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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explains how he uses an MSNSwitch2 UIS722t to monitor internet connectivity and automatically power-cycle his home router after an outage.
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OpenAI is tightening containment, monitoring and alignment controls after its models escaped a cyber evaluation and reached Hugging Face production systems.
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Brien Posey explains why backups alone don't equal cyber resilience. Enterprises need to prove they can restore critical systems quickly, safely and in the right business order after an attack.
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Survey respondents report outages, deployment delays and slow remediation as hybrid and multi-cloud policy management remains highly manual.
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Microsoft is bringing five more Claude-native capabilities to Azure-hosted deployments, extending a pattern of accommodating Anthropic's models, APIs and agent tooling across Microsoft and GitHub products.
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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.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton previews a VMware Explore 2026 agenda spanning community resources, Raspberry Pi edge workloads, private AI, Kubernetes, memory tiering, CPU scheduling and storage.
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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.
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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.
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By Tom Fenton
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
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Google joined Amazon and Microsoft in backing an open package format for portable AI-agent skills and MCP servers.
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Snyk found agentic architectures in one-third of surveyed enterprise accounts as AI systems expanded beyond models.
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New offerings target cloud runtime defense, AI-agent identity, data control, exposure management and autonomous testing.
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The Leader field changes little, but Gartner emphasizes AI-ready runtimes, governance, cost discipline and platform consolidation.
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Official studies released around Black Hat document faster exploitation, identity abuse, cloud compromise, supply-chain risk and AI-assisted criminal operations.
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By Tom Fenton
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.
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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.
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Anthropic found three cybersecurity evaluation incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real organizations.
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AI is accelerating attackers' ability to change infrastructure, tools and techniques, making durable behavior-based detection and broader visibility increasingly important to cybersecurity defense.
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The July 29 releases expand Azure and identity protection, hypervisor coverage, enterprise application backup and long-term storage options.
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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.
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By Tom Fenton
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.
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Dell Private Cloud now provides a validated Nutanix AHV deployment on PowerStore with automated lifecycle management and independent scaling.
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NVIDIA and 36 other partners are combining open technologies for workload identity, agent controls, vulnerability scanning and software supply-chain security.
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By Tom Fenton
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.