These days, it’s hard to keep up with the whiplash-inducing hot takes on generative artificial intelligence. One minute, it’s the savior of enterprise productivity; the next, we’re beaten down by fearmongers and their tales of AI doom and gloom. But if we step back and look beyond the headlines, perhaps we’ll realize that both sides ...

In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 million recorded attacks. As artificial intelligence makes its way into everything from search engines to smart fridges, cybercriminals are capitalizing on the same tech to ...

Leaders for infrastructure and information technology operations, or I&O for short, must cope with unpredictable demand for new services, as well as workforce skills deficiencies and spiraling technical debt. With this in mind, they are still responsible for creating an effective action plan that will deliver success for their organization as they head toward 2026. ...

The recent Semafor report on Anthropic PBC’s refusal to allow its artificial intelligence models to be used for certain law enforcement surveillance tasks is a pivotal moment in the ongoing debate around AI, privacy and state power. Though the political clash between a White House eager to showcase “patriotic AI” and a startup rooted in ...

In our view, the Intel–Nvidia pact further accentuates Nvidia Corp.’s dominant market position and represents a milestone in the transition to the next era of computing. Just as Intel Corp. had a lock on the market in the ’80s and ’90s, Nvidia has now extended its moat deep into the x86 ecosystem (in both PCs ...

Quantum technology is one of the most promising opportunities of the coming decade, with several billion dollars already invested, a wide variety of early products reaching the market, and a growing talent influx fueling hundreds of startups. Quantum computers are expected to solve problems currently intractable for even the world’s fastest supercomputers. Their core strengths ...

The front line of cybersecurity has always been uneven. Attackers innovate with speed, testing new exploits daily, while defenders struggle to keep up with outdated playbooks. What enterprises lack isn’t more tools — it’s foresight.  Digital twins, virtual replicas that learn and evolve in real time, are giving security teams a way to see threats ...

In April 2009, Oracle Corp. made what at the time looked like a bad deal. Or at least that was the conventional wisdom. It announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. TL/DR, the judgment of the community on the decision by Oracle ...

Artificial intelligence has so rapidly woven itself into business culture that 97% of executives believe generative AI will transform their company and industry. From autocomplete in emails to large language models drafting entire reports, AI systems increasingly serve as cognitive partners.  But as reliance deepens, a quieter tension is emerging: the gradual outsourcing of memory, ...

The growing complexity of modern digital infrastructure demands a smarter observability strategy. As businesses expand their use of cloud, software-as-a-service, content delivery networks and globally distributed networks, ensuring performance, uptime and reliability is becoming more challenging — and more essential — than ever, according to theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty. In today’s enterprise environments, tool consolidation ...