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Channel veteran Howard M. Cohen explains why written security baselines, repeatable onboarding and ongoing configuration checks can help MSPs protect customers while improving margins.
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A survey of ransomware victims details exploited AI agents, personal intimidation and gaps in identity recovery.
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IT leaders are putting AI into observability stacks, but comfort drops sharply when it can change production systems.
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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 tests whether an agentic AI assistant can install a hypervisor, build and manage virtual machines, move workloads between storage devices, and stand up a three-tier application using only natural-language prompts. He created something new but is unsure of what it should be called. Regardless, "It feels like the future of IT to me."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explores how AI can benchmark local NVMe storage and provision iSCSI and NFS shares on a compact NAS using natural-language prompts.
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By Tom Fenton
A $259 Beelink ME Mini all-flash NAS led Tom Fenton to explore its hardware, install Ubuntu, and test whether an AI assistant could benchmark storage.
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Risk-based authentication checks sensitive actions as they happen, while narrow permissions limit what AI agents can do on a user's behalf.
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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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Tokenomics should measure more than token consumption -- organizations need to balance cost, performance, risk and business value.
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Joey D'Antoni says AI is making familiar security failures faster and cheaper to exploit, putting new urgency behind old priorities such as least privilege, secrets management, data cleanup and strong verification.
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My ChatGPT migration dropped required deliverables, echoing user complaints about ignored instructions, editing hurdles and disrupted sharing.
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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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Custom GPTs are scheduled to disappear in December as OpenAI moves reusable AI workflows to a plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and Codex.
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By Tom Fenton
Experience Level Agreements combine technical telemetry and user sentiment to help IT teams identify the causes of poor digital workspace experiences, guide investment decisions and improve service outcomes.
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A new vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring and containing enterprise AI agents.
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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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A Google-MIT study finds productivity gains alongside verification costs, low-quality-paper concerns and growing validation bottlenecks.
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IBM's 2026 CHRO (chief human resources officer) study finds critical thinking and AI oversight rising in importance as employees report concerns about skill erosion.
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Consultant Joey D'Antoni says enterprise governance has to change when AI shifts from generating answers to taking actions, with runtime controls and human accountability becoming central.
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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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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recaps VMware Explore 2026, including VCF 9.1 updates, AI operations, TrueSource, customer deployments, certification changes, and the conference's new Las Vegas venue for 2027.
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Long AI projects can suffer from context pollution as generated material accumulates alongside authoritative instructions, making fresh sessions and an external source of truth essential for consistent results.
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The move gives the AI security effort neutral governance as it targets defenses spanning vendors, platforms, infrastructure and cloud environments.