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Microsoft Resellers Including Dell Win $3.2B Deal With US Navy
Almost 900 vendors competed for the 10-year award. The Navy selected six.
VodafoneZiggo Deploys Cisco SON With RAN Automation for 5G
Cisco’s SON technology works in multi-vendor deployments based on any combination of cellular technologies. It supports RAN nodes from any major vendor as well as multiple data-source vendors.
Nokia Threat Report: IoT Botnets Skyrocketed in 2018 and 5G Will Make It Worse
“If you have an IoT device and it has any vulnerability and it’s visible from the Internet, it will be attacked in a number of minutes,” said Kevin McNamee, director of Nokia’s Threat Intelligence Lab and lead author of the report.
Juniper’s ATP Appliance Works With Any Third-Party Firewall or Security Data Source
New capabilities allow security teams to create custom data collectors in the appliance using threat data from any Juniper or third-party firewall. This eliminates the need for custom code or pre-defined integrations.
Nutanix and Intel Form Hyperconverged Infrastructure Partnership
As part of this partnership, systems integrators and value-added resellers will be able to brand and personalize Intel servers running Nutanix software.
Symantec Shakeup Continues With President, Other Senior Execs Leaving
The executive team shakeup caps a tumultuous year for the company that recently concluded an internal investigation into financial disclosures and announced plans to cut about 8 percent of its global workforce.
VMware, Dell Tech Report Revenue Surge Ahead of Tracking Stock Vote
The elephant in the room on both earnings calls was the VMware-AWS relationship. The latest offering — AWS branded servers running in customers’ on-premises data centers — could hurt legacy hardware vendors like Dell.
Cisco, AT&T, Intel Promote Best Anti-Botnet Practices for Companies
The anti-botnet guide provides best practices for service providers, enterprises, and software and device manufacturers.
VMware Tech Prevents Cyberattacks Across Texas School Districts
Two VMware customers, a Texas Education Service Center and a nationwide hospice company, say NSX and vRealize Network helped them secure and manage networks.
Nutanix Challenges VMware to PoC Battle, Launches Xi Cloud Services
“Our dominance in the core is why VMware avoids doing PoCs in accounts when we are in a head-to-head fight,” said CEO Dheeraj Pandey.
HPE Buys AI, Big Data Software Vendor BlueData
Also today HPE rolled out four new edge products as well as storage advances with machine learning built in.
VMware Wavefront’s AI Genie Automates Anomaly Detection
The vendor updated its cloud-native monitoring platform with new microservices capabilities and automated anomaly detection across infrastructure and applications.
HPE Composable Cloud Invites Third-Party Vendors to Hybrid Cloud Party
The new product bundles software on top of HPE ProLiant DL rack servers for an open hybrid cloud platform.
Pivot3 HCI Beats Dell EMC, HPE for Airport Data Center Modernization
The vendor’s resiliency also improved airport security. “With security you can’t afford any downtime,” said the director of IT and security at Charleston International Airport.
Schneider Electric Takes Data Center Device Management to the Cloud
The vendor-agnostic software collects 300 million data points daily, analyzes the data, consolidates alarm notifications, and makes recommendations from a centralized console.
Pure Storage Moves Into Cloud Storage With AWS
NetApp has been pitching a similar story as it pivots from a traditional storage vendor to a cloud data services company. But Pure Storage says its approach is unique.
Report: IBM Taps TSMC for 7nm Data Center Server Chips
The deal would be a major win for TSMC as it challenges Intel’s dominance in the data center.
Former Oracle Exec Thomas Kurian Replaces Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene
Kurian spent 22 years at Oracle before abruptly resigning last month. Reports quickly surfaced saying that Kurian clashed with CTO Larry Ellison over Oracle’s cloud strategy.
BlackBerry Bets $1.4B on IoT Security With Cylance Acquisition
In a year when security startups are raising hundreds of millions in initial public offerings — including Cylance competitor Carbon Black that scored $152 million in its May IPO — it was widely assumed Cylance would follow suit.
HPE InfoSight Pushes AI Into Data Center Servers
InfoSight’s predictive capabilities also move the needle closer to enabling autonomous data centers.