Even if many of us are in vacation mode, it is not exactly quiet around Generativ AI. Therefore I wanted to write a little update on what is happening on this front. From what is happening from the cloud providers, LLM companies, ecosystem and what the future holds.  Firstly, there is a lot of development … Generative AI – Summer Edition 2024 – What´s new? Read More » The post Generative AI – Summer Edition 2024 – What´s new? appeared first on msandbu.org ..read more

Earlier today, companies around the world woke up to multiple of their Windows hosts suffering from BSOD, the culprit? an Update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensors. Causing services around the world to go down. Many services are suffering because of this. Microsoft IT outage latest: Airports, businesses and broadcasters including Sky News experiencing issues worldwide | World News | Sky News Crowdstrike has since rolled back the update, but in case you are suffering from BSOD the currently only workaround is Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment Navigate to the C:\Window ..read more

I wanted to write this blog post as a follow-up to the EUC conference in Norway last week. This was the first EUC conference ever held in Norway, where I delivered the keynote on the future of the workplace and client environments. I’d like to share my thoughts on what the future might look like. and sorry some of the pictures from the presentation are in Norwegian…. A couple of weeks ago, my son asked me about the first version of Windows I worked with. This question took me back to when I started in IT about 18 years ago, working with Windows XP. Back then, working at the front desk or servi ..read more

While there has been a lot of focus on Windows Recall the last week about the security issues (which I will get back to later in this article) however there are few of the articles that actually describe how the technology actually works, therefore I wanted to use this article to write down my current understanding on how the different runtimes locally on the machine use Generative AI to handle the processing of Recall. Some of you might also have heard about Rewind? It is a app for Mac that does exatly the same as Recall, essentially taking screenshots locally on your device, which is then in ..read more

In preparation for a presentation that I had today at Microsoft Secure in Norway, where I had a talk about how to get the most out of Copilot for Security I needed to do a lot of research. Therefore, I wanted to share some of the research here, based upon my findings on how Copilot for Security works. NOTE: If you want to see the presentation you can view it here –> msandbu/securitycopilot (github.com) Firstly, the Copilot for Security consists of three main parts. 1: The web service (for the standalone service) or the embedded part which is directly available as part of Sentinel, Defender ..read more

Last year I wrote a blog article about Microsoft Global Secure Access and what kind of services it provides. Therefore, I decided to write an example about use-cases for it in preparation for a session I have tomorrow Agenda – xenappblog you can also view the PPT here –> community/GSA-MariusSandbu.pptx at main · msandbu/community (github.com) One thing that is missing in Microsoft Azure today in the networking stack is a “true” optimal Zero-trust network access (as seen from the CISA Zero-Trust framework screenshot below). Today we have the option to route traffic from one service to anothe ..read more

Yesterday I had a tweet that blew up quite quickly, because I was doing some research for a customer to uncover the cost for a new VDI solution. While in hindsight I should have been a lot more accurate on the tweet, but I’ll explain. NOTE: I Do not cover the cost for the underlying virtualization stack/platform such as storage, hyper-v, xenserver etc. If you see something clearly wrong with the calculations or facts let me know. Recently Microsoft made AVD on Azure Stack HCI generally available and in the past I have written about Citrix vs AVD Part One (Citrix (CVAD) vs Azure Virtual Deskt ..read more

With all the turmoil around VMware, should you consider moving to an alternative platform? With all the changes happening in VMware, both at the company and licensing changes many are looking towards changing to another virtualization layer. Why? 1: They have gotten a price increase on their license, for many of the smaller customers they will most likely get a price increase in their license. This is because of the product bundles that are changing (VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model – VMware News and Stories) which makes sense for the larger enterpri ..read more

In preparation for my upcoming session at Experts Live Denmark, I wanted to write a blog post showing the overall state of generative AI and LLMs. There is a lot of development happening here now and therefore I wanted to give a current overview of the different models, support for multi-modality, integrations and give a glimpse into what is going on in terms of autonomous agents. Note, that this is my personal reflection based upon my own experience and based upon knowledge I have built up during the course of the last years. What is Generative AI? Let’s start with the basic part, what is Gen ..read more

One of the easiest ways to get started with running LLMs locally on your own machine is using Ollama. Ollama is an open-source product that provides a local llm inference API that you can interact it. It also provides a CLI tool that you can also use to interact with in real-time. You can also add your own data models, if you for instance have a data set that you need to merge with a base LLM. You can download the tool from here Ollama and it has a set of predefined models that you can download and use –> library (ollama.com) Ollama also supports the same OpenAI compatibility as o ..read more