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It's very easy to get started with Azure and deploy resources that will help you use the Microsoft cloud to do amazing things -- but then you get your monthly bill and wonder if there are ways to control it.
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Research firm Gartner's new report on the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) space sees the tech moving into security offerings and receiving a big generative AI boost in the next few years.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom installs Workstation on an ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC to benchmark its performance running a small and large Windows 10 VM.
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Cisco teamed up with enterprise cloud specialist Nutanix to replace its HyperFlex offering with a new hyperconverged solution as part of a strategic partnership announced in August.
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Brien Posey shows how to resolve some of the more common causes of RDP connection failures.
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Paul looks at new Microsoft Sentinel features improvements added over the last 6-12 months and how he uses it with his SMB clients to give them monitored cybersecurity protection on a shoestring budget.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom puts the small form-factor device through its paces to see what type of workload it is best suited for.
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Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has become a critical part of DevOps, allowing for declarative definition, configuration, deployment and management of simple and complex IT solutions.
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Edge computing can be a big revenue generator for companies, but adoption is lagging and the results vary according to which of four approaches is taken, new research from Accenture indicates.
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By Tom Fenton
As Intel quits NUC biz, Tom eyes a replacement, which he hopes to use as a standalone desktop system, type-2 hypervisor running VMware Workstation and more.
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Modern distributed applications require much more than just application logic, and features such as state management for services, communication using publish/subscribe messaging and event-driven binding to cloud resources might be needed, and two experts will show how Dapr can help.
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In last year's edition of this report series, organizations asked cloud providers for security expertise; this year they want cost control help.
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It looks like Microsoft/GitHub might have coined the standard moniker for AI assistants going forward, as Salesforce this week debuted new "Einstein Copilot" AI tech.
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The Cloud Security Alliance is talking up a new security concern for IT pros to worry about, "Shadow Access," or the unintended access to organizational applications and data.
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As cloud giants continue to wrestle with AI-generated content causing copyright issues, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now demanding that self publishers on its Kindle platform indicate whether their new content comes from machines.
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Many monolithic IT systems have morphed into distributed solutions based on service-based architectures, but with monoliths making a comeback, the important thing is to find the right approach for a specific situation.
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IBM will boost its watsonx enterprise AI/data platform with a raft of enhancements including new generative foundation models and a Tuning Studio to join its Prompt Lab to help users engineer the best prompts to use them.
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By Tom Fenton
There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this.
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As generative AI-related lawsuits are springing up all over, Microsoft announced it will assume legal risks in copyright challenges to users of its Copilot AI-powered assistants.
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While the process of establishing a network path between two networks tends to be somewhat straightforward, DNS name resolution can be an issue.
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It's high time for Microsoft to have a rebirth -- the death spiral of its attitude to security needs to change.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom explores Autostart on Workstation Pro 17 to avoid multiple manual virtual machine restarts upon an automatic reboot of Windows 11.
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An application is an idea that has code, data and infrastructure, and choosing whether to build a conveyor belt or to put up guard rails along the path is important in maintaining velocity to the cloud.
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OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Enterprise, while Microsoft introduced Bing Chat Enterprise in the Windows Copilot Preview and Google announced a flurry of enterprise AI-related news items at its Google Cloud Next '23 conference.
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Learn about employee awareness and training, vulnerability management, implementing robust security controls and much more.