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We may have more details about Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake chips
Intel's Lunar Lake microprocessors will be named "Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 234V" and may redefine the meaning of "Ultra" with low-power chips. Leaked information suggests that Lunar Lake will have eight cores and threads per package, offering improved compute performance over previous models. Lunar Lake's potential to excel in graphics improvements and AI performance could position Intel as a strong competitor to Apple, particularly in imaging and gaming industries.
Longer-term API attacks are suited to Artificial Intelligence security, says expert
A proliferation of APIs, critical now to organizations, has prompted one firm to specialize in the area to such an extent that it can claim to be the largest growing API threat vector solution. Salt Security Inc. has recently formed a partnership with CrowdStrike, which furthers CrowdStrike’s recent thrust in trying to cover all aspects of an organization”s cyber security, not just the traditional IT-related.
AI vs. adversaries: How machine-leveraged attacks drive the need for advanced security
Over two trillion events, triaged per day, leads to a significant pool of knowledge for an artificial intelligence-based security system to learn from, says the chief scientist at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. That vast amount of data, feeding a learning AI engine, is especially important as adversaries are now likely to leverage tools found directly on machines to create attacks, rather than drop files from an outside source.
Cyber-physical assets join IT as a combined attack surface
The discovering and providing of security data about IT assets, performed by cloud-delivered, machine-learning security firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is about to be expanded. It will be augmented now through a collaboration with cyber-physical security provider Claroty Ltd.
VMware evolves integrated ecosystem approach and partner network
As VMware Inc.’s business strategy shifts to a subscription-based, software-as-a-service model with annual recurring revenue as its income stream, the organization has to adapt in its relationship with channel partners and global systems integrators, according to the executive tasked with revamping the sales channels. “We do a pretty good job on the channel side.
Why hyperscalers aren't always the best choice for infrastructure
The “mentality of optimization” should be at the forefront of enterprises’ minds when transitioning from in-house data centers. It’s why one chooses an IT company specializing in pay-per-use bare metal cloud and other niches rather than simply dumping everything into public cloud. “People need to learn how to make that choice,” said William Bell (pictured), executive vice president of products at PhoenixNAP LLC. “Right app, right home, right infrastructure.
Cloud storage solution targets scalable, efficient data management
Adding supplemental storage, including at multicloud, is one of the main advantages of the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP product. The new product, long in development and now commercially available for partners to sell, is the only third-party cloud storage service to be certified and supported as a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud for AWS, according to Keith Norbie (pictured, left), senior director of worldwide partner solutions and sales acceleration at NetApp Inc.
Unstructured workloads are taking over storage space, says Pure Storage exec
Machine learning opportunities are seeing massive upticks, according to a Pure Storage executive. Health sciences, genome sequencing and medical imaging are joined by federal government and the automotive sectors in a thrust toward unstructured workloads taking over the storage space. “We’re seeing tremendous growth in that unstructured space,” said Vaughn Stewart (pictured), vice president of global technology alliance partners at Pure Storage Inc.
How do you monetize free tech? OpenFaaS founder weighs in
Lending insights as a community leader is how one goes about the difficult task of getting paid for developing open-source projects, according to the founder of a growing open-source, serverless deployment platform for Kubernetes. “I eventually accepted the fact that companies don’t pay for something they can get for free,” said Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS Ltd. “It took me a very long time to get around that,” he recounts of the barren fiscal years while he was developing the open project.
Applications are expanding and evolving security for Kubernetes, says containers interface developer
Kubernetes is rapidly shifting toward the edge, believes an executive tasked with providing a management interface for the container solution. It’s because telcos are now looking to run other applications on top of core radio functions and networks; and also because factories are increasingly requiring lower latency for manufacturing robotics. Other verticals, too, are adopting it.
Container infrastructure continues to progress for application developers
Dedicated infrastructure layers found in service meshes like Istio, along with other containers add-ons, are addressing the challenges developers and operators face. Safer rollouts, for example, is a challenge Istio solves, says Varun Talwar (pictured), co-founder of Tetrate.io Inc. “How are my services performing? Where is the latency, error rate?” are the kinds of questions that can be answered by implementing Tetrate’s Service Mesh, he says.
Infosys weighs in on digital transformation strategy and trends
Digital transformation isn’t slowing despite supply chain issues, a war in Europe and escalating inflation, according to a major digital services provider. The reason: “It’s all about growth,” said Anant Adya (pictured, right), executive vice president at Infosys Ltd. Post-pandemic business growth supplants pandemic-caused isolation economy, now, in other words.
Inside VMware and HPE GreenLake's deepening hybrid cloud collaboration
Some VMware Inc. staff who had been working on the virtualizer’s Dell Technologies Inc. partnership were moved to a growing VMware/HPE GreenLake hybrid cloud collaboration, according to Ricky Cooper (pictured, right), vice president of global and transformational partners at VMware Inc.
How the enterprise is using automation as a tool to speed IT
Unifying orchestration and automating information technology are becoming increasingly in demand throughout digital business transformation for enterprise businesses. This is ringing true for Morpheus Data LLC, which began as an internal toolset within a private equity firm serving billions in capital and now provides cloud orchestration and self-service IT automation for developers.
Environment as a service allows rapid spin-ups for developers
Developers and IT teams are opposing forces. Developers want to move fast, and they’re rewarded for doing that, along with being creative; whereas IT departments are rewarded for predictability and consistency. Environment-as-a-service solves this, according to Matt Carter (pictured, right), chief marketing officer of Release Technologies Inc., which specializes in rapid spin-ups of developer environments.
Vitess progresses with recent upgrades aimed at next-gen UI
Vitess, a graduated CNCF project, automatically detects and repairs MySQL-level failures, according to the lead tech behind the database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. This has been a prior hindrance to smooth running, despite Vitess’ ability to automatically handle functions like failovers and backups.
The future of developer-oriented security: Teleport weighs in
VPNs, privileged access and shared credentials don’t work well and must be eliminated in the developer environment. That’s in order to reduce attack surfaces, explains the first identity-native infrastructure company, according to Drew Nielsen (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Teleport (Gravitational Inc.).
The secrets of scaling security in a cloud developer environment
Telemetry-driven approaches to security are now required for those looking to close gaps in their cloud-native infrastructure, according to the founder of data security company Uptycs Inc. Observability needs to be viewed across the entire environment. That includes from software, where it’s developed, all the way to where it’s deployed — from “laptop to the cloud,” says Ganesh Pai (pictured), founder and chief executive officer.
OpenTelemetry promises the demise of commodified data work
The adoption of OpenTelemetry is going to allow developers to do more building of interesting analysis features rather than repeating commodified work, according to one of the early members of the open source community-based project. “Instead of having to build your Kubernetes integration, for example, OpenTelemetry is integrated and you just have this data now,” said Austin Parker (pictured), head of developer relations at cloud-native platform company Lightstep Inc.
'Confidential security': The security perimeter should shift from box to asset, says Anjuna CEO
Moving the security perimeter to the workload and away from the machine will radicalize protection in ways never seen before, says a cybersecurity expert who is proposing to completely upend the base concepts behind protection. “What happens in the machine doesn’t matter anymore,” said Ayal Yogev (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder of Anjuna Security Inc.
As the enterprise looks for an 'evolved cloud' state, price performance is critical
Cost is going to be a major discussion item across the cloud world over the near future, according to cloud infrastructure executives specializing in data management, storage and optimization. “It’s going to be a huge topic,” said Kevin McGrath (pictured right), vice president and general manager at automation cloud optimizer Spot by NetApp Inc.
Data analysis helps cloud providers too: Inside the Commvault-AWS partnership
It’s not just cloud customers that are looking for patterns in their data — they’re using patterns analysis to fix issues, drive growth and deliver customer satisfaction — but the cloud providers themselves are keen to understand customer data patterns. Amazon Web Services Inc. and data management software company Commvault Systems Inc.
Cataloging data superseding scaling as trouble area, says Select Star exec
Enterprises are sitting on top of a mass amount of data that they have no idea how to use. And even if they have access to it, they aren’t au fait with what’s actually inside the collections — so it’s unworkable. This is according to a company that claims to catalog data automatically — and do it all within a 15-minute workload. It’s a “missing gap in the market that I wanted to fulfill,” said veteran startup maven Shinji Kim (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Select Star.
Software over network layers key to collaboration, says Lumen
Network Automation to Remain a Priority, Evolve and Mature in 2023 Featured The recent pandemic forced companies to accelerate the pace of their digital transformation and adapt to the new way of doing business. We saw companies of all sizes, across all industries, compelled to invest in advanced, collaborative technologies. But perhaps most notably, there also has been a significant increase in investment with respect to network automation, for both enterprises and telcos. 15 HOURS AGO
Software over network layers key to collaboration, says Lumen
Layering the software technologies created by VMware Inc. over an extensive backbone network developed by Lumen Technologies Inc is how the fiber company sees its relationship with VMware, according to Steve Grabow (pictured), senior vice president of technology solutions and services, strategic alliances and portfolio strategy at Lumen. “We can bring that all together,” he said.
The networked CPU is shifting with the addition of data processing units: AMD explains
Server consolidation is becoming an increasingly important part of major semiconductor device manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s reach, according to Kumaran Siva (pictured), corporate vice president of strategic business development at AMD. He believes that companies upgrading aging servers not only massively reduce their costs because of new-found efficiencies, but it also allows for new enterprise workloads to be run, such as artificial intelligence.
AMD migration tool takes aim at virtual machines
A recently released VMware Architecture Migration Tool, from Advanced Micro Systems Inc., significantly speeds up CPU-to-CPU migrations on x86 systems, according to a technical expert at AMD. Channel partners, who are involved in small- and mid-sized organizations, looking to add value, could benefit, along with large deployments in enterprise, says Jason Collier (pictured), principal member of technical staff at AMD.
How to disrupt the economics of cybercrime, according to a bot protection expert
Spiking the cost of a cyberattack is one key to thwarting hackers, says a bot protection expert. “Disrupt the economics of cybercrime,” said Rick Holtman (pictured), vice president of sales and media security at Human Security Inc. “The minute there is money moving towards any sort of industry, you’ll see fraud right behind it.” That’s particularly why certain monetization streams in the digital era, such as in-app advertising, need to get protective, he said.
Machines are needed to find complex software problems, humans can’t do it, says AI firm
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Machines are needed to find complex software problems, humans can’t do it, says AI firm
Finding rare events in software applications is one of the principal reasons artificial intelligence succeeds in increasingly complex environments, says a DevOps trouble automaton expert. “It’s telling you this cluster of events is both unusual and unlikely to be random,” said Ajay Singh (pictured left), founder and chief executive officer of Zebrium Inc., a machine learning analytics provider recently acquired by ScienceLogic Inc.
Break down silos to solve problems in the era of unified data
Fragmented, siloed data is slowing down business for organizations across the board, because the relationships between people, products and their companies can’t be clearly sourced if data is isolated in traditional repositories. “You have to stitch it together in order to create that holistic, 360-degree view,” said Manish Sood (pictured), founder, chairman and chief executive officer of cloud-first data management platform Reltio Inc.
DevOps plus legacy on-prem drive Dell’s direction
Dell Technologies Inc. is adapting to customers shifting to a DevOps operating model, according to an executive from the company who is tasked with managing the cultural transition. Traditionally a technology company selling and supporting computers and servers, among other hardware-focused products, Dell is now faced with increasing cloud-computing adoption — and infrastructure-as-code, where physical hardware configuration becomes less prevalent in the data center.
DevOps now supersedes IT, says storage expert
Engineering, rather than IT, is calling the shots in modern, digitized business practices, according to some industry sources. That’s, in part, because developers are now the business. That shift in corporate emphasis — away from IT and in favor of DevOps — is a major trend manifesting itself throughout industries like banking, according to one Kubernetes-oriented storage expert.
New collaboration emphasis emerges at Ansible
Ansible is recovering its community, post-COVID, through a combination of online and in-person collaborations. Communities that had broken-off into splinter groups are also being courted to return to the fold. “We found ourselves in a place wherethe community itself had more or lesssegmented naturally, and we needed to find ways to heal that fragmentation,” said Adam Miller (pictured, right), senior principal software engineer at Red Hat Inc.
Company innovation drives new automation expansion
Automation must be thought of strategically, because organizations are moving beyond simple automation practices. They now want to optimize it, says a Red Hat automation expert. “They’ve discovered that they can do the tactical automation,” said Walter H. Bentley (pictured), senior manager of the automation practice at Red Hat Inc. “They can deal with those small day-to-day things.
Shift in cloud computing calls for enhanced automation
Security and energy costs in the data center are the two big-ticket items that enterprises are focusing on when they’re looking at how and why to implement an automation strategy, according to Scott Kinane (pictured, left), senior director for worldwide automation at information technology company Kyndryl Inc. Security compliance and reducing costs, through the better management of energy use, are key factors for implementing automation.
Fiber backbone to be the forefront of Fourth Industrial Revolution
Acquiring, analyzing and then acting on data are among the fundamentals behind how a company shifts to technology and digitization, according to an executive at a company that was, until recently, known simply as a fiber backbone provider. The company now places itself at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
‘Shadow data’ is creeping into multicloud
The term “shadow data” is superseding the graying “shadow IT,” according to data security company Laminar Ltd., which has been developing applications to handle emerging threats. The company is talking about leaky development database environments caused by new-found freedoms generated for programmers, DevOps and so on, caused by a shift to cloud and multicloud.
Why an AI-ML combo is the best approach for multicloud
Security has become a data problem, explained an executive tasked with defending multicloud environments for large companies. “The attack surface grows [using multiple clouds],” said David Hatfield (pictured), co-chief executive officer at Lacework Inc.
Multicloud requires strategy, not just adding more clouds
Analytics at scale and other drilled-down leveraging of the major cloud providers’ platforms is the basic premise behind the most recent of cloud adjectives. The tag is “supercloud,” and it’s all about concealing base-layer complications, but at the same time revealing the advantages of using combined, multiple cloud platforms — such as churning analytics across clouds and locations.
How in-vehicle operating systems and edge computing will transform cars
Ski boots are among the latest consumer-facing devices employing edge for the purposes of improving customer experience. Cars, too, have entered this space. Edge computing should be no longer looked at as simply networks and computing for telco, manufacturing and retail, according to Francis Chow (pictured), vice president and general manager of in-vehicle operating system and edge at Red Hat Inc.
Customer service automation is about getting ahead of problems
Asking a customer multiple times what their problem is a fundamental example of customer service agent manual toil that should be replaced with automation, says an executive at a company specializing in machine learning algorithms for CS.
Automation is a must to fix complex outages, freeing up DevOps for critical tasks
Do we need a person to fix this or not? Being able to answer that question is one of the significant benefits of running machine learning on complex environments that may be going wrong. The reason: skilled workers are scarce; they also don’t like getting interrupted. “You have a very skilled worker, let’s say it’s a developer, for example, and you’re constantly interrupting them to try and get them to help you fix something.
How automation is revolutionizing outage management
Fifteen minutes can be saved when troubleshooting an outage, simply by automating the mundane diagnostics data collection required to start analysis, according to Sean Scott (pictured), chief product officer of PagerDuty Inc. Those initial tasks, such as checking the memory, verifying that the CPU is still looking good, and so on, are ideal work for automation, he explained. “We can run our automated diagnostics and have all that data pumped directly into the incident,” Scott said.
OS consistency solves Linux talent issues, says RHEL executive
The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux, released during the recent Red Hat Summit, caters to rapidly escalating hardware development occurring throughout tech, along with a growing Linux admin skills shortage. RHEL 9 performs the combo double act, in part, by more efficiently optimizing the operating system, according to Gunnar Hellekson (pictured), general manager of the Enterprise Linux Business Unit at Red Hat Inc. Upgrading to the new OS means enterprises can get by with fewer admins.
Intel creates new developer ecosystem for edge environments
The edge is becoming significantly more important as attempts to reduce latency and address security concerns take hold in modern compute. That shift, though, introduces new ways of working for developers because now compute, storage, cloud and all of the ancillary elements that developers have to work with merge, according to a developer solutions executive at Intel. They all have to be addressed at the development stage.
New database architectures needed for improved real-time analytics, says Imply Data CTO
New database architectures needed for improved real-time analytics, says Imply Data CTO Analytics must be thought of as an intrinsic software layer, says an executive behind a real-time analytics database geared specifically toward powering analytical applications. The reason is that as companies shift business to the internet, they’re generating massive amounts of valuable data.
Radical market shifts lead the enterprise beyond traditional databases, says Imply CEO
UPDATED 16:28 EDT / MARCH 24 2022 Radical market shifts lead the enterprise beyond traditional databases, says Imply CEO As the world turns to an always-on digital society, organizations increasingly require databases for analytics and rapid decision-making. Now, a major shift is under way as to how companies manage their databases. Experts believe the key is to structure database implementation so that developers don’t have to think about complexities.
Unstoppable Domains promotes blockchain, digital identity and Web3 solutions in Asia and Europe Original
UPDATED 18:14 EST / MARCH 11 2022 Unstoppable Domains promotes blockchain, digital identity and Web3 solutions in Asia and Europe Gen Z, Millennials, women and unbanked people in rapidly developing parts of the world are among the target market for Unstoppable Domains Inc., a blockchain-based domain name company that intends to disrupt the domains business. The company is providing self-sovereign identity management on Web3, a new iteration of the World Wide Web based on blockchain technology.
Innovation at the edge: A global systems integrator weighs in
UPDATED 14:45 EST / DECEMBER 17 2021 Innovation at the edge: A global systems integrator weighs in Hackers are going to get in. There’s too much money in attacking, and it’s significantly cheaper to steal than to set up real businesses. The key is to get ahead of the bad guys using the cloud and cutting-edge technology, according to Walton Smith (pictured), public sector director of strategic partnerships at World Wide Technology Inc.
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