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By Tom Fenton
Longtime IT pro Tom Fenton was disappointed -- along with many others -- when Broadcom discontinued the free version after acquiring VMware, but he's excited it's back.
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Just as GenAI becomes central to digital transformation strategies, a new Google Cloud report reveals most organizations aren't yet equipped to support it at scale.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton continues his investigation, loading the OS, using Gemini AI, Google Docs, the web-based Microsoft Office 365 and much more.
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Brien Posey, a well-known cybersecurity expert and 22-time Microsoft MVP, recently explained how enterprises can protect themselves against application security threats in hybrid cloud environments.
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The cloud giants have been outdoing one another in the race to offer the latest/greatest AI tech, marked by foundational models of ever-increasing capabilities. For the new Llama 4 "herd" of models from Meta, AWS, Microsoft and Google all announced same-day support -- on a Saturday.
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Since its launch last November, the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic has gone viral, generating buzz as a simple, standardized way to connect language models with tools and data. Now, Google has introduced another protocol to further agentic AI, called Agent2Agent (A2A), designed to facilitate communication among AI agents.
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By Tom Fenton
Because of technical limitations, many Windows 10 machines won't be able to upgrade to Win 11 in October when end of life is reached, but ChromeOS Flex could extend their use.
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Cloud-based end-user computing (EUC) management specialist enhances functionality for Windows 365 and other cloud desktop environments in its new Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0.
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We're going to be seeing more of these attacks, says our one-man SOC from Down Under, who explains how he uses Zero Trust and phishing-resistant MFA to protect his clients.
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It's time for spring cleaning, including your enterprise data stores, says data expert Joey D'Antoni, who offers front-line data-hygiene advice straight from the IT trenches.
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With a new Audio Overviews feature announced Monday, Google's Gemini AI app can now create a professional-looking Deep Research report and turn it into a professional-sounding two-person AI podcast discussion in minutes, all for free.
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For disaster recovery, Amazon recently introduced a time-based copy feature that allows you to tie the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) copy duration to your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
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The cloud giant AI wars are heating up with Google announcing its Gemini 2.5 model and Amazon countering with the launch of Amazon Nova Act for running AI in the browser, part of an access expansion of the Nova AI ecosystem.
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"So work with your partners to understand, what do they have, what do they recommend, what do they use so that then you're able to leverage those different tools to help figure out how can you get your arms around all this unstructured data. And the vendors should love having that opportunity to have that conversation."
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In announcing new Microsoft Security Copilot agents and other new protections for AI, the company revealed upcoming Defender coverage for the Google Cloud Platform.
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Amid reports of suicides following AI interactions and a false accusation by an AI system that a man committed murder, OpenAI has published a research report on human emotional engagement with its ChatGPT chatbot.
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With cloud computing and AI being natural partners, it's not surprising that AI hardware powerhouse NVIDIA's big GTC 2025 conference featured several cloud partnerships.
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"Around 2/3 of executives say generative AI adoption has led to tension and division. 42% say it's tearing their company apart."
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Microsoft used its expensive partnership with OpenAI to leverage advanced AI in coding, search and just about everywhere else, but Google has been just as adamant in defending its search hegemony with advanced AI.