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Spotlight Series
The Fungible DPU: Dawn of a New Era?
Modern data centers have to do so much more than they used to that it’s impossible to keep up anymore. With data existing in multiple places, infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud, distributed computing becoming the norm, and so on, a new way of thinking has to be implemented to keep things… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Oxeye Offers Security Testing for Modern Application Development
Let’s just be honest: cloud-native development is now the de facto method of building applications. The monolithic development paradigm is a dinosaur, and can’t deal with things like distributed data and components, containers, cloud platforms, and the like. This new, cloud-native environment… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Your Storage, Your Way, with iXsystems
Some companies talk about the “open” nature of their products, but in real-world usage, proprietary elements quickly begin to creep in—and before you know it, you’re locked in to one vendor's solution. Not so with iXsystems, which has been truly open throughout its history. In this “Spo… Read More
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Podcast
102 – The Key to Ransomware Recovery
You don’t need to be told by now about the dangers of ransomware. But despite the huge interest in the topic, it can be surprising to find out how little companies know about protecting themselves from ransomware. Jon Toor, CMO of Cloudian, says that among the many things you can do, there’s… Read More
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Podcast
101 — The New Business Model of Ransomware
PDI Software CTO Chris Berry says that it’s a matter of “when,” not “if,” your organization will be hit by a ransomware attack. And she’s right. On this episode of “10 on Tech,” Berry and ActualTech Media Partner James Green dive into the hottest topic in IT: the growing scourge o… Read More
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observability
You Have Monitoring—Do You Also Need Observability?
Monitoring and observability can in some ways be compared to virtual machines (VMs) and containers: they share much in common, but have important differences that are important to understand. In the case of VMs and containers, they’re both methods of abstraction that allow portability of applic… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Cosmonic’s Goal Is To Make Developers’ Lives Easier
In the early days of software development (and those days are unfortunately still with us in some companies), applications were handcuffed. They were typically built for a specific operating system like Windows or Linux, and designed to run on specific hardware. That limited the apps in numerous way… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Modernize Your Legacy Apps with VirtaMove
You want to take advantage of all the benefits of modern servers and operating systems, but your legacy apps are holding you back. That’s a story that many companies can tell. But VirtaMove wants to change the ending of that story. VirtaMove, as VP of Marketing Dan Moshkovich tells ActualTech M… Read More
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Data Center
NetBeez Offers a Solution for Work from Home Scenarios
“Help! My Zoom isn’t working! Everything on my screen’s blurry! Computers suck!” This is a familiar refrain from any helpdesk worker (and admin with helpdesk responsibilities) who’s been in the job more than a week. And those are for on-premises employees, with better infrastructure, mo… Read More
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Edge computing
‘VMware Edge’ Promises To Bring Order to Distributed Chaos
VMware looks at the IT infrastructure world and sees disorder everywhere. And “VMware Edge,” a product suite announced at VMworld 2021, aims to bring order to the increasing state of disorder. Sanjay Uppal, VMware SVP & GM for the Service Provider & Edge Business Unit, put the problem in star… Read More
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Cloud
VMware Peers into Multi-Cloud Future at VMworld 2021
It’s clear that leveraging the public cloud is now table stakes for many IT organizations, no matter the size. The next frontier to conquer, and one that VMware took aim at during the keynote session for its 2021 VMworld conference, is multi-cloud. This direction makes sense for VMware. I… Read More
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Networking
Juniper To Focus on ‘Experience-First Networking’
IT folks who sit through presentations of new vendor products tend to roll their eyes when they hear certain buzzwords. And none is more overused than “game-changer.” According to many vendors, even something as basic as adding two-factor authentication is a “game-changer.” (Note to vendors:… Read More
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ransomware
How Prepared Are You To Survive Ransomware? Just Check Your R-Score
Ransomware can be hard to defend against. Difficulties begin with finding it in the first place, then stopping attacks, and, finally, recovering from those attacks. It’s so tough because the malware can have tentacles all throughout your infrastructure—on your servers, in your storage, on your n… Read More
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Podcast
100 – Ransomware Is All About the Recovery Time
Here’s a fact you probably didn’t know: it’s not uncommon at all for a ransomware payment to be only a small portion of the overall financial impact of an attack. The bigger part, quite often, is the income lost by the business downtime. Mihir Shah, CEO/Co-Founder, StorCentric, believes tha… Read More
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Networking
Xilinx Unleashes the Power of the Smart NIC
Network Interface Cards, or NICs, are like car tires: they rarely get any attention, but they’re absolutely essential for operation. It’s easy to even forget they’re attached, since they’re so fundamentally basic—until something goes wrong. When that happens with your tires, your car stops… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Elisity Says That Proper Security Means Trusting No One
“All of the work that’s done to secure assets is great, but all it takes is exploiting the weakest link in the chain.” That’s the governing philosophy as expressed by Elisity CEO James Winebrenner, and it’s why Elisity focuses on the “zero trust model.” “Zero trust” is a hot ind… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Ordr Helps You Get Control of Your Connected Devices
Connected devices, including traditional IT, Internet of Things (IoT), and Operational Technologies (OT), are proliferating at a mind-boggling rate. That can be useful, but it also comes with significant risk: many of these devices are essentially invisible on your network. That means you don’t kn… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Cofense: Stop Phishing Emails Before They Do Their Damage
The Cofense website has this startling statistic: 90% of security breaches start with an email phishing attempt. That should make you sit up and take notice. In this “Spotlight Series” video, ActualTech Media Partner David Davis chats with Keith Ibarguen, chief product officer, Cofense, about… Read More
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Edge computing
Managing Applications at the Distributed Edge Cloud with Avassa
Edge computing is, of course, a form of cloud computing. But it can be helpful in a way to think of edge computing as the polar opposite of cloud computing. And understanding that can be a big help in grasping what Avassa is trying to do with its edge platform. Avassa presented at Tech Field Day… Read More
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Kubernetes
Portworx Provides Software-Defined Storage for Kubernetes
Remember when storage was simple? It was in a single location, and was physical, either inside a server or as a separate device like a SAN or NAS. Map the device to the storage and off you went. And that location didn’t vary: the same storage was in the same place. It had its challenges, of cou… Read More
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Data Center
Meraki Pushes Proactive Troubleshooting at Tech Field Day
There’s value in having a sprinkler system in your house that functions properly and puts out a fire in the kitchen. But there’s even more value in a system that would alert you to a faulty circuit breaker beforehand. Even better would be a system that would drill down on the malfunctioning c… Read More
By Keith Ward