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How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices

At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Myron Helgering's "How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices" will explore practical ways to reduce risk when users access business resources from devices IT does not control.

Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector

At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Tatu Seppälä's "Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector" will show attendees how to turn identity, data protection, and signal correlation into a practical starting point for insider risk defense.

Build-a-Bot: Unleash Your Own Autonomous Agent with Microsoft Copilot

At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Alex de Jong's "Build-a-Bot" session promises a practical look at how Microsoft Copilot, MCP, and modern orchestration tools can turn AI agents into useful workflow teammates.

LLMs Are Your New Junior Engineer: Using AI Safely in Security and IT Ops

Large language models can accelerate IT and security work, but only when teams pair speed with guardrails. At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Heather Wilde Renze's session explores how to use AI like a capable junior engineer -- useful, fast, and always supervised.

When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP and Dev Assistants

At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Pavan Reddy's "When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP, and Dev Assistants" will examine the risks emerging as AI copilots move from chat windows into real systems, and the concrete controls teams need to keep those tools from becoming attack paths.

Why Failover Clustering Still Matters for the Private Cloud

Microsoft’s Rob Hindman will preview the future of failover clustering in Windows Server at TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, with a focus on update orchestration, admission control and resilient private cloud infrastructure.

Why Enterprise AI Demands an Enterprise IT Mindset

As AI moves from experimentation to production, IT teams are increasingly responsible for making sure it is secure, governable, reliable and cost-effective. This session explores what that looks like in practice, with Eric D. Boyd outlining the architectural, operational and security considerations organizations need to address to run AI at enterprise scale.

Unlocking the Power of Copilot Automation A Beginners Guide

Stephen L. Rose's TechMentor session offers IT pros a practical, beginner-friendly path into Copilot automation, including agents, prompts, connectors, actions and the governance controls needed to manage them securely.

The Enduring Consequences of the VMware Acquisition

An in-depth look at how Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has damaged not just budgets but the trust, talent, and ecosystem that once made VMware central to enterprise IT.

Five Start-ups Not to Miss at KubeCon 2025

Tom Fenton spotlights five startups to watch at KubeCon 2025--TestifySec, Chkk, Border0, DevZero, and Syntasso’s Kratix--each tackling key challenges in security, reliability, and developer productivity across the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem.

The Five Stages of Grief: Coping with Broadcom's Acquisition of VMware

Tom Fenton examines how the VMware community is processing Broadcom’s acquisition through the five stages of grief, detailing impacts on licensing, partner programs, culture, and the shift toward VCF 9, private AI, containers, and event-driven architectures.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: 5 VMworlds/Explores that Reshaped the IT World

With Explore (FKA VMworld), VMware's annual conference, less than a month away, Tom Fenton thought he would go back and look at five previous VMworld/Explores that have reshaped the IT world.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: My Five Must-See VMware Explore 2025 Sessions

This year looks pretty solid, Tom says, especially with VMware's big push to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 and the transformational changes we see in AI.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: 5 Things You Can Do with VMware's Free Workstation Desktop Hypervisor

It just became free for commercial use along with earlier permission for personal use, so Tom Fenton shares some of the cool things you can do with this venerable virtualization platform.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: My Five Must-See VMware Explore 2024 Sessions

For as long as he can remember, Tom Fenton has combed VMworld/Explore catalogs to create must-see sessions lists, this year eyeing everything from Private AI to the intricacies of VGPU resource scheduling.

Take Five with Tom Fenton: Five (Other) Things to Do in Vegas at VMware Explore 2023

Vegas veteran Tom Fenton has the inside scoop on cool and fun non-techy things to do between VMware Explore 2023 sessions.

Take Five with Tom Fenton: My Picks for VMware Explore 2023

After earlier choosing his top hybrid-workforce-themed (Horizon) sessions earlier, Tom turns to general sessions covering NVMeoF, Kubernetes, NUMA and more.

Take Five with Tom Fenton: My VMware Horizon Session Picks for Explore 2023

Sessions are divided into five tracks: Vision & Innovation, Cloud & Edge Infrastructure, Modern Applications & Cloud Management, Networking & Security and Hybrid Workforce.

Tom's Takes on KubeCon North America 2022

Tom Fenton looks at companies he found especially interesting this year.

Take Five: Dynatrace Perform 2022

Tom Fenton gives his five takeaways from the recent Perform user conference held by Dynatrace, an application performance monitoring and autonomous cloud management specialist.

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