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Brien Posey details how resolving a driver issue unlocked full performance from an Nvidia A6000 GPU that was underperforming on AI video workloads compared to a consumer-grade Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, sharing key troubleshooting steps for GPU bottlenecks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recounts how EUC World Amplify 2025’s final "unconference" day featured candid, vendor-neutral discussions on app packaging, hypervisor strategy amid VMware licensing shifts, and modernization tradeoffs, plus updates from Parallels, Nerdio, Dizzion, Google, and IGEL, with talk of a Melbourne expansion.
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Paul Schnackenburg details how DARPA's AIxCC showcases autonomous systems that find reachable vulnerabilities, generate and test patches, and produce SARIF reports at scale--and explains how IT pros can apply these practices to improve software quality in their organizations by combining fuzzing and static/dynamic analysis with LLM-driven automation and integrating PoV/patch workflows into CI/CD.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton says Day 1 at Broadcom VMware Explore 2025 felt leaner and more engineering-driven. Conversations centered on packaging/licensing tradeoffs and hands-on use of the full VMware stack. Highlights included deep dives on vGPU management for AI in VCF 9, a 100-level VCF platform tour, and bite-size Quick Talks on scripting GPU ops with PowerShell and Python, capped by a lower-key welcome reception.
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The best thing that a business can do to avoid falling for a hallucination when using a general-purpose generative AI tool is to require the tool to provide references and then take the time to verify those references, says Brien Posey.
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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.
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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.
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Brien Posey breaks down the 6 R’s of application migration and how each applies to AI-ready hybrid cloud environments, from quick lift-and-shift moves to complex refactoring for maximum scalability and performance.
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'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.
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Google’s new Kaggle Game Arena debuts with a live chess exhibition where eight frontier AI models compete in a single-elimination showdown. The event showcases a new approach to AI benchmarking, with final rankings determined by a rigorous all-play-all system.
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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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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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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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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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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
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.