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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Patch Me OS Security Rollup and Office Security IntelliRollups for July, 2026(v2607.00)

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for July, 2026 are now available. The following rollups have been published: Rollups: CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup v2607.00 CA - Office 32Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2607.00 CA - Office 64Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2607.00 These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the “Software Contents Download Job”. As of February 2026, Microsoft has fully discontinued Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Windows OS and Office Security Individual Patches for July, 2026

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for July, 2026 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: 2026-07 Office - powerpoint2016-kb5002867-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - graph2016-kb5002830-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - vbe72016-kb5002273-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - oart2016-kb5002748-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - chart2016-kb5002857-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - mso2016-kb5002887-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - word2016-kb5002890-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - ...
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Virtual Patching: Guarding Against a Tsunami of AI-discovered Exploits with vDefend and Avi

By Teddy Jewell
As the digital landscape enters the age of Artificial Intelligence, the traditional methods of securing applications are being fundamentally challenged. The emergence of advanced AI models has shifted the advantage towards attackers. With AI, even a novice attacker is now weaponized into a sophisticated hacker while operating semi-autonomously at very low cost, and unprecedented scale. Imagine the massive damage that ransomware gangs and/or nation-state actors could do with these cyber weapons. In recent times, ransomware attacks have led to business operations going offline for weeks and months, resulting in financial losses in hundreds of millions of dollars. ...
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Accelerate Generative AI Initiatives with Database Virtualization Engine (DAVE)

By Pamela Deason
Blog written by Abhijit Mugali, Product Manager for Test Data Manager Who will capture the true benefits of Generative AI (GenAI) first? Organizations are racing to innovate–driving faster software development, better end-user experiences, differentiated products, enhanced automation, and more personalized customer interactions. To achieve these goals, many are turning to Generative AI as a key enabler of transformation and competitive advantage. As organizations increasingly adopt GenAI models, the need for efficient and scalable testing practices becomes more critical than ever. Tuning and testing these models requires vast amounts of diverse, ...
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Announcement: Client Automation Post-14.6 GA Merge Fixes

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli
We are pleased to announce the release of the Client Automation R14.6 GA Merge Fix ( 99112793 ) for Windows. This targeted release consolidates critical resolutions for issues identified following the 14.6 GA deployment. This package is cumulative and includes fixes for the following: T437452 - WIN 11 24H2 & 25H2 DEPLOYMENT FAILS T437453 - SD_ACMD SIGNAL SHUTDOWN NOT WORKING T437454 - SD JOB OUTPUT TRUNCATION T533409 - DMDEPLOY SCAN-WRONG RESULT T533410 - Unable to Open DSM Reporter T533411 - Software jobs are not activated T533413 - SDGUI - Issues T533414 - DSMRepoter From DSMExplorerTool T533415 ...
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Fresh from the Labs: FinOpsX Reflections and Our June 2026 Updates

By TJ March
Fresh from the Labs: FinOpsX Reflections and Our June 2026 Updates About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader, CloudHealth | Governing Board, FinOps Foundation What a whirlwind of a month! San Diego was incredible for FinOpsX. Connecting with so many of you at our booth , sharing a coffee from the CloudHealth barista, watching people play the FinOps Odyssey throwback game, getting to watch the joy on the faces of our winners as they received their prizes! FinOpsX has been an educational, networking building and FUN conference. 2026 was no exception, we kept it fun all the way through. As a PM team, there is nothing better than getting ...
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FinOps X Madness - AI and FOCUS

By TJ March
FinOps X Madness - AI and FOCUS About the Author: Sanjna Srivatsa - Product Manager & Data Scientist, CloudHealth | FOCUS Contributor, FinOps Foundation Now that the whirlwind of FinOps X’26 in San Diego has finally settled, I’ve had a moment to look back on what an incredible week it was and how crazy the weeks leading up to it were. In San Diego, I had the honor and privilege to speak with Sangini from Applied Materials about the Evolution of FinOps from Mainframes to now Agentic AI. Adding to the nerves of presenting to the FinOps Community, was the release of two highly anticipated features:our AI & Tokenomics dashboard and ...
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Announcing DX UIM 23.4 CU8: New SLA Tools, MCS Audit Logs, and Expanded Platform Support

By Ravishu Arora
We are excited to announce general availability of DX Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) 23.4 Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) . This release extends DX UIM’s capabilities to provide a secure, highly observable, and easily manageable infrastructure monitoring solution. DX UIM 23.4 CU8 delivers powerful enhancements for Service Level Management, enhanced configuration governance, security, and expanded platform support. Below are important highlights in this release. 1. Introducing the SLA Prime Wizard and Decentralized Management Building and managing service level agreements (SLAs) is now faster and more intuitive due to key enhancements ...
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5 Years in the Making: How FinOps X Moved Us from Cost Management to Value Realization

By TJ March
5 Years in the Making: How FinOps X Moved Us from Cost Management to Value Realization About the Author: Lucas Paratore - Group Product Manager, CloudHealth | Technical Advisory Council, FinOps Foundation Five years ago in Austin, FinOps X was still a cloud conference. Chalk talks and sessions were focused on RI coverage, anomaly detection, Kubernetes, and getting engineers to take action. These were the days before FOCUS, scopes, and AI. Since then, FinOps X has evolved into a broader focus on the value of technology. Conversations now extend beyond public cloud to technology categories like AI and SaaS. Looking back, it’s not that the problems ...
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Do you need Endevor to use Team Build?

By Vaughn Marshall
Do you need Endevor to use Team Build? Using Team Build Standalone with Git Modern AppDev practices are centered on Git so many organizations have been applying these capabilities to their mainframe applications using the award-winning Endevor Bridge for Git. Yet I occasionally hear customers without Endevor lament, ‘I wish we could adopt modern DevOps in a simple way too.’ You absolutely can! Team Build is a lightweight build engine that supports Git-native workflows, meaning that you do not need to connect Git to Endevor to run builds, you can simply build the applications directly from the Git source. It allows you to easily create and run ...
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Configuration Automation 12.9 CU2 is released

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli
On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly announce updated releases and maintenance for our products. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of Configuration Automation 12.9 CU2. This Cumulative Update includes all maintenance published prior to this update. By installing this Cumulative Update, you ensure that your systems are current on maintenance for Configuration Automation 12.9. Security Updates This update includes significant security upgrades, notably the removal of Apache ...
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Accelerating Your GenAI Journey Just Got Easier with DAVE

By Pamela Deason
Blog Written by Abhijit Mugali, Product Manager for Test Data Manager Unlock Data @ Speed, Scale, and Self-Service: Introducing DAVE Broadcom’s Database Virtualization Engine As an engineer, do you have the data you need at the tip of your fingers to meet both current and future development needs? Unfortunately, having the right data at the right time remains a significant bottleneck for many organizations. Balancing security, regulatory, and compliance standards with the need for high-quality, production-like data is often a challenge. This friction slows the software development process increasing the time it takes for organizations to be able ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Patch Me OS Security Rollup and Office Security IntelliRollups for June, 2026(v2606.00)

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for June, 2026 are now available. The following rollups have been published: Rollups: CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup v2606.00 CA - Office 32Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2606.00 CA - Office 64Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2606.00 These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the “Software Contents Download Job”. As of February 2026, Microsoft has fully discontinued Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Windows OS and Office Security Individual Patches for June, 2025

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for June, 2026 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: 2026-06 Office - msodll302016-kb5002852-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-06 Office - word2016-kb5002879-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-06 Office - excel2016-kb5002877-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-06 Office - mso2016-kb5002878-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-06 Office - excel2016-kb5002877-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-06 Office - word2016-kb5002879-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-06 Office - msodll302016-kb5002852-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-06 Office ...
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Unlocking Full-Stack Observability for the Private Cloud: Integrating VCF Operations with DX O2

By Ashish Aggarwal
With DX Operational Observability (DX O2) r 26.5.1 , we have extended VCF platform support which now seamlessly integrates VCF Operations (VCFOps) telemetry directly into DX O2. This integration blends full stack observability and advanced AIOps capabilities tailored for the modern private cloud. Bridging the Gap with the Open Data Connector (ODC) As organizations increasingly rely on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to power enterprise private clouds, VCF Administrators, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and IT Operations teams are tasked with managing immensely complex infrastructures. These teams need a unified view with information and context ...
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Integrating Endevor CAST with SonarQube

By Chandru Rengarajan
Integrating Endevor CAST with SonarQube: Integrating a SonarQube code-quality gate into Endevor Package CAST actions offers a seamless and efficient way to enforce code quality standards for software managed by Endevor. This approach embeds scanning and validation directly into the existing pipeline, which streamlines the enforcement process. Endevor packages, which group inventory items for approvals and promotions through the pipeline, are subject to a CAST action to determine their suitability for execution. This CAST action includes a series of built-in validations on the package content. If any of these internal ...
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Introducing VMware vDefend Lateral Security Design Blueprints for VCF 9.1

By Michelle Plato
In the past, data center security mostly relied on perimeter protection—”building walls” to keep bad actors out. Today, safeguarding the data center’s “east-west” or lateral traffic traversing within applications and data is just as critical. Threat actors are leveraging “Frontier AI” security models to automate and accelerate attacks against private cloud workloads. To help enterprises achieve best-of-breed protection with significantly reduced complexity, we are excited to announce new VMware vDefend blueprints to speed up lateral security roll-out across VCF private cloud workloads and help organizations quickly buy down risk. The “Lateral Security for ...
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The Next Era of CloudHealth Reporting: Unveiling Our Newly Enhanced Reporting Experience

By TJ March
The Next Era of CloudHealth Reporting: Unveiling Our Newly Enhanced Reporting Experience About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader | CloudHealth, Governing Board | FinOps Foundation Today marks a big moment for the new CloudHealth experience. We are excited to announce significant enhancements to the core reporting capabilities of the platform. This new framework represents an explainable and predictable reporting model that simplifies the user experience. It is ready for the scale of data that the AI era is bringing. Here is everything you need to know about what is waiting for you in the new experience. Powerful New Reporting ...
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Fresh from the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates May 2026

By TJ March
Fresh from the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates May 2026 About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader | CloudHealth, Governing Board | FinOps Foundation Spring is in full swing, the days are getting longer, and here at the labs, our engineering teams have been burning some serious midnight oil. We are just days away from packing our bags for FinOpsX in San Diego, and the excitement is palpable. If you’re heading out there, please come find us on the expo floor on booth #E8! We’d love to hand you some fresh swag, walk you through a live demo, or just chat about how your cloud journey is going. We even have a cool way to win better swag. Grab a ...
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Trust Your Data, Trust Your Process: The Critical Role of Governance and Intelligent Flow

By Michelle Kerby
Summary Enterprise AI adoption often stalls because models ingest siloed data, which amplifies errors. ConnectALL by Broadcom eliminates these obstacles by providing intelligent orchestration, unified context, flow governance, and trusted enterprise automation. See how you can reduce operational risk, eliminate siloed data, and establish secure, scalable agentic AI workflows. Key Takeaways Equip models with unified context to ensure enterprise AI operates with full operational awareness and alignment. Establish secure, scalable agentic AI workflows using flow filters, logic gates, and real-time content augmentation. Create continuous ...
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