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Rubrik Security Cloud to Support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Aim is to help organizations modernize their VMs and applications while enhancing cyber resilience, offering features like easier migration, faster data recovery, and unified data management across virtualized environments to help better protect against evolving threats.

KubeCon 2024 Day 1: Field Notes and Cloud-Native Storage

Tom reports on Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) happenings and discovers some new storage vendors.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: 5 Things You Can Do with VMware's Free Workstation Desktop Hypervisor

It just became free for commercial use along with earlier permission for personal use, so Tom Fenton shares some of the cool things you can do with this venerable virtualization platform.

Grafana Open-Source Data Viz Solution, Part 2: CSV Support

Tom Fenton discovers a plugin that has CSV support and uses it to quickly create a bar chart.

Veeam Enhances Data Cloud Vault with Predictable Pricing

Data resilience specialist Veeam Software updated its Data Cloud Vault with two new pricing tiers and enhanced integration with the Veeam Data Platform.

Druva Extends Data Protection to Microsoft Dynamics 365

Data security specialist Druva announced extended support in Microsoft environments, specifically Microsoft 365 Dynamics Sales and Customer Service CRM modules.

Nerdio Adds All-in-One Microsoft 365 Management for MSPs

New capabilities include simplified deployment and management of services including Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Intune. An updated pricing model is designed to increase margins for managed service providers.

Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Offering on AWS Targets VMware Users

Nutanix announced a new hybrid cloud offering parked on AWS that can help users extend their on-premises Nutanix environments to the cloud, offering perks to other users possibly disgruntled by the ongoing Broadcom/VMware tumult.

Fine-Tune Defender XDR for Cost and Coverage

Straight from the front lines of cyber defense, time-poor, one-person Security Operations Center operator Paul Schnackenburg dives into Microsoft Defender XDR and Sentinel's SOC Optimization feature, highlighting how it helps streamline security coverage while managing costs.

How I Tricked Microsoft Copilot into Reporting Election Results

Just substitute "election" with "group decision-making process," duh.

Grafana Open-Source Data Visualization Solution, Part 1

Tom provides an overview of Grafana and how to use it, including the Grafana plugin that lets you use CSV data sources to create a dashboard.

AWS, Google Cloud and Nutanix Certs Pay Off the Most: Report

"This year's list shows that cloud computing skills remain in high demand and can be quite lucrative for tech professionals."

Agentic AI Tops Gartner's 2025 Tech Trends

With those ever-present "destroy humanity" fears, the No. 2 trend is AI governance platforms, naturally.

Microsoft and Google Turn to Autonomous AI Agents

Cloud giants Microsoft and Google are both moving quickly in the trending field of autonomous AI agents as the GenAI space matures from simple query-and-response chatbots and content creators.

Automate VMware VMs Using vmrun

Although Workstation has a GUI interface that is easy to use and very powerful, sometimes it is more useful to perform an action using the command line or a script than using a GUI.

2 of 3 Cloud Giants Back New Okta-Led Identity Security Standard

Cloud giants Microsoft and Google, along with many other major industry players, are backing a new identity security standard proposed by Okta and the OpenID Foundation.

Bevy of Reports Call Out Russia, China, Iran and North Korea Threat Actors

A bevy of recent cybersecurity reports point to the continuing problem of nation-state-sponsored threat actors, though Microsoft seems more alarmed about the issue, leading the calls for action on the part of industry and government.

Research Cites Nutanix in Market Shift Away from VMware

Research firm Gartner predicts an enterprise trend "to replace their VMware-based deployments and embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure delivery," with Nutanix often chosen as the alternative.

Why Your MFA Isn't Good Enough

Our practicing cybersecurity expert in Australia looks at the different types of MFA and how you can use them in a Microsoft context, dives deep into "in the middle" schemes and relates a successful client breach, though "we dodged a bullet."

AMD and Intel Trade Blows in AI Chip Battle

Prominent chipmakers AMD and Intel are duking it out as they chase NVIDIA for AI hardware supremacy, this week trading announcements about their latest/greatest offerings while holding dueling AI events.

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