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Understanding GPU memory requirements is essential for AI workloads, as VRAM capacity--not processing power--determines which models you can run, with total memory needs typically exceeding model size by 20-50% due to weights, activations, KV cache, and system overhead.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton details how he used GitHub Pages, PowerShell, and AI-assisted vibe coding to build and maintain a free personal archive of his published articles.
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If you're a PC Luddite stubbornly clinging to your non-upgradeable Windows 10 PC like me, here's what you're missing with advanced Copilot AI.
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22-time Microsoft MVP Brien Posey used a real-world buildout of AI-enabled applications to show how GPU limits, physical infrastructure constraints, and cross-platform access requirements can reshape application delivery in unexpected ways.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton walks through how he used AI-driven vibe coding and GitHub Pages to build and deploy a free, cloud-hosted static web page, creating a central home for his past articles while learning modern GitHub workflows along the way.
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Our 1-person SOC from Down Under takes a must-read, REALLY deep dive to explain all the ins and outs of Microsoft betting heavily on AI agents for productivity, IT operations, and security, pairing rapid agent expansion with new governance and licensing models that enterprises will need to navigate carefully. He also pours one out for the demise of Contoso. RIP.
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By Tom Fenton
A look at how thin clients evolved from dumb terminals to modern cloud-connected endpoints, and how recent acquisitions by Citrix, IGEL, and others are reshaping the endpoint landscape.
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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms again places IBM in the Leaders quadrant alongside Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft.
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AWS Ambassador Steven Smiley broke down key re:Invent announcements, focusing on Lambda Durable Functions and new features aimed at simplifying serverless, containers, and networking.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton evaluates how 10ZiG RepurpOS handles real-world VDI, SaaS, and dual-monitor workloads, finding that repurposed Windows 10 hardware can deliver smooth Horizon VDI performance, strong unified communications support, and a local browser experience comparable to Windows 11.
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Nutanix announced new Nutanix Cloud Platform capabilities and the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.5 release to help organizations build and operate distributed sovereign clouds with expanded security, resilience, and global management features.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explains how to repurpose an "obsolete" Windows 10 laptop into a capable thin client using 10ZiG RepurpOS, covering hardware requirements, installation, management, and real-world RDP performance that shows aging PCs can still deliver an excellent remote desktop experience.
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The new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation launches with Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI contributions and immediate platinum backing from major cloud providers, signaling a push for open, cross-cloud standards for AI agents.
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Negative prompts are a concise way to steer generative AI away from unwanted content or styles, but they work best when targeted, balanced with positive instructions, and framed as hard vs. soft constraints depending on how strict you need the output to be.
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In a post-KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 webcast, Kubernetes expert Tom Fenton explained how Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the default platform for AI workloads and why scaling those workloads efficiently now hinges on standards, portability, and maximizing scarce GPU resources.
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Paul Schnackenburg, our go-to expert, dives into massive datasets--including Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025--to deliver practical, battle-tested advice for organizations that can't necessarily afford enterprise-level security. Learn how to look past vendor bias, prioritize defenses against real-world threats like identity compromise (which is up 32%), and implement free tools like Thinkst Canarytokens to build a robust, budget-conscious cybersecurity strategy.
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At AWS re:Invent 2025, Rubrik introduced Rubrik Agent Cloud for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, bringing monitoring, policy controls and selective rollback for enterprise AI agents
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Veeam has released Veeam Data Platform v13, which the company positions as a major update spanning security, AI-driven intelligence, appliance deployment, and expanded hypervisor integration.
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Carlos Rivas used today's Virtualization & Cloud Review summit to show how Amazon S3 replication, through SRR, and CRR, has become a core architectural tool for modern cloud disaster recovery.
