Valimail expands its anti-impersonation suite with Valimail Defend
Valimail, the world’s leading provider of anti-impersonation technologies to stop fake email, today announced the general availability of its third email protection product, Valimail Defend, the world’s first authoritative solution to block BEC, email fraud, and the most insidious types of phishing. Valimail Defend expands the protection that Valimail already provides for customers’ own domains through Valimail … continue reading
ServiceMax acquires Zinc for real-time knowledge sharing capabilities
Service execution tool provider ServiceMax has announced that it has acquired Zinc, a company that provides solutions to help technicians get and share knowledge in real-time. According to ServiceMax, this acquisition will allow the company to expand its Service Execution Management platform to meet the needs of the service workforce. ServiceMax believes that real-time communication … continue reading
Rackspace partners with Pure Storage to launch hybrid-cloud solution
Cloud company Rackspace has announced that in collaboration with data solutions provider Pure Storage it is launching its Ultra-Fast Performance Block Storage solution. The solution will enable customers to quickly access storage and offer hybrid-cloud connectivity and low latency for critical workloads that cannot have their performance compromised. According to Rackspace, the solution will be … continue reading
The Security Maturity Model Practitioner’s Guide to IoT
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM): Practitioner’s Guide. The guide is designed to introduce the concepts and approach of SMM, as well as help organizations protect their connected systems. While the consortium notes there is no silver bullet for addressing security needs, the SMM intends to determine an … continue reading
MWC: Intel contributes to 5G, Sprint partners with AWS, and D-Link reveals new network solution for SMBs
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is happening is Barcelona this week, with several device manufacturers attending to show off their latest gadgets. In addition to new device announcements, several companies are also demoing and introducing new solutions for 5G, IoT, and networking. Among them is Intel, which announced several new solutions. It revealed that Ericsson … continue reading
SoftwareONE acquires cloud transformation company RightCloud
SoftwareONE, a global leading Platform, Solutions and Services company, today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire RightCloud, a leading cloud transformation company and one of the fastest growing companies in that segment in Asia. RightCloud founders Prashant Gyan, Mohit Sharma, Jonathan Limbo and Iannis Hanen will lead the combined cloud services business in … continue reading
premium AIOps: A Self-Healing Mentality
The first time I watched Minority Report back in 2002, the film’s premise made me optimistic: Crime could be prevented with the help of Precogs, a trio of mutant psychics capable of seeing crimes before they happen, enabling police to stop murderers before they act. What a great utopia! I quickly realized, however, that this “utopia” … continue reading
Sensu announces the general availability of Sensu Go, the latest cloud-native monitoring software for enterprises
Sensu, Inc., a leader in open source monitoring, today announced the general availability of Sensu Go, a scalable, powerful and user-centric monitoring event pipeline, designed to improve visibility and streamline workflows for enterprises. Sensu empowers businesses to gain deep visibility into their infrastructure, from Kubernetes to bare metal, providing a single source of truth among application … continue reading
Splice Machine closes $16 million Series B funding round
Splice Machine, the leading data platform for operational artificial intelligence (AI), today announced it has closed $16 million in additional funding led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV). Accenture Ventures also joined this round, strengthening the partnership between Accenture and Splice Machine to drive mission-critical business outcomes for global clients with operational AI solutions. Also participating in the round is Allen Miner, CEO of the … continue reading
Tenable announces new insights into risks across IT/OT environments
Cyber exposure company Tenable has announced a new integrated Cyber Exposure solution, which combines Tenable Industrial Security and Tenable.sc. According to the company, the solution offers a unified view of cyber risk across IT and operational technology (OT) networks. The integration will enable security professionals to measure, manage, and reduce cyber risk from a single … continue reading
“Doomsday” flaw discovered in RunC underscores potential for critical container vulnerabilities
The discovery of a major security flaw in the common open-source runtime engine for Docker, Kubernetes and other container management systems, points to an underlying risk associated with containerized applications. Researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys Popławsk discovered the vulnerability, CVE-2019-5736, in RunC, the common runtime engine developed by Docker and now a common Open Container … continue reading
How to keep costs down in the cloud
There are many reasons companies are growing their investments in the public cloud, from needing to innovate faster and deliver better service to customers or to support DevOps workflows and modern applications. Yet cost savings is still a driving incentive for many CIOs. The metrics are undeniable: reports vary from an automatic savings of 10 … continue reading
NeuVector to offer service mesh protection
Container network security provider NeuVector is giving users a new layer of security for service meshes. The company announced integration for the service meshes Istio and Linkerd, designed to expand security capabilities to production Kubernetes deployments. The new integration was developed in collaboration with IBM Cloud and the Istio open-source development team. According to the … continue reading
SnapRoute delivers cloud-native network operating system
Saying that today’s network operating systems are keeping organizations from fully taking advantage of modern software architectures, SnapRoute today announced it is making available its Cloud Native Network Operating System (CN-NOS). The CN-NOS is containerized and cloud-native, and uses DevOps principles to give organizations the ability to deliver new services more rapidly and reliably as … continue reading
