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Microsoft 365 Backup Blind Spots Enterprises Must Address in 2026 -- Virtualization Review Microsoft MVP and consultant Ben Stegink outlined critical data, configuration and restore gaps organizations must address when modernizing Microsoft 365 backup strategies.

Microsoft 365 uptime is not a backup strategy, and retention is for compliance, not operational restore, as Ben Stegink warns in a webcast recap by David Ramel, highlighting Teams chat recovery gaps, Power Platform blind spots, and more.

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The 2026 threat landscape will reward speed, visibility, and resilience.

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Cyber resilience for SaaS data is changing fast, especially as identity threats grow.

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Building Your Own AI Models -- The Easy Way -- Virtualization Review This walkthrough from Brien Posey shows how to build a custom Ollama model from a base model and tune it with a short Modelfile -- without training from scratch.

Ollama allows you to create a do-it-yourself AI model by starting with a base model and a Modelfile, then adjusting temperature, top_p, and repeat_penalty to control how factual or expressive the output becomes.

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Cloud threats are evolving as fast as cloud adoption.

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The Zero Trust Workshop -- Your Free Nitro-Boosted Cybersecurity Strategy -- Virtualization Review Paul Schnackenburg, our 1-person SOC from Down Under, explains in detail how the Zero Trust workshop guide, workbook, and assessment tool turn principles into a practical roadmap for staged adoption across people, process, and technology.

Paul Schnackenburg breaks down how Microsoft's free Zero Trust workshop guide, workbook, and a PowerShell assessment module can translate Zero Trust into a staged adoption roadmap across the six pillars.

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VMware disruption is making virtualization strategy a modernization decision.

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Still running a Microsoft 365 backup strategy from 2018? Tomorrow’s webcast is your reset.

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How to Scale Backend Infrastructure for the Age of Agentic AI -- Virtualization Review Greg Schulz explains the critical shift toward API-defined infrastructure and how organizations must leverage federated management and gateways to scale for the unique, high-velocity demands of autonomous agentic systems.

This new summit recap explains the shift from software-defined to API-defined infra, why LLMs and RAG change workload patterns, and how federated API management and gateways help scale across edge, on-prem, and multi-cloud.

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The Thin-Client Landscape, Part 2 -- Virtualization Review Tom Fenton provides a comprehensive buyer's guide for thin-client and zero-client solutions, examining vendor strategies, security considerations, and the key factors organizations must evaluate when selecting endpoint devices for VDI and DaaS environments.

Thin clients aren’t just about hardware anymore.

Tom Fenton explains how x86 standardization shifted differentiation to software, why zero clients offer stronger security, and how IT teams should evaluate total cost of ownership beyond device price.

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Agentic systems are pushing APIs beyond traditional limits.

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Cloud threats move fast. Stay ready.

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Microsoft 365 runs modern work, but many enterprise backup strategies haven’t kept up.

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Cloud Expert Maps Intune Entra and Purview to a Layered Zero Trust Model -- Virtualization Review Joey D'Antoni details how organizations can use Microsoft Entra, Intune and Purview together to implement a layered Zero Trust approach that ties identity-based access decisions to device compliance, app protection and data loss prevention.

Intune has become much more than a device management tool. Cloud architect Joey D'Antoni breaks down how Entra, Intune, and Purview work together as a layered Zero Trust model.

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How can you modernize VMware without losing resilience?

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The Thin-Client Landscape, Part 1 -- Virtualization Review Tom Fenton examines the diverse thin-client marketplace beyond recent consolidation, revealing that major hardware vendors have commoditized their devices and under-invested in proprietary operating systems, creating opportunities for third-party software platforms like IGEL, 10ZiG, and Citrix eLux to dominate the software-defined endpoint space.

Thin clients are shifting toward software-defined endpoints.

Tom Fenton breaks down how major OEMs have commoditized hardware, while third-party OS platforms like IGEL OS, 10ZiG RepurpOS, and Citrix eLux dominate by repurposing existing x86 devices.

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What GPU You Really Need for AI Workloads -- Virtualization Review Understanding GPU memory requirements is essential for AI workloads, as VRAM capacity--not processing power--determines which models you can run, with total memory needs typically exceeding model size by 20-50% due to weights, activations, KV cache, and system overhead.

Choosing a GPU for AI is not about raw performance. It is about VRAM.

Brien Posey explains why memory is the hard limit for AI inference, how KV cache and activations factor in, and how quantization can help fit larger models on smaller GPUs.

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#AI #GPUs

Report: Cloud Complexity Outpaces Security Defenses as Multi-Cloud Becomes the Norm -- Virtualization Review The 2026 Cloud Security Report from Fortinet reveals that while cloud security budgets are rising, 66% of organizations lack confidence in real-time threat detection across increasingly complex multi-cloud environments, with identity risks, tool sprawl, and fragmented visibility creating persistent operational gaps despite significant investment increases.

A Fortinet report says cloud complexity is outpacing defenses: 88% operate hybrid or multi-cloud, 66% lack confidence in real-time detection and response, and 59% rate their cloud security posture at the two lowest maturity levels.

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#CloudSecurity

Happy Data Privacy Day! 🔒

Privacy is built in the small moments: who has access, what gets shared, and how accounts are protected. Today is a great reminder to tighten permissions and review sharing settings.

What is your top privacy habit for 2026?

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Agentic systems are stressing APIs in new ways.

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If your Microsoft 365 backup plan still looks like 2018, 2026 is going to expose the gaps.

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VMware shakeups are forcing hard infrastructure calls.

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Using Vibe Coding to Create a Website -- Virtualization Review Tom Fenton details how he used GitHub Pages, PowerShell, and AI-assisted vibe coding to build and maintain a free personal archive of his published articles.

You can build and maintain a real website with a CSV, PowerShell, GitHub Pages, and a little vibe coding.

Tom Fenton breaks down how he used ChatGPT to generate and refine the script, then keeps the site updated with a simple regen-and-commit loop.

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Copilot AI: What You're Missing on Windows 10 PCs -- Virtualization Review If you're a PC Luddite stubbornly clinging to your non-upgradeable Windows 10 PC like me, here's what you're missing with advanced Copilot AI.

Copilot on Windows 10 looks familiar, but it can’t act on your system the way Copilot on Windows 11 can.

This breakdown by David Ramel shows exactly why Microsoft's AI strategy increasingly treats Windows 11 as the real Copilot platform: https://ow.ly/fgAi50Y0Eeu

#Copilot #Windows11 #Microsoft