The new "2025 State of the Cloud" report from multicloud specialist Rackspace defines and explains the characteristics of a "cloud leader."
Post-acquisition defections have been trumpeted by benefactors, with the latest being Nutanix announcing that Evalueserve, a global research and analytics firm, has chosen Nutanix to replace its VMware-based virtualization infrastructure.
Tech organizations and companies blasted this week's AI moves by the Biden administration, with Nvidia slamming the U.S. president's actions and comparing current government policies unfavorably with those of president-elect Donald Trump.
A new survey-based report from cloud security specialist Netskope explores cybersecurity threats, including the dangers of GenAI and the related apps that are most often blocked from employee use by organizations.
"The term 'metaverse' has weathered a significant hype cycle, where inconsistent definitions led to confusion and premature declarations of its demise" -- Metaverse Standards Forum
The "Responsible AI" movement seeks to help organizations build and maintain trust with users, stakeholders and society at large -- and maybe even avoid those pesky "AI-Kills-Humanity" scenarios -- but a new report indicates it just makes good business sense, too.
Five online systems generate surprisingly similar predictions around multimodal, agents and the usual suspects.
Data security specialist Rubrik is speeding up the threat hunting process in its software by allowing for quicker recoveries in the familiar backup & recovery process.
Since the dawn of advanced generative AI the new tech has been used by both threat actors and security defenders, with a new survey examining that double-edged security sword and finding many execs predict more cybersecurity issues.
"By 2027, AI assistants and AI-enhanced workflows incorporated into data integration tools will reduce manual intervention by 60 percent and enable self-service data management."
Security is paramount to both proprietary and open-source AI approaches in these days of rampant ransomware and other cybersecurity exploits, and here the open-source movement might be susceptible to some inherent drawbacks, such as use of possibly insecure code from unknown sources.
Follow the money, they say, and the money says vertical AI agents are the future.
Rubrik says it's brining cyber posture and cyber recovery to provide Microsoft Azure Blob Storage customers further visibility into their cloud data, enabling business agility and resilience.
Aim is to help organizations modernize their VMs and applications while enhancing cyber resilience, offering features like easier migration, faster data recovery, and unified data management across virtualized environments to help better protect against evolving threats.
Data resilience specialist Veeam Software updated its Data Cloud Vault with two new pricing tiers and enhanced integration with the Veeam Data Platform.
Data security specialist Druva announced extended support in Microsoft environments, specifically Microsoft 365 Dynamics Sales and Customer Service CRM modules.
New capabilities include simplified deployment and management of services including Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Intune. An updated pricing model is designed to increase margins for managed service providers.
Nutanix announced a new hybrid cloud offering parked on AWS that can help users extend their on-premises Nutanix environments to the cloud, offering perks to other users possibly disgruntled by the ongoing Broadcom/VMware tumult.
"This year's list shows that cloud computing skills remain in high demand and can be quite lucrative for tech professionals."
With those ever-present "destroy humanity" fears, the No. 2 trend is AI governance platforms, naturally.