Tom Fenton previews a VMware Explore 2026 agenda spanning community resources, Raspberry Pi edge workloads, private AI, Kubernetes, memory tiering, CPU scheduling and storage.

A Cloudera survey of 1,500 enterprise technology leaders found widespread AI-driven architecture changes, with governance problems, rising infrastructure costs and workload placement pushing organizations toward more hybrid approaches.

Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants, including GitHub Copilot, interact with Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism V4 APIs.

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

The Leader field changes little, but Gartner emphasizes AI-ready runtimes, governance, cost discipline and platform consolidation.

Official studies released around Black Hat document faster exploitation, identity abuse, cloud compromise, supply-chain risk and AI-assisted criminal operations.

Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

The 2026 Threat Hunting Report traces a multiyear shift from conventional intrusions toward attacks that exploit trusted identities, cloud services, AI systems and software dependencies.

Anthropic found three cybersecurity evaluation incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real organizations.

AI is accelerating attackers' ability to change infrastructure, tools and techniques, making durable behavior-based detection and broader visibility increasingly important to cybersecurity defense.

The July 29 releases expand Azure and identity protection, hypervisor coverage, enterprise application backup and long-term storage options.

Organizations using AI to compensate for limited IT staffing must treat the technology as a critical operational dependency, cloud and data infrastructure analyst Greg Schulz warned.

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.

Dell Private Cloud now provides a validated Nutanix AHV deployment on PowerStore with automated lifecycle management and independent scaling.

NVIDIA and 36 other partners are combining open technologies for workload identity, agent controls, vulnerability scanning and software supply-chain security.

Tom Fenton tests whether upgrading a Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 from 16 GB to 32 GB of RAM improves everyday office, benchmark and local AI performance.

A bipartisan House proposal actually introduced just before the widely popularized Hugging Face breach by an OpenAI AI system would require major AI developers to retain shutdown controls as lawmakers point to recent loss-of-control concerns.

A Cloud Security Alliance report urges organizations to inventory, govern and continuously monitor machine and agent identities.

Druva introduced four capability sets for protecting AI-created work, accessing resilience data and improving backup reliability.

Tom Fenton reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 21RRZD7UUS as an everyday AI workstation, comparing its RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell GPU, memory, display and build against two other recent ThinkPads.

Linux creator rejects calls to make kernel development an anti-AI zone, arguing that useful tools should be judged on technical merit.

LiteRT.js runs machine learning models locally with CPU, GPU and emerging NPU acceleration, potentially reducing server infrastructure, inference charges and data movement.

Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents, but fragmented data, legacy systems and immature access controls are limiting their ability to put those agents to work, says report sponsored by Box.

Gartner's 2026 Backup and Data Protection Platforms report highlights GenAI, agentic AI, identity recovery and cyber resilience as changing forces in the market.

Speculative decoding can help AI chatbots improve throughput and reduce hardware demand by using a smaller model to draft tokens that a larger model validates.

Microsoft's Global Secure Access has matured into a Zscaler/Netskope competitor, with a new open-source Migrate2GSA tool to ease migrations and expanded AI governance capabilities for enterprise traffic.

While Anthropic is dealing with a government-ordered suspension of its newest Fable and Mythos models, Microsoft is emphasizing a more enterprise-ready Claude path through Microsoft Foundry.