SYS-CON Events announced today that EnterpriseTech has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. EnterpriseTech is a professional resource for news and intelligence covering the migration of high-end technologies into the enterprise and business-IT industry, with a special focus on high-tech solutions in new product development, workload management, increased efficiency, and maximizing competitive edge.
[video] @Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit #SDN #AI #DX #Serverless
DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn’t complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. In their Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix, and Mark Lavi, a Nutanix DevOps Solution Architect, explored the ways that Nutanix technologies empower teams to react faster than ever before and connect teams in ways that were either too complex or simply impossible with traditional infrastructures.
[video] @DDN_Limitless High Performance Storage | @CloudExpo #SDN #Storage #DataCenter
«Cloud computing is certainly changing how people consume storage, how they use it, and what they use it for. It’s also making people rethink how they architect their environment,» stated Brad Winett, Senior Technologist for DDN Storage, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Cloudistics “Bronze Sponsor” of @CloudExpo | @Cloudistics #AI #DX #DevOps
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloudistics delivers a complete public cloud experience with composable on-premises infrastructures to medium and large enterprises. Its software-defined technology natively converges network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a single platform to drive unprecedented simplicity in the data center. Customers can start with a base infrastructure and scale to multi-site and multi-geo infrastructures with predictable economics and performance.
Most Popular #DevOps Talk | @DevOpsSummit #DX #CloudNative #Serverless
DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 – November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
Announcing @CloudRank «Bronze Sponsor» of @CloudExpo | #AWS #DX #Azure
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy named «Bronze Sponsor» of 21st International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 – November 2, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Academy is the industry’s most innovative, vendor-neutral cloud technology training platform. Cloud Academy provides continuous learning solutions for individuals and enterprise teams for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and the most popular cloud computing technologies. Get certified, manage the full lifecycle of your cloud-based resources, and build your knowledge based using Cloud Academy’s expert-created content, comprehensive Learning Paths, and innovative Hands-on Labs.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 06/26/17
If you had a busy week last week and need to catch up, here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 06/26/2017!
How hyper-convergence is changing the shape of IT. Petya ransomware hits at least 65 countries, traced to Ukrainian tax software. How micro-segmentation is the future. Microsoft is buying Cloudyn. How HCI simplifies the data center and more tops news this week you may have missed!
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Tech News Recap
Featured
- The Shifting Needs of Cloud-Era End Users
IT Operations
- Progressive web apps challenge native mobile apps
- How hyper-convergence is changing the shape of IT
- Hyper-converged market grows 64% over 2016
- VMware prepping NSX-as-a-service running from the public cloud
- How HCI simplifies the data center
Cisco
- Innovation, the cloud and Cisco‘s fight to maintain market leadership
- Cisco DNA Center headed for central enterprise network management
Microsoft
- Microsoft Hyper-V: The Smart person’s guide
- Microsoft says Fireball malware less widespread than first reported
- Microsoft’s never-ending optimism as it updates Windows 10 Mobile
- Microsoft is secretly planning a new advanced mode for Windows 10
- Here’s what Microsoft is doing to save you from ransomware
- Microsoft is buying Cloudyn after all
Cloud
- 6 ways Cloud ERP is revolutionizing how services deliver results
- Walmart takes its Amazon battle to the cloud
- Overspending in the cloud: Lessons learned
- It takes two: Box, Microsoft expand partnership to the cloud
- Google deal with Nutanix shows its cloud strategy is broadening
Security
- U.S. hospitals hit by global ransomware attack, Petya
- Petya ransomware hits at least 65 countries; Microsoft traces it to tax software
- Don’t want your cyber attacked? Move to the cloud
- Micro-segmentation is the future
- Petya: Is it ransomware or cyberwarfare?
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OVH announces €400m funding to continue global expansion
OVH, a French cloud and hosting provider, has announced it has raised €400 million (£351m) to help follow through on its global expansion strategy, saying the addition of JP Morgan helped ‘reflect its position as a global player in cloud computing’.
The funding accompanies a previous €250m round from KKR and TowerBrook late last year, with the company saying it generated revenues close to €400m in 2016/17.
“This new financing provides us with an increasingly robust banking pool, renewing confidence in the group’s international strategy and positioning,” said Nicolas Boyer, chief financial officer of the OVH group. “We will continue to implement our strategic plan through international deployment, consolidation of our position in the digital market, acceleration of our growth among enterprise customers and by reinforcement and structuring of our organisation to take full advantage of market opportunities.”
The company currently operates 20 data centres across four continents, with more than one million customers worldwide. Alongside its European and North American bases – including Montreal, Toronto, Newark and New York – OVH has recently opened its doors in Australia and Singapore.
Regular readers of this publication will recognise the company from its continued impressive showings in reports from Cloud Spectator, an analyst firm which aims to rank cloud providers on both price and performance, from vCPU to memory and block storage. The most recent of these reports, issued last month, saw OVH take top spot overall, ahead of 1&1.
The month before, VMware announced it was to sell its vCloud Air business to OVH for an undisclosed amount. The vCloud Air US and European data centres and customer operations will be transitioned to OVH, with the rebranded service set to be known as vCloud Air Powered by OVH.
Why it is time to accept that cybercrime is a real danger
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The world recently witnessed the WannaCry attack. This threat is a wake-up call to everyone that the danger of cybercrime is exponential.
While we need to be ready to see global attacks of this nature increase, the technology that is required to combat these hazards exists now. From vulnerability detection and anti-virus, device and network monitoring, to management tools and data backup, businesses remain in a never-ending battle to stay current as these threats become more complex.
The key is to combine modern technology solutions, both preventative and reactive, so that protecting critical information systems and data is easily implemented and managed.
The WannaCry wake-up call
Estimates put the number of countries affected by the WannaCry strain of ransomware at more than 100, with Russia’s Interior Ministry and the UK National Health Service being seriously affected. Effective security tactics rely on two core concepts – a focus on avoiding exposure and then forcefully responding and defeating the threat when it happens.
The key term here is ‘when’ because new strains of ransomware will always be developed to exploit newly-discovered bugs.
Plan for a ransomware attack
Formulate and then implement a resolution so that the impact is minimal. With a single PC, this could be isolating the device from the network to inhibit the infection from spreading, followed by wiping the machine, re-imaging, and then restoring the files and folders.
For a large, disparate organization, this may involve taking numerous machines offline to immediately reduce the risk of the virus spreading, identifying, and resolving problem endpoints, followed by performing an audit and taking action to ensure every portion is patched and protected.
How to protect your data from cybercrime
The success of responding to and being prepared for an attack depends on controlling the situation. First, be sure to have a continuous approach to patch management, using an RMM solution to automate delivery of the latest operating system on all devices. Utilize web filtering solutions that protect users visiting malicious sites. Deploy a continuously updated and current anti-virus (A/V) solution to all managed desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices.
In addition, adopt other security solutions based on your needs and inform your team on behavioral best practices. Lastly, implement a backup and recovery solution with an enterprise-grade file sync and share (FSS) solution which can be used to help quickly recover from an attack.
While the number of victims targeted across the globe continues to grow and ransomware becomes more sophisticated, there are ways to fight back. Stay updated, informed, and aware, and your organisation can avoid becoming the next prey for the cybercrime criminal.
[video] @MooseFS Distributed File Systems | @CloudExpo #Cloud #AI #DX #BigData #Storage
«We do one of the best file systems in the world. We learned how to deal with Big Data many years ago and we implemented this knowledge into our software,» explained Jakub Ratajczak, Business Development Manager at MooseFS, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.