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US Indicts Chinese Hackers in MSP Network Scheme
While the government didn’t name the network providers, Reuters reports that HPE and IBM were among the compromised networks.
Intel, Dell Study Finds Data Center Expansion Eats Up the Bulk of IT Teams’ Work
It concludes that IT teams are looking to new technologies like artificial intelligence to meet their data center demands.
IoT Security Startup Phosphorus Builds Agentless ‘Update-All’ Button
IoT devices have two types of update mechanisms: an API call or user-initiated update. Phosphorus covers all that with its update-all button for IoT.
CenturyLink Combines Managed Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Threat Detection, and Visibility
The managed firewall, integrated with CenturyLink’s Security Log Monitoring platform, gives companies better threat intelligence capabilities and visibility across their hybrid network environments.
Packet and Netronome Team Up on Microservers Built for Edge Workloads
The networking-focused hardware is built for the Open19 Foundation infrastructure platform.
VMware Helps Make-a-Wish Foundation Save Millions on IT
On average, it takes $10,500 for a wish. And the Foundation must balance the need to grant wishes with the need to update its IT infrastructure.
JEDI Wars: Amazon Web Services Strikes Back
AWS argues that it has a “direct and substantial economic interests at stake.” It says Oracle’s conflict-of-interest accusations are “meritless.”
Telus: SDN Gives Us a Dynamic, Automatically Controlled Network
“SDN is going to be a very broad deployment,” said Telus’ Bryce Mitchell. “We made sure we included SDN within the NFV pods themselves.”
Dell EMC Claims Top Server Vendor Spot With $4B in Revenue, IDC Says
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) once again came in No. 2, with 16.3 percent revenue share or $3.81 billion.
IBM, Nvidia Team Up on Converged Storage for AI Workloads
The new converged infrastructure combines IBM’s NVMe flash storage and software with Mellanox networking on Nvidia servers. It also uses Nvidia’s AI software stack.
IBM’s JEDI Protest Dismissed, Oracle Takes the $10B Pentagon Cloud Deal to Court
Oracle’s lawsuit alleges conflicts of interest and says two people involved in the procurement process have close ties to Amazon Web Services.
Pivot3 Adds Encryption, Key Management to HCI Stack
Adding these policy-based security capabilities to the Pivot3 Intelligence Engine enables customers to integrate data encryption and key management into the same workflow for managing applications and storage.
Ciena, Juniper Lead Data Center Interconnect Market, Dell’Oro Says
Data center interconnect equipment revenue will increase 85 percent over the next five years, from $2.7 billion in 2017 to $5.1 billion in 2022, according to Dell’Oro Group.
Dell Wins Shareholder Vote, Will Go Public This Month
More than 61 percent of shareholders approved the deal that allows Dell to buy back the stock that tracks its controlling stake in VMware.
VMware Rolls Out NSX Service Mesh Based on Istio
The NSX Service Mesh beta will initially support Cloud PKS (formerly known as VMware Kubernetes Engine or VKE), but VMware plans to extend it to any Kubernetes environment.
Ampere Targets Hyperscalers, Challenges Intel With Arm-Based Chips
The year-old startup, founded by former Intel president Renee James, is also partnering with Packet, Cloudflare, and other companies on 5G and edge computing proof of concepts.
Packet and Wasabi Take On Amazon, Provide Cloud Compute and Storage
“Nobody gets to keep a lock on cloud computing,” Wasabi CEO David Friend said. “As much as Amazon would like to, it’s going to be a multi-cloud world.”
Big Switch Brings Big Monitoring Fabric to AWS
The company has a similar product for Microsoft Azure that is slated to enter beta next year. Google Cloud is on the roadmap for future support.
VMware CEO Lists Top 3 Priorities for 2019: NSX, Cloud, and Containers
“Obviously I love my vSAN child. It’s not as important as my NSX child,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said, referring to VMware’s software-defined storage and networking platform, respectively.
Kubernetes Discloses Major Security Flaw
It affects all Kubernetes-based products and services, and it gives hackers full administrative privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster.