Five online systems generate surprisingly similar predictions around multimodal, agents and the usual suspects.
Data security specialist Rubrik is speeding up the threat hunting process in its software by allowing for quicker recoveries in the familiar backup & recovery process.
Since the dawn of advanced generative AI the new tech has been used by both threat actors and security defenders, with a new survey examining that double-edged security sword and finding many execs predict more cybersecurity issues.
"By 2027, AI assistants and AI-enhanced workflows incorporated into data integration tools will reduce manual intervention by 60 percent and enable self-service data management."
Security is paramount to both proprietary and open-source AI approaches in these days of rampant ransomware and other cybersecurity exploits, and here the open-source movement might be susceptible to some inherent drawbacks, such as use of possibly insecure code from unknown sources.
Follow the money, they say, and the money says vertical AI agents are the future.
Rubrik says it's brining cyber posture and cyber recovery to provide Microsoft Azure Blob Storage customers further visibility into their cloud data, enabling business agility and resilience.
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.
Data resilience specialist Veeam Software updated its Data Cloud Vault with two new pricing tiers and enhanced integration with the Veeam Data Platform.
Data security specialist Druva announced extended support in Microsoft environments, specifically Microsoft 365 Dynamics Sales and Customer Service CRM modules.
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 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.
"This year's list shows that cloud computing skills remain in high demand and can be quite lucrative for tech professionals."
With those ever-present "destroy humanity" fears, the No. 2 trend is AI governance platforms, naturally.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Partnership will provide critical user context to accelerate threat detection and response.