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By Tom Fenton
A roundup of key companies and technologies showcased at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, highlighting developments in observability, enterprise AI, Kubernetes management, secure connectivity, and broader conference themes.
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Rubrik introduced expanded agentic AI management through Microsoft Copilot Studio integration, new Intelligent Business Recovery for Microsoft 365, and DevOps Protection for Azure DevOps and GitHub at Microsoft Ignite 2025.
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By Tom Fenton
Our man on-site, Tom Fenton, explains how KubeCon 2025 highlighted the rapid convergence of AI and cloud-native infrastructure, with Kubernetes firmly established as the preferred platform for training, inference, and emerging agentic AI systems, alongside vendor updates and conversations showcasing broad innovation across the ecosystem.
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By Tom Fenton
Day 2 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 highlighted major real-world engineering wins, nonprofit impact stories, large-scale modernization efforts, and the CNCF community awards.
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By Tom Fenton
Day 1 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 focused on the 10-year milestones of Kubernetes and the CNCF, highlighted the growing convergence of cloud-native technologies and AI, introduced the Kubernetes AI Conformance Program, emphasized open-source supply chain security investments, showcased major project and community growth, and featured industry keynotes covering AI, security, and container innovation.
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Brien Posey today detailed how defining backup policies as code can eliminate human error, ensure consistency across environments, and bring cloud data protection in line with modern deployment practices.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recaps Day 0 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, where CNCF’s co-located events offered deep dives into specific technologies.
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Brien Posey showed how organizations can use tabletop exercises to test and strengthen their Microsoft 365 Zero Trust strategies through realistic, collaborative simulations that expose gaps before real incidents occur.
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Joey D’Antoni outlines how Microsoft Entra’s Conditional Access and Zero Trust capabilities help enterprises secure hybrid identity environments while balancing usability and control.
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Google Cloud's 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast predicts that AI will become standard for both attackers and defenders, with threats expanding to virtualization systems, blockchain networks, and nation-state operations.
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Paul Schnackenburg warns that poorly governed OAuth app registrations in Microsoft Entra ID pose a serious security risk, as shown by recent Salesloft/Drift and Commvault breaches, and outlines how to manage and mitigate that threat.
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A Dimensional Research survey commissioned by Backblaze found nearly all large organizations face hidden cloud storage charges that limit flexibility and drive data lock-in.
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A new Gartner survey of 253 infrastructure and operations leaders reports that 54% are adopting AI to reduce costs, with budget limits and integration cited as the top challenges and guidance to start with targeted pilots.
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Brien Posey explains that a large language model’s performance depends more on architecture, training, and data quality than on its parameter count alone.
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Microsoft identity expert Nathan O’Bryan showed IT pros how to tighten Microsoft 365 security through Entra and Intune features like Conditional Access and Multi-Admin Approval--without hampering user productivity.
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This reporter has lately been complaining in team meetings about having to fight with our company ChatGPT, specifically mentioning "yelling at a machine," but recent research indicates that might not be all bad -- blood pressure notwithstanding. A new study finds that ChatGPT-4o gives more accurate answers when prompted rudely rather than politely, contradicting previous research suggesting the opposite.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware’s newly renamed Workstation Pro 25H2 introduces calendar-based versioning, automation tools, and expanded hardware and OS support, signaling a renewed focus on the long-running desktop hypervisor.
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By Tom Fenton
An in-depth look at how Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has damaged not just budgets but the trust, talent, and ecosystem that once made VMware central to enterprise IT.
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Veeam Software announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to combine data resilience, privacy, and AI trust in a unified platform aimed at helping organizations securely manage and unlock the value of their data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
