Disruption of critical public services or data compromise can cost people their privacy, their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives. What IT security threats do enterprises have to deal with today? Large Organizations Not Yet Able to Secure their Complex IT Environments
With more than 75% of enterprise security breaches due to external threat actors, how can organizations apply intelligence and automation to augment digital defenses? The State of Digital Defense
Be aware that all public cloud providers are not alike. The Critical First Steps Towards Leveraging the Public Cloud to Meet Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Compliance Regulations
Fixing bottleneck issues is crucial and requires first identifying the underperforming component. Five Common Application Bottlenecks and Recommended Resolutions
Data virtualization is fast emerging as an architectural approach to quickly gain control over sensitive customer information stored across multiple systems. Protected by Design - How Data Virtualization Can Reduce Data Privacy Risk
Promisingly, security features and protections in the major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP) have come a long way. Managing Cloud Infrastructure to Prevent Security Gaps
Perhaps the most obvious advantage of VM-based solutions is that multiple VM tenants can execute code on the same physical hardware. Challenges of Using Virtual Machines As Cloud Storage

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IT Security

Fugue Risk Manager available to protect against data breaches with self-healing cloud infrastructure

Fugue announced on Monday availability of Fugue Risk Manager, its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that can identify compliance violations in cloud environments and automatically remediate unauthorized infrastructure changes. Enterprise cloud teams can use Fugue Risk Manager to scan cloud infrastructure to identify policy violations for a number of compliance regimes, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 Rev. 4, […]

Posted on November 26th, 2018 by Anna Ribeiro
Cloud

AWS releases latest Amazon EC2 instances and networking enhancements to offer increased network bandwidth

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company announced three new instance offerings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) including A1 instances, powered by custom-designed AWS Graviton processors for scale-out workloads; P3dn GPU instances ideal for distributed machine learning and high performance computing applications; and C5n instances that delivers increased network bandwidth for running advanced compute-intensive workloads. The new P3dn GPU and C5n compute optimized instances feature 100 Gbps networking […]

Posted on November 27th, 2018 by Anna Ribeiro

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Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management vendor NooBaa; offers unified data platform for distributed hybrid, multi-cloud environments

Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced Tuesday that it has acquired NooBaa, an early stage company developing software for managing data storage services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The addition of NooBaa’s data management technology augments Red Hat’s existing portfolio of hybrid cloud offerings and helps advance Red Hat’s position as a vendor of open hybrid cloud technologies. NooBaa’s technologies complement and enhance Red Hat’s portfolio of hybrid […]

Posted on November 27th, 2018 by Anna Ribeiro
Data Backup

HPE to acquire BlueData for undisclosed sum; helps boost AI/ML and big data analytics environments

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced on Tuesday a definitive agreement to purchase BlueData, a vendor of software that transforms how enterprises deploy artificial intelligence and big data analytics, expanding HPE’s offerings in these rapidly growing markets. The acquisition is expected to close within HPE’s first fiscal quarter, ending Jan. 31, 2019. Founded in 2012, BlueData is a privately-held company headquartered in Santa Clara. BlueData’s software platform uses container technology to […]

Posted on November 28th, 2018 by Anna Ribeiro
Data Storage

New Samsung 860 QVO SSD combines high capacity with quick performance, reliability to reach broader consumer market

Samsung Electronics America unveiled on Tuesday its latest consumer solid state drive (SSD) lineup — the Samsung 860 QVO SSD — featuring up to four terabytes (TB) of storage capacity with improved speed and reliability. Built on the company’s high-density 4-bit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash architecture, the 860 QVO makes terabyte capacities more accessible to the masses at approachable price points. Mainstream PC users handling large multi-media content often […]

Posted on November 28th, 2018 by Anna Ribeiro
Data Protection

Cohesity improves alliance with AWS; provides access to cloud-native application backups, disaster recovery, archiving capabilities

Cohesity announced Monday a variety of new offerings, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which empower customers to bring together cloud-native backups, full lifecycle disaster recovery, and long-term data retention on a single, easy-to-use platform. Cohesity also revealed an increase in the number of customers utilizing solutions from AWS and Cohesity as more organizations embrace a more automated and scalable approach to hybrid cloud architecture. Cohesity’s solutions running on AWS […]

Posted on November 26th, 2018 by Anna Ribeiro

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