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By Tom Fenton
In Tom Fenton's conversation with Solo.io Global Field CTO Christian Posta, the discussion focused on operationalizing AI agents and skills as production-grade, governed resources--including how kagent and agentgateway fit into scaling agent deployments securely across enterprise environments.
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Veeam unveiled Agent Commander, a unified platform designed to detect AI risk, protect AI systems and precisely undo AI-driven actions at enterprise scale.
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Druva introduced Deep Analysis Agents, Agentic Memory and multimodal capabilities to move DruAI from conversational assistance to delegated investigative workflows.
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Rubrik has made Rubrik Agent Cloud generally available, adding expanded governance controls that enforce predefined and custom policies on both AI agent prompts and responses.
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This walkthrough from Brien Posey shows how to build a custom Ollama model from a base model and tune it with a short Modelfile -- without training from scratch.
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Greg Schulz explains the critical shift toward API-defined infrastructure and how organizations must leverage federated management and gateways to scale for the unique, high-velocity demands of autonomous agentic systems.
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Understanding GPU memory requirements is essential for AI workloads, as VRAM capacity--not processing power--determines which models you can run, with total memory needs typically exceeding model size by 20-50% due to weights, activations, KV cache, and system overhead.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton details how he used GitHub Pages, PowerShell, and AI-assisted vibe coding to build and maintain a free personal archive of his published articles.
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If you're a PC Luddite stubbornly clinging to your non-upgradeable Windows 10 PC like me, here's what you're missing with advanced Copilot AI.
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22-time Microsoft MVP Brien Posey used a real-world buildout of AI-enabled applications to show how GPU limits, physical infrastructure constraints, and cross-platform access requirements can reshape application delivery in unexpected ways.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton walks through how he used AI-driven vibe coding and GitHub Pages to build and deploy a free, cloud-hosted static web page, creating a central home for his past articles while learning modern GitHub workflows along the way.
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Our 1-person SOC from Down Under takes a must-read, REALLY deep dive to explain all the ins and outs of Microsoft betting heavily on AI agents for productivity, IT operations, and security, pairing rapid agent expansion with new governance and licensing models that enterprises will need to navigate carefully. He also pours one out for the demise of Contoso. RIP.
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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms again places IBM in the Leaders quadrant alongside Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Brien Posey explains that a large language model’s performance depends more on architecture, training, and data quality than on its parameter count alone.
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Microsoft identity expert Nathan O’Bryan showed IT pros how to tighten Microsoft 365 security through Entra and Intune features like Conditional Access and Multi-Admin Approval--without hampering user productivity.
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This reporter has lately been complaining in team meetings about having to fight with our company ChatGPT, specifically mentioning "yelling at a machine," but recent research indicates that might not be all bad -- blood pressure notwithstanding. A new study finds that ChatGPT-4o gives more accurate answers when prompted rudely rather than politely, contradicting previous research suggesting the opposite.
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Veeam Software announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to combine data resilience, privacy, and AI trust in a unified platform aimed at helping organizations securely manage and unlock the value of their data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.