How SD-WAN Is Driving Business Continuity in a COVID World
The coronavirus outbreak has thrown the economy into flux, creating changes to entire industries that would have been unpredictable a few months ago. While demand for travel has decreased dramatically, other businesses such as grocery chains, financial services and retailers are under immense pressure to serve customers in new ways. Enterprises with thousands of employees […]
Dell Technologies Advances Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Dell Technologies, in collaboration with VMware and Google, today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making its CloudFS storage system available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and adding support for VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and VMware Cloud Foundation 4 to its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms for on-premises IT environments. Varun Chhabra, vice president of […]
Lucidchart Launches Tool to Visualize AWS Cloud Environments
Lucidchart today added a visualization tool that generates interactive diagrams of an IT organization’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Dan Lawyer, senior vice president of product at Lucidchart, said Lucidchart Cloud Insights makes it possible to automatically visualize all the services an organization is consuming from the cloud service provider, with support for other cloud […]
Fortanix Adds Platform to Manage Confidential Computing on Azure
Fortanix today announced that a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing instances of confidential computing on the Microsoft Azure cloud is now generally available. Confidential computing is an emerging approach to encrypting data while it is running in memory. Today encryption is only applied to data at rest. Confidential computing makes it possible to set up […]
Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?
Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, at the same time standards began to converge and edge hardware started making the rounds at trade shows, the hype machine saw an […]
Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud
Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]
HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach
HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications. Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling how application services interact with one another. Most of the adoption of service meshes thus far has involved applications built using microservices. With […]
Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
How to Leverage Elastic Services for Cost Optimization
Due to the current pandemic, business continuity for many organizations has suffered a great deal. Organizations, primarily those in manufacturing, agriculture, transport, hospitality, energy and retail sectors, have been affected by the unanticipated change in the business landscape. Some companies in these sectors have been experiencing massive losses in revenue, which is why their primary […]
OpsRamp Offers Users Free IT Management Services
OpsRamp announced today that IT organizations that subscribe to its discovery and monitoring tools will now also receive free access to the company’s AIOps and remote access management service tiers for one year. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product for OpsRamp, said the decision to provide free access to additional tiers of service is a […]
NVIDIA Aims to Drive Disaggregation Following Cumulus Networks Buy
Adoption of open source networking may be about to get a boost following the forthcoming acquisition of Cumulus Network by NVIDIA. The acquisition of the provider of a network operating system (NOS) based on Linux follows an earlier move by NVIDIA to acquire Mellanox, a provider of networking and storage systems. Kevin Deierling, senior vice […]
Low-Code Development: The Future of Communications Experiences
The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue. […]
Citrix Makes Case for VPN Alternative
Citrix this week announced it will make its remote access tool that enables users to efficiently access their desktop PCs more widely available via the cloud. Gabe Carrejo, senior program manager for Citrix, said Remote PC Access provides a more efficient alternative to the virtual private networks (VPNs) that most organizations currently rely on to […]
4 Things to Do When Running the Iot Zoo
Zoos are fascinating places. In just a few acres you can encounter all kinds of interesting, rare and exotic animals from different parts of the world and from different ends of the food chain. But, what keeps the tigers from eating the zebras or even the visitors? Segmentation. Walls, fences, cages and other barriers that […]
Do You Trust Your Cloud Provider to Protect Your Data? Maybe You Shouldn’t
Around the world, businesses are moving to the cloud at a rapid rate. But, is the cloud really the best place to store your mission-critical data and applications? Is it truly a safe place to put data and apps that need strong protection? The immediate answer from many companies is “yes.” A recent study by […]
IBM Looks to Drive Edge Computing
IBM today at its Think Digital conference launched an edge computing initiative anchored around an IBM Edge Application Manager, through which a single administrator can manage up to 10,000 nodes. Hillery Hunter, vice president and CTO for IBM Cloud, said IBM Edge Application Manager is based on the Open Horizon open source software originally developed […]
Dell Advances Convergence of Compute and Storage
Dell Technologies today launched a revamped midrange storage platform that takes advantage of NVMe interfaces and solid-state drives (SSDs) to deliver 7x the performance of previous Dell EMC PowerStore platforms, in addition to allowing applications to run locally on an instance of a VMware virtual machine. Ben Jastrab, senior manager for storage product marketing at […]
HPE Extends Reach of GreenLake Central
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made available HPE GreenLake Central, a self-service portal through which IT teams can collaboratively manage and monitor instances of servers deployed in IT environments that are managed by HPE on their behalf. At its core, HPE GreenLake is a managed service that allows IT organizations to pay for IT infrastructure on […]
How to Manage Data in Hybrid Cloud Environments
We’ve long-since established that multi-generational, multi-cloud environments are the new norm. But, how does one go about managing data in those environments? In this post, we’ll take a look at the ramifications of this hybrid cloud reality and best practices for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability. It’s All Cloud Whether it’s […]
Latest Version of Open Source IPFS Improves Performance
The team behind the open source InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) announced this week that a significantly faster version of the peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol is now generally available. IPFS is a distributed file system that makes use of a global namespace to connect all computing devices. The fundamental difference between IPFS and other distributed file systems […]
NetApp Grabs CloudJumper to Manage Windows Desktops in the Cloud
NetApp today announced it has acquired CloudJumper, a provider of management tools for virtual desktops at a time when the rate at which Windows desktops are moving into the cloud is accelerating. Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager of NetApp’s Cloud Data Services business unit, said NetApp will primarily employ CloudJumper as a […]
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
Chef today updated its tool for automating the management of IT infrastructure as part of an effort to further eliminate the need to rely on manual processes that generally fail to scale. John Wyss, vice president of product for Chef, said Chef Infra 16 adds a Unified Mode that provides a more streamlined means of […]
Commvault Deepens Ties With NetApp to Automate Data Protection
Commvault has extended its alliance with NetApp to make it possible to recover files nearly instantaneously from an all-flash memory array. Ranga Rajagopalan, vice president of product management for Commvault, said NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP) from Commvault builds on its backup and recovery software to make it possible to use to NetApp hyperconverged infrastructure […]