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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.
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In a lively and insight-packed session at the "How To Take Unstructured Data from Chaos to Clarity" Summit today, data expert Karen Lopez outlined a 7-step roadmap to help IT pros wrangle unstructured data. From finding hidden files to automating classification, she offered practical strategies for turning chaotic content into manageable, secure, and valuable assets.
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New research from Backslash Security uncovers critical "NeighborJack" and OS injection vulnerabilities in hundreds of public Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, exposing private user data and host machine control.
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The cloud is seen as a natural fit for compute-intensive analytics of all kinds -- including security -- but a new analyst report on that space sees Microsoft as the sole cloud giant mentioned among the leaders.
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Cybersecurity expert Ian Thornton-Trump warns IT pros that cloud security begins with knowing what you’re doing. From Scattered Spider to S3 ransomware, this expert-led session breaks down today’s top cloud threats -- and the best-practice defenses you may be missing.
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Allan Liska, widely known as the "Ransomware Sommelier," explains how AI, when integrated across the secure software development lifecycle, transforms app security from reactive to radically proactive.
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A new report from cloud security firm Wiz finds that while 87% of organizations are already using AI in the cloud, only 13% have adopted AI-specific security controls. The survey of 100 cloud architects and engineers highlights major gaps in visibility, governance, and expertise -- especially around shadow AI and hybrid environments.
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Cisco showcased its new AgenticOps paradigm at Cisco Live 2025, spotlighting AI Assistant, AI Canvas, and the Deep Network Model. These innovations aim to transform IT operations through AI-driven automation, collaboration, and deep network intelligence.
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Studies from Rackspace and IBM explore why some enterprises are pulling ahead with advanced AI adoption while others are stuck. Key takeaways reveal how AI-first leaders achieve better profits, innovation, and competitive edge -- and what laggards must do to catch up.
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Company report shows progress in detecting and shutting down AI-powered scams, cyberattacks, and influence operations -- many targeting cloud-based platforms.
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Renowned security architect John O'Neill, Sr. shared expert insights on building zero-trust frameworks for today’s hybrid, multicloud, and AI-powered IT environments.