Emile Louw
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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 ...
AI mints a new era for cybersecurity: theCUBE’s RSAC day four analysis
AI agents are unleashing a more chaotic era of enterprise cybersecurity, one in which identities are transitory, actions are autonomous and governance struggles to keep pace. But what if the growing threat to data security is also creating the industry’s next big opportunity? RSAC day four opened with those themes in focus, but none felt ...
Regulation crashes the AI party: theCUBE’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU day three analysis
Cloud-native governance seems poised to cool AI mania, forcing enterprises to ask: How do you scale AI without losing control of the infrastructure beneath it? That question loomed over the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference, which brought together adopters and technologists from leading open-source and cloud-native communities in Amsterdam. With the EU Cyber Resilience Act ...
AI’s infrastructure crunch: Inside CNCF’s play to bring order to inference chaos
Unpredictable demand, specialized hardware, production-scale complexity — all of it is making AI inference harder to run at enterprise scale. Now, cloud-native open-source infrastructure is emerging as the answer to inference chaos. That shift is already showing up in the Kubernetes ecosystem. In fact, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has almost doubled the number of ...
Security buyers push back on tool sprawl: theCUBE’s RSAC day three analysis
Security platformization is starting to look less like a slogan and more like a real enterprise buying shift, as organizations pull back from expanding already crowded security stacks. That change is becoming more urgent as AI reshapes the threat landscape and exposes the limits of one-off security fixes. Recent data shows both a sharp decline ...
Red Hat is approaching sovereign AI as a make-or-break enterprise concern
As regulatory frameworks tighten and geopolitical tensions intensify, organizations worldwide are realizing that sovereign AI is one of the most consequential themes shaping how enterprises build and govern infrastructure. By 2030, more than 75% of all enterprises outside of the U.S. are predicted to have a digital sovereignty strategy, underscoring how urgently enterprises need to ...
20 million developers, one massive shift: How AI is upending the cloud-native ecosystem
Kubernetes adoption is skyrocketing as the cloud-native developer community approaches 20 million participants, marking a pivotal moment for an ecosystem that increasingly serves as the substrate for AI. Platform engineering, abstraction layers and evolving developer personas are reshaping how organizations interact with cloud-native technologies. The latest “State of Cloud Native Development” report from the Cloud ...
Red Hat sees inference as AI’s next battleground — with Kubernetes at the core
As AI demands drive orders-of-magnitude increases in token consumption, the need for scalable, production-grade Kubernetes inference has never been greater. The challenge now is less about training ever-larger models than about running them reliably, cheaply and at scale. In response, Red Hat Inc. has contributed llm-d, an open-source project for running large language models across ...