Sean Michael Kerner

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As AI workloads push data center power density and network complexity beyond physical capacity, virtual replicas are becoming the baseline for operational stability.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/4159988/ai-and-digital-twins-reshape-network-and-data-center-management.html
Digital twins reshape network and data center management

As AI workloads push data center power density and network complexity beyond physical capacity, virtual replicas are becoming the baseline for operational stability.

Network World

Alchemy doesn't turn lead into gold but it does enable enterprises to fine-tune and own custom AI models built directly from their production application workflows.

"Having that data moat is the most valuable currency," Shanea Leven CEO of Empromptu.ai told VentureBeat

https://venturebeat.com/data/enterprises-can-now-train-custom-ai-models-from-production-workflows-no-ml-team-required

The open-source StarlingX distributed cloud platform gains precision timing support in its first major update of 2026.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4166545/starlingx-12-0-is-right-on-time-for-mixed-hardware-edge-deployments.html

StarlingX 12.0 is right on time for mixed-hardware edge deployments

The open-source StarlingX distributed cloud platform gains precision timing support in its first major update of 2026.

Network World
RAG is not dead it is being enhanced - it's an approach I call the retrieval rebuild
->Why 22% of enterprises have stepped back from RAG — and what Q1 data says about what comes next
https://venturebeat.com/data/the-retrieval-rebuild-why-hybrid-retrieval-intent-tripled-as-enterprise-rag-programs-hit-the-scale-wall

I've been a networking 'guy' for a long time. But the kids out there today..they don't know ...and there is a looming skills gap that could be a real problem (one day). That's a key promise that agentic AI could bring to networking that Auvik is betting on.

"The more we can automate and simplify and help people with auto remediation, the more powerful the platform becomes.”

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4165098/auvik-bets-agentic-ai-can-fill-the-networking-skills-gap.html

Auvik bets agentic AI can fill the networking skills gap

Network World

Despite what some vendors and X/Twitter pundits might claim - RAG is NOT dead. That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement. New research out today from Redis could be huge step forward.

"There's this general notion that when you use semantic search or similar semantic similarity, we get correct intent. That's not necessarily true," Srijith Rajamohan,  told me. "A close or high semantic similarity does not actually mean an exact intent."

https://venturebeat.com/data/rag-precision-tuning-can-quietly-cut-retrieval-accuracy-by-40-putting-agentic-pipelines-at-risk

At Google Cloud Next today, the company made more than 80 data-related announcements organized under a single architectural argument:

"The data architecture has to change now," Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud at Google Cloud, told VentureBeat. "We're moving from human scale to agent scale."

https://venturebeat.com/data/the-modern-data-stack-was-built-for-humans-asking-questions-google-just-rebuilt-its-for-agents-taking-action

Burned-out security analysts miss threats, take longer to investigate incidents and are more likely to quit. Here's how CISOs can improve the SOC analyst experience.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/feature/How-to-improve-the-SOC-analyst-experience-and-why-it-matters

How to improve the SOC analyst experience -- and why it matters | TechTarget

Learn how enterprise CISOs can improve the SOC analyst experience, or AX, to improve security outcomes, strengthen cyber resilience and retain key talent.

Search Security

"RAG works, but it doesn't scale," Michael Bendersky, research director at Databricks, told VentureBeat. "If you want to make your agent even better, and you want to understand why you have declining sales, now you have to help the agent see the tables and look at the sales data. Your RAG pipeline will become incompetent at that task."

https://venturebeat.com/data/databricks-research-shows-multi-step-agents-consistently-outperform-single