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Service providers are seeing a once-in-a-decade opportunity in cloud rebalancing
The post-Broadcom Inc. shockwave is creating a cloud rebalancing opportunity, and service providers are racing to capitalize on it. The disruption is compounding as Broadcom’s consolidation of its VMware partner base leaves many service providers searching for new platform options. Nutanix Inc. is moving to fill that gap with its newly announced Service Provider Central ...
‘People make people happy’: Why Wynn Resorts wants AI to be invisible to guests and indispensable to staff
Across the hospitality industry, the AI-driven guest experience is emerging as the new standard for efficiency and personalization, reshaping what guests expect and what staff are asked to do. Wynn Resorts Ltd. is one company trying to get that balance right. The luxury resort operator is building a hybrid IT foundation that balances cloud and ...
As an ‘explosion of agents’ hits enterprises, Nutanix zeros in on the governance layer
Organizations are racing to operationalize AI, turning platform architecture into a defining competitive variable. With agents poised to multiply across hybrid environments, the challenge is no longer building applications. Instead, it is establishing agentic AI governance and scaling the infrastructure beneath it. Nutanix Inc. used its .NEXT 2026 conference in Chicago to lay out a ...
NetApp and Nutanix say storage has become the last line of defense in the AI era
Companies are rethinking their technology foundations as AI infrastructure modernization and security demands grow. The result is surging demand for flexible platforms that can run legacy and modern applications simultaneously while keeping data secure and AI-ready. NetApp Inc. and Nutanix Inc. are now working together in an effort to help customers modernize their infrastructure, according ...
The single-vendor world is collapsing — and Dell and Nutanix say AI factories are finishing the job
Enterprise AI is accelerating demand for tightly integrated ecosystem partnerships as organizations confront a rapidly expanding landscape of platforms, hardware choices and agentic workloads. The shift from simple hyperconverged infrastructure to multi-layered AI factory deployments has made ecosystem diversity a strategic imperative for platform companies and their hardware partners alike. But as the number of ...
AI’s context memory explosion hits the storage wall as NAND scarcity tightens its grip
Artificial intelligence inference is entering a new era defined not by compute alone, but by an escalating demand for context memory that traditional storage architectures were never designed to handle. Inference didn’t hit a compute wall — it hit a context memory wall. As AI workloads evolve from single-shot prompts to multi-turn, agentic sessions with ...
Why trusted data is becoming the critical control point for enterprise AI
AI agents are entering enterprise environments at machine speed, but the data-centric security controls needed to govern their access and behavior are still catching up, creating a new rift in enterprise AI. That gap is exactly where Veeam Software Corp. GmbH is staking its future. Following its $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti Inc., the company is ...
From deployment to design: The new mandate for AI cybersecurity trust
The next cybersecurity battle will not be over whether companies use AI, but whether they can trust what they build with it. That is why AI cybersecurity trust discussions are moving to the top of the industry’s agenda. No longer a side conversation, AI instead finds itself as foundational for how modern cyber defense operates, according ...
CrowdStrike and IBM bet on the agentic SOC as AI reshapes security operations
As AI compresses threat response windows to mere seconds, the security operations center is undergoing a fundamental transformation — and the agentic SOC is emerging as a solution that combines autonomous, machine-speed investigation and containment with essential human governance. The industry is confronting a hard reality: AI is now a force multiplier for attackers as ...
6 signals from the front lines of AI deployment: Insights from the Practitioner interview series
AI is moving from pilots to production, with enterprise AI execution increasingly shaped by integration rather than ideation. AI-first companies now have a chance to rethink core functions such as customer support, sales and finance from first principles instead of forcing new tools into legacy environments. The bigger shift is that AI is no longer just ...









