VMware Pressure, AI Compute Wars & Data Center Limits | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 15, 2026
Tech Field Day News Rundown | Futurum Media
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Is your IT strategy quietly giving up control?
Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke examine VMware’s rising costs and lock-in risks, AI-driven cybersecurity, the escalating open-versus-closed model race, and the strain AI data centers place on local infrastructure.
They also explore concerns around AI providers retaining business knowledge, reported source-code leaks, intellectual property, and how organizations can preserve options before vendor dependence becomes urgent.
This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Cold Open
0:27 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
1:28 - VMware Pressure Is Mounting Depite Choices
5:37 - Cribl Acquires CardinalOps to Bring AI Agents Into Security Operations
8:17 - Reflection AI Locks In $1B+ Nebius Deal
10:22 - Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Trade Secret Theft in AI Hardware Push
15:01 - New York Pauses Major Data Center Projects Amid AI Power Concerns
18:08 - Satya Nadella Warns Companies: AI Can Cost You More Than Money
21:18 - Anthropic Moves to Remove Leaked Claude Code as Copyright Debate Intensifies
27:54 - The Weeks Ahead: Upcoming Tech Field Day Events
29:41 - Thanks for Watching the Tech Field Day News Rundown
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