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Boomi makes its AI control plane case: theCUBE’s Boomi World keynote analysis
The AI arms race has a new front, and it isn’t the battle over individual models — it’s war for the entire AI control plane. That theme was front and center at Boomi World in Chicago, where Boomi LP Chief Executive Officer Steve Lucas spent two hours on stage steering the conversation away from model hype ...
7 lessons from the first wave of agentic AI deployment: theCUBE + NYSE Wired’s AI Agent Conference insights
The enterprise artificial intelligence stack is getting smarter — but is it getting the context it needs to make agentic AI deployment actually work? The defining problem of the agentic era might never have been building the agents. Instead, evidence is mounting that even the most capable AI systems stall without a clear strategic grounding ...
15 signals defining the future of human-AI collaboration: Insights from the Atlassian Team event
AI promised to change everything about how enterprises work — and human-AI collaboration was supposed to be the easy part. But what happens when the technology is ready and the organization isn’t? That context shaped the conversations at Atlassian Inc.’s annual Team event, where theCUBE’s analysts spent two days in Anaheim with the company’s product ...
Atlassian puts context at the center of AI-native teamwork: theCUBE’s analyst insight
AI-native teamwork has arrived, and the enterprise that controls context might very well control everything else. That theme came through clearly during this week’s Atlassian Team event in Anaheim, California, where Atlassian Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Cannon-Brookes framed the Teamwork Graph — a unified map of organizational relationships and work data now spanning more than 150 ...
Google Cloud databases are being rebuilt for the age of AI agents
AI agents depend on the quality and accessibility of the data behind them, placing Google Cloud databases at the center of that equation. The agentic data cloud introduced at Google Cloud Next 2026 underscores Google’s push to position its databases as the foundation of AI-driven enterprise architecture. Models are advancing, but without enterprise data, they ...
How Sabre turned x86 efficiency into AI investment
As AI inference demand surges and enterprise compute budgets buckle under expanding workloads, x86 efficiency has emerged as one of the most powerful — and underutilized — levers in cloud financial management. The pressure is showing up at the intersection of hybrid cloud and financial operations, where platform choice is becoming one of the fastest ...
The decisive layer in AI is still unclaimed: theCUBE’s Google Cloud Next day one keynote analysis
The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise artificial intelligence for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clearer positioning for Gemini: less as a standalone model and more as a connective layer. The emphasis is shifting toward how it ties ...
How Dartmouth College’s VMware migration became an unexpected infrastructure playbook
VMware migration is infamously laborious. But for Dartmouth College, it turned out to be the best infrastructure decision the university never planned to make. The university completed its migration to Nutanix Inc. infrastructure — including its Acropolis Hypervisor — years before enterprise procurement teams began stress-testing their VMware contracts, and well before predictions that cost pressures ...
Nutanix signals an infrastructure shift in AI — theCUBE’s .NEXT keynote analysis
As “move fast” collides headfirst with “don’t get breached,” the enterprise AI control plane has become the infrastructure question nobody can afford to leave unanswered. With shadow AI displacing shadow IT as the defining governance crisis of the decade, enterprises face a new operational imperative: Establish a unified enterprise AI control plane or expose the business ...
The ‘wild, wild west’ of agentic security: Insights from theCUBE’s RSAC closing analysis
As attackers and defenders alike adopt AI, everyone seems to be confronting the same cybersecurity governance question: How do enterprise move quickly on agentic without outpacing the guardrails needed to secure it? That tension was unavoidable at the RSAC 2026 Conference, where agents dominated every conversation. From Google LLC to Microsoft Corp., to cloud-native platform providers and ...