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The new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation launches with Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI contributions and immediate platinum backing from major cloud providers, signaling a push for open, cross-cloud standards for AI agents.
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Negative prompts are a concise way to steer generative AI away from unwanted content or styles, but they work best when targeted, balanced with positive instructions, and framed as hard vs. soft constraints depending on how strict you need the output to be.
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In a post-KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 webcast, Kubernetes expert Tom Fenton explained how Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the default platform for AI workloads and why scaling those workloads efficiently now hinges on standards, portability, and maximizing scarce GPU resources.
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Paul Schnackenburg, our go-to expert, dives into massive datasets--including Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025--to deliver practical, battle-tested advice for organizations that can't necessarily afford enterprise-level security. Learn how to look past vendor bias, prioritize defenses against real-world threats like identity compromise (which is up 32%), and implement free tools like Thinkst Canarytokens to build a robust, budget-conscious cybersecurity strategy.
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At AWS re:Invent 2025, Rubrik introduced Rubrik Agent Cloud for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, bringing monitoring, policy controls and selective rollback for enterprise AI agents
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Veeam has released Veeam Data Platform v13, which the company positions as a major update spanning security, AI-driven intelligence, appliance deployment, and expanded hypervisor integration.
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Carlos Rivas used today's Virtualization & Cloud Review summit to show how Amazon S3 replication, through SRR, and CRR, has become a core architectural tool for modern cloud disaster recovery.
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By Tom Fenton
A roundup of key companies and technologies showcased at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, highlighting developments in observability, enterprise AI, Kubernetes management, secure connectivity, and broader conference themes.
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Rubrik introduced expanded agentic AI management through Microsoft Copilot Studio integration, new Intelligent Business Recovery for Microsoft 365, and DevOps Protection for Azure DevOps and GitHub at Microsoft Ignite 2025.
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By Tom Fenton
Our man on-site, Tom Fenton, explains how KubeCon 2025 highlighted the rapid convergence of AI and cloud-native infrastructure, with Kubernetes firmly established as the preferred platform for training, inference, and emerging agentic AI systems, alongside vendor updates and conversations showcasing broad innovation across the ecosystem.
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By Tom Fenton
Day 2 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 highlighted major real-world engineering wins, nonprofit impact stories, large-scale modernization efforts, and the CNCF community awards.
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By Tom Fenton
Day 1 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 focused on the 10-year milestones of Kubernetes and the CNCF, highlighted the growing convergence of cloud-native technologies and AI, introduced the Kubernetes AI Conformance Program, emphasized open-source supply chain security investments, showcased major project and community growth, and featured industry keynotes covering AI, security, and container innovation.
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Brien Posey today detailed how defining backup policies as code can eliminate human error, ensure consistency across environments, and bring cloud data protection in line with modern deployment practices.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recaps Day 0 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, where CNCF’s co-located events offered deep dives into specific technologies.
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Brien Posey showed how organizations can use tabletop exercises to test and strengthen their Microsoft 365 Zero Trust strategies through realistic, collaborative simulations that expose gaps before real incidents occur.
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Joey D’Antoni outlines how Microsoft Entra’s Conditional Access and Zero Trust capabilities help enterprises secure hybrid identity environments while balancing usability and control.
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Google Cloud's 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast predicts that AI will become standard for both attackers and defenders, with threats expanding to virtualization systems, blockchain networks, and nation-state operations.
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Paul Schnackenburg warns that poorly governed OAuth app registrations in Microsoft Entra ID pose a serious security risk, as shown by recent Salesloft/Drift and Commvault breaches, and outlines how to manage and mitigate that threat.
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A Dimensional Research survey commissioned by Backblaze found nearly all large organizations face hidden cloud storage charges that limit flexibility and drive data lock-in.
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A new Gartner survey of 253 infrastructure and operations leaders reports that 54% are adopting AI to reduce costs, with budget limits and integration cited as the top challenges and guidance to start with targeted pilots.