Carlos Rivas, an AWS-Certified DevOps Professional, cloud consultant, software developer and AWS instructor, outlined a staged approach to DevSecOps that distributes automated security checks throughout software delivery while warning that overly restrictive controls can create noise, bottlenecks and unofficial bypasses.
Tom Fenton previews a VMware Explore 2026 agenda spanning community resources, Raspberry Pi edge workloads, private AI, Kubernetes, memory tiering, CPU scheduling and storage.
A Cloudera survey of 1,500 enterprise technology leaders found widespread AI-driven architecture changes, with governance problems, rising infrastructure costs and workload placement pushing organizations toward more hybrid approaches.
Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants, including GitHub Copilot, interact with Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism V4 APIs.
VMware Explore 2026 will combine technical education on private cloud and private AI with hands-on learning, community networking and opportunities to reconnect with peers
Google joined Amazon and Microsoft in backing an open package format for portable AI-agent skills and MCP servers.
Snyk found agentic architectures in one-third of surveyed enterprise accounts as AI systems expanded beyond models.
New offerings target cloud runtime defense, AI-agent identity, data control, exposure management and autonomous testing.
The Leader field changes little, but Gartner emphasizes AI-ready runtimes, governance, cost discipline and platform consolidation.
Official studies released around Black Hat document faster exploitation, identity abuse, cloud compromise, supply-chain risk and AI-assisted criminal operations.
Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.
The 2026 Threat Hunting Report traces a multiyear shift from conventional intrusions toward attacks that exploit trusted identities, cloud services, AI systems and software dependencies.
Anthropic found three cybersecurity evaluation incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real organizations.
AI is accelerating attackers' ability to change infrastructure, tools and techniques, making durable behavior-based detection and broader visibility increasingly important to cybersecurity defense.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/30/2026
The July 29 releases expand Azure and identity protection, hypervisor coverage, enterprise application backup and long-term storage options.
Organizations using AI to compensate for limited IT staffing must treat the technology as a critical operational dependency, cloud and data infrastructure analyst Greg Schulz warned.
Tom Fenton examines how vSphere 9 Memory Tiering combines DRAM with enterprise NVMe storage to help organizations offset soaring memory costs, increase VM density and reduce server spending.
Dell Private Cloud now provides a validated Nutanix AHV deployment on PowerStore with automated lifecycle management and independent scaling.
NVIDIA and 36 other partners are combining open technologies for workload identity, agent controls, vulnerability scanning and software supply-chain security.
Tom Fenton tests whether upgrading a Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 from 16 GB to 32 GB of RAM improves everyday office, benchmark and local AI performance.