A growing list of hyper-scalers, communications equipment providers and carriers along with cloud and datacenter suppliers have lined up to back a rebranded application container standards effort. The Open Container Initiative (OCI), formerly the Open Container Project, has added eleven new members including AT&T, Oracle and Verizon, the ground said this week. "We really want ...Full article
Getting cybersecurity insurance after a cybersecurity breach can be a daunting exercise. The primary underwriter may either drop the entire company for commercial insurance coverage or not offer cybersecurity insurance moving forward, Guy Fogel, agent for Argo Group, said. Rates for post-cybersecurity breach insurance will become cost prohibitive with very high deductibles that can be ...Full article
Having demonstrated cloud's flexibility and agility, IT departments now are tasked with reining in costs and centralizing control over often dispersed deployments of cloud across their organizations. After all, enterprises that negotiate and commit to longer term contracts, thereby helping providers plan capacity and ensure capital for infrastructure investment, can reap savings of up to ...Full article
The Linux Foundation said this week it is launching a new container orchestration initiative aimed at advancing the development of native cloud applications and services. The consortium of companies led by Google has formed the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to help application developers leverage open-source technologies like containers. The effort targets "dynamically scheduled" cloud ...Full article
Two hackers successfully took control of a Jeep Cherokee as it hurtled along a highway at 70 miles per hour, turning an Internet of Things nightmare into reality – albeit under experimental conditions. As Andy Greenberg describes in today's Wired, he worked in cahoots with security researcher Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, director of vehicle ...Full article
The membership roster of an Internet of Things standards group continues to expand with the addition of IBM, National Instruments and six other global institutions and manufacturers that promises to speed the deployment of an industrial IoT. The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC), based on Portland, Ore., said Monday (July 20) that eight new companies have ...Full article
The weekend brought no respite for anxious chief security officers, CIOs, and other professionals involved in the never-ending quest to protect data, networks, and accounts from the onslaught of new and old attacks and attackers seeking to steal, access, or share private information for their own varied reasons. No matter the motive, most attacks use ...Full article
Dell today unveiled enhancements to both cloud and flash storage products designed to increase adoption of both technologies across enterprises. Dell Software's latest iteration of Dell Cloud Manager supports Windows Azure Pack and Microsoft Azure public cloud, plus other leading public and private clouds; a custom catalog capability designed to reduce deployment time for curated ...Full article
With Seagate’s announcement that it will be integrating IBM® Spectrum Scale® software with its award winning¹ ClusterStor high performance parallel storage system, the evolution of HPC and enterprise storage just took another leap forward. IBM Spectrum Scale, formerly known as IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), is a proven, scalable file and object management solution ...Full article
Billions of cycling fans around the world who follow the progress of their Tour de France via a sophisticated combination of cloud, big data analytics, and mobile technologies are gaining insight into how their favorite bikers, 22 teams, or nations fare across the challenging course. In partnership with Tour organizer Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), global service ...Full article
Now Microsoft no longer supports Windows Server 2003, organizations still relying on the once popular product are dealing with several alternatives: External support, no support, upgrade, or transition to another platform. Any enterprises still considering alternate options for their datacenters should move fast, technology experts caution. These systems are in jeopardy and the risk increases daily. ...Full article
By now, I think we all know the gory details from July 8. But just to remind you, it was a rough day: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was down for more than three hours, removing all scheduled and in-process transactions. United Airlines grounded all flights for more than hour. The Wall Street Journal ...Full article
IT professionals' storage options continued to expand this week, as Nimble Storage enhanced its Adaptive Flash product and both Seagate and Dell unveiled cloud backup and replication solutions. On July 15, Nimble Storage added new capabilities to its Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash, such as the ability to deliver an all-flash service level for applications with ...Full article
For decades, relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been the go-to solution for storing and retrieving data. But due to the rapid growth of data volume just about every business is experiencing and the high cost of scaling up (i.e., using increasingly larger, specialized servers, which can easily cost millions of dollars), traditional relational databases ...Full article
As a chief financial officer, why would a company invest $3 million to hire external experts to fix known cybersecurity issues when the company has a $10 million cybersecurity insurance policy? Surely it would be better to redirect that $3 million to help grow revenue than to sink it into a cybersecurity remediation project that ...Full article
To help enterprises understand and optimize their VMware environments, SIOS Technology created SIOS iQ standard edition, which uses applied advanced machine learning analytics to comprehend and explain complex behaviors and foresee the impact of changes in dynamic virtual environments. The on-premise, analytics software was designed to find both subtle and complicated changes that can arise ...Full article
Mozilla added the Flash Player Plugin to its roster of blocked add-ons, after yet another security alert from developer Adobe and following a public call for the end of Flash by a Facebook executive earlier in the week. While developers, enterprises, and end users figure out how to deal with this particular security risk, the ...Full article
With more than 1.5 million Android apps and over 1.4 million iOS apps for users to choose from, IT departments at BYOD organizations face an impossible support task. Yet the old days of curtailing employee choice and standardizing on one software program for each function costs companies top employees, weakens productivity, and ultimately is no ...Full article
Every day, throughout the world, millions of consumers, travel agencies, airlines, airports, and developers get real-time flight information from FlightStats, allowing people and packages to travel more efficiently. But the Portland, Ore.-based company initially used multiple applications to gain visibility into its data – and that hurt efficiency, effectiveness, and costs. "We were using five ...Full article
It was a rainy Saturday in June, and Perry Carter, president of BDPA Washington, D.C. had invited me to serve on a panel to talk to students about technology and cybersecurity careers and life in general. The panel was part of BDPA’s 2015 Annual Regional IT Showcase where high school and college students showcase their technology ...Full article
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