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• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Azure confidential computing, AWS aim to better secure cloud data

  Microsoft's confidential computing for Kubernetes and AWS' upcoming Nitro Enclaves both aim to give IT pros ways to create isolated compute environments for sensitive data.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  AWS storage changes the game inside, outside data centers

  Long-term influence of Amazon storage centers on S3 API for object systems and extends to pricing, data durability and IT infrastructure planning and decision-making.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Ex-PayPal pros shun AI with SecOps IT automation firm

  Machine learning and AI are all the rage in IT automation tools -- except for the one produced by a new startup founded by two former PayPal cybersecurity engineers.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  New Kubernetes security tools abound as container deployments grow

  As Kubernetes use expands in production, enterprises have a number of IT security tools to choose from for centralized, policy-based control over container clusters.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Acronis acquires cloud management company 5nine

  Data protection vendor Acronis acquires cybersecurity and cloud management startup 5nine, and plans integration of 5nine technology into Acronis Cyber Cloud.

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• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Verizon, Walmart embrace DevOps dojo for IT training

  Some IT training experts say 'Dojo is a no-go,' but companies such as Verizon and Walmart say the DevOps dojo approach has been well worth it for them.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  How Amazon customer experience became e-commerce standard

  Amazon made personalization, one-click shopping, quick shipping and easy returns de facto standards for all B2C and now, B2B businesses. Read about how the company did it, and what's next.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Experts say storage administrators should broaden roles

  IT experts predict the number of single-focus storage pros will shrink as their responsibilities expand due to the emergence of cloud, hyper-converged and other technologies.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Cisco to acquire Exablaze for high-performance switching

  Cisco plans to acquire Australia-based Exablaze and eventually use its technology in AI applicatons. The acquisition is similar to rival Arista's 2018 purchase of Metamoko.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Government Amazon antitrust inquiries scrutinize market dominance

  The federal government and states are examining whether Amazon stifles competition and violates antitrust laws. The inquiries could result in action such as breakup of the tech giant.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Amazon's growth strategy could target 5 key markets

  Amazon could move well beyond its core e-commerce and cloud services businesses in pursuit of growth, targeting markets such as publishing, health care and travel.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Ramp up carefully during AIOps implementation

  Sound IT automation and data management practices -- along with a healthy dose of patience -- are prerequisites for a smooth AIOps implementation.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  XenData launches plug-and-play archive appliance

  XenData's X1 appliance makes archiving by tape, Sony Optical Disc Archive and cloud object storage simpler and more network-friendly. It connects archives for multiple users.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  6 enterprise data storage startups to watch in 2020

  Even as cloud and flash flourish, it is tougher than ever for data storage newcomers to take root. We've highlighted six startups trying to crack the enterprise market.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Amazon supply chain model disrupts entire industry

  Amazon has conditioned consumers to get goods as quickly as possible, which has affected the global supply chain industry from top to bottom, including inventory management and logistics.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Amazon stores struggle to move from the cloud to solid ground

  Looking for new kingdoms to conquer, Amazon is aggressively moving into physical retail locations. This time the e-commerce giant may face tougher competition.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Put infrastructure automation at the heart of modern IT ops

  IT automation, DevOps at scale and hybrid infrastructure management are three critical -- and interconnected -- IT operations initiatives for 2020.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Geek gifts 2019: Think Opex, not Capex with subscriptions

  Why manage buying your own gifts for geeks, when there are so many subscription gift box services that will do that kind of undifferentiated heavy lifting for you?

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Pivot3, Scale Computing HCI appliances zoom in on AI, edge

  Pivot3 Acuity automates data protection for self-healing node rebuilds. New Scale Computing HE150 HCI systems combine M.2 NVMe SSD, Scale networking software and Intel mini-PCs.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Amazon tech VP lays out ambitious AWS storage vision

  Amazon storage plans include central management console in 2020 and support for more than 30 file systems over time, AWS VP of technology Bill Vass says.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Cisco's Silicon One networking chip targets cloud data centers

  Cisco's Silicon One chip launch demonstrates a willingness to embrace white box routers in the hyperscale data centers of cloud providers.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Dynatrace monitoring faces market ambivalence in NoOps push

  Dynatrace is gung-ho about NoOps with training services and an open source tool for CI/CD automation, but may face skepticism from a wary enterprise IT audience.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Silver Peak SD-WAN orchestrator scales to thousands of sites

  Silver Peak has launched a cloud-based SD-WAN orchestrator that provides centralized control of multiple Unity Orchestrators deployed in separate locations.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  December Patch Tuesday resolves Windows zero-day

  Microsoft delivers the final batch of security fixes for the year with a Windows zero-day vulnerability getting top billing for administrators.

• December 10, 2019 10 Dec'19

  AWS seeks niche in the cloud UC market

  AWS could play a bigger role in the cloud UC market in 2020 and beyond by targeting developers and existing AWS customers.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  National Australia Bank cashes in on AWS training and certification

  Structured training got nearly 1,000 National Australia Bank employees certified on AWS, while AWS-honed tactics such as two-pizza teams can help enterprises build up cloud know-how.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Quobyte storage brings satellite imagery down to Earth

  Quobyte storage customer 3vGeomatics produces analytical data on ground deformities that are potential environmental hazards. The distributed file storage replaces NFS.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Startup Komprise extends data analysis to AWS object stores

  Komprise's Intelligent Data Management software expands beyond file storage and tacks on module to analyze AWS cloud object storage usage and spending.

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  10 DevOps tools vendors to watch in 2020

  A vast market for DevOps tools includes every major IT vendor and many up-and-comers. A panel of industry experts say these 10 are most likely to shift the market in 2020.

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  4 SD-WAN vendors integrate with AWS Transit Gateway

  Aruba, Cisco, Citrix and Silver Peak are among the first SD-WAN vendors to integrate their products with the AWS Transit Gateway.

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  New AWS cost management tool, instance tactics to cut cloud bills

  AWS users like Lyft and Salesforce have figured out how to keep their cloud costs as low as possible, and a new cloud management tool from Amazon aims to help others do the same.

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  3 networking startups rearchitect routing

  Networking startups Arrcus, DriveNets and Volta Networks help service providers redefine routing in the data center and at the edge.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS Outposts brings hybrid cloud support -- but only for Amazon

  AWS hybrid cloud support has arrived with the release of Outposts, but Amazon takes a different tack on multi-cloud and forbids co-branding partners from so much as using the term.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS moves into quantum computing services with Braket

  Amazon joined IBM, Google and Microsoft in the emerging quantum computing market this week with the Amazon Braket managed service along with a new quantum computing research center.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  HCI storage adoption rises as array sales slip

  Dell goes against the grain by increasing storage sales, but much of its gains came from hyper-converged and data protection products rather than traditional primary storage arrays.

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Portworx ships backup, capacity management for containers

  Portworx's storage product tacks on PX-Backup and PX-Autopilot for Capacity Management modules for enterprises building stateful containerized applications.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Microsoft's history and future strategy beyond 2020

  Microsoft's history over the past 20 years is marked by the pivot from closed software models to support for open source and cloud. Quantum computing will shape the next decades.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  U.S. facility may have best data center PUE

  The data center energy efficiency metric, power usage effectiveness, or PUE, is not improving. But one supercomputer data center is showing that big improvements are possible.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  AWS month in review: Explore the CloudFormation CLI, Savings Plans

  This month, Amazon added the AWS CloudFormation CLI and registry, which should increase the scope of resources supported in CloudFormation. The cloud provider also added a Savings Plan pricing ...

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  AWS rejects Elasticsearch trademark lawsuit claims

  AWS' response to Elasticsearch's trademark infringement lawsuit denies the allegations, but experts say a settlement is likely and justifiably in the cards.

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  With Time on its hands, Meredith drives storage consolidation

  Following an acquisition of Time Inc., Meredith Corp. dumped most of its traditional IT gear and added newer technology developed around virtualization, convergence and the cloud.

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Pure Storage cloud sales surge, but earnings miss the target

  Although its pedigree is all-flash storage hardware, Pure Storage cloud products and services are a strong growth engine. But the vendor said global demand is starting to slacken.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  AWS storage tackles more traditional enterprise capabilities

  Amazon's latest wave of enterprise storage enhancements includes a replication SLA for S3, faster snapshot restores for EBS and data deduplication for FSx for Windows File Server.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  DDN storage, Nvidia Magnum IO aim to speed AI deployment

  DataDirect adds reference architecture that packages NVMe all-flash storage in Nvidia DGX SuperPod, scalable to 64 GPUs and 10 DDN AI400 arrays with NVMe SSDs.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Kubernetes release gets little fanfare as IT looks toward GitOps

  Kubernetes is considered stable enough to be boring. The latest beta release was barely mentioned at KubeCon, where IT pros focused on advanced uses such as GitOps and other cloud-native projects.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Extreme makes Fabric Automation friendlier to developers

  Extreme Networks adds Fabric Automation features that make the company's virtualized data center networks more adaptive to changes by application developers.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  HPE gets trove of U.S. sensor data to aid exascale computing

  HPE will be working with the National Renewable Energy Lab to develop AIOps aimed at improving exascale computing efficiency. The lab has a trove of data that may help.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio battle heats up as service mesh gains steam

  Service mesh has gone from a relatively unknown entity to a mainstream topic in 2019, but it's too early to declare a TKO in the Linkerd vs. Istio prizefight.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Kubernetes tools vendors vie for developer mindshare

  Developers in the cloud-native industry running Kubernetes environments say they need more and better Kubernetes tools to get around some of the complexity of the platform.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Kubernetes Helm Tiller is dead, and IT pros rejoice

  The latest version of the Kubernetes Helm package manager promises better security and stability in version 3, which removes the Tiller server component from Helm's architecture.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  New DataCore vFilO software pools NAS, object storage

  The new vFilO software provides a scale-out file system and global namespace for unstructured data, facilitating unified access to data through NFS, SMB and S3 protocols.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Google joins bare-metal cloud fray

  Google could attract more legacy application workloads through new bare-metal cloud instances, but it's unclear how they measure up to competitors on manageability and cost.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Kubernetes security opens a new frontier: Multi-tenancy

  Enterprises have grown used to managing Kubernetes in production for some of their workloads, but broadening those deployments can bring multi-tenant security challenges.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Juniper Mist roadmap includes SD-WAN, security integrations

  The Juniper Mist roadmap includes integrating the wireless LAN's cloud AI engine with Juniper's SD-WAN and malware detection service.

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IBM's latest Kubernetes tools ease use for cloud developers

  IBM's new open-source Kubernetes tools help lower the barrier to entry for developers to use Kubernetes to build, deploy, manage and move workloads to the cloud.

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  HPE Container Platform combines AI pickups BlueData, MapR

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise showcases Container Platform for bare metal Kubernetes deployments, helping data centers make on-premises legacy apps extensible to the cloud.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  D2iQ latest to seek Kubernetes management niche

  D2iQ's CTO says it will use its enterprise experience with Apache Mesos container orchestration and big data apps such as Kafka to compete in a crowded market for Kubernetes management.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  NetApp storage systems growth hinges on cloud transition

  NetApp's decision to aggressively market storage systems for building hybrid and multi-clouds is put to the test in the face of declining sales in 2019.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  AWS, Azure and Google peppered with outages in same week

  Cloud outages hit AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud within the past week, an outcome that suggests customers must take a more sophisticated approach to ensure maximum uptime.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Cisco earnings foreshadow slowdown in tech spending

  The latest Cisco earnings report indicated a weakening in business confidence as economic uncertainties lowered tech spending by enterprises and other segments.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Google to unveil post-Chronicle cloud cybersecurity plans

  Google plans to discuss its cloud cybersecurity portfolio at a conference next week, with the capabilities developed by Chronicle figuring heavily into the mix.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Michael Dell on Dell cloud strategy: On-premises cloud rules

  Dell's CEO lays out his company's cloud plan, which is to connect on-premises with public, edge and 5G clouds though integrated infrastructure and subscription pricing.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Google cloud network tools check links, firewalls, packet loss

  The latest Google cloud network monitoring tools perform connectivity testing and provide firewall and performance metrics.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Microsoft closes IE zero-day on November Patch Tuesday

  Security updates for the month also include corrections for bugs in the Hyper-V virtualization platform, Excel for Mac systems and Exchange Server.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Docker Enterprise spun off to Mirantis, company restructures

  In an unexpected move, Docker sells off its Docker Enterprise business -- including customer support -- to Mirantis and refocuses on Docker Hub and Docker Desktop.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  DreamWorks animates its cloud with NetApp Data Fabric

  The 'virtual studio' DreamWorks cloud relies on various components of NetApp Data Fabric, including All Flash FAS storage, NetApp HCI and OnTap cloud-based data management.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference coverage

  Expect Microsoft to continue its cloud push at its annual conference for IT pros to get more organizations moving to Azure and its Office 365 collaboration platform.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Aqua Security buys CloudSploit, expands into cloud security

  Amid consolidation and chaos in the cloud security market, Aqua snaps up CloudSploit and sets the stage for increased competition with traditional IT security vendors.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Nasuni update adds Analytics Connector, Cloud Migrator

  Nasuni's new Analytics Connector does file-to-object translation, Cloud Migrator speeds data transfers, and multi-cloud support expands to Google and more on-premises options.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Dell EMC PowerOne, On Demand add cloud-like pricing

  Dell EMC expands storage-as-a-service pricing, launches PowerOne converged stack for IT users looking for the "Holy Grail" of cloud pricing and on-premises management.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Juniper taps Mist Systems for wired, wireless LAN analytics

  Juniper Networks is using its Mist Systems acquisition to provide cloud-based analytics for a wired and wireless LAN built with Mist and Juniper hardware.

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Microsoft quantum development turns toward hardware

  Microsoft revealed plans to jump into the quantum hardware business with a chip capable of running quantum software.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Microsoft cybersecurity training to become mandatory for its workers

  Microsoft's cybersecurity training program, which uses AI-powered tools to reinforce learning, is mandated for all employees. It will also be launched in a version for customers.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  IBM's financial services cloud offers developer opportunity

  IBM hopes to bring developers to its new financial services cloud that runs on the IBM Cloud platform and uses Red Hat OpenShift as its Kubernetes environment.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Microservices security calls for zero-trust, data classification

  Sanity in a zero-trust world for microservices security calls for IT teams to prioritize the assets they must protect, and that starts with data classification.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Mars gains sweet cloud savings with Azure Cost Management

  Azure Cost Management, which helps customers track spend on the cloud platform, can provide sweet rewards if used correctly and comprehensively, according to candy maker Mars.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  New API lets Azure Stack connect to Scality object storage

  New Azure Blob API will enable Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Edge hybrid and private cloud customers to use scale-out Scality Ring object storage on premises.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Cisco Meraki Go chasing Best Buy customers

  The latest Cisco Meraki Go products cost as little as $149 -- a price that could attract Best Buy customers.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Infinidat storage plans NVMe-oF driver in 2020

  Infinidat CTO Brian Carmody says NVMe protocol is a 'perfect match' for hybrid InfiniBox disk arrays. Customers are beta testing Infinidat NVMe drivers, starting with RoCE 4.

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Atlassian products aid BizDevOps, but integration work remains

  IT pros have found Atlassian tools useful for BizDevOps initiatives but would like more integration and consolidated points of management among them in the future.

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Latest Cisco switch uses Meraki software, Catalyst hardware

  The MS390 is the first Cisco switch built using Meraki software and Catalyst hardware.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Microsoft Azure Arc faces cautiously interested user base

  The hybrid cloud offering, announced this week at Ignite, will let users manage across multi-cloud, on-premises and edge environments -- but is it relevant? Customers weigh in.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  What should we make of ESB architecture in a distributed world?

  Did microservices really kill the ESB? Or could it be that the push to asynchronous communication only makes application architects need centralized management more than ever?

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Qumulo storage refresh taps into newest HPE Apollo servers

  New Qumulo scale-out file storage software can be consumed locally or run as a hybrid cloud available via a Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake consumption license.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Arista CloudEOS addresses multi-cloud networking

  Arista joins Cisco, Juniper and VMware in the multi-cloud networking market. The new Arista CloudEOS leverages CloudVision for multi-cloud monitoring, automation and management.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  JASK buy may boost security analytics in Sumo Logic SIEM

  Sumo Logic has acquired JASK, an automated SOC that will be most useful for security analytics and alert reduction features within Sumo Logic's SIEM.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Dell EMC upgrades VxRail appliances for AI, SAP HANA

  As hyperconverged infrastructure use cases expand, Dell EMC adds analytics, flash and network management to VxRail platform built on PowerEdge servers.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Microsoft hybrid cloud strategy expands with Azure Arc

  Azure Arc will bring Microsoft's public cloud management tools together for use by customers on any type of infrastructure. The move underscores the drive toward hybrid cloud deployments as customer needs evolve.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  New Relic catches up in serverless monitoring with IOpipe

  IOpipe's IP and expertise will help New Relic catch up with the latest serverless monitoring trends, such as AWS Lambda Layers support and event-driven frameworks.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  NetApp Insight 2019 Las Vegas: Conference highlights and updates

  At last year's event, NetApp made it clear that a cloud push wasn't going to eliminate on-premises options. Where does the legacy vendor stand in 2019?

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Google Cloud networking BYOIP feature could ease migrations

  Google Cloud Platform's networking capabilities have gotten a boost with the introduction of bring your own IP addresses, a move aimed to ease cloud migrations for customers.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  HPE Cray ClusterStor E1000 arrays tackle converged workloads

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise subsidiary Cray delivers new ClusterStor E1000 all-flash and disk storage arrays, with hardened Lustre file system and ClusterStor Data Services.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Atlassian CISO Adrian Ludwig shares DevOps security outlook

  Atlassian's CISO believes that eventually, application security mechanisms will be absorbed completely into Agile and DevOps tools -- including his own company's products.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Cisco's picks for top 4 emerging networking technologies

  Cisco's picks for top emerging networking technologies include machine reasoning, optical networking, cognitive radio and Citizens Broadband Radio Service.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  SwiftStack 7 storage upgrade targets AI, machine learning use cases

  SwiftStack's latest upgrade extends its ProxyFS file system to the edge and cloud namespace to file data namespace to cater to artificial intelligence, machine learning workloads.

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  AWS month in review: Amazon rolls out RDS on VMware, loses JEDI deal

  This month, AWS expanded its hybrid cloud capabilities with RDS on VMware but lost out on the JEDI cloud contract. It also added new EC2 instances with larger network and memory capacity.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Storage admins 'unleashed' in age of cloud

  Storage professionals should feel 'unleashed' and empowered in the age of cloud to avoid the tedious admin work and hit the reset button by modernizing data center storage.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Micron 3D XPoint SSD uses new controller to boost speed

  Micron Technology's new X100 SSD will become the first competitor for Intel's Optane in the market for 3D XPoint's ultrafast solid-state storage drives.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Expanded NetApp hybrid cloud tools pique enterprise interest

  The success of NetApp's hybrid cloud strategy will depend on how quickly enterprises abandon data center ownership in favor of more agile cloudlike data mobility.

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  NetApp Keystone cements file vendor's hybrid cloud fabric

  NetApp Keystone allows customers to choose a service level and type of storage. NetApp then uses its analytics to tailor storage to meet performance and capacity needs.