Esticast-Technology: June 2017

Monday, 12 June 2017

Kerlink and myDevices Integrate Technologies to Speed Design And Launch of IoT Applications and Services

Kerlink and myDevices today announced they are integrating their complementary technologies to accelerate design and launch of IoT smart applications and services.

The two companies are integrating application programming interfaces (APIs) included in Kerlink’s core network-management platform, Wanesy RAN (Radio Access Network), and its lighter embedded version, Wanesy SPN (Small Private Network), in myDevices’ Cayenne IoT Project Builder, a drag-and-drop application-enablement platform. Because Kerlink stations are pre-registered and its core network solutions are already part of this integration, it will be immediately easier for customers to use the Cayenne platform to design services and applications, and quickly experience the quality and flexibility of Kerlink’s network solutions.

Dell Technologies Raising Systems Prices In Face Of Deepening Memory, SSD Shortages

Sharply rising memory and SSD costs have prompted Dell Technologies PC and server price increases.

In a conference call to discuss Dell Technologies' earnings for its fiscal first quarter ended May 5, CFO Tom Sweet said the company anticipates rising costs as a result of ongoing memory and SSD shortages to persist for the remainder of the year. Memory prices have doubled, Sweet said, and SSD prices have increased about 20 percent since shortages took hold late last year.

Solution providers are fighting the battle on two fronts. Along with price increases, the shortages have in some cases tripled lead times, said Scott Winslow, president of the Winslow Technology Group, a Waltham, Mass.-based solution provider that works with Dell EMC.

Huawei leads with completion of China's second-phase 5G R&D test

Huawei leads with the completion of China's second-phase 5G radio technology test in Huairou District, Beijing. This test procedure was organized by IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group. During the C-Band test, Huawei adopted 5G New Radio, Massive MIMO, and other technologies using the entire 200 MHz bandwidth to achieve over 6 Gbps of single-user downlink throughput and over 18 Gbps of cell peak rate.

The world's first Huawei 5G test terminal was utilized for radio technology verification. This terminal enabled more than 100 channels of on demand 4K UHD video in a single 5G base station. The clarity and smooth playback in vehicle-mounted mobile scenarios helped to demonstrate a superior experience offered by 5G C-Band Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB).

Bridging the Gap Between IT Security and IT Operations

Life for a CISO could be better. Too many today look out over an landscape overrun by poorly-deployed security tools consuming too many scarce resources, and a dynamic between IT and security that is skeptical at best and distrustful at worst.

This longstanding situation comes from a short-term, tactical and project-driven approach to IT security. For years, projects have been designed to deliver a point solution to a particular problem, resulting over time in an overabundance of solutions. Very often, these are only partially deployed or implemented, but each served a purpose once, either as a “tick-in-a-box” on some audit report, or as a pet project for a long-gone CISO.

Microsoft Fends Off 1.5M Cloud Attacks a Day

Cloud security, and securing data as it flows from public to private clouds, is big business, and only expected to get bigger as more workloads and apps move to the cloud. Now, Microsoft is showing how complicated cloud security can get within its own infrastructure.

On any given day of the week, Microsoft fights against 1.5 million cyberattacks and security breach attempts that target its cloud infrastructure, according to a new blog post from the company.

To help combat these attacks, Microsoft uses about 3,500 engineers to constantly monitor its infrastructure and its Azure cloud.

How Rocket Fuel is fighting malvertising using AI and machine learning

The rise of malvertising and extremist content on the web has forced leaders from technology giants Google and Facebook to apologise to users and advertisers as of late.

Rocket Fuel CEO Randy Wootton has said: "Malvertising and those who perpetuate it have been a huge problem for the digital advertising industry for years. Rocket Fuel is committed to the fight against malicious ads and by continuing to leverage outside technologies like Google Cloud Vision API, we can take even greater strides in protecting brands, agencies and consumers."

Speaking from its London Office in Covent Garden, GM of global platform solutions and SVP international at Rocket Fuel, David Gosen, emphasised that these are industry-wide issues. "We all have a role to play in the ecosystem to be clear, transparent and collaborating to ensure that the system works," he said

Kao Data campus near London will be managed using StruxureWare

CAritical infrastructure specialist Schneider Electric has announced that Kao Data, the upcoming data center campus 30 miles away from London, will be controlled using StruxureWare data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software.

Kao Data is set to become one of largest data center projects in the UK, located on the site where Sir Charles Kao first developed fiber optic communications in the 1960s.

The first facility on campus, Kao Data London One, will offer up to 8.7MW of IT capacity and is expected to host its first customers at the end of 2017.

Calix Combines Edge, Access on AXOS

SAN FRANCISCO -- Calix today announced the latest leap forward for its AXOS Software-Defined Access, adding a Subscriber Management Module that combines access and edge functions, bringing intelligence closer to the customer and eliminating the need for broadband network gateways.

The announcement is just the latest in a series from Calix, and company executives are making it clear at a media and analyst gathering here that this is the new norm: With the AXOS Software-Defined Access platform in place, Calix can develop new functions much more rapidly -- its recent 10G EPON System for Cable being a prime example, as it was developed in 120 days.

"In reality, we will introduce more products this year than in our 17-year history," Geoff Burke, senior director of corporate marketing, told the analysts. "We are now a software and services company, and that is a fundamental change as a company and as a culture."

Turbonomic touts support for AWS and Azure public cloud with new release

Turbonomic, a Boston-based cloud and virtualisation software provider, has announced new support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments with general availability of its 5.9 iteration.

The company says the move will ‘enable customers to confidently accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud’, with support offerings include visibility of all workloads regardless of where they reside, and lowering of public cloud bills by 30% on average.

Other features include being able to migrate to AWS and Azure public clouds through migration planning, workload placement and workload scaling, controlling public cloud workloads, and enforcing compliance across hybrid environments.

Informatica Intelligent Data Platform Delivers Metadata-driven AI to Power Data-Driven Digital Transformation

Informatica®, the provider of data management solutions, announced a new wave of innovation across the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform™, the industry’s only end-to-end platform for data management and data-driven digital disruption. Central to today’s announcement is the introduction of CLAIRE, the metadata driven artificial intelligence in the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform.

Transforming Data Management with Intelligence

Informatica Intelligent Data Platform is an integrated platform combining award-winning Informatica products and data solutions for cloud data management, big data management, data integration, master data management, data quality & governance, and data security. It is the most complete and scalable data management platform available.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HYBRID IT

“By the year 2020” isn’t the beginning of some young-adult dystopian sci-fi story. No, the painful reality is that by the year 2020, I’ll still be driving the same car I have now, and that car will still be under the manufacturer’s warranty. But the phrase “by the year 2020” is prominent in the latest installment of the Cisco Global Cloud Index, a report the company has published every year since 2011. The report notes trends regarding the number and nature of organizations moving their infrastructure to the cloud in some form.

The 2016 edition notes that by the year 2020, about 98 percent of all compute workloads will be processed by a cloud-based architecture. Out of that jaw-dropping percentage, 66.5 percent (or 68 percent of all cloud-based compute workloads) will be in public-cloud spaces such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, leaving 31.5 percent in private-cloud environments. Just these few numbers should provide a math-based context for the current gold-rush atmosphere surrounding investment in and development of cloud-centric tools and solutions.

Networking Startup 128 Technology Raises $21.5M To Help With Its Channel Charge

Software-centric networking startup 128 Technology has raised $21.5 million in a new round of funding with big plans to revolutionize the network industry through channel partners.

"This is the largest transformation in our lives in terms of the network. That is not going to happen by itself, that's going to happen because the partners are going to make it happen and they should make an awful lot of money as a result of participating," said Andy Ory, co-founder and CEO of 128 Technology, in an interview with CRN.

IoT Security Solution Protects Against Connected Threats

Resilient Network Systems, the contextual access control company, today announced a strategic partnership with RunSafe Security to offer a unique IoT security solution—Resilient IoT Guardian—for both new and existing IoT deployments.

"We've brought the expertise of our two companies together from different areas of the security industry to offer this unique solution," said Joe Saunders, CEO of RunSafe Security. "The strength and value of this new approach is in its ability to protect both at the individual IoT device level and at the device communications pathway level."

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