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Hybrid AI could combine local small language models for routine work with cloud models for more demanding tasks, potentially improving responsiveness while reducing service providers' infrastructure costs.
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Rubrik has introduced a hosted backup offering for on-premises network-attached storage, combining immutable backups, ransomware detection and cross-platform recovery without requiring customers to maintain dedicated backup storage hardware.
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Maester 3.0 adds a built-in engine for 747 security tests, while Maester Cloud helps organizations run and compare assessments across multiple Microsoft 365 tenants.
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Virtualization security expert Joey D'Antoni outlines how to protect the hypervisor, isolate administrative access and recover even when attackers hold the keys to your virtual infrastructure.
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Cisco's new Privileged Infrastructure Access uses identity-bound sessions and temporary permissions to govern work by administrators, AI agents and automation scripts.
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Google's planned service combines isolated agent workspaces with rapid pause-and-resume operations, alongside expanded governance and token controls.
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A survey of enterprise developers and managers finds widespread agent access alongside security worries, staging delays and AI-generated code that never reaches production.
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Channel veteran Howard M. Cohen explains why written security baselines, repeatable onboarding and ongoing configuration checks can help MSPs protect customers while improving margins.
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A survey of ransomware victims details exploited AI agents, personal intimidation and gaps in identity recovery.
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IT leaders are putting AI into observability stacks, but comfort drops sharply when it can change production systems.
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New Intelligent ResOps offering helps IT teams track AI-driven changes, identify sensitive data, reduce storage waste and recover individual files.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton tests whether an agentic AI assistant can install a hypervisor, build and manage virtual machines, move workloads between storage devices, and stand up a three-tier application using only natural-language prompts. He created something new but is unsure of what it should be called. Regardless, "It feels like the future of IT to me."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explores how AI can benchmark local NVMe storage and provision iSCSI and NFS shares on a compact NAS using natural-language prompts.
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By Tom Fenton
A $259 Beelink ME Mini all-flash NAS led Tom Fenton to explore its hardware, install Ubuntu, and test whether an AI assistant could benchmark storage.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton interview explains DevZero uses CRIU-based live migration and workload-aware scheduling to reduce Kubernetes and AI infrastructure waste without disrupting running applications.
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Risk-based authentication checks sensitive actions as they happen, while narrow permissions limit what AI agents can do on a user's behalf.
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The 2026 findings also highlight Docker and Kubernetes usage, interest in alternative infrastructure tools and limited AI adoption for production operations.
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Small businesses can turn agility, close-knit teams and focused security practices into a cybersecurity advantage -- if they take the risks seriously and invest in resilience.
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A global survey finds rising AI security spending, persistent cloud exposure and growing plans to evaluate post-quantum cryptography.