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Nerdio Adds All-in-One Microsoft 365 Management for MSPs

New capabilities include simplified deployment and management of services including Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Intune. An updated pricing model is designed to increase margins for managed service providers.

Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Offering on AWS Targets VMware Users

Nutanix announced a new hybrid cloud offering parked on AWS that can help users extend their on-premises Nutanix environments to the cloud, offering perks to other users possibly disgruntled by the ongoing Broadcom/VMware tumult.

AWS, Google Cloud and Nutanix Certs Pay Off the Most: Report

"This year's list shows that cloud computing skills remain in high demand and can be quite lucrative for tech professionals."

Agentic AI Tops Gartner's 2025 Tech Trends

With those ever-present "destroy humanity" fears, the No. 2 trend is AI governance platforms, naturally.

Microsoft and Google Turn to Autonomous AI Agents

Cloud giants Microsoft and Google are both moving quickly in the trending field of autonomous AI agents as the GenAI space matures from simple query-and-response chatbots and content creators.

2 of 3 Cloud Giants Back New Okta-Led Identity Security Standard

Cloud giants Microsoft and Google, along with many other major industry players, are backing a new identity security standard proposed by Okta and the OpenID Foundation.

Bevy of Reports Call Out Russia, China, Iran and North Korea Threat Actors

A bevy of recent cybersecurity reports point to the continuing problem of nation-state-sponsored threat actors, though Microsoft seems more alarmed about the issue, leading the calls for action on the part of industry and government.

Research Cites Nutanix in Market Shift Away from VMware

Research firm Gartner predicts an enterprise trend "to replace their VMware-based deployments and embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure delivery," with Nutanix often chosen as the alternative.

AMD and Intel Trade Blows in AI Chip Battle

Prominent chipmakers AMD and Intel are duking it out as they chase NVIDIA for AI hardware supremacy, this week trading announcements about their latest/greatest offerings while holding dueling AI events.

Rubrik Teams with Okta for AI-Driven Identity Threat Protection

Partnership will provide critical user context to accelerate threat detection and response.

New Partnerships Push AI to the Edge

This movement, similar to "edge computing" in which data is processed closer to its source, sees AI models being deployed and executed on edge devices, allowing for real-time analysis and decision-making without relying on a central server.

SD-WAN Research Shows AI Networking Taking Over

SD-WAN was one of the hottest parts of IT networking not too long ago, and while it has lost lustre among other industry technologies since its heyday, the market is being reinvigorated by advanced Generative AI and machine learning (ML) developments.

New AI Research Puts Final Nail in CAPTCHA Coffin, Alternatives Needed

Advanced AI can defeat CAPTCHAs designed to prove web actions are being performed by humans instead of machines, so a better security mechanism is needed for the internet, new research indicates.

AWS Cites Move to On-Premises, Gartner Says It's Not Widespread

Is there a widespread backlash to cloud computing that sees organizations moving their IT operations back to on-premises datacenters? That longstanding debate was fueled by recent comments from AWS about cloud repatriation among its customer base.

Default Settings Cause AI Cloud Security Woes: Report

Cloud misconfigurations, specifically the blind acceptance of default resource settings, continue to cause cybersecurity issues in the cloud, with AI systems being a new factor.

Cloudflare Tool Helps 'Capture Value' from AI Site Scrapers

Connectivity cloud specialist Cloudflare announced a new AI Audit tool that monitors and controls how AI bots interact with site content, part of the back-and-forth between content owners and AI scrapers, with the former wanting to get paid by the latter.

Amazon Back-to-Office Edict Flummoxes Recent Hire

Corporate strategies, worker productivity, the value of in-person collaborations, the value of happy employees and other factors were debated after the announcement, but one social media post brings home how such decisions can affect individual workers.

Advanced AI Surges on Linux

While Linux is the OS of choice for many AI researchers and practitioners, Windows has been getting a lot more Gen AI functionality thanks to Microsoft's huge investment into OpenAI, but there are signs of an AI surge in the open-source OS space.

AWS Open-Source Brouhaha About Elasticsearch Takes Another Turn

A twisty, years-long brouhaha centered around open-source licensing has taken another turn, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) project based on Elasticsearch being turned over to a new group under the direction of the Linux Foundation.

Cohesity Data Protection Adds CrowdStrike Threat Intelligence

"Our latest collaboration with CrowdStrike allows customers to bring their own (BYO) cyber threat intelligence."

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