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#1 Nuansi Revamps its Brand Identity to Scale in Hybrid Cloud Environments
Nasuni, a prominent enterprise data platform specializing in hybrid cloud environments, has unveiled a comprehensive rebranding initiative. This transformation highlights the company’s growth trajectory and commitment to continuous product innovation and versatility.
The rebranding encompasses new visuals and refined messaging that align with Nasuni’s vision as a top-tier data platform. This update underscores the industry’s transition from traditional, hardware-based NAS solutions to modern, software-defined storage orchestrations. Nasuni’s enhanced brand identity is designed to reflect its core values of innovation and trust while addressing the evolving needs of its users.
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#2 New Data Center Liquid Cooling Advanced Research Report by Dell’Oro
Security Services Holdings LLC, operating as Protos Security, has announced the acquisition of Summit Off Duty Services. This strategic move enhances Protos Security’s service offerings and strengthens its position as North America’s leading tech-enabled vendor-managed security provider. Protos Security, backed by Southfield Capital, aims to leverage Summit’s expertise to deliver more comprehensive security solutions to its clientele.
Summit Off Duty Services, based in Irving, TX, specializes in providing onsite security through a vast network of law enforcement officers. It connects businesses nationwide with over 1,400 law enforcement agencies. Following the acquisition, both companies’ leadership teams will remain intact, ensuring continuity and stability.
#3 Gil Segev, the New VP of Global Sales at Sentra
Sentra, a leading cloud-native data security company, announced the appointment of Gil Segev as Vice President of Global Sales. Segev, a seasoned sales leader with over a decade of experience in regional and global cybersecurity sales roles, will drive revenue growth, expand the worldwide customer base, and enhance the company’s channel strategy and partner ecosystem.
This strategic hire is pivotal as Sentra aims to broaden its global reach to meet increasing demand for its cloud-native data security solutions. Sentra continues to innovate its platform, which integrates Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Data Detection and Response (DDR), and Data Access Governance (DAG) to identify and mitigate critical data security risks. The recent introduction of Sentra DataTreks further showcases the company’s commitment to innovation by providing security teams with insights on data similarity and movement across their data estates and new capabilities for classifying and detecting sensitive data in on-premise environments for file shares and databases.
About Gil Segev: Segev’s extensive background includes his recent role as Vice President of Global Sales at env0, where he shaped the company’s sales strategy. He also played a crucial role at Bridgeview, leading the sales organization through its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks and maintaining revenue of over $20 million post-acquisition. At Spot.io, he significantly contributed to the company’s acquisition by NetApp by driving tens of millions in annual recurring revenue in North America.
#4 Protos Security Acquires Summit Off Duty to Enhance Law Enforcement Services
Security Services Holdings LLC, doing business as Protos Security, has announced the acquisition of Summit Off Duty Services. This strategic move enhances Protos Security’s service offerings and strengthens its claim as North America’s top tech-enabled, vendor-managed security provider. Backed by Southfield Capital, Protos Security will look to leverage Summit’s capability to offer comprehensive security solutions to its client base.
Summit Off Duty Services is based in Irving, TX, and provides onsite security via a large network of current law enforcement officers who link businesses across the U.S. to more than 1,400 law enforcement agencies nationwide. Both leadership teams from the acquiring and acquired companies will stay on board, ensuring the service remains consistent and reliable.
This acquisition represents Protos Security’s focused mission of delivering differentiated best total-value security solutions. With the integration of Summit’s services, Protos can offer improved program flexibility and intelligence, ensuring world-class service to its customers. Strategic growth and investment toward the management team, software, and service capabilities of Protos assure that they are better poised in the competitive security marketplace.
#5 Pure Storage and Dimensional Research released a New Data Report Findings
In collaboration with Dimensional Research, Pure Storage has released “The Voice of Kubernetes Experts Report 2024: The Data Trends Driving the Future of the Enterprise.” This report investigates the swift adoption of cloud-native platforms for accelerated application delivery and enterprise innovation. Key topics include modern virtualization, cloud-native databases, AI/ML adoption using Kubernetes, and the emergence of platform engineering.
Key Survey Findings:
- Cloud-Native Platforms: Over the next five years, 80% of surveyed IT professionals anticipate building most new applications on cloud-native platforms. Hybrid cloud environments are preferred, with 86% deploying cloud-native technology across public and private clouds.
- VM Infrastructure Transition: More than half (58%) of organizations plan to migrate some VM workloads to Kubernetes, with 65% targeting migration within the next two years.
- Data-Intensive Workloads on Kubernetes: Nearly all respondents (98%) use cloud-native platforms for data-intensive workloads. Key applications include databases (72%), analytics (67%), and AI/ML workloads (54%).
- Importance of Platform Engineering: 96% of respondents already have platform engineering teams to enhance app scalability and flexibility. Investments in training (63%), consultants (60%), and hiring skilled engineers (52%) are ongoing to support these teams.
#6 Claroty Announces Next Evolution of The Claroty Platform
Claroty, the cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection leader, has announced a significant evolution of The Claroty Platform. Leveraging its extensive industry expertise, Claroty aims to deliver unparalleled asset visibility and the most comprehensive solution set available. The platform can be deployed either in the cloud with Claroty xDome or on-premise with Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD), providing a dynamic approach to CPS protection. This flexibility allows organizations to mitigate cyber risks associated with increased connectivity, offering the fastest time to value and a lower total cost of ownership.
Addressing Increased Connectivity and Cyber Threats
The rapid expansion of connectivity has surpassed organizations’ abilities to manage CPS risks effectively. This has coincided with a rise in cyber threats impacting operations, prompting new regulatory measures to preserve national security, economic stability, and public safety. Traditional IT security tools and passive-only asset discovery methods often fall short in CPS environments, creating blind spots and inefficiencies.
Key Features of The Claroty Platform
1. CPS Risk Reduction
2. Faster Time to Value
3. Lower Total Cost
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#7 Hitachi and Microsoft Announces a Projected Multi-billion Dollar Collaboration
Hitachi, Ltd. and Microsoft Corporation have announced a multi-billion dollar, three-year collaboration to accelerate social innovation using generative AI. This partnership aims to boost Hitachi’s Lumada business to 2.65 trillion yen (18.9 billion USD) by FY2024 and improve operational efficiency for Hitachi’s 270,000 employees.
Key Points:
- Technology Integration: Hitachi will embed Microsoft technologies like Azure OpenAI Service, Dynamics 365, Copilot for Microsoft 365, and GitHub Copilot into Lumada solutions to enhance industries such as energy and mobility.
- Business Transformation: Hitachi’s Generative AI Center will collaborate with Microsoft to improve operational efficiency and application development. The integration of these tools has shown a 70-90% accuracy in generating application source code.
- Applications: Hitachi Rail will use GenAI for predictive maintenance, and JP1 Cloud Services will use AI to improve operational efficiencies.
- Sustainability and Growth: The partnership will enhance digital solutions for energy management and support sustainable growth, including a zero-carbon data center project in Europe.
#8 TYAN Brings its Latest AMD EPYC Server Platforms to the COMPUTEX 2024
TYAN, a server platform design leader and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, is highlighting its latest AMD EPYC server platforms at COMPUTEX 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. TYAN’s servers leverage 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors, ensuring optimized performance for modern data centers and large-scale AI/HPC infrastructure with high energy efficiency and robust security.
Key Highlights:
- Innovative Designs:
- Transport HX UT85A-B8267: An 8U dual-socket server with eight AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators, supporting up to 9TB DDR5 memory, designed for large-scale AI and HPC.
- Transport HX TN85-B8261: A 2U dual-socket GPU server supporting up to four dual-slot GPU cards and 24 DDR5 RDIMM slots, aimed at HPC and deep learning.
- Transport HX FT65T-B8050: A 4U pedestal single-socket GPU server supporting two high-performance GPU cards and multiple drive trays.
- Enterprise Solutions:
- Transport CX TD76-B8058: A 2U multi-node server with four front-serviced nodes, ideal for high-density data center deployment and web servers.
- Transport CX GC68C-B8056: A single-socket 1U server with extensive DDR5 DIMM slots and NVMe drive bays, designed for space-saving efficiency.
#9 Cisco Unveils New Capabilities across the Cisco Security Cloud
Cisco, a global leader in enterprise networking and security, announced new capabilities for its Cisco Security Cloud, pushing the boundaries of security architecture in the AI era. These advancements are set to revolutionize the landscape of cybersecurity, providing organizations with powerful tools to combat increasingly sophisticated threats. By leveraging AI-driven, cross-domain security solutions, Cisco aims to tip the balance of power in favor of defenders, ensuring robust protection for complex and hyper-distributed environments.
Announcements at Cisco Live US 2024:
- Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s EVP for Security and Collaboration, highlighted Cisco’s recent rapid innovation in security, aiming to offer a robust platform for an increasingly complex and distributed world.
- Introduced in April 2024, Hypershield is a new security architecture designed for AI-scale data centers. It embeds security enforcement in virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and advanced silicon in servers and networking devices using eBPF technology. Hypershield will now support AMD Pensando DPUs, with availability in Cisco UCS servers and other leading server vendors by the end of 2024. Future support for Intel IPUs is also announced, enhancing network security performance and flexibility.
- Collaborations with AMD and Intel are key to integrating cutting-edge hardware acceleration technology with Cisco’s security solutions, offering high-capacity throughput and intelligent policy enforcement without compromising performance.
- The new 1200 Series, available from October 2024, delivers up to three times the performance of comparable firewalls. This family of SD-WAN-enabled, high-performing, compact firewall security appliances eliminates the need for multiple devices at enterprise branch locations.
- The latest software version enhances security using AI to prevent zero-day threats and extends application control to over 70 generative AI apps to secure sensitive information. It also streamlines branch network rollouts with pre-built SD-WAN and firewall templates and supports zero-touch provisioning.
- Introducing a unified management platform for the Cisco Security Cloud, starting with its network security fabric, including the Cisco Secure Firewall. Security Cloud Control delivers an AI-native approach to surface actionable insights and automates resolution across hybrid environments.
#10 Rackspace Technology Aligns Sharestates to Enhance infrastructure by migrating to AWS
Rackspace Technology, one of the leading end-to-end, hybrid multicloud, and AI solutions companies, has announced it has aligned Sharestates for future growth goals and enhanced infrastructure by migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Migrating to the AWS cloud has been cost-effective, with industry adoption and redundancy capabilities for Sharestates. The infrastructure transition helped to improve its customer experience, optimize operations and scalability, and provide the company with the latest cloud technologies and best practices.
Sharestates Realized Benefits post Migrating to AWS Cloud:
- Faster user interface experience by investors.
- Improved internal reporting experience by staff.
- Faster processing speed by borrowers.
- Improved performance of web application modules by all users.
- Improved banking transfer processing speed.
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