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Microsoft identity expert Nathan O’Bryan showed IT pros how to tighten Microsoft 365 security through Entra and Intune features like Conditional Access and Multi-Admin Approval--without hampering user productivity.
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This reporter has lately been complaining in team meetings about having to fight with our company ChatGPT, specifically mentioning "yelling at a machine," but recent research indicates that might not be all bad -- blood pressure notwithstanding. A new study finds that ChatGPT-4o gives more accurate answers when prompted rudely rather than politely, contradicting previous research suggesting the opposite.
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Veeam Software announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to combine data resilience, privacy, and AI trust in a unified platform aimed at helping organizations securely manage and unlock the value of their data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Rubrik introduced Rubrik Agent Cloud, a new enterprise platform for monitoring, governing, and remediating AI agent activity across clouds and SaaS apps, positioning it as a control layer for the AI agent lifecycle built on Rubrik Security Cloud.
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ribl expanded its AI capabilities with Cribl Notebooks, BYOAI, and a standalone Cribl MCP server, enabling agentic AI readiness across IT and security telemetry infrastructure.
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New York Fed research finds that while AI adoption is rising, its impact on layoffs remains limited--for now--with firms more likely to retrain than replace workers.
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A new Cloud Security Alliance study shows that AI SOC agents like Dropzone AI significantly improve investigation speed, accuracy, and consistency while boosting analysts’ confidence and attitudes toward AI.
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Executives fear career consequences as new Dataiku survey shows 60% of data leaders worry their jobs are at risk if AI fails to deliver results, with most citing explainability, reliability, and security as top challenges.
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A new ControlMonkey survey finds 98% of enterprises face blockers to cloud scale and resilience as AI workloads surge, with security, visibility, and automation gaps creating what the report calls a "turning point" for infrastructure readiness.
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Brien Posey warns against "vibe coding," the risky practice of using AI-generated code without review, and outlines best practices for securely and effectively integrating AI into software development.
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At Oktane 2025, Rubrik announced Okta Recovery, extending its identity resilience platform to Okta with immutable backups and in-place recovery, while separately detailing its integration with Okta Identity Threat Protection for automated remediation.
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Cloudera’s latest global survey shows 96% of enterprises have integrated AI into core processes, with hybrid cloud architectures emerging as the backbone for scaling secure and effective adoption.
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Google Cloud's 2025 ROI of AI study finds 52% of enterprises now deploy AI agents, with early adopters seeing significantly higher returns across customer service, marketing, security, and software development.
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Druva has launched MetaGraph, a secure metadata intelligence layer that works with its DruAI Agents to turn backup data into real-time insights, enabling faster cyber, compliance, and operational decisions.
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Recent September 2025 updates from Microsoft, AWS, and Google highlight how enterprise priorities are shaping cloud AI--emphasizing security, governance, and operational readiness as organizations move from experimentation to production deployment.
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Brien Posey details how resolving a driver issue unlocked full performance from an Nvidia A6000 GPU that was underperforming on AI video workloads compared to a consumer-grade Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, sharing key troubleshooting steps for GPU bottlenecks.
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A new survey-based report from Tenable and the Cloud Security Alliance warns that hybrid, multi-cloud and AI adoption is accelerating faster than security strategies, exposing organizations to identity gaps, skills shortages and preventable breaches.
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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure highlights a market shift from “cloud-first” to “infrastructure-flexible.” Enterprises are prioritizing cloud-native operations across on-prem, edge, and sovereign locations, with AI and VMware alternatives driving demand.
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Usage report shows ChatGPT leading global gen-AI engagement by a wide margin, while OpenAI’s addition of Google Cloud as a sub-processor in five regions signals a broader multi-cloud footprint alongside Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and others.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recounts how EUC World Amplify 2025’s final "unconference" day featured candid, vendor-neutral discussions on app packaging, hypervisor strategy amid VMware licensing shifts, and modernization tradeoffs, plus updates from Parallels, Nerdio, Dizzion, Google, and IGEL, with talk of a Melbourne expansion.
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Paul Schnackenburg details how DARPA's AIxCC showcases autonomous systems that find reachable vulnerabilities, generate and test patches, and produce SARIF reports at scale--and explains how IT pros can apply these practices to improve software quality in their organizations by combining fuzzing and static/dynamic analysis with LLM-driven automation and integrating PoV/patch workflows into CI/CD.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton says Day 1 at Broadcom VMware Explore 2025 felt leaner and more engineering-driven. Conversations centered on packaging/licensing tradeoffs and hands-on use of the full VMware stack. Highlights included deep dives on vGPU management for AI in VCF 9, a 100-level VCF platform tour, and bite-size Quick Talks on scripting GPU ops with PowerShell and Python, capped by a lower-key welcome reception.
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The best thing that a business can do to avoid falling for a hallucination when using a general-purpose generative AI tool is to require the tool to provide references and then take the time to verify those references, says Brien Posey.
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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services shows enterprises shifting from feature checklists to evaluating whether vendors can be trusted as long-term strategic partners in a volatile global landscape.
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MIT’s Project NANDA released a July 2025 report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, finding that despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of generative AI projects yield no measurable business return. The study identifies a “GenAI Divide,” where only 5% of pilots deliver ROI, with success hinging on adaptive, learning-capable systems rather than static tools.