Rubrik's latest announcements combine generally available AWS application recovery and BigQuery backup with planned investigation and recovery tools for cloud and developer environments.
New capabilities target Microsoft Foundry and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, connecting agent activity with recovery of affected enterprise resources.
Commvault's planned orchestration capability will coordinate recovery of applications, identities, infrastructure, configurations and data through automated runbooks.
Red Hat brings AI-assisted investigations and update planning to OpenShift 5, with human approval for changes and separate preview status for autonomous workflows.
A survey of 492 cloud native practitioners finds VMs running 53% of production applications on average, alongside growing plans for MicroVM sandboxing and confidential computing.
Rubrik has introduced a hosted backup offering for on-premises network-attached storage, combining immutable backups, ransomware detection and cross-platform recovery without requiring customers to maintain dedicated backup storage hardware.
Maester 3.0 adds a built-in engine for 747 security tests, while Maester Cloud helps organizations run and compare assessments across multiple Microsoft 365 tenants.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/03/2026
Cisco's new Privileged Infrastructure Access uses identity-bound sessions and temporary permissions to govern work by administrators, AI agents and automation scripts.
Google's planned service combines isolated agent workspaces with rapid pause-and-resume operations, alongside expanded governance and token controls.
A survey of enterprise developers and managers finds widespread agent access alongside security worries, staging delays and AI-generated code that never reaches production.
A survey of ransomware victims details exploited AI agents, personal intimidation and gaps in identity recovery.
IT leaders are putting AI into observability stacks, but comfort drops sharply when it can change production systems.
New Intelligent ResOps offering helps IT teams track AI-driven changes, identify sensitive data, reduce storage waste and recover individual files.
Risk-based authentication checks sensitive actions as they happen, while narrow permissions limit what AI agents can do on a user's behalf.
The 2026 findings also highlight Docker and Kubernetes usage, interest in alternative infrastructure tools and limited AI adoption for production operations.
A global survey finds rising AI security spending, persistent cloud exposure and growing plans to evaluate post-quantum cryptography.
Joey D'Antoni says AI is making familiar security failures faster and cheaper to exploit, putting new urgency behind old priorities such as least privilege, secrets management, data cleanup and strong verification.
My ChatGPT migration dropped required deliverables, echoing user complaints about ignored instructions, editing hurdles and disrupted sharing.
Digital Realty's survey of 2,131 IT decision-makers finds private cloud, distributed data and infrastructure capacity increasingly tied to enterprise AI deployment.
Custom GPTs are scheduled to disappear in December as OpenAI moves reusable AI workflows to a plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and Codex.