasing sophistication of cyberthreats and the advanced techniques being developed to combat them. Read our article about the key trends shaping the field of malware analysis—highlighting the challenges and innovations for business and cybersecurity leaders.
AI Blog
Stay informed with the latest AI trends, technology updates, customer stories, and practical guidance through the Connection blog. New content is published regularly, providing fresh perspectives on how organizations are applying AI to solve real business challenges.
Connection Community
AI Spending Is the Cloud Problem All Over Again
People are not good at understanding consumption models. We want a price tag. Tell us what something costs and we... Read More
Nov 05, 2026 | By Kevin Paiva
When Intelligence Is No Longer Scarce
For roughly 10,000 years, every economy we built needed human beings to do things. To plant. To build. To calculate,... Read More
Oct 29, 2026 | By Jamal Khan
Introducing PowerStore Elite: Built to Lead...
When everything is changing, your platform can’t stand still In 2026, the only constant is volatility. Predictability is gone, as... Read More
Oct 28, 2026 | By Brian Henderson
Where AI and Quantum Collide: One...
AI and quantum computing are often treated as separate security conversations. AI belongs to today’s threat landscape, where attackers are... Read More
Oct 27, 2026 | By John Chirillo
Microsoft Copilot Is Becoming Agentic: What...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot updates signal a shift from AI assistance to delegated, agent-powered work. For business and IT leaders, the... Read More
Oct 15, 2026 | By Jennifer Delaney
AI Case Studies
See how organizations are applying AI to solve real business challenges and create measurable business value. Explore customer success stories highlighting practical implementations, lessons learned, and outcomes across industries.
National Healthcare Group Purchasing Organization
Discover how Connection helped a large U.S.-based healthcare organization integrate a modern security solution directly into their existing security ecosystem, allowing alerts to be automatically closed, suppressed, or escalated based on verified threat context.
Executive Guides
Gain practical insights through concise executive resources designed to help business and technology leaders better understand today's rapidly evolving AI landscape. From strategic planning and industry trends to emerging technologies and deployment approaches, these guides provide actionable perspectives to help inform your next AI initiative.
Executive Briefs
AI in Higher Education: From Experimentation to Campus-wide Impact
Higher education institutions are under pressure to do more with less while supporting research growth, improving student outcomes, modernizing operations, and protecting increasingly complex digital environments. Explore practical ways to bring AI strategy, infrastructure, and governance together.
Executive Overviews
Turning Security Alerts into Actionable Outcomes
Alert volumes continue to rise, security environments grow more complex, and experienced cybersecurity talent remains difficult to find and retain. AI security operations center (AI SOC) helps address these challenges by automating investigation, enrichment, and triage activities—enabling security teams to investigate more alerts, improve efficiency, and maintain control over critical security decisions.
Automate Work. Empower People.
Move from AI assistance to AI action. Agentic AI can help organizations automate workflows, support decision-making, and improve how teams interact with systems, data, and processes.
Technical Executive Overviews
Dell Pro Max with GB10: AI-in-a-Box with Jumpstart Services
Organizations across every industry are eager to leverage AI—but the traditional path demands multi-million-dollar infrastructure investments, specialized cooling, high-density racks, complex networking, and months of lead time. CNXN Helix’s AI in a Dell Pro Max with GB10 eliminates these barriers to entry.
Turning AI Ambition into Measurable Business Outcomes
The ability to move from idea to working AI solution in days is not just a function of new technology. It is the result of a structured approach that combines pre-defined use cases, proven deployment methodology, and hands-on services. Through CNXN Helix Jumpstart Services, organizations build from a foundation and not the ground floor.
Executive Snapshot
Turning AI into Measurable Business Outcomes
AI can feel hard to launch when teams are unsure where to begin or how to prove it is working. CNXN Helix Jumpstart Services gives organizations a simpler way to test, learn, and grow AI with practical support from the start.
AI Services Flyers
Solution Briefs
Explore concise overviews of our Applied AI Solutions, including Agentic AI, AI-in-a-Box, Vision AI, Microsoft AI Solutions, AI Security Explore concise overviews of our Applied AI Solutions, including Agentic AI, AI-in-a-Box, Vision AI, Microsoft AI Solutions, AI Security Operations Center (AI SOC), and other offerings designed to help organizations accelerate AI adoption with confidence.Operations Center (AI SOC), and other offerings designed to help organizations accelerate AI adoption with confidence.
Unlocking Edge Innovation at Scale
Edge computing places data processing near its source, reducing latency and enabling real-time decision-making for businesses. Download our eBook to learn how your organization can take advantage of edge computing to stay competitive.
AIOps Buyer’s Guide
AIOps represents a paradigm shift in modern IT infrastructure management. To figure out which AIOps platform will be a good match for your organization, it makes sense first to dive into the building blocks and capabilities of AIOps. Download our eBook for an introduction on AIOps, what to consider before investing, and much more.
The Evolving Malicious Software Threat: Latest Trends in Malware Analysis
In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as both a powerful tool for innovation and a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. Read our whitepaper to explore the evolving landscape of malware threats and how AI is reshaping the cybersecurity battlefield.
Building Cyber Resilience: Securing and Managing the Edge
Edge computing—where data is processed at or near its source—is on the rise. Read this eBook for expert advice on managing and securing your edge from design to deployment, so that you can capitalize on the full array of benefits of edge computing while effectively mitigating its risks.
A Practical Guide to Zero Trust Implementation in Multicloud Environments
To protect their revenues and reputations—and ensure they can retain their customers’ trust—organizations of all sizes across industries must shift away from yesterday’s ways of thinking about and implementing cyber defense. Read on to learn why now is the time to deploy a Zero Trust cybersecurity strategy.
Accelerating Edge Rollouts with Automated and Scalable Solutions
As enterprises strive to modernize IT infrastructure and deliver more responsive services, edge computing is emerging as a critical enabler. By decentralizing data processing to locations closer to where data is generated, edge computing supports real-time decision-making, improves operational efficiency, and unlocks innovative new services powered by AI and IoT.
Thought Leadership
Explore perspectives from Connection and CNXN Helix experts on the future of artificial intelligence, business transformation, and emerging technology trends. These resources provide strategic insights designed to help leaders navigate an evolving AI landscape.
From Demo to Production: Four Disciplines for Enterprise AI
Moving AI into production requires organizations to look beyond technical performance and build the discipline needed to deliver sustainable business value. In his new video, From Demo to Production: Four Disciplines for Enterprise AI, Jamal Khan explores what leaders should consider as they move from experimentation to real-world implementation.
CNXN Helix Perspective: The Coming AGI Disorder
Is the race to AGI distracting us from the changes AI is already creating? Watch Jamal Khan, Connection’s Chief Growth and Innovation Officer and head of CNXN Helix® Center for Applied AI and Robotics, explore what those changes could mean for work, society, and the balance of power.
CNXN Helix Perspective: How AI Is Redefining Human Contribution
AI is shifting work from information processing to judgment, creativity, and decision-making. In this perspective, Jamal Khan, Head of CNXN Helix™ Center for Applied AI and Robotics and Chief Growth and Innovation Officer, explores what that shift looks like through the lens of education and what it means for leaders preparing for what comes next.
AI Webinars
Hear directly from AI practitioners, industry experts, and technology leaders through our growing library of on-demand webinars. Explore topics including AI strategy, governance, cybersecurity, healthcare, manufacturing, education, retail, Vision AI, Microsoft AI, and other emerging technologies.
Turning AI Ideas into Reality with Dell Pro Max with GB10 and AI Jumpstart Services
Join industry experts for this can’t-miss on-demand webinar about getting started with AI using an affordable desktop AI platform—the Dell Pro Max with GB10. We discuss AI use case validation, the scaling path to enterprise AI infrastructure through Dell AI Factor, and how AI Jumpstart Services from Connection deliver expert setup and hands-on training to get organizations up to speed fast.
AI Security Frameworks: Adapting to New Threats
As AI systems evolve into autonomous agents with reasoning, memory, and tool usage, the security landscape is changing rapidly. This webinar explores critical and interconnected areas shaping AI security today. Don’t miss this session and your chance to gain actionable insights that will help your organization stay ahead in the evolving landscape of AI security.
Vision AI: Accelerating Adoption and Outcomes
In this video, our experts discuss an incremental approach to get started with Vision AI, share the technology stack required, and unpack popular horizontally applicable use cases and industry-specific examples across a range of industries, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, and retail.
Securing AI: Navigating Shadow Data and Emerging Threats
Join us for an insightful webinar on Securing Al: Navigating Shadow Data and Emerging Threats where we explore the complexities of vector databases, including RAG workflows, shadow data, and data multiplication. Discover the security vulnerabilities targeting Al data, with a focus on OWASP's updated Top 10 for LLMs.
The Monetization of AI
As AI systems evolve into autonomous agents with reasoning, memory, and tool usage, the security landscape is changing rapidly. This webinar explores critical and interconnected areas shaping AI security today. Don’t miss this session and your chance to gain actionable insights that will help your organization stay ahead in the evolving landscape of AI security.
The Legal Implications of AI
In this dynamic session, we equip you with essential strategies to navigate the complex legal landscape shaped by AI. From deciphering regulatory challenges to safeguarding legal integrity, our CNXN Helix experts provide invaluable insights to empower your legal team to help steer your organizations through the intricacies of AI implementation.
The Legal Implications of AI Part 2
In this dynamic session, we equip you with essential strategies to navigate the complex legal landscape shaped by AI. From deciphering regulatory challenges to safeguarding legal integrity, our CNXN Helix experts provide invaluable insights to empower your legal team to help steer your organizations through the intricacies of AI implementation.
AI in Education: What School Leaders Need to Know
This webinar focuses on the real-world challenges education teams face today, including safeguarding sensitive student information, managing access to data, establishing clear AI governance frameworks, and aligning technology decisions with institutional goals.
The Evolution and Future of AI in Manufacturing
Watch this webinar where our team from CNXN Helix explores the realities of AI in manufacturing and adoption strategies. They also cover real-world use cases that can benefit your organization by transforming research and development, production, quality, and the supply chain.
Transforming Retail Through the Power of AI
Join Connection experts Jamal Khan, Chief Growth and Innovation Officer, and Brian Gallagher, Retail Strategy Director, for an exploration of how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the retail industry—and learn how to anticipate and plan for the future of your retail journey.
How AI-powered Solutions Can Reinvent Defense Strategies
This webinar navigates the intricate terrain of AI in military applications, a domain where cutting-edge technology meets strategic defense operations. In this thought-provoking session, we delve into the potential applications of AI in the military, exploring how AI-driven solutions are reshaping defense strategies, operational efficiency, and decision-making processes.
From Cameras to Insights: Building Real Value with Vision AI
See how Vision AI is turning everyday camera systems into engines for smarter decisions, faster operations, and bigger business impact. In this session, discover how retailers and manufacturers are unlocking real-time insights from existing infrastructure—and get a glimpse of what’s next with agentic AI, autonomous workflows, and the technology powering it all.
From Alerts to Answers: A Smarter Approach to Cyber Defense
In this session, Jeff Minushkin and Jim McDonough highlight a simple but important shift in cybersecurity: moving from overwhelming alert volume to clear, actionable answers. Join our experts as they discuss why traditional detection methods struggle against modern malware, how autonomous investigation reduces noise and accelerates decision-making, and what a smarter, more scalable SOC looks like in practice.
Bringing Clarity to AI: What to Know and Where to Start
In this session, Travis Cook, Director of Industry Solutions at Connection, and Jeff Minushkin, VP of Core Engineering at CNXN Helix, walk through how the CNXN Helix Center for Applied AI and Robotics partners with organizations to design, build, and operationalize AI solutions that actually perform in the field.
Responsible AI in Digital Health and Life Sciences
Explore how AI is solving real-world problems in healthcare, from boosting clinical productivity to transforming operations at scale. Whether you’re just beginning your AI journey or looking to scale existing initiatives, this webinar offers practical guidance from leaders on the front lines of healthcare innovation.
Elevating Patient-centered Care with Intelligent Healthcare Technology
In this session, Jamal Khan and Jennifer Johnson explore the intersection of AI, intelligent infrastructure, and patient-centered workflows. Discover how AI and digital transformation are reshaping care delivery, from empowering clinicians to improving operational efficiency.
AI Adoption in K–12: Governance, Guardrails, and Getting It Right
AI is transforming K–12 education—and your district can lead the way. Join the experts from CNXN Helix™ Center for Applied AI and Robotics for a dynamic, 30-minute webinar designed to help educators and administrators navigate the evolving AI landscape with confidence and clarity.
Unlock Cross-department Impact Using Vision AI
Vision AI continues to evolve. Join our experts to explore a step-by-step approach for adopting Vision Al, the essential technology stack, industry use cases, and much more. We cover what’s new, what’s feasible, achieving better ROI, and how Connection can help.
White Papers
Explore in-depth research and technical guidance covering AI infrastructure, enterprise architectures, emerging technologies, and implementation strategies to help support informed decision-making.
Vertical AI Jumpstart Services in a GB10
The NVIDIA GB10 brings production-capable AI to the desktop. Read this executive brief to learn how our new jumpstart service delivers expert setup and hands-on training to get retail organizations started fast.
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