Following the announcement of its Brain Builder beta program, Neurala, the award-winning artificial intelligence company, today announced a call for submissions for its "AI for Good" competition.

Developers who participate in the "AI for Good" contest will have the chance to win a $1,000 first-place cash prize. The second-place finalist will win an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2, and the third-place winner will receive a DJI phantom 3. Entries will be judged by a panel of industry experts. Neurala’s own applications and commitment to this theme include its work with Motorola Solutions’ first responder body cams to help find missing children, as well as its partnership with the Lindbergh Foundation to help combat animal poaching in Africa.

Each proposal should feature a detailed explanation of the approach the applicant will take to achieve the desired objective. This may include technological frameworks, development pathways, test dataset, what functions and technologies will be utilized, and how success will be measured.

Keysight Technologies announced Cloud Sensor vTap, a new feature of CloudLens from Ixia, a Keysight Business. Cloud Sensor vTap enables organizations to better manage their security risk in private and hybrid cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure Stack, with comprehensive visibility into East-West traffic without requiring hypervisor access.

The rapid increase in cloud adoption has heightened the need for securing data, applications, and workloads that reside in any cloud-based environment. In fact, in a recent Ixia survey, Lack of Visibility Drives Public Cloud Security Risk, 82 percent of IT professionals indicated they are concerned with security and data privacy in the private cloud.

Cloud computing ranks as the top risk concern for executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance, according to the latest survey by Gartner, Inc. While cloud computing presents organizations with novel opportunities, a number of new risks – including cybersecurity disclosure and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance – make cloud solutions susceptible to unexpected security threats.

In Gartner’s latest quarterly Emerging Risks Report, 110 senior executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance at large global organizations identified cloud computing as the top concern for the second consecutive quarter. Additional information security risks, such as cybersecurity disclosure and GDPR compliance, ranked among the top five concerns of the executives surveyed.

The top two fast-moving, high-impact risks – those which have the ability to cripple an organization quickly – are also related to information security threats. Social engineering and GDPR compliance were cited as most likely to cause the greatest enterprise damage if not adequately addressed by risk management leaders, according to Gartner. However, only 18 percent of the cross-functional executives surveyed currently considered social engineering to be a significant enterprise risk.

In an effort to help secure U.S. election systems, McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has announced it will offer state election officials in all 50 United States access to a free twelve-month license of McAfee Skyhigh Security Cloud. The McAfee Cloud for Secure Elections Program will help ensure that the cloud-based storage services housing voter and citizen data are properly configured for maximum security and are continuously monitored for internal and external intrusion, and that no citizen or voter data is improperly uploaded to or shared from cloud services.

"Since our first release in 2015, it’s been clear that containers and cloud native were the future – and that there was a huge gap in security platforms that not only protected these new technologies – but also leveraged them to deliver stronger defense than ever before possible. We’re proud of our leadership in the industry and the hundreds of customers protected by Twistlock today. Our partnership with ICONIQ reflects this success, and their focus on helping market leaders cement their position sets the stage for our ongoing growth," said Ben Bernstein, Twistlock CEO.

Cohesity, a leader of hyperconverged secondary storage, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Competency status for its cloud storage solutions. This recognition certifies that Cohesity has not only met strict technical proficiency requirements identified by AWS, but is also delivering integrated storage solutions with remarkable customer success.

Cohesity DataPlatform supports AWS, empowering enterprises to take advantage of the agility, scalability, and cost effectiveness of AWS while benefitting from a hyperconverged solution that consolidates secondary apps and data – including backup, long-term archival, test/dev, and disaster recovery. This allows organizations to eliminate a vast array of data silos that are highly inefficient and costly to manage, and instead bring everything together in a single interface that is simple to use, highly efficient, and can unlock new opportunities to extract valuable insights from untapped data.

  

It’s official – Zenoss Cloud, the new SaaS-based intelligent IT operations management platform designed for hybrid IT infrastructures and built on Google Cloud Platform – is now available.  

Discover how Zenoss Cloud leverages the most powerful machine learning and real-time analytics of streaming data to give you the ability to more effectively scale and adapt to the changing needs of your business.

WHEN?  Tuesday, August 21, 2018 @ 11:00 AM Central Daylight Time

During this webinar, product marketing manager, Anirban Chatterjee, and Kent Erickson, Zenoss Cloud product manager, will share Zenoss Cloud’s new key features, including:

• Smart View – troubleshooting technology with a brand new user interface and collaboration features
• Streaming and ad hoc metric collection – leveraging open-source agents
• Massive scalability to handle the largest enterprise, service provider and IoT use cases with industry-leading security for your data
• Container support for Kubernetes and Docker
• AI-guided anomaly detection using machine learning
• Cloud monitoring of all major public and private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack)
• Extensive and comprehensive coverage for all major server, network, storage and virtualization technologies

Sign up to watch Zenoss Cloud in action.

Article Written by Avery Phillips

Thanks to big data, the cloud, and the ever-advancing march of technology, the face of healthcare is changing. With that comes the need for additional staff trained in how to use technology to its fullest in order to better serve patients. From treating chronic diseases through research, management, and prevention, to trying to combat SIDS in infants, let’s look at at what these new careers do, and how they use the cloud to do their job.

Open infrastructure builders and users from a diverse swath of industries and open source technologies will meet in Berlin November 13-15 at the OpenStack Summit where they will share their work on integration of open infrastructure technologies and offer an inside look at their deployments and use cases. The agenda for the event is now live and features 100+ sessions addressing more than 35 open source projects, including new projects hosted at the OpenStack Foundation: Kata Containers, Zuul, Airship and StarlingX.

The Summit agenda is organized into nine tracks covering open infrastructure use cases including container infrastructure, private and hybrid cloud, continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD), edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and NFV.

Sessions and topics of note include: