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HPE announced new GreenLake updates spanning private cloud, storage and data protection, led by planned unified management of virtual machines and containers in HPE Private Cloud.
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Red Hat Summit 2026 announcements around Telenet Business and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory show OpenShift Virtualization being positioned as a platform for VM modernization, hybrid cloud operations and future containerized workloads.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 adds AI, Kubernetes, infrastructure efficiency, networking and security updates for private cloud deployments.
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At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, 21-time Microsoft MVP Derek Melber will show Active Directory administrators how to use PowerShell for faster administration, bulk changes, security checks and Group Policy work.
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Brien Posey explains the overlooked risk that AI-based data analytics can mistake coincidental patterns for actionable trends -- and outlines several mitigation techniques, from structured adversarial questioning to signal-strength analysis, that help businesses get more reliable insight from their data.
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At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVPs Joy Apple and Diego Domingos da Silva will share community-tested lessons for preparing Microsoft 365 tenants, people and content for Copilot success.
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Microsoft 365 E7 bundles Copilot, the Entra Suite, and the full Defender and Purview protection suites -- and with it, Agent 365 gives IT admins comprehensive control over AI agent discovery, governance, and security across their Microsoft 365 environment. Our working front-line consultant, Paul Schnackenburg, takes his usual deep -- really deep -- dive into all of the details.
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The Cloud Security Alliance-backed foundation announced a catastrophic risk annex, CNA authorization and two agentic AI specification acquisitions.
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CISA and federal partners released operational technology (OT) zero trust guidance focused on asset visibility, supply chain risk and identity controls.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Many costly AI application failures stem not from the models themselves but from common architectural and strategic mistakes -- including using AI without a clear purpose, choosing oversized models, neglecting data quality, skimping on testing, and underestimating ongoing maintenance.
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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.
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Google used Cloud Next '26 to announce agent platforms, new TPUs, cross-cloud infrastructure, networking and data services aimed at AI workloads.
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By Tom Fenton
Testing small LLMs in a VMware Workstation VM on an Intel-based laptop reveals performance speeds orders of magnitude faster than on a Raspberry Pi 5, demonstrating that local AI limitations are hardware-driven -- not inherent to running AI locally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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During Google Cloud Next, Rubrik rolled out one announcement aimed at AI agent governance and another focused on cyber resilience for Google Cloud SQL.
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Karen Lopez explains that backup alone is not enough, and that real cyber resilience depends on tested recovery procedures, failover readiness, automation and business continuity planning.
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AI integration is most effective when you constrain model output through structured prompts and enforce application-side validation so your business logic, compliance requirements, and user experience remain under your control.
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By Tom Fenton
Benchmarking four compact LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 500+ shows that smaller models such as TinyLlama are far more practical for local edge workloads, while reasoning-focused models trade latency for deeper output quality.
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Sergey Chubarov explained how unmanaged non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys and tokens can become a major attack vector and outlined practical steps to improve visibility, governance and credential security.
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Nutanix used its .NEXT 2026 event in Chicago to roll out a broader Nutanix Cloud Platform update and a related expansion of its agentic AI offerings aimed at neocloud providers, adding new infrastructure, multitenancy and management capabilities tied to AI workloads.<