A new ControlMonkey survey finds 98% of enterprises face blockers to cloud scale and resilience as AI workloads surge, with security, visibility, and automation gaps creating what the report calls a "turning point" for infrastructure readiness.
Allan Liska outlined the five stages of ransomware recovery during the Virtualization & Cloud Review summit "The First 72: What To Do in the Hours Post-Attack," providing organizations with a structured framework for the critical first 72 hours after an attack.
At Oktane 2025, Rubrik announced Okta Recovery, extending its identity resilience platform to Okta with immutable backups and in-place recovery, while separately detailing its integration with Okta Identity Threat Protection for automated remediation.
Cloudera’s latest global survey shows 96% of enterprises have integrated AI into core processes, with hybrid cloud architectures emerging as the backbone for scaling secure and effective adoption.
Nick Cavalancia warned at a Virtualization & Cloud Review summit that exploding telemetry data is a "timebomb," urging enterprises to manage ingestion, routing, and governance to avoid spiraling costs and risks.
AppOmni and Cribl announced an integration to defend against UNC6395- and UNC6040-style SaaS supply chain attacks, combining SaaS visibility with optimized data routing and storage to improve prevention, incident response, and compliance.
Broadcom announced it will cut the number of VMware Cloud Service Provider partners starting in November, reshaping its ecosystem around VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and continuing the sweeping changes that have disrupted customers and partners since its VMware acquisition.
Google Cloud's 2025 ROI of AI study finds 52% of enterprises now deploy AI agents, with early adopters seeing significantly higher returns across customer service, marketing, security, and software development.
Forrester’s Q3 2025 report on secure access service edge (SASE) finds a market consolidating around unified, single-console platforms that integrate SD-WAN, SSE, and ZTNA, with DLP and AI now key differentiators
Druva has launched MetaGraph, a secure metadata intelligence layer that works with its DruAI Agents to turn backup data into real-time insights, enabling faster cyber, compliance, and operational decisions.
Recent September 2025 updates from Microsoft, AWS, and Google highlight how enterprise priorities are shaping cloud AI--emphasizing security, governance, and operational readiness as organizations move from experimentation to production deployment.
A new survey-based report from Tenable and the Cloud Security Alliance warns that hybrid, multi-cloud and AI adoption is accelerating faster than security strategies, exposing organizations to identity gaps, skills shortages and preventable breaches.
Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure highlights a market shift from “cloud-first” to “infrastructure-flexible.” Enterprises are prioritizing cloud-native operations across on-prem, edge, and sovereign locations, with AI and VMware alternatives driving demand.
Usage report shows ChatGPT leading global gen-AI engagement by a wide margin, while OpenAI’s addition of Google Cloud as a sub-processor in five regions signals a broader multi-cloud footprint alongside Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and others.
Veeam introduced its first software-only, hardware-agnostic appliance for backup and recovery, delivering a hardened Linux deployment with built-in immutability, automated patching, and Instant Recovery to Azure.
Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services shows enterprises shifting from feature checklists to evaluating whether vendors can be trusted as long-term strategic partners in a volatile global landscape.
MIT’s Project NANDA released a July 2025 report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, finding that despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of generative AI projects yield no measurable business return. The study identifies a “GenAI Divide,” where only 5% of pilots deliver ROI, with success hinging on adaptive, learning-capable systems rather than static tools.
Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) finds adoption expanding beyond remote work to include cost, operational and sustainability drivers. Strategic planning assumptions project that by 2027, virtual desktops will be cost-effective for 95% of workers.
'Rogue agents are not just theory--they are already appearing in the wild.' Rubrik’s new Agent Rewind, powered by its recent Predibase acquisition, lets enterprises track, audit, and roll back AI agent actions, aiming to boost control and “AI resilience” without restricting agent autonomy.
Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Container Management sees Google, Microsoft, and AWS leading the market, with Red Hat, Alibaba, SUSE, and Huawei also in the Leaders quadrant. The report cites expanding AI/ML workload support, hybrid/multicloud trends, and ongoing challenges for new adopters.