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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.
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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 26, 2019 26 Nov'19
Accenture cloud tool aims to shorten decision cycle

Consulting firm Accenture has launched a cloud tool that industry watchers find interesting for its simulation capabilities and potential to speed up adoption.
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
TCS, Microsoft aim for intelligent cloud, edge

Tata Consultancy Services' Microsoft Business Unit is one of a handful of such IT services entities focused on the software giant; more news from the week.
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.
October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19
NetApp cloud push prompts discussion of data center future

Admins at NetApp storage conference consider moving everything from physical data centers into public clouds, although such a shift is likely years away for most enterprises.
October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19
HPE brings InfoSight AI to SimpliVity HCI

HPE brings technologies from two 2017 acquisitions -- predictive analytics and hyper-convergences -- together with InfoSight on SimpliVity in hopes of giving SimpliVity a sales jolt.
October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19
DevOps security shifts left, but miles to go to pass hackers

DevSecOps has gone mainstream as companies bake security automation into app development, but experts say the toughest cybersecurity challenges remain unsolved.
October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19
Microsoft cybersecurity strategy, hybrid cloud in focus at Ignite

Microsoft will reveal its latest plans to extend its cybersecurity strategy and a new architectural approach to hybrid clouds during Ignite.
October 26, 2019 26 Oct'19
Microsoft wins $10 billion JEDI contract over AWS

In a surprise move, the DOD has awarded Microsoft, not AWS, its controversial JEDI cloud computing contract. The deal has a price tag of up to $10 billion over 10 years.
October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19
Enterprise IT weighs pros and cons of multi-cloud management

IT ops pros are getting used to multi-cloud management, especially for disaster recovery, but moving from cloud to cloud via container portability is still rare.
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
ArubaOS-CX upgrade unifies campus, data center networks

Aruba's latest switches and ArubaOS-CX upgrade join campus and data center networking as Cisco heads in a similar direction with DNA Center.
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
Elastic SIEM spring release will complete Endgame tie-in

Endgame agents can now send endpoint security data to the Elastic SIEM, but UI and data schema integration -- and the ability to take action on endpoints -- will come next year.
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
New NVMe IBM storage for Spectrum Scale cuts install time

IBM introduces new NVMe-based flash storage system bundled with Spectrum Scale, enables Spectrum Discover to access backup date, and updates pay-as-you-grow pricing.
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
New Dell infrastructure chief talks midrange, HCI, VMware

EMC veteran Jeff Boudreau takes control of Dell Infrastructure Solutions Group, with plans to 'out-innovate' hyper-converged and software-defined storage competitors.
October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
Virtual Instruments becomes Virtana, adds cloud monitoring

Virtual Instruments' focus expands to hybrid IT infrastructure management, as company changes name to Virtana and adds CloudWisdom monitoring and cost optimization.
October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
Equifax shares 'risk averse' cloud security model post-breach

Equifax explains how it has transformed its data security strategy using multiple clouds and a more focused approach through Google Cloud Platform's hierarchal security.
October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
NetApp data storage is in transition as Insight 2019 looms

NetApp focuses on transition to cloud, containers, data mobility, next-generation flash and storage class memory as it strives to end recent sales slump.
October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19
Security automation charges IT ops to build the 'paved road'

As IT ops pros evolve into SREs, they play a key role in security automation and create secure paths to production deployment for application developers.
October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19
MAMR tech fuels mammoth 20 TB hard drives

Age-old hard disk drives get a new twist as energy-assisted technologies fuel Western Digital's upcoming new 20 TB HDDs and rivals Seagate and Toshiba work on product plans.
October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19
Red Hat OpenShift Tekton pipelines reflect strategic platform focus

OpenShift and its competitors now offer enterprises soup-to-nuts DevOps platforms, rather than simple Kubernetes management tools, that are based on different points of strategic lock-in.
October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19
AWS launches RDS on VMware as hybrid cloud picture evolves

VMware customers can now run AWS' Relational Database Service in their on-premises clusters, in a move that provides another option for hybrid cloud computing.
October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19
How can predictive analytics for unstructured data improve storage?

AI-based analytics capabilities are becoming pervasive in storage arrays. Find out how they're helping get the unstructured data deluge under control.
October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19
Gluware network automation update addresses OS changes

Gluware adds to its network automation platform easier management of changes to device configurations and operating systems.
October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19
AWS' open source entreaties now include cloud credits

AWS will offer promotional cloud credits to open source project maintainers that meet certain criteria. The move comes after repeated tensions with some companies.

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