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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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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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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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Virtualization security expert Joey D'Antoni outlines how to protect the hypervisor, isolate administrative access and recover even when attackers hold the keys to your virtual infrastructure.
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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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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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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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Licensing changes, forced bundling and shifting vendor strategies are reshaping a once-stable infrastructure market that sees Nutanix called out for its ability to execute and Broadcom (VMware) for its vision.
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By Tom Fenton
Chris Wolf explains how enterprise private AI has evolved from early hype to practical platform decisions around open runtimes, virtualization tradeoffs, cost controls, and governance for agentic systems.
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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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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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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton previews a VMware Explore 2026 agenda spanning community resources, Raspberry Pi edge workloads, private AI, Kubernetes, memory tiering, CPU scheduling and storage.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware Explore 2026 will combine technical education on private cloud and private AI with hands-on learning, community networking and opportunities to reconnect with peers
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton examines how vSphere 9 Memory Tiering combines DRAM with enterprise NVMe storage to help organizations offset soaring memory costs, increase VM density and reduce server spending.
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Dell Private Cloud now provides a validated Nutanix AHV deployment on PowerStore with automated lifecycle management and independent scaling.
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CNCF graduation comes as Azure, AWS and Google Cloud expand OpenTelemetry support across cloud monitoring, Kubernetes and hybrid infrastructure.
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HPE announced new GreenLake updates spanning private cloud, storage and data protection, led by planned unified management of virtual machines and containers in HPE Private Cloud.
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Red Hat Summit 2026 announcements around Telenet Business and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory show OpenShift Virtualization being positioned as a platform for VM modernization, hybrid cloud operations and future containerized workloads.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 adds AI, Kubernetes, infrastructure efficiency, networking and security updates for private cloud deployments.
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By Tom Fenton
Testing small LLMs in a VMware Workstation VM on an Intel-based laptop reveals performance speeds orders of magnitude faster than on a Raspberry Pi 5, demonstrating that local AI limitations are hardware-driven -- not inherent to running AI locally.
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By Tom Fenton
Edera's Micro VM platform isolates each Kubernetes pod in its own private Linux kernel using a Rust-based, Xen-derived hypervisor -- reducing the container attack surface by up to 95% while maintaining near-native performance
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By Tom Fenton
After splitting from VMware in 2024, Omnissa Horizon has evolved with expanded platform support including Nutanix AHV, modernized client interfaces, AI-powered tools, and flexible hybrid cloud deployment options while maintaining its enterprise VDI foundation.