News RedLock Cloud 360 Security Enhancements Aimed at Microsoft Azure Users By Wendy A Hernandez 09/26/2018 Today cloud security provider RedLock Inc. announced enhancements to its RedLock Cloud 360 platform “designed specifically to help customers of Microsoft Azure,” according to the press release, which include automated remediation, holistic threat defense, advanced user behavioral analytics and […]

News Partnership Weds Software-Defined WAN, CORE Offerings By David Ramel 09/25/2018 Established software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN) vendor Versa Networks is teaming up with software-defined core network (SD-CORE) startup Mode for a new take on enterprise networking. SD-WAN brings software-defined networking (SDN) benefits such as agility, programmability and the decoupling of hardware from its control software to […]

News VMware Announces Availability of Workstation 15 and Fusion 11 By Wendy A Hernandez 09/25/2018 Today VMware Inc. announced the availability of the newest versions of its virtual platforms VMware Workstation 15 and VMware Fusion 11. The availability of and improvements to REST APIs for integration with development tools, plus enhanced UIs, expanded OS and […]

News Nuage Updates ‘SD-WAN 2.0’ Virtualized Network Services Platform By David Ramel 09/24/2018 Nuage Networks claimed several industry “firsts” in announcing an update to its Virtualized Network Services (VNS) platform, which it characterizes as an SD-WAN 2.0 offering. SD-WAN 2.0 is a vaguely defined industry term used by several companies to mark next-generation products building […]

News Macro Scanner To Block Malware Now Available with Office 365 ProPlus By Kurt Mackie 09/24/2018 Last week Microsoft announced that it has turned on Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) technology to protect against malicious macros for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Although it has been around since 2015, AMSI is now newly integrated with Office 365 […]

News Azure Data Family Expands with Edge and Gateway Offerings By Wendy A Hernandez 09/24/2018 Today Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Data Box, along with new online capabilities — Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway — both in preview. In addition, the company is addressing the needs for extra […]

News Talari Offers New SD-WAN Solution for Connecting Multiple Cloud Services By David Ramel 09/19/2018 Talari Networks announced a new offering targeting the growing software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN) space, highlighting connectivity to multiple cloud services. Called Cloud Connect, the new product seeks to prevent carrier lock-in and simplify enterprise migrations to hybrid multi-cloud networks. Talari said […]

News OpenDaylight SDN Controller Marks Adoption Gains with 9th Release By David Ramel 09/17/2018 The ninth release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) platform is out, adding new functionality and marking adoption gains. The platform provides an open source SDN controller for enterprise networking implementations. The platform release — named […]

News VMware Publishes NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 Release Notes By Wendy A Hernandez 09/12/2018 VMware Inc. quietly released NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 yesterday. Formerly known as NSX for vSphere, NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 “addresses a number of specific customer bugs,” according to the VMware Release Notes, but does not […]

News New Initiative Reimagines Data Architectures with Hybrid Model By David Ramel 09/11/2018 A new initiative aims to reimagine existing data architectures with a hybrid focus, providing a unified architecture for on-premises, multi-cloud and edge environments. With a strong open source component, the effort, spearheaded by Big Data specialist Hortonworks, also enlists IBM and Red […]