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Two planned collaborations build on Data Activate to deliver protected enterprise data to analytics and AI applications while preserving governance and context.
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Rubrik's latest announcements combine generally available AWS application recovery and BigQuery backup with planned investigation and recovery tools for cloud and developer environments.
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New capabilities target Microsoft Foundry and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, connecting agent activity with recovery of affected enterprise resources.
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Commvault's planned orchestration capability will coordinate recovery of applications, identities, infrastructure, configurations and data through automated runbooks.
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Red Hat brings AI-assisted investigations and update planning to OpenShift 5, with human approval for changes and separate preview status for autonomous workflows.
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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.
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Hybrid AI could combine local small language models for routine work with cloud models for more demanding tasks, potentially improving responsiveness while reducing service providers' infrastructure costs.
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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.
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Cisco's new Privileged Infrastructure Access uses identity-bound sessions and temporary permissions to govern work by administrators, AI agents and automation scripts.
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Google's planned service combines isolated agent workspaces with rapid pause-and-resume operations, alongside expanded governance and token controls.
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A survey of enterprise developers and managers finds widespread agent access alongside security worries, staging delays and AI-generated code that never reaches production.
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New Intelligent ResOps offering helps IT teams track AI-driven changes, identify sensitive data, reduce storage waste and recover individual files.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton interview explains DevZero uses CRIU-based live migration and workload-aware scheduling to reduce Kubernetes and AI infrastructure waste without disrupting running applications.
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The 2026 findings also highlight Docker and Kubernetes usage, interest in alternative infrastructure tools and limited AI adoption for production operations.
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A global survey finds rising AI security spending, persistent cloud exposure and growing plans to evaluate post-quantum cryptography.
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Digital Realty's survey of 2,131 IT decision-makers finds private cloud, distributed data and infrastructure capacity increasingly tied to enterprise AI deployment.
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Gartner sees AI agents moving rapidly into industrial production, but its latest industrial AIoT research says operators remain wary of giving those agents unconstrained control over physical assets and safety-critical processes.
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Our 1-person SOC from Down Under, Paul Schnackenburg, examines the reality behind AI-powered cyberattacks and Microsoft's Project Perception, a preview of agentic defenses for discovering, detecting, and remediating vulnerabilities.
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The move gives the AI security effort neutral governance as it targets defenses spanning vendors, platforms, infrastructure and cloud environments.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware Explore 2026 announcements show Broadcom expanding VMware Cloud Foundation into an AI-native private cloud spanning infrastructure, operations, security, agents and data.
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A survey of 1,402-leaders suggests production agentic AI is pushing upgrades in infrastructure, governance, edge deployment and energy efficiency.
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The 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms points beyond vendor rankings to a broader infrastructure shift driven by hypervisor changes, cloud-style consumption economics, surging hardware costs and AI.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton previews KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, where AI infrastructure, platform engineering, security and the cloud-native community will take center stage in Salt Lake City.
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Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.8 adds agent governance and inference features, while Kubernetes Platform 2.19 is coming soon.
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Verkada research finds cloud-managed physical security systems are far more likely to be running AI, while hybrid deployments still dominate the market.