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Classiq’s Simon Fried on Quantum-HPC Integration, AI Agents, and Intel’s Planned Acquisition Ahead of SC26

As the HPC community prepares for SC26 and its “HPC Unites” theme, quantum computing is increasingly part of the conversation about how supercomputing resources get …

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Inorsa CEO Sean Shahini on the introduction of Nora Intelligence, a new class of infrastructure-native AI for critical infrastructure

Sean Shahini, CEO of Inorsa, discusses the launch of Nora Intelligence, Inorsa’s intelligent orchestration agent for critical infrastructure. VMblog: Before we jump into the announcements, …

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Why AI Agents Need Fences, Not Just Gates: Q&A with Edera’s Alex Zenla

As enterprises hand AI agents the ability to write code, access sensitive data, and take action across their systems, a critical question looms: how do …

interview edera alex zenla

Kinference: Buoyant’s CEO on Self-Hosted AI Inference at Scale

As organizations look to run AI models on their own infrastructure, they face a growing challenge: how to manage inference costs, performance, and governance across …

interview kinference william morgan

Yugabyte CMO Ajay Khanna on Agentic AI, Distributed PostgreSQL, and What to Expect at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026

As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 approaches, the conversation in cloud-native circles is shifting from building AI models to running AI applications reliably in …

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Mirantis at KubeCon NA 2026: Scott Parker on AI-Assisted Operations, Governed Agents and Hardened Kubernetes

As AI workloads pile onto already complex Kubernetes environments, platform teams are being asked to do more with the same people. Mirantis is betting that …

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Q&A: Nerdio’s Scott Manchester on The Great Migration, Nerdio Compass, and Why Operations Is the New Battleground in EUC

Nerdio recently released its 2026 Great Migration Report, a survey of enterprise EUC decision makers that found 71% of organizations now run multiple desktop virtualization …

interview nerdio scott manchester

Portainer CEO Neil Cresswell on Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes Ahead of KubeCon NA 2026

As AI agents move from answering questions to acting on production infrastructure, a pressing security gap has opened for cloud-native teams. Developers are already connecting …

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Coder’s Nicky Pike on Governing AI Coding Agents: KubeCon NA 2026 Preview

AI coding agents are quickly moving off the developer’s laptop and into the enterprise, and platform teams are being asked tough questions about where those …

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RapidFort at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026: Eliminating CVEs from Intake to Runtime

As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 returns to Salt Lake City, software supply chain security has moved from a compliance checkbox to a boardroom-level …

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Broadcom on Kubernetes for AI, VMs, and Agentic Workloads Ahead of KubeCon NA 2026

As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 approaches, the conversation around Kubernetes is moving well beyond containers and web-scale applications. Platform teams are now being …

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ControlTheory CEO Bob Quillin on AI SRE, Telemetry Distillation, and What’s Next at KubeCon NA 2026

As AI coding agents ship code faster than teams can watch it, the question facing platform and SRE teams is no longer just what is …

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F5 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026: Securing AI Inference and Agentic Traffic in Kubernetes

As enterprise platform teams move past generative AI experimentation and into production, the networking and security demands on Kubernetes are changing fast. F5’s 2026 State …

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Kill Switches Aren’t Enough: Gravitee CEO on AI Agent Control

As enterprises hand more work to autonomous AI agents, the conversation has turned to “kill switches” as a last line of defense. But stopping an …

interview gravitee rory blundell

VMware VDDK Disappears: What CSPs and MSPs Can Do Now, Q&A with Platform9’s Sirish Raghuram

In September, users trying to download VMware’s Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) started running into HTTP 404 errors. Broadcom had pulled the library without communication …

interview platform9 sirish raghuram

When AI Agents Write the Code, What Happens to the Database?

AI coding tools have compressed application development from days to hours, yet analyst reports find that AI accelerates coding by 30 to 40 percent while …

interview gemdb sandeep parikh

Gremlin CEO Kolton Andrus on Foresight AI: Proactive Reliability for the AI Coding Era

AI-driven development is helping engineering teams ship code faster than ever, but that speed comes with a catch. According to New Relic’s 2026 AI coding …

interview gremlin kolton andrus

Everpure’s Data Primacy Gets Real: Data Intelligence, AI Cost Control, and Storage Efficiency

When Everpure introduced Data Primacy at //Accelerate in June, the idea was clear but largely conceptual: organizations should build their architecture around their data rather …

interview everpure ashish gupta

Ransomware Is Corrupting Data Without Encrypting It: Q&A with Index Engines

Most ransomware defenses rest on a simple assumption: if files look encrypted, you’ve been hit, and if they look normal, you’re safe. New research suggests …

interview index engines jim mcgann

Sovereign AI Foundation Launches: Eclipse Foundation on Open Source and AI Control

As AI moves from experimentation into critical operations, organizations are growing more dependent on models, platforms, infrastructure, and services they may not be able to …

interview eclipse foundation blondelle

Inside DataOS: Animesh Kumar on Building an AI-Native Data Operating System

Enterprise data infrastructure was messy long before generative AI entered the picture. Most large organizations have accumulated warehouses, catalogs, governance tools, transformation engines, orchestration platforms, …

interview modern animesh kumar

New VergeIO CEO Parag Patel on VMware Veterans, AI-Ready Infrastructure, and the Next Era of the Data Center

VergeIO recently named Parag Patel as its new Chief Executive Officer, a transition that lands at a pivotal moment for enterprise infrastructure. As organizations pour …

interview vergeio parag patel