Unravel is offering new ways to optimize all steps of the cloud migration process
Unravel has announced new capabilities to help organizations with their cloud migration journeys. It provides capabilities for all steps of the migration process, making it useful for organizations no matter where they are in their cloud journeys. The new solution uses machine learning and AI to determine baselines for on-premises data deployments, then uses that … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.14 released with ways to support more workloads
After releasing Kubernetes 1.13 back in December, the team behind the popular container orchestration system has now released Kubernetes 1.14. According to the release team, Kubernetes 1.14 includes 31 enhancements, 10 of which are stable, 12 of which are in beta, and 7 that are new. The main objectives of this release were to enhance … continue reading
Report: Careless end users are an organization’s biggest security threat
IT operations teams are focusing their efforts on securing their networks and applications from outside threats, but the greatest threat to an organization may be its own users. A recent survey of 500 IT professionals from BetterCloud revealed that 91 percent of IT professionals feel vulnerable to insider threats. According to the survey, 62 percent … continue reading
Portworx Enterprise 2.1 enables advanced security and disaster recovery
Portworx has announced the latest release of its cloud-native data management platform. According to the company, Portworx Enterprise 2.1 includes new features for security and disaster recovery. The company added new role-based security features to PX-Security. Previously, PX-Security had granular “bring-your-own-key” encryption. By extending the solution to include role-based authentication, authorization, and ownership, organizations will … continue reading
Escalated launches fraud prevention and monitoring platform to stop malicious bots
Monitoring company Escalated has announced a new SaaS platform that is designed to stop malicious bot activity. The solution is designed to monitor and safeguard websites, ad campaigns, or other online activity from invalid traffic. According to the company, malicious bots can create fraudulent ad impressions that cause anomalies, skewing data collection and analysis, harming … continue reading
SysAid updates its ITSM solution with redesigned UI
IT service management provider SysAid has just launched a new update to its ITSM solution that introduces a redesigned user interface. The company believes that the new UI will allow IT admins to resolve tickets faster because they will have access to all of the tools and data they need in one window. SysAid worked … continue reading
AMD chips are not affected by the Spoiler vulnerability
Earlier this month, researchers revealed a vulnerability in Intel processors that enables various speculative execution attacks. According to the researchers, the Spoiler vulnerability is caused by “a weakness in the address speculation of Intel’s proprietary implementation of the memory subsystem which directly leaks timing behavior due to physical address conflicts.” According to the researches, Spoiler … continue reading
Insight OneCall now includes Commvault’s data backup and recovery solutions
Insight Enterprises has announced that it is expanding Insight OneCall to include Commvault’s data backup and recovery solutions. Insight OneCall is the company’s support and managed services solution. Insight customers will now get access to all of Commvault’s converged IT solutions. This includes Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale, Commvault Orchestate, and Commvault Activate. … continue reading
Microsoft and Facebook start the Co-Packaged Optics Collaboration to address growing networking demands
Data center architectures are changing rapidly and that’s putting a lot of pressure on IT organizations trying to keep up with the greater networking demands. To address that challenge, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up to form the Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) Collaboration, which will be a project under the Joint Development Foundation. According to Microsoft, … continue reading
Mozilla launches free encrypted file transfer service
Mozilla has decided to graduate one of its Test Pilot experiments: Firefox Send. According to Mozilla, Send is an encrypted file transfer service that can be used from a browser. Senders will be able to customize file options, such as when the file link expires, the allotted number of downloads, and the ability to add … continue reading
New service mesh emerges from the creators of gRPC and Istio
The creators of gRPC and Istio have created a new enterprise-grade service mesh that is launching today. Tetrate is built on top of Istio and Envoy, and adds enterprise-grade scalability, performance, and ecosystem adapters. Envoy is a network load balancer for microservices, while Istio is a service mesh that acts as a control plane layer … continue reading
Lightbits Labs introduces new production NVMe/TCP solution to bring hyperscale storage to the cloud
Lightbits Labs, a big proponent of the NVMe/TCP standard, has announced a new solution for bringing hyperscale agility to data center storage. LightOS and the LightField storage acceleration card are NVMe/TCP solutions that provide a Global Flash Transition Layer (GFTL) over high-performance networks. According to the company, this new solution will save organizations time and … continue reading
