The Office of Personnel Management breach was the most recent and public example of the damage aging networks can help deliver to an organization: A lack of standard practices such as encryption, data masking, and redaction that prevents many attacks. While realists (and shareholders) don't expect IT to rip and replace aging infrastructure, IT can ...Full article
The OpenDaylight Project designed to accelerate the rollout of software-defined networking announced its third SDN software release along with the formation of a 12-member industry advisory group. The project backed by the Linux Foundation said Monday (June 29) its Lithium release for SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) beefs up security and automation while adding ...Full article
The annual Red Hat Summit, held in Boston last week, is something of revival tent for open source where the pulpits are plentiful and so are smiling believers. Indeed it’s hard to dispute the powerful innovation springing from open source. The RH Summit, which started 11 years ago as a modest celebration of open source ...Full article
As a destination site where about 30 million small and midsize companies market themselves to each other and consumers, Manta is attractive to another form of traffic: web scrapers that use automated bots to steal content and siphon valuable IT resources away from business-facing tasks. The directory site and its technology team have evolved over ...Full article
IBM's partnership this week with Box, the enterprise collaboration software vendor, extends the reach of IBM's cloud services such as Bluemix along with its Watson artificial-intelligence technology to another large service provider. IBM and Box (Los Gatos, Calif.) said the global partnership announced Wednesday (June 24) targets worker collaboration in the cloud. The partnership combines ...Full article
At a time when many developers decry the need for a data warehouse, startup Snowflake Computing this week revealed general availability for its Elastic Data Warehouse, a solution designed for the cloud. Headed by CEO Bob Muglia, former president of Microsoft's server and tools business in partnership with ex-Oracle executives, among others, Snowflake's data warehouse ...Full article
Flash-based storage arrays—whether all flash or hybrid—are making headway in the datacenter as storage administrators charged with coping with exponential data growth hustle to unclog network bottlenecks that remain as a barrier to greater adoption of solid-state arrays. This year has brought a steady decline in several key cost metrics widely seen as keys to ...Full article
Amid a big week for the open source community, Red Hat announced a batch of new partnerships during its annual company event this week, including an alliance with consumer electronics giant Samsung to deliver mobile applications to the enterprise along with joint development of custom mobile apps. In addition to the Samsung Electronics American partnership, ...Full article
Despite the allure of analytics, many enterprises still struggle with siloed information in disparate formats, forced together via unwieldy manual processes that deliver only partial results. Combine this with the reality of shadow IT, incomplete knowledge about core systems, and the anticipated Internet of Things (IoT) explosion, and the promise of big data could fizzle ...Full article
As it moves to become a de facto standard for application container formats, Docker released a batch of management tools, support services and a new on-premise registry for container images this week all designed to speed container adoption in production environments. As more enterprises prepare to deploy container technology, Docker executives stressed they are aiming ...Full article
With today's introduction of the PowerEdge C6320, Dell continues its drive to propel high performance computing outside its traditional comfort zone of engineering or research and development and into general business enterprise applications. "We recognize that beyond the hyperscale space there's an opportunity to offer this type of product," Brian Payne, executive director of product ...Full article
Infinera today expanded its Cloud Xpress family, adding new automation features and security capabilities to its portfolio of metro cloud platforms. Like its earlier 10- and 40-gigabit Ethernet models, the new Cloud Xpress with 100GbE version is designed for cloud service providers, Internet content providers, large enterprises, and other operators of large datacenters. Because of ...Full article
With a nudge from major customers like financial services giant Goldman Sachs, a group of software vendors said they are coalescing around a new initiative created to establish industry standards for application containers. The Open Container Project was unveiled Monday (June 22) at the start of DockerCon in San Francisco. The effort will be overseen ...Full article
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs has announced a new partner: The U.S. National Security Agency. Puppet Labs said Friday (June 19) that NSA is releasing to the open source community a set of tools based on Puppet Labs' technologies called Systems Integrity Management Platform, or SIMP. The framework is intended to automatically enforce compliance with ...Full article
Nallatech claims to address price and performance with today's introduction of its 385A production-ready server-qualified FPGA card. The 385A, which is available now, is a half-height, half-length PCIe Gen 3 card that includes Altera's floating-point enabled Arria 10 FPGA family, designed to deliver up to 1.5 Tflops of floating point performance. The card includes two ...Full article
The explosion of digital data beyond traditional realms such as healthcare and entertainment is fueling demand for storage area networks (SANs) across a growing spectrum of vertical markets. Just as healthcare uses SANs to manage its troves of medical images and the entertainment business needs SANs for its vast libraries of video and pictures, horizontal ...Full article
Production deployment of Linux application containers may not be meeting expectations, but there is no shortage of industry surveys attempting to pinpoint barriers to adoption. The latest released on Friday (June 19) comes from key container technology proponent Red Hat, which again found building momentum for production rollouts along with lingering concerns about security and ...Full article
Healthcare organizations now rely on cloud to do more than support electronic medical records, recognizing the flexibility, efficiency, and productivity this architecture can deliver. " healthcare industry has lagged behind other industries in implementing cloud technology; however, increasing number of companies are coming forward, adopting and utilizing cloud-based applications," according to Research and Markets. Globally, ...Full article
Among the most vulnerable points in networks ranging from home offices to the proposed Internet of Everything are radio frequency, or RF, links that will be used to tie together potentially billions of devices. RF links on drones are particularly vulnerable to hacking, and as more devices are connected to form an Internet of Things/Sensors, ...Full article
When a banker falls behind on the mortgage, a physician gets arrested for driving under the influence, or a contractor is working on a sensitive federal construction site under an alias, these instances would sound alarms – if employers knew. After all, employees could be more liable to steal, plot nefarious deeds, or fall prey ...Full article
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