Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management company, announced the general availability of Polaris Radar, the latest data management application built on the Polaris SaaS platform. Polaris Radar leverages machine learning to model threat behavior, accelerating how enterprises mitigate data security incidents. In the event of an attack, such as ransomware, enterprises can now minimize business disruption and data loss by recovering in just a few clicks across their entire environment.

Ransomware attacks are intensifying in scale and sophistication, and the perpetrators are better at evading countermeasures. A recent NTT Security survey revealed that ransomware attacks rose 350 percent in 2017 over the previous year. According to a survey conducted by endpoint protection provider Barkly, 71 percent of organizations were infected by ransomware after it successfully bypassed their prevention controls. Enterprises must act quickly to contain the risks posed by ransomware in order to minimize cost, recovery time, and reputational damage. A holistic ransomware response strategy integrates accelerated detection and recovery alongside prevention measures, ensuring strong resiliency in the face of cyber threats.

FileCloud, a cloud-agnostic Enterprise File Sync and Sharing Solution (EFSS), today announced the launch of the FileCloud Online partner program. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can now resell FileCloud Online, a customizable, secure EFSS fully hosted by FileCloud. Delivering data ownership, residency and control with compliance in Canada, APAC or Europe, FileCloud Online is the only hybrid cloud offering in the market that offers direct, low latency access to on-premise windows file servers and the cloud for remote access.

"File sharing and collaboration is a core use case for any organization," said Venkat Ramasamy, COO, FileCloud. "FileCloud Online outperforms rival EFSS solutions and delivers MSPs with the opportunity to capture market potential netting greater user satisfaction, customer retention and higher margins."

Five9, Inc., a leading provider of cloud contact center software for the digital enterprise, announced the expanded partnership with Fuze, cloud communications platform provider for the modern global enterprise. This partnership includes integration into the Fuze Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Five9 Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providing an end-to-end communication experience for sales and support teams.

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced a new, free introductory course from MapR Academy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).  This on-demand course provides insights into how businesses can leverage AI and ML to improve operations through real-world use cases.  This course is ideal for developers just starting out in ML, as well as higher-level business decision makers.

"Machine learning, a trending topic in big data, is not fully understood.  This course provides a foundation for anyone curious about ML/AI and how it works in practical applications," said Suzanne Ferry, vice president, global training and enablement, MapR.  "Decision-makers, even those who already use big data, will benefit from learning more about common ML/AI business use cases."

Virtualization technology is complex, which means the learning curve for hyper-v management (Hyper-V 101) can be quite steep for administrators. In this article, we review a number of common mistakes that Hyper-V administrators struggle with in their day-to-day operations. We also suggest remedies and optimization techniques to help you significantly improve your Hyper-V environment.

Mistake #1 – Imbalance of Memory and CPUs

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today announced the launch of their second availability zone ("Availability Zone B") in Malaysia to expand its cloud footprint and bolster its cloud capacity, serving increasing customer demand locally and in the region. The new zone complements Availability Zone A which was launched last year in heightening cloud security and ensuring business continuity through resilient cloud infrastructure.

Alibaba Cloud will also continue to invest in Malaysia by setting up the first cloud based Anti-DDoS Scrubbing Center in August. The center will mitigate risks and offer customers the highest level of protection against stronger DDoS attacks. The new center will feature a variety of security functions including Anti-DDoS Pro, a service that defends against all types of DDoS attacks.

Software intelligence company, Dynatrace, today announced at Google Cloud Next 2018, automated support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. With this announcement, operations teams can extend the scope of the Dynatrace platform to workloads in Google Cloud, eliminating manual and siloed monitoring of independent Kubernetes clusters, and enabling automatic AI-assisted answers to performance problems across GCP workloads.

"Historically, due to the complexity of enterprise cloud environments, monitoring solutions for GCP have operated in siloes, focusing only on Kubernetes clusters or workloads independently. This has rendered organizations unable to understand how performance problems within one application or container may be impacting the performance of others. As a result, enterprises can easily overlook performance issues that put the software performance at risk," said Alois Reitbauer, VP, Chief Technology Strategist, Dynatrace.

Symantec Corp. has announced new additions to Symantec Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) Suite, adding multilayered anti-malware scanning for workloads, protecting both compute and storage.

The demand for greater business agility has led many organizations to adopt a hybrid cloud infrastructure often combining on-premises, public and private clouds. However, traditional on-premises security tools do not have the cloud-native integrations required to protect and scale with workloads and storage in these dynamic environments. Symantec CWP and CWP for Storage include multilayered anti-malware protection powered by industry-leading Symantec Endpoint Security (SEP) technologies to help discover and mitigate viruses and threats. CWP helps automatically discover, visualize and protect workloads across heterogeneous hybrid cloud data center environments using a single agent, single console solution. The solution supports physical on-premises servers, virtualized private clouds, and public cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Technology vendors have taken many different approaches over the years to help prevent IT service outages and improve overall IT performance. These approaches include infrastructure monitoring, artificial intelligence operations, log analytics and more. Some approaches collect performance data from systems directly, some rely on logs, some rely on events, while others rely on data sent from agents. Zenoss Cloud represents one of the first platforms that combines all of these approaches.

DataStax today announced it will offer approved Docker DataStax Enterprise (DSE) containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (GCP Marketplace) users. The new offering will give customers the ability to easily integrate DSE with native Google Cloud services like Compute Engine or Cloud Storage, with no manual configuration required.

GCP Marketplace is based on a multi-cloud and hybrid-first philosophy, focused on giving Google Cloud partners and enterprise customers flexibility without lock-in. It also helps customers innovate by easily adopting new technologies from ISV partners, such as commercial Kubernetes applications, and allows companies to oversee the full lifecycle of a solution, from discovery through management.