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Adversarial testing with red/black teams is nothing new in cybersecurity, but a new paper examines how advanced AI can help and provides recommendations for organizations to do just that.
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By Tom Fenton
Former resident Tom Fenton shares some of the fun and exciting things he found there to try to convince you to spend a few days after or before the conference exploring attractions outside Salt Lake City.
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The top cybersecurity threat in the cloudscape has changed from a couple years ago says a new report from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), which provided handy mitigation strategies and suggested AI can help (or hurt).
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By Tom Fenton
Attractions abound, and here is a list of top ones from former Utah resident Tom Fenton, who says he will be staying an extra night to see blues guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa.
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Data management/governance specialist AvePoint announced the general availability of Cloud Backup Express, designed to use the new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service recently made available for third-party integrations.
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On the same day that Microsoft shipped a new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service for third-party integrations, launch partner Veeam announced just such integration with its Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365.
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Copilot AI assistants are changing Microsoft from the inside out, company CEO Satya Nadella revealed in an earnings call yesterday.
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Longtime IT trainer Paul Schnackenburg explains why it's time we started managing CA policies seriously, checking them against best practices regularly with Maester, backing them up and documenting them.
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After recently placing AI in the "trough of disillusionment" on its Hype Cycle report, research firm Gartner has doubled down on its negativity, predicting massive abandonment of AI projects.
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Stack Overflow is out with its massive annual survey that investigates all things developer-related, and this year's edition shows Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the most popular cloud platform among developers -- except for those learning to code.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton says he loves walking the floor of IT shows, especially this one, and chatting with the smaller companies that are charting the course of K8S, only to get gobbled up later by tech giants.
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Nearly alone among the tech giants, Meta is still championing open-source foundational AI models as the way forward for AI development, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointing to the history of Unix and Linux as an example to follow.
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Domo, known for its 'Data Never Sleeps' infographics, turns its attention to the relentless onslaught of AI.
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By Tom Fenton
The desktop hypervisor world is starting to get interesting again, says Tom Fenton as he goes hands-on with free Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple.
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Many vendors have sought to capitalize on the November 2023 acquisition of VMware by Broadcom that resulted in controversy and disgruntled customers, and they continue today.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom explains how things shook out and what it means to you after VMware's End User Computing (EUC) division emerged as an independent entity, now operating under the name Omnissa.
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Google open sourced a platform for AI agents to take care of project maintenance shortly after announcing its latest/greatest open foundation model, Gemma 2, and boosting the Project IDX app-dev workspace amid a blitz of AI initiatives.
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By Tom Fenton
AI helps Tom Fenton write in many ways, but generating entire articles isn't one of them, he says in explaining his workflow using ChatGPT, Grammarly, MS Word and more.
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Google unveiled a new AI-powered video creation service as part of its Workspace Labs program where users can try out new AI features.
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By Tom Fenton
Here's an in-depth examination of many new features and enhancements.
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It's commonly accepted that AI will outperform humans and replace many IT positions, but a new survey of CISOs by Bugcrowd indicates AI is already beating security pros in some areas and is expected to take on a larger role in the future.
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Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI led to enterprise AI leadership, soon accompanied by fellow cloud giants Google and AWS. The "Big 3" took turns one-upping one another in speeds/feeds, services, copilots and associated products, but the cloud AI hegemony may be cracking.
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By Tom Fenton
This release of vSAN focuses on three significant areas: flexible topologies, agile data protection and enhanced management.
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Cloud AI services are officially in the "trough of disillusionment," according to Gartner's latest report on AI hype.
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The always-skeptical Paul worries about this amazing AI tool dumbing down junior admins too much, but he's also impressed with the preview and excited about the possibilities, giving it the ultimate compliment: "It's really cool."