China Hacked Supermicro Servers to Spy on Amazon, Microsoft, Report Says
A former U.S. intelligent official said that data center server provider Supermicro was the "Microsoft of the hardware world" and that attacking Supermicro motherboards was "like attacking the whole world.”
JFrog Jumps to $1B Valuation on Heels of Series D
The company has seen a 500 percent increase in sales since its last funding round in 2016.
Making the Connection From the SD-WAN to the Cloud
Some companies argue that providing access to a POP network via cloud gateways is a competitive advantage.
NetOps Is Still Trying to Catch Up to DevOps in the Automation Race
Lack of expertise and integrated tools, not indifference, is leaving NetOps behind DevOps in the race to automate the deployment pipeline.
SD-WAN vs. Next-Gen Firewalls: Chicken or the Egg?
At the SD-WAN Summit 2018 in Paris, one of the more contentious debates was which will come first: next-generation firewall or new SD-WAN capabilities?
Cloudera, Hortonworks Merge Their Big Data Efforts
A recent Forrester Research report on the big data fabric space ranked companies as “strong performers."
Dell Technologies Confirms IPO Is Its Backup Plan
Dell said in a filing with the SEC that the company met with investment banks to explore an IPO.
Particle Migrates IoT Software Developer Tool to Microsoft
The Workbench product is a desktop development tool that now uses Microsoft Visual Studio Code for direct access to device programming.
San Francisco Giants Save $15K Per Year With Cohesity
The Major League Baseball team wanted to update its antiquated backup platform and utilize cloud storage to further reduce costs.
Palo Alto Networks Pays $173M for Cloud Security Startup RedLock
Palo Alto Networks plans to combine technologies from RedLock and Evident, another recent acquisition, into one product that provides cloud security analytics, advanced threat detection, continuous security, and compliance monitoring.
Cisco’s David Ulevitch Leaves to Join a VC Firm
David Ulevitch, who was once in charge of Cisco’s security business, is leaving to become a general partner at Andreesson Horowitz.
European Companies Launch OCP Experience Center to Test Hardware
Three companies opened the OCP Experience Center for testing new and proposed OCP technologies and for conducting demonstrations of open OCP hardware designs.
Digital Realty’s New Global Command Center Provides Centralized Network Monitoring
The new facility plays into the data center provider’s plan to pull hyperscale cloud deals away from competitors including Equinix.
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Cohesity Targets Service Providers With Multi-Tenant Platform
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Aryaka’s New CEO Plans to Sharpen SD-WAN Firm’s Message to Customers
The former Sprint executive says that there are too many SD-WAN competitors in the market muddying the message to enterprises.
Putting the M in MANO
In the rush to capitalize on NFV many operators have focused purely on the NFV orchestration, but as they move from trials to production, one key piece is missing — management.
Cisco and SAP Team Up on Containers, Hybrid Cloud
The jointly-developed software integrates SAP’s Data Hub and Cisco’s Container Platform.