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Threat actors are changing tactics as they collect less money from ransomware payoffs, according to a new report from Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics firm.
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Google opened up access to Gemini 2.0, a significant update to its flagship AI, targeting enterprise users and developers with enhanced multimodal capabilities and improved performance.
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GenAI dominates the new Nutanix Cloud Index, the latest in a years-long series of surveys the hybrid multicloud specialist publishes to measure global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The 2025 report published today reveals that GenAI is changing organizations' priorities, with security and privacy being a primary concern.
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By Tom Fenton
In part three of his series, Tom Fenton configures ESXi to use an NTP server for precise time synchronization, enables SSH access, and adds a datastore for storing and running virtual machines.
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The Cloud Security Alliance has weighed in on the debut of revolutionary and controversial DeepSeek AI with strategic implications and action items just as a report was published on data leakage from the platform.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton walks through the process of installing and using ESXi 8 on the Raspberry Pi 5, providing a hands-on opportunity to explore VMware virtualization technology or to run ARM-based VMs.
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google have all embraced new open-source DeepSeek AI technology from a Chinese company, despite its usage being banned by many organizations due to concerns about data security, privacy, compliance, and national security risks.
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A self-described "one-person Security Operations Center" deeply invested in Microsoft-centric security imparts commonsense advice for different target groups: IT pros, developers and end users.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton, who literally wrote the book about ESXi 7 on a Raspberry Pi 4 hobbyist computer, now tackles ESXi 8 on a Pi 5, the new "computer in a keyboard."
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The new "2025 State of the Cloud" report from multicloud specialist Rackspace defines and explains the characteristics of a "cloud leader."
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By Tom Fenton
After introducing the new device, Tom Fenton explores the Pi 500's hardware specs more thoroughly and discusses its usefulness as a home and office computer.
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Post-acquisition defections have been trumpeted by benefactors, with the latest being Nutanix announcing that Evalueserve, a global research and analytics firm, has chosen Nutanix to replace its VMware-based virtualization infrastructure.
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Tech organizations and companies blasted this week's AI moves by the Biden administration, with Nvidia slamming the U.S. president's actions and comparing current government policies unfavorably with those of president-elect Donald Trump.
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By Tom Fenton
The Raspberry Pi 500 integrates a Pi computer into a full-sized keyboard, offering a compact computing platform, says Tom Fenton in his first look.
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A new survey-based report from cloud security specialist Netskope explores cybersecurity threats, including the dangers of GenAI and the related apps that are most often blocked from employee use by organizations.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton concludes his exploration of Flatcar Container Linux, recently accepted as an incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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"The term 'metaverse' has weathered a significant hype cycle, where inconsistent definitions led to confusion and premature declarations of its demise" -- Metaverse Standards Forum
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton tackles deployment.
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The "Responsible AI" movement seeks to help organizations build and maintain trust with users, stakeholders and society at large -- and maybe even avoid those pesky "AI-Kills-Humanity" scenarios -- but a new report indicates it just makes good business sense, too.
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton puts it through its paces.
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Ransomware is at an all-time high, and it will only get worse in 2025. To help organizations prepare for the new-year onslaught, cloud architect Joey D'Antoni shared his hard-won expertise, starting with the basics.
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Five online systems generate surprisingly similar predictions around multimodal, agents and the usual suspects.
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Paul Schnackenburg dives deep into how Microsoft Purview has prioritized data governance and security features to address the challenges of oversharing and lax permissions exposed by M365 Copilot.
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Guidance abounds about cloud security -- apparently with little effect judging by the current state of ransomware and other attacks -- but sometimes the best advice from experts straight from the front lines is best presented in easily digestible chunks.
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Data security specialist Rubrik is speeding up the threat hunting process in its software by allowing for quicker recoveries in the familiar backup & recovery process.