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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms again places IBM in the Leaders quadrant alongside Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft.
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The new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation launches with Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI contributions and immediate platinum backing from major cloud providers, signaling a push for open, cross-cloud standards for AI agents.
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Negative prompts are a concise way to steer generative AI away from unwanted content or styles, but they work best when targeted, balanced with positive instructions, and framed as hard vs. soft constraints depending on how strict you need the output to be.
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At AWS re:Invent 2025, Rubrik introduced Rubrik Agent Cloud for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, bringing monitoring, policy controls and selective rollback for enterprise AI agents
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Veeam has released Veeam Data Platform v13, which the company positions as a major update spanning security, AI-driven intelligence, appliance deployment, and expanded hypervisor integration.
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Rubrik introduced expanded agentic AI management through Microsoft Copilot Studio integration, new Intelligent Business Recovery for Microsoft 365, and DevOps Protection for Azure DevOps and GitHub at Microsoft Ignite 2025.
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Google Cloud's 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast predicts that AI will become standard for both attackers and defenders, with threats expanding to virtualization systems, blockchain networks, and nation-state operations.
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A Dimensional Research survey commissioned by Backblaze found nearly all large organizations face hidden cloud storage charges that limit flexibility and drive data lock-in.
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A new Gartner survey of 253 infrastructure and operations leaders reports that 54% are adopting AI to reduce costs, with budget limits and integration cited as the top challenges and guidance to start with targeted pilots.
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Brien Posey explains that a large language model’s performance depends more on architecture, training, and data quality than on its parameter count alone.
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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.