DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced it is teaming with NVIDIA to transform data centers with storage and compute solutions that are fully integrated and optimized for AI and deep learning (DL) workloads. Backed by deep AI expertise in both storage and computing, the DDN A³I platform with NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputers delivers a validated, pre-configured solution that enables high performance at scale, thus making it faster and easier for every enterprise to gain data-fueled insights through the power of AI and deep learning.

"Artificial intelligence and deep learning applications are creating some of the most challenging workloads in modern computing history, and are straining traditional compute, storage and network resources," said Paul Bloch, president and co-founder, DDN. "DDN A³I with NVIDIA DGX-1 is an integrated solution that provides unlimited three-dimensional scaling and improved performance as clusters grow, accelerating the end-to-end AI and DL workflow. DDN A³I with DGX-1 is driving faster iteration and, most importantly, speeding business innovation."

DDN A³I with NVIDIA DGX-1 provides a turnkey solution that delivers a true end-to-end parallel architecture providing the highest throughput, lowest latency and maximum concurrency in data delivery to applications. Easy to deploy, manage, scale and support, the joint solution, available through AI-specialized resellers, delivers immediate workflow enablement and full saturation of GPU resources, all backed by one of the world’s strongest pools of deep AI expertise.

WhiteHat’s annual study was published in partnership with NowSecure, providers of automated mobile app security testing; and Coalfire, providers of cyber risk management and compliance services for public and private enterprises.

One of the greatest concerns discovered by these methods, alongside WhiteHat’s application security testing, is that with few exceptions, the number of serious vulnerabilities per site has increased across all major industries, despite some improvements in finance, healthcare and retail. Unfortunately, these verticals are still struggling with long windows of exposure combined with very high times to fix, which has driven up security risk levels compared with last year’s report. 

ZeroStack announced that its Self-Driving Cloud Platform can now detect and provide selective end-user access of NVIDIA GPUs to deliver GPU-as-a-Service. This makes the ZeroStack platform the first solution to offer cloud-based, fine-grained access to GPU services.

ZeroStack’s GPU-as-a-Service capability gives customers powerful features to automatically detect NVIDIA GPUs hosted on multiple physical servers and make them available within the ZeroStack environment. ZeroStack cloud administrators can then configure, scale, and allow fine-grained access control of GPU resources to end users. Users can enable GPU acceleration, deploy new machine learning and deep learning workloads with tools such as TensorFlow, Caffe, etc., and provide the applications with dedicated access to multiple GPUs for order-of-magnitude faster inference latency and user responsiveness.

Cloud Daddy, creator of the world’s most secure and easy to use AWS-native data protection solution, announced today that its one-of-a-kind product offering has been enhanced with additional, unique value-added features and is now available on the AWS Marketplace.

With the latest version of Cloud Daddy Secure Backup 1.2, customers can, at a glance, see where their backups and replications are stored. Cloud Daddy’s unique Disaster Recovery Orchestration Dashboard provides the ability to visualize the backup and replications contained within AWS regions, anywhere in the world they may exist, dramatically simplifying disaster recovery. The ability to filter and drill down to locate a specific target to restore provides the flexibility to recover a workload to the same AWS account/region, or to a different account/region within AWS, anywhere in the world, providing layers of disaster recovery and maximum data protection.

Cloud Daddy, compared to the competition such as N2WS (recently acquired by Veeam), or CloudRanger (recently acquired by Druva), provides more than just backup and offers a better, modern user interface, infrastructure management features, combined with advanced security countermeasures, for a superior data protection solution that you’ll pay less money for, while receiving much greater value. With five levels of product offerings, from free to enterprise-class, Cloud Daddy offers a comprehensive range of both backup/disaster recovery and advanced security features for enterprises of all sizes, including MSPs and channel partners.

Cohesity announced an expansion of the Cohesity Partner Program that empowers service providers to rapidly build and deliver highly differentiated secondary data and application services to meet the growing demands of enterprise customers. Service providers that join the Cohesity Partner Program can now utilize new capabilities in the Cohesity DataPlatform including multi-tenancy, tenant self-service, and chargeback reporting to deliver high-value services across private, public, and hybrid clouds within one web-scale platform.

Cohesity also announced today the Cohesity Powered trust mark, a designation available only to qualified partners who build their businesses on Cohesity’s trusted platform and adhere to strict quality standards. The trust mark enables partners to further differentiate their value in the market while driving customer preference for their innovative services.

"The Cohesity Partner Program gives service providers innovative ways to help customers directly address the complexities of mass data fragmentation while harnessing the power of secondary data and applications," said Mohit Aron, founder and CEO, Cohesity. "By building their own solutions on Cohesity’s platform, coupled with the credibility of the Cohesity Powered trust mark, service providers can confidently offer a wider array of value-added services to their customers, grow their businesses, and help customers derive the most value from their secondary data."

Tufin developed its unique program to address the growing need for MSSPs to have an "as a service" offering that removes the manual and painstaking processes associated with firewall management.  The solution provides MSSPs a way to consistently and regularly manage network security policies and automatically document who made a change, when they made a change, and why they made a change. Benefits include reduced network configuration errors, improved troubleshooting, decreased network downtime and lower costs associated with providing these services. MSSPs will now be able to provide their customers better business agility with lower risk and improved speed and accuracy of network changes while meeting security demands.

Further enhancements include:

Cloud, SD-WAN and security are in the midst of an evolution that is quickly growing in importance and will eventually dominate the WAN-edge architecture. The new report by R. Scott Raynovich, Futuriom, makes the important point that: "Cloud networks have entirely different requirements from client/server networks. They need to connect a variety of physical and virtual endpoints, including branches, private data centers, and the Internet."

When we consider the digital frontier, our inclination is typically to look at how changes in technology are changing industries. And in a lot of ways that makes sense given the fact industries are capable of adopting and implementing on a large scale, and thus they showcase the potential impact of certain aspects of new tech. 

Yet underneath this drive within companies to be innovative there lies the core reality that it all comes back to how consumers – and human beings in general – are able to utilize technology overall, and in this case the cloud specifically, to bolster quality of life. 

Stress is an issue so widespread in varying degrees, its significance is often underrated. But, what research shows is that stress contributes to a wide range of serious chronic diseases. It’s an inevitable part of life that we all deal with at one time or another, but it doesn’t have be a serious game changer. 

The cloud can provide a method for individuals to regulate their stress on a daily basis in a way that previous generations never before had the ability to do; ultimately that means stress as a whole may take a back seat for some individuals, which is right where it belongs.

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