AI Guardrails for Custom Business Applications -- Virtualization Review AI integration is most effective when you constrain model output through structured prompts and enforce application-side validation so your business logic, compliance requirements, and user experience remain under your control.

AI in business apps needs guardrails to prevent inconsistent or invalid outputs. Brien Posey explains how to enforce structure and validate responses before taking action in real systems.

See how to implement it effectively: https://ow.ly/6giZ50YNqlV

#AI #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps

Secure AI innovation starts with getting production infrastructure right.

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As attackers evolve, SecOps teams are turning to AI to stay ahead.

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A resilient recovery framework is built before the crisis begins.

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Custom alerting can be costly, brittle and hard to maintain.

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AI on a Raspberry Pi: Part 3 -- Testing Different LLMs -- Virtualization Review Benchmarking four compact LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 500+ shows that smaller models such as TinyLlama are far more practical for local edge workloads, while reasoning-focused models trade latency for deeper output quality.

Testing local LLMs on a Raspberry Pi found that TinyLlama delivered the best responsiveness, while DeepSeek-R1 produced stronger reasoning but much longer runtimes, according to Tom Fenton.

See which models performed best: https://ow.ly/Bqv550YKQgJ

#RaspberryPi #LLM #EdgeAI

Hands On: Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents -- Virtualization Review A hands-on PoC with Microsoft Copilot Studio found that creating a basic agent was easy, but getting useful results from a SharePoint-hosted Excel tracker required extra connection setup and worked better only after separate worksheet tabs were split into distinct files.

Microsoft Copilot Studio simplifies agent creation, but SharePoint connections and Excel data structure can limit how knowledge is retrieved, as shown in this article by David Ramel.

See what it really takes to build a Copilot Studio agent: https://ow.ly/qIbg50YKnHI

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The stakes for cyber resilience in SLED have never been higher.

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Business disruption does not wait for your recovery plan to catch up.

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Enterprise AI gets more complex the moment it leaves the sandbox.

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AI is reshaping SecOps, and security teams need to keep up.

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Custom alerting can be costly, brittle and difficult to scale.

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Expert Consultant Details How to Secure the Machine Identity Attack Surface -- Virtualization Review Sergey Chubarov explained how unmanaged non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys and tokens can become a major attack vector and outlined practical steps to improve visibility, governance and credential security.

Non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys and tokens are becoming a major security exposure as they grow in number with limited governance and visibility.

Explore how to manage machine identity risk in this article by David Ramel: https://ow.ly/3HRf50YGqcN

#Cybersecurity #DevSecOps

Nutanix Spotlights Cloud Platform Update, New Agentic AI Services -- Virtualization Review Nutanix used its .NEXT 2026 event in Chicago to roll out a broader Nutanix Cloud Platform update and a related expansion of its agentic AI offerings aimed at neocloud providers, adding new infrastructure, multitenancy and management capabilities tied to AI workloads.<

At .NEXT 2026, @nutanixsolutions.bsky.social highlighted cloud platform updates for AI, storage, Kubernetes and data services, alongside planned agentic AI capabilities for neocloud providers later this year.

Explore what this means for cloud AI: https://ow.ly/ZiSX50YGqb6

#Nutanix #EnterpriseAI

Front-Line Expert Boils Cloud Incident Response Down to Three Core Practices -- Virtualization Review Joey D'Antoni argues that faster cloud incident response depends on observability and automation, defined roles and communications, and disciplined post-incident learning.

Cloud incident response depends on preparation before outages, with experts emphasizing observability, automation and clearly defined roles as core to rapid and effective response.

Read the full article by David Ramel: https://ow.ly/mgyZ50YFxVE

#CloudComputing #DevOps #SRE #CloudSecurity

Running AI Natively on Windows 11 Using an eGPU -- Virtualization Review Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based configurations for local LLM inference -- proving that even modest GPU acceleration delivers significant, real-world performance gains.

In this article, Tom Fenton explains that running LLMs natively on Windows 11 with an eGPU can significantly improve performance compared to CPU-only systems and virtual machine environments.

See how local AI performance changes with GPU acceleration: https://ow.ly/bFUC50YFxUq

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SLED organizations are facing bigger cyber threats with fewer resources.

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The right MSP can change how your business operates. The challenge is knowing where to look.

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KubeCon 2026 EU Final Day Recap -- The Evolution and Future of Kubernetes -- Virtualization Review KubeCon 2026 EU's final day showcased Kubernetes' evolution into the distributed operating system for AI workloads, with speakers calling for a cultural shift from passive consumption to active contribution within the CNCF cloud-native ecosystem.

Kubernetes is becoming the distributed OS for AI workloads, with KubeCon highlighting platform evolution and open-source collaboration.

Read the KubeCon 2026 EU final day recap by Tom Fenton: https://ow.ly/BI2J50YEVEc

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Traditional backup strategies are not enough for today’s threat landscape.

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Running AI in production takes more than a working sandbox.

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KubeCon 2026 EU Day 2 Recap -- Digital Sovereignty and Real-life Experiences with Kubernetes -- Virtualization Review KubeCon 2026 EU's second day explored how enterprises can balance digital sovereignty with open-source collaboration -- with speakers arguing that organizations must distinguish between a unified global codebase and locally controlled operational deployments -- while showcasing real-world Kubernetes applications ranging from France's national railway infrastructure to satellite-based environmental monitoring.

As Tom Fenton reports, KubeCon 2026 EU Day 2 focused on digital sovereignty, software transparency and real-world Kubernetes deployments at scale.

See what stood out from Day 2: https://ow.ly/4xpz50YEsUo

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Cloud incidents do not have to become business disasters.

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Innovation depends on opportunity and new perspectives. Women continue to play an important role in shaping the tech industry.

In observance of Women in Tech Day tomorrow, we are reflecting on the progress and the work still ahead.

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KubeCon 2026 EU Day 1 Recap -- The World's Largest Open-Source Meet Up -- Virtualization Review KubeCon EU 2026 drew a record 13,500 attendees to Amsterdam -- the largest open-source software meetup in history. Day 1 keynotes centered on AI infrastructure: NVIDIA joined CNCF as a Platinum member and donated its GPU driver as a standard reference for the Kubernetes DRA API, while new projects like AICR and LLM-D tackle the distributed inference challenge at scale. Virtualization & Cloud Review's Tom Fenton reports from the show floor.

As Tom Fenton reports, KubeCon 2026 EU opened with a major focus on AI infrastructure, with Kubernetes positioned as the control plane for distributed inference.

See what stood out from Day 1: https://ow.ly/qlUp50YCiyK

#KubeCon #Kubernetes #OpenSource

Security teams need more than custom alerts and disconnected tools.

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Veeam Earns 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice Recognition -- Virtualization Review The designation was based on end-user feedback for backup and data protection platforms.

Veeam Software has earned a 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice recognition for backup and data protection, underscoring its focus on resilience, security and AI governance.

See why customers rated Veeam so highly: https://ow.ly/4WSo50YC1lU

#Veeam #DataProtection #Backup

Sovereign Cloud: Microsoft's Answer to Geopolitical Uncertainty -- Virtualization Review Our 1-person SOC from Down Under explains how, as enterprise organizations outside the U.S. increasingly seek alternatives to American public cloud providers, Microsoft is responding with a spectrum of sovereign cloud options -- from country-specific Azure regions and national partner clouds to fully disconnected on-premises clusters running Azure Linux.

Geopolitical uncertainty is driving more interest in sovereign cloud, and in this article, Paul Schnackenburg explores how Microsoft is responding with options across Azure, Microsoft 365 and private infrastructure.

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#Microsoft #SovereignCloud #Azure

KubeCon 2026 EU Pre-event Recap -- Virtualization Review Tom Fenton's on-the-ground report from KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam reveals that enterprises are actively pursuing Kubernetes-based alternatives to legacy VM infrastructure -- with a pre-conference 'VM on Kubernetes Day' event and vendor discussions with Cast AI and ZEDEDA highlighting real-world strategies for migration, cloud cost optimization, and edge AI deployment.

Tom Fenton recaps KubeCon Europe 2026, highlighting the shift to Kubernetes-native infrastructure and the growing role of AI in cloud operations.

Read Tom Fenton’s full KubeCon recap: https://ow.ly/gq2r50YBJml

#KubeCon #Kubernetes #CloudNative

Running AI on a Raspberry Pi, Part 2: Running AI on a Pi in Under 5 Minutes -- Virtualization Review Running an LLM on a Raspberry Pi with Ollama is easy to set up in minutes, but practical performance depends heavily on choosing a smaller model tuned for low-power hardware.

Tom Fenton shows how running AI on a Raspberry Pi is now practical, with Ollama enabling local LLMs in minutes and lightweight models improving performance.

See how to run AI on a Pi in minutes: https://ow.ly/y1yq50YBJjh

#EdgeAI #RaspberryPi #AI