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CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report reveals AI tools are being weaponized and directly targeted, while cloud intrusions surge 136% in early 2025.
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By Tom Fenton
"I was born and raised with the command line, and it bothered me that I couldn't find a way to open a terminal and run commands."
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Forrester's Q3 2025 "Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms" report assesses vendors in a market reshaped by the need for consistent management across public, private, and edge environments. The report identifies leaders in providing unified management, security, and governance for containerized applications in complex multicloud deployments.
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In a recent online tech-ed summit, "How To Make Microsoft 365 Fail-Proof: Modern Strategies for Resilience," experts John O'Neill Sr. and Dave Kawula discussed the critical role of identity management in disaster recovery for Microsoft 365 environments. The session highlighted that identity is the single point of failure for the entire Microsoft 365 service stack.
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Karen Lopez shows how IT pros can go beyond monitoring with AI-powered analytics to spot threats before they become breaches. From tracking encryption drift to investigating off-hours data access, here are five practical moves you can make today.
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Google is rolling out new AI Mode features in Search, including image and PDF queries on desktop, a Canvas tool for planning, real-time help with Search Live, and Lens integration in Chrome. Features are launching in the U.S. ahead of the school year.
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Nine months after its release, Windows Server 2025 is proving Microsoft hasn’t lost focus on on-prem. From GPU live migration to VMware alternatives, WAC upgrades, hotpatching and more, our IT pro and 1-person SOC from Down Under explains in exhaustive detail what’s new--and what’s next.
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A new Couchbase survey highlights that enterprises not keeping pace with AI adoption could face annual losses of up to $87 million. The report, based on insights from 800 IT decision-makers, identifies challenges in data understanding, budget management, and skill availability as key impediments to AI progress, despite significant investment and a clear recognition of AI's transformative potential.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton sees Win 10 end of life as an excellent opportunity to utilize these devices for other business and personal purposes, as there are numerous creative and practical ways to extend their usefulness and prevent them from being thrown away, gathering dust, or ending up in a landfill.
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AI is shifting from the cloud to PCs, offering enhanced productivity, security, and ROI. Key players like Intel, Microsoft (Copilot+ PCs), and Google (Gemini Nano) are driving this on-device AI trend, shaping a crucial hybrid future for IT.
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Amazon has confirmed to multiple sources that it has laid off many employees in its Amazon Web (AWS) division, with the news coming after another massive investment in AI technologies.
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Cloud architect Joey D’Antoni breaks down a six-part framework for building a resilient database security playbook across AWS and Azure. From access reviews to incident drills, here’s how to lock down your most critical cloud assets.
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Gartner's latest research report on the secure access service edge market outlines key features to prioritize when evaluating vendors, from unified management and global POP coverage to inline security and AI capabilities
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Big Tech is pouring billions into AI, but at what cost? Microsoft, AWS, and Google are ramping up infrastructure spend -- while cutting thousands of jobs. Are layoffs, some possibly attributed to AI replacements, quietly fueling the AI boom?
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By Tom Fenton
This year looks pretty solid, Tom says, especially with VMware's big push to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 and the transformational changes we see in AI.
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By Tom Fenton
Ever since VMware sold its End User Computing business, VMware has effectively excluded EUC sessions from VMware Explore, its annual conference. says Tom Fenton, who as a result has been searching for a conference to replace it.
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Major AI players are racing to solve a critical challenge: memory. Google’s new Vertex AI Memory Bank lets agents retain long-term context across sessions, while OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, CrewAI and others are building their own systems to help AI remember your preferences, projects, and conversations.
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As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, cloud security fundamentals are falling behind. Thales’ 2025 Cloud Security Study finds just 8% of organizations encrypt most of their sensitive cloud data — even as AI-driven attacks rise and security budgets shift toward new risks.
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Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, Dell, and Druva lead Gartner's newly renamed 2025 Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. The report marks a major shift toward cyberresilient, AI-driven architectures that extend far beyond traditional backup and recovery -- prioritizing GenAI, SaaS coverage, and unified hybrid cloud operations.
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Our "one-person SOC" from Down Under, Paul Schnackenburg -- definiely not a dev -- tuned into the dev-heavy Microsoft Build 2025 conference and walked away with valuable insights for IT teams. From Copilot Studio to local AI agents and post-quantum cryptography, his takeaway? Even if you're not coding, there's plenty to unpack in the agentic AI wave.