Ryan Stevens

Ryan is a senior writer covering live events with theCUBE. After an extensive academic career in engineering, he worked with dozens of tech startups developing new software and hardware products. He has also contributed to the content and documentation needs of companies such as Q4 Inc., PivIT Global and others.

Latest from Ryan Stevens

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 ...

AI is driving a new infrastructure cost crisis, but adaptive tiering could help contain it

Enterprises are under mounting pressure to manage infrastructure more efficiently as AI and distributed applications drive up cost and complexity. As a result, the industry is moving toward more adaptive systems that use intelligent data placement to respond automatically as demands change. Auto-tiering is often mistaken for older hierarchical storage management, but the newer approach ...

Shadow AI is the new shadow IT — only far more dangerous

Shadow AI is emerging as one of the most dangerous enterprise risk vectors, eclipsing the shadow IT problem that plagued the cloud era. As employees experiment with generative AI tools, organizations face mounting compliance exposure, data leakage and regulatory penalties that dwarf the consequences of unsanctioned cloud instances. The urgency is compounding as agentic AI ...

The NetApp-Commvault alliance is taking aim at cyber chaos

As AI accelerates both innovation and risk, cyber resilience strategy has become an urgent business imperative — how can organizations protect critical data, detect threats before they spread and recover fast enough to stay operational? The answer lies in taking a more operational approach to resilience, according to Michelle Graff (pictured, right), senior vice president ...

Companies face a critical balancing act between AI growth and infrastructure simplification, says Red Hat

Companies are under pressure to move faster on AI while keeping complex infrastructure and operations under control, making enterprise platform simplification a growing priority. As a result, many organizations are looking for ways to consolidate tools and strengthen security. On one hand, companies are trying to expand massive, capital-intensive AI projects, and on the other, ...

KubeVirt gains serious backing as CNCF graduation comes into view

With Kubernetes becoming the bedrock of modern enterprise infrastructure, Kubernetes virtualization seems to be the next logical step forward. In fact, KubeVirt — an open-source project that brings container-native virtualization to Kubernetes — is enabling teams to run and manage virtual machines alongside containers from a single control plane. With the release of version 1.8 ...