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• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure adds new AMD EPYC instances

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has boosted its support for mission-critical workloads with new options based on AMD's second-generation EPYC processors.

• April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20

  How telemedicine, SD-WAN helped two firms get back to work

  COVID-19 is forcing companies to rethink their workplaces. Medical companies TrialCard and Vohra have turned to SD-WAN and telemedicine, respectively, to keep employees productive.

• April 27, 2020 27 Apr'20

  IT compliance-as-code tool makes Kubernetes security inroads

  Open Policy Agent has turned heads among IT shops for Kubernetes compliance as code, and its commercial backer looks to capitalize on that momentum with new enterprise features.

• April 27, 2020 27 Apr'20

  Pandemic changes enterprise storage buying plans

  The COVID-19 pandemic is causing some IT organizations to delay or push up their 2020 enterprise data storage purchases, while others continue with business as usual.

• April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  HashiCorp Consul service leads off post-funding roadmap

  HashiCorp CEO David McJannet discusses the company's future, including a Consul managed service headed for public beta this week, overlap with Kubernetes and building a sustainable open source business.

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• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  AWS launches Amazon AppFlow for SaaS integration

  The newly launched Amazon AppFlow gives AWS an answer to the likes of Microsoft's Azure Logic Apps, for tying together its native services with SaaS application data.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Infrastructure-as-code competitor challenges Terraform

  Pulumi 2.0 ratchets up the heat on HashiCorp's rival Terraform IaC tool, adding policy as code, test automation and secrets management features to its mainstream language support.

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Google Anthos multi-cloud platform now GA on AWS

  Kubernetes-based Anthos is generally available on AWS, giving customers the ability to manage workloads there, as well as across Google Cloud and on-premises environments.

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Hitachi Vantara rekindles romance with enterprise storage

  After retreating in recent years, Hitachi Vantara steps back into enterprise data center market NVMe storage aimed at the low range of the high-end systems market.

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Cisco SD-WAN to use Google Cloud backbone

  Cisco plans to launch next year SD-WAN technology that improves WAN performance by directing traffic over Google Cloud's low-latency network backbone.

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  IBM's new CEO makes commitment to IT, reports cloud gains

  IBM cloud revenues saw incremental first quarter growth, despite the March slump due to COVID-19, and the new CEO promised to pursue a more aggressive cloud and AI strategy.

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Commvault lawsuit says Rubrik, Cohesity infringed on patents

  Commvault accused startups Rubrik and Cohesity of copying its inventions. Its lawsuit seeks judgment to stop the sales of products such as Cohesity DataPlatform and Rubrik CDM.

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  COVID-19 unemployment claims up demand for COBOL programmers

  There is an urgent need for COBOL programmers amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the U.S. economy and overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems in some states.

• April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20

  Cisco online certification tests are now available

  Cisco online certification testing launched April 15. To prevent cheating, the Pearson VUE testing software commandeers the video cameras and microphones on candidates' home PCs.

• April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20

  New fast-launch tool aims at SAP on AWS deployments

  SAP on AWS projects could get easier for customers with the release of a new fast-launch tool native to the public cloud platform. AWS' move aims to attract more of these valuable ERP workloads.

• April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20

  Vast Data wows investors with 'flash everywhere' design

  In the throes of economic uncertainty caused by a global pandemic, investors pour $100 million into startup that sells a million-dollar storage system, Vast Data Universal Storage.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  Cisco, HPE counter COVID-19 impact with tech financing

  Cisco and HPE are offering special tech financing to businesses struggling to keep IT projects going in an economy rocked by the COVID-19 crisis.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  COVID-19 remote work forces shift on SecOps strategy

  Security risk was mostly an afterthought as businesses scrambled to support remote work in response to COVID-19, but SecOps is now at the top of IT shops' priority lists.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  Lower-cost IBM z15 mainframes add security for multi-clouds

  Two new low-end IBM z15 mainframes and security software aim to help users better prevent internal attacks, as well as monitor workloads across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  Scality launches NAS Archiver to migrate cold file data

  Scality's new NAS Archiver product assesses tier-1 NAS systems for inactive data and lets customers set policies to move the data to its Ring object and file storage.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  SaaS-based Unitrends Helix automates tedious backup tasks

  Unitrends Helix automates the tasks of monitoring, remediating and maintaining backup servers. While tedious, they are necessary to prevent failed backups.

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  Short-depth Supermicro SuperServer targets 5G telecoms

  New 2U Supermicro SuperServer provides compute in micro data centers. The vendor said it aims to help telecommunications firms adopt open systems to support edge computing.

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  3 zero-day fixes in heavy April Patch Tuesday release

  Complications arising from the coronavirus pandemic could slow the rollout of this month's Microsoft security updates as IT teams deal with an influx of remote workers.

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  GitHub Free expanded to support teams

  The free tier of GitHub’s version control platform is now available to entire teams, after previously being limited to individuals and small groups.

• April 13, 2020 13 Apr'20

  Agiloft adds AI engine to its no-code CLM platform

  With a new AI engine for its contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, Agiloft is giving developers assistance in building CLM applications using the company's no-code tech.

• April 13, 2020 13 Apr'20

  Object storage vendors turn to analytics, AI, machine learning

  The view of object stores as nothing more than cheap and deep storage is changing, as the technology finds its way into AI, machine learning and analytics use cases.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  NSX-T 3.0 enriches VMware's hybrid IT offering

  VMware's new NSX-T 3.0 brings important tools to customers modernizing data centers for the cloud era.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  Atlassian taps AWS, Sentry and Snyk for Bitbucket Pipelines

  Atlassian has created a promotion around its Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD platform to help developers gain access to tools that will help them turn out error-free code.

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  HashiCorp Vault secrets manager ups Enterprise edition value

  HashiCorp Vault 1.4 sweetens the deal for users of the paid Enterprise version, which had been subject to questions about differentiation from the free version in the past.

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  Coronavirus decks storage and server enterprise spending

  Revised IDC market forecast predicts a rise in cloud and infrastructure as a service, as organizations reallocate budgets from physical servers and storage hardware.

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Foundation exec seeks Cloud Foundry vs. Kubernetes detente

  New Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Chip Childers plans to steer the community into the next phase of cooperation with Kubernetes, Knative, Istio and more.

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  COVID-19 ups the fight against Amazon package 'porch pirates'

  Many unlucky online shoppers have fallen prey to 'porch pirates' who steal packages from outside their homes. It's a problem that could be exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Fluidmesh-Cisco deal fills gap in Cisco IIoT

  The recently announced Fluidmesh-Cisco deal would fill a gap in Cisco's industrial IoT portfolio. It would provide onboard Wi-Fi for high-speed public transportation systems.

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  Amazon bets big on last mile delivery service improvements

  Amazon has made a significant investment in building out its last mile delivery services to grab a piece of the growing grocery delivery market.

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  Lenovo flash storage, Microsoft Azure eye mad rush to edge

  New Lenovo ThinkAgile MX and Lenovo storage arrays target Microsoft cloud customers. Azure Stack HCI configuration mirrors qualified designs for VMware, Nutanix.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Tech users weigh in on upcoming approval of more Wi-Fi 6 spectrum

  Technology users say the pending Federal Communications approval of additional spectrum for Wi-Fi 6 should bring much higher wireless performance than available today.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  IBM Call for Code unleashes developers on COVID-19

  IBM's Call for Code competition wants developers to create applications that help communities deal with and mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  As Atlassian cloud push ramps up, users assess migration

  Atlassian's cloud products offer sought-after enterprise features and extend integrations, but some organizations will still struggle to transition from its on-premises tools.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  SysAid announces launch of new workflow tool, Workflow Designer

  Workflow Designer uses a drag-and-drop process to make workflows easier to create with less training and can be crucial with the rise of employees working from home.

• April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20

  IT service desks rush to support remote work amid pandemic

  IT service desks bore the brunt of the sudden transition from centralized business locations to remote work for most white-collar employees, as COVID-19 forced social distancing.

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  CloudGenix-Palo Alto buy combines SD-WAN with cloud security

  The CloudGenix-Palo Alto Networks acquisition will combine the Prisma cloud security suite with CloudGenix's software-defined WAN.

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  AWS security options grow with Amazon Detective

  AWS has released Amazon Detective, a managed threat hunting service that generates visualizations out of log data from native Amazon Web Services.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Rancher plots enterprise Kubernetes management takeover

  Flush with funding, Rancher hopes to win deals away from major IT software vendors such as VMware as enterprises seek help with Kubernetes management.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Komprise stretches NAS migration tool for multi-cloud use

  Komprise's Elastic Data Migration moves beyond NAS-to-NAS migration over LANs to enable customers to shift file and object data over WANs to one or more public or private clouds.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  StorOne adds object, expands tiering

  StorOne wants to go beyond software-defined storage by handling all types of data across any type of performance or capacity media; adds S3 support to block and file storage.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Log monitoring refinements control data growth, costs

  Whether it's pricing according to access frequency or reducing the volume of logs sent by IT infrastructure, fresh IT monitoring approaches make cloud-native visibility manageable.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Dell Tech World 2020 placed on hold until October

  Dell Tech World 2020 rescheduled to October, as Dell and VMware withdraw FY2021 guidance. Dell joins a growing list of tech vendors to shuffle user events in the wake of the coronavirus.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation

  Containers on bare-metal flash and souped-up processing highlight innovations in storage, aiming for seamless data movement between local and cloud arrays.

• March 30, 2020 30 Mar'20

  Storj decentralized cloud object storage takes on skeptics

  Storj's new Tardigrade cloud object storage uses spare storage and bandwidth from tech-minded individuals, businesses and regional data centers in 85 countries.

• March 30, 2020 30 Mar'20

  Panzura CEO: IT will never be same after COVID-19 pandemic

  Panzura's CEO predicts permanent changes to storage, IT and business continuity planning as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, as organizations encourage more remote working.

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  U-turn in network market forecast amid coronavirus pandemic

  IDC predicts the global market for switches and wireless LAN products will fall in 2020, with revenues from switches below last year and wireless LAN sales rising less than 1%.

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  Microsoft Azure capacity woes don't signal the worst

  Microsoft Azure experienced capacity issues in Europe, with some users unable to spin up VMs. The company is taking 'proactive steps' for the future.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Tech giants aim supercomputers, clouds at finding a COVID-19 cure

  The new COVID-19 HPC consortium comprised of tech giants, national labs and academia are using supercomputers and clouds to speed research to identify a cure.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  HashiCorp Nomad vs. Kubernetes matchup intensifies with 0.11

  HashiCorp Nomad may not overtake Kubernetes but could capture broader enterprise attention with container-like orchestration features for legacy apps in VMs.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Nutanix Objects 2.0 lays groundwork for hybrid cloud

  The latest Nutanix Objects update gives users higher capacity per namespace, but experts say the endgame is flexibility between the data center and the cloud.

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  New FalconStor StorSafe uses containers to archive backups

  FalconStor's new StorSafe product combines container, erasure coding and data reduction to archive backups and make them portable across cloud sites.

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: VPN hardware becomes a chokepoint for remote workers

  VPN hardware has become a bottleneck for companies with a high number of employees working from home as a result of efforts to combat the coronavirus.

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Las Vegas shores up SecOps with multi-factor authentication

  AI-driven SecOps tools spared Las Vegas from a major data breach in January. The city now bets that two-factor authentication can stop future attempts.

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Commvault storage story expands with Hedvig for primary data

  The pickup of Hedvig helps diversify Commvault beyond backup to address growing customer demand for scalable object storage that traverses across public and private clouds.

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Coronavirus disruption frays Amazon supply chain

  Even as orders increase, disruption from the new coronavirus outbreak could have big consequences for smaller, third-party sellers on Amazon, as they will be punished for stock outages.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Coronavirus forces switch to remote work for DevOps teams

  The new coronavirus pandemic will force most DevOps teams to work remotely and may also interfere with work schedules. Experts share advice on how to weather the disruption.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  GitHub for mobile brings dev platform to small screens

  GitHub for mobile delivers a fully native iOS and Android development experience of the popular GitHub source code version control service for developers.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Dell warns of order delays; tech buyers worry about IT supply chain

  Tech buyers feared the coronavirus pandemic could rattle IT supply chains. Meanwhile, Dell warned customers of delays in fulfilling orders on time.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Igneous brings SaaS data management to Dell EMC appliances

  Igneous rocks on-premises backup, data management with ability to use Dell NAS appliances as targets for its SaaS platform that was designed for public clouds.

• March 16, 2020 16 Mar'20

  Atlassian integrates Automation for Jira no-code tool

  Atlassian has integrated no-code technology gained from last year’'s acquisition of Automation for Jira by Code Barrel into its Jira Cloud issue-tracking service.

• March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20

  HPE touts pricing, tech flexibility of 5G Core Stack

  HPE has unveiled carrier software for the 5G Core. HPE touts flexibility in pricing and tech in its 5G Core Stack, which would compete in a market dominated by six vendors.

• March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 aims to address complexity concerns

  Red Hat claims new Ceph installer and management dashboard mean administrators won't require a 'degree in distributed systems' to set up storage clusters anymore.

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  Docker targets cloud-native developers with tools, services

  With cloud-native development being key to application modernization and digital transformation efforts, Docker has refocused its strategy to empower developers with tools.

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  AWS Bottlerocket container OS locks down hosts

  AWS Bottlerocket puts the cloud giant's spin on the container OS, and container host security, but the company will have to overcome a generally poor reputation in the open source world.

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Continuous delivery pipeline transforms hotel chain's IT ops

  As Choice Hotels moved away from homegrown scripting tools for continuous delivery, it fundamentally shifted the daily duties of its IT ops teams.

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Cisco restructuring follows Goeckeler departure

  The Cisco restructuring that follows the departure of executive VP David Goeckeler has reshuffled the company's executive team among five newly created product groups.

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Mammoth March Patch Tuesday lands on Windows admins

  Microsoft delivers corrections for 115 unique vulnerabilities, including 26 bugs rated critical in one of its largest Patch Tuesday releases in recent memory.

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  VMware's Kubernetes-based products ease container migration

  VMware has rolled out a basket of Kubernetes-based offerings to help users prepare for container migration as a way to modernize their apps and maintain investments in vSphere.

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  NetApp digs into Talon Storage for Cloud OnTap

  Talon Storage cache-and-sync suite is tacked on to NetApp cloud fabric to give end-to-end migration as enterprise data centers shift data to public cloud.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Mendix expands support with private, dedicated cloud options

  Low-code platform provider Mendix has released Mendix for Private Cloud and Mendix Dedicated Cloud, new offerings aimed at enterprises with special security and compliance needs.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Honeywell quantum computing system passes IBM out of the gate

  Honeywell joined the quantum computing race this week with a system featuring a new quantum architecture with a Quantum Volume rating of 64 -- double that of existing systems.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  COVID-19 depresses 5G smartphone shipments

  Omdia is the latest analyst firm to lower its projections for 5G smartphone shipments because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The firm expects 20% fewer phones in 2020.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Developers vie for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certs

  Oracle hopes to attract new developers to its cloud platform with its new developer certification for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as it trails AWS, Microsoft and Google in market share.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Istio service mesh revamp may ease use, or sow confusion

  Istio 1.5 reworks a microservices-based control plane into a monolith as the service mesh project seeks to simplify management and improve performance.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Nvidia scoops up object storage startup SwiftStack

  Months after saying it would change its focus to AI, SwiftStack has changed hands. Nvidia will acquire the object storage vendor to bolster its internal AI stack.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Google Kubernetes Engine price change sparks discontent

  Google is bringing back cluster management fees for its Google Kubernetes Engine service, a move that will bring it into parity with AWS' competing product but also prompted some protests from users.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Biometrics firm fights monitoring overload with log analytics

  Log analytics tools have become more popular as enterprise IT pros contend with complex, continuous microservices application deployments at scale.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  HCI market grows as storage, servers shrink

  Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise say their storage and server revenues declined sharply last quarter, while hyper-converged infrastructure sales keep growing.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Coronavirus outbreak could impact NAND flash prices

  Memory manufacturers report no major impact to NAND flash supply, but weakening demand could exert an impact on prices, according to industry analysts.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Veritas Enterprise Vault adds cloud-based supervision

  Veritas added Advanced Supervision to its cloud archiving platform and said even customers outside of heavily regulated industries demand communications monitoring tools.

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Apple subsidiary delivers Claris Connect no-code tool

  Claris Connect, the latest product from Claris, the enterprise software subsidiary of Apple, targets nonprogrammers at SMBs to help them build apps by stitching services together.

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Pure Storage layoffs signal turbulence in IT market

  Layoffs at Pure Storage dampen the flash array vendor's better-than-expected quarterly revenue. Pure is the latest tech vendor to eliminate jobs amid fears of a global slowdown.

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Microsoft boosts Azure big data strategy with Hadoop distro

  Microsoft Azure's HDInsight has a new, company-backed distribution of Hadoop, which should reassure customers interested in hybrid big data deployments.

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Mainframe software market shrinks with BMC-Compuware deal

  The BMC acquisition of Compuware leaves BMC as the last major independent mainframe software company. But its new portfolio should help users transition to modern world of DevOps.

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Dell EMC midrange storage launch put on hold

  Dell COO Jeff Clarke says he's to blame for delays in shipping the Dell EMC midrange storage array, claiming he pushed the launch so the vendor's sales force can get up to speed.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  RSA 2020: US needs allies to battle China's 5G threat

  Experts at RSA 2020 said the United States and its allies have to solve trade disputes and combine resources to secure global 5G infrastructure against Chinese threats.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Coronavirus impact: Dell, Nutanix flag Q1 revenue estimates

  Storage vendors with operations and suppliers in Asia are keeping close tabs on the coronavirus outbreak and possible impact on supply chains. Some vendors expect sales to suffer.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Top 5 container software trends to watch in 2020

  Container software, namely Kubernetes, has become a staple of modern enterprise IT infrastructure -- here's what's coming next for the technology in 2020 and beyond.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Pure Storage FlashArray//X goes pure NVMe

  The third generation of Pure FlashArray//X includes a new 1 TB capacity DirectFlash module. Pure said the rollout completes its integration of NVMe flash on all arrays.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Rapid7 adds Snyk security to its portfolio

  The Snyk security vulnerability database brings an extra layer of protection to Rapid7 by helping developers find and fix vulnerabilities early in the software development process.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kubernetes edge computing takes shape on container frontier

  Kubernetes at the edge has emerged as an early stage trend among enterprises that want to push the boundaries of software automation.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  RSA 2020: Experts say US is too slow in deploying 5G

  At the RSA 2020 conference, experts said enterprise-class 5G services are years away. Obstacles include security and doubts about profitability.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  VMware security for Cloud Foundation ties to Carbon Black

  The new VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation binds the company's security offerings with other key VMware offerings such as Carbon Black and NSX.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  CISA chief can't guarantee election security

  CISA Chief Christopher Krebs told RSA attendees he can't guarantee election security. Krebs also discussed CISA's efforts against Iranian hackers and ransomware attacks.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Qumulo NAS file system adds encryption, security

  Qumulo juices its file system with encryption, real-time security audits and other capabilities designed to position the scale-out NAS for denser, more complex workloads.