Cloud Costs, Critical Vulnerabilities & PBS Issues | | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 19, 2026

Tech Field Day News Rundown · Aug 19, 2026 · 33m

Cloud storage costs, security threats, and AI infrastructure are creating new challenges for IT teams.

This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke discuss Lucidity expanding cloud optimization to Azure object storage, Microsoft patching nearly 400 vulnerabilities, and a major VMware vCenter attack campaign.

They also look at NVIDIA’s potential $105 billion commitment to OpenAI’s Ohio data center, Google moving its A2A protocol under the Agentic AI Foundation, rising cyberattacks against law firms, and the cautionary Nine PBS cloud storage disaster.

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