Another article in our “Blockchain series” provided by Category Consultants MLG Blockchain – check out their “What Blockchain for business” comparison & leader-board. IntroEnterprises want more out of a new technology than simply a niche application. To drive tangible business value, blockchain adoption must be use-case driven, results oriented and involve minimal barriers to implement. […]
How To Manage and Monitor Nutanix AHV With ControlUp – Video
Do you use Nutanix AHV? Great! Now you can manage, monitor, run actions and scripts, set alerts and get notifications, all from the intuitive ControlUp real-time console. This video is from the fine folks at ControlUp.
While no one was looking, California passed its own GDPR
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widely viewed as a massively expensive and burdensome privacy regulation that can be a major headache and pitfall for American firms doing business in Europe. Many firms, including Facebook, have sought ways around the law to avoid having to deal with the burden of compliance. Well, […]
Pulse Secure VPN enhanced to better support hybrid IT environments
The workplace is changing rapidly as employees embrace mobility, applications are in the cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are instrumented for continuous connectivity — and this is affecting how organizations must think about secure access. Regardless of the scenario, organizations want solutions that deliver better productivity for whomever (or whatever) is connecting, a […]
10 competitors Cisco just can’t kill off
10 competitors Cisco just can’t kill off Image by IDG / jesadaphorn, Getty Images Creating a short list of key Cisco competitors is no easy task as the company now competes in multiple markets. In this case we tried to pick companies that have been around awhile or firms that have developed key technologies that […]
One in five serverless apps has a critical security vulnerability
Serverless computing is an emerging trend that is likely to explode in popularity this year. It takes the idea of a smaller server footprint to the next level. First, there were virtual machines, which ran a whole instance of an operating system. Then they were shrunk to containers, which only loaded the bare minimum of […]
Cisco broadens Tetration security delivery with cloud, virtual buying options
Cisco has added new cloud and virtual deployment options for customers looking to buy into its Tetration Analytics security system. Cisco’s Tetration system gathers information from hardware and software sensors and analyzes it using big-data analytics and machine learning to offer IT managers a deeper understanding of their data center resources. [ Don’t miss customer […]
IBM tweaks its z14 mainframe to make it a better physical fit for the data center
IBM is widening its mainframe range with some narrower models – ZR1 and Rockhopper II – that are skinny enough to fit in a standard 19-inch rack, which will answer criticisms of potential customers that the hulking z14 introduced in July 2017 too big to fit in their data centers (see photo above). In addition […]
Patches for Meltdown and Spectre aren’t that bad after all
Internal tests from a leading industry vendor have shown that fixes applied to servers running Linux or Windows Server aren’t as detrimental as initially thought, with many use cases seeing no impact at all. The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, first documented in January, seemed like a nightmare for virtualized systems, but that is overblown. There […]
Penn State secures building automation, IoT traffic with microsegmentation
It was time to get a handle on BACnet traffic at Penn State. BACnet is a communications protocol for building automation and control (BAC) systems such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, access control and fire detection. Penn State standardized on BACnet because of its openness. [ For more on IoT see tips […]