How AppDefense works to detect app and VM anomalies
Organizations are struggling to keep pace with the ever-increasing number of security threats. For many companies, this means protecting applications in virtualized environments. For users of VMware, there’s a new approach to securing applications running on vSphere. VMware has added a new endpoint security tool to its vSphere Platinum edition, AppDefense. Organizations that are already […]
Why your providers should support IPv6
As enterprises rely more on cloud, colocation and hosting providers, they should check whether their services support IPv6, which can provide better experiences for their customers, partners, suppliers, vendors and employees. Here is a look at how three top infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform – stack up […]
AWS data lake and data warehouse options for the cloud
Enterprises exploring big data architectures have turned to data lakes and data warehouses for different types of analytic and AI workloads. These are complementary technologies — data warehouses shine when you know what you want to analyze, while data lakes excel at combining data for unforeseen applications. As these architectures migrate to the cloud, their […]
Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung Hype Open Virtualization
Opening and virtualizing the radio access network (RAN) is a pursuit with almost unanimous support — at least on the surface. Operators, software makers, and equipment vendors have coalesced around this effort with varying degrees of force. Motivating factors differ, but the widely expected outcome is generally the same: a disaggregated, software-driven, open framework for […]
Google boosts VMware public cloud support with CloudSimple buy
Google hopes to meet more enterprises where their core demands are today through the acquisition of CloudSimple, which offers technology for VMware public cloud deployments. CloudSimple is the technology behind the VMware-Azure integration made available earlier this year. The company was founded in 2016 and its managed VMware service runs on bare-metal, single-tenant hardware inside […]
Design your systems with virtualization architecture in mind
Good virtualization architecture is essential to creating a working virtualized system, and understanding virtualization’s base components enables IT administrators to successfully deploy critical applications and virtualized instances. An admin can deploy virtual OSes, servers, storage devices and network resources — all of which enable successful operation of a virtualized system and can help lower virtual […]
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Managing Big Data
Distributors increasingly have an enormous amount of information at their fingertips. While this Big Data represents a range of opportunities, it can also create headaches. Kicking off a new podcast series, Profit Levers, Jonathan Byrnes, founding partner of Profit Aisle and senior lecturer at MIT, outlines three areas where issues can arise. When RFID became popular […]
Protect Your Business and Prevent Ransomware Breaches with Cyber Hygiene
Do you have a cyber hygiene program in place? While physical hygiene has been top of mind of late, it’s important to consider cyber hygiene as well. Just like properly washing your hands, it’s critical to take the correct approach to protecting the security of your business’s digital and virtual assets. The recent growth of […]
AT&T Submits White-Box Router Spec for Open Computing
AT&T submitted specifications for a new white-box architecture to the Open Compute Project (OCP), targeting service provider-class routers with chips optimized for 400 gigabits per second (400G) speeds to meet evolving network demands. Those demands result from new technologies such as 5G and fiber-based broadband services. To meet these growing demands, AT&T’s spec incorporates a […]
HCI, Cloud Integration: Key Features
The hybrid cloud is the platform of choice for IT organizations, and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a strong solution for the on-premises portion of that hybrid cloud. Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE have created on-premises offerings using their HCI products, sold on an as-a-service basis. This is a proof point for why HCI is an […]
