July 27, 2018 Off

Cloudistics & Lenovo: A New Path to a Successful Cloud

By David
Cloudistics & Lenovo: A New Path to a Successful Cloud

Cloudistics has announced a new partnership with Lenovo to deliver the Lenovo ThinkAgile CP Series, a full-fledged Cloudistics experience on Lenovo hardware. This new all-in-one, turnkey, composable private cloud platform can accelerate your service delivery without the challenges of conventional approaches. As a superior private cloud with unprecedented value, the ThinkAgile CP Series can help organizations like yours escape the limits of traditional datacenter IT or hyperconverged systems.

Cloudistics partnered with Lenovo because, unlike many do-it-yourself vendors that expect you to cobble together an infrastructure, Lenovo understands the value of giving you control of your IT with integrated, engineered solutions that offer greater simplicity and optimization. In a world that’s moving toward no ops and serverless computing, operational simplicity is becoming a critical business requirement. Without it, your staff lack the agility and efficiency needed to deliver compelling value. And your business outcomes are restricted and delayed by legacy technologies.

 Instead of the confined old days of datacenter IT, imagine a world where you can, for the first time, discover what a premium experience looks like. With the Lenovo ThinkAgile CP, you can:
July 26, 2018 Off

Webinar: Streamline the Deployment & Management of Windows Desktops with VDI

By David

Have you ever wondered how to streamline the deployment and management of Windows desktops with VDI? This is easily achievable with Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS). Parallels RAS delivers applications and desktops to any device, anywhere, at an affordable price.

This demo will cover topics such as:

  • Hypervisor flexibility
  • Simplified VDI management
  • Parallels RAS templates
  • Test guest VM template
  • RASprep

WHEN? Aug 2nd, 2018 – 09:00 AM PDT

Register now and join speaker Victor Fiss – Director, Sales Engineering.

 

July 26, 2018 Off

Check Point Introduces Generation V Security Gateway for Enterprises and Data Centers

By David
Grazed from Check Point Software Technologies

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announced the launch of its new 23900 security gateway, setting a new standard of protection against the most advanced fifth generation of cyber-attacks targeting enterprise and data center networks. Combining comprehensive threat prevention with purpose-built hardware, this latest addition to the Check Point 23000 family delivers the power to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic without compromising on performance, uptime, or scalability. 

The 23900 security gateway offers maximum security performance with 128 Gbps of firewall throughput in a compact 2U chassis. It supports the fastest connectivity standards up to 100 GbE and features modular expansion options with up to 42 network interfaces. 

July 26, 2018 Off

Bitdefender Talks Black Hat 2018, Mid-Year Threat Landscape, Cybersecurity Developments and Trends, and More

By David
In this video interview, VMblog speaks with Bogdan Botezatu, senior e-threat analyst at Bitdefender. 

During the discussion, Bogdan does a great job of setting the stage explaining what Bitdefender has planned for the upcoming Black Hat 2018 event.  He also talks about the mid-year threat landscape, developments and trends, and takes a look back at his security predictions made in 2017 to see which came true.  Watch and find out what we can expect to see in the remainder of the year when it comes to cybersecurity and what Bitdefender Labs data is pointing to; and find out how your organization can better protect itself.

Watch the video:

 

July 26, 2018 Off

Cloud Tech Affecting the Property Market

By David

Article Written by Sally Perkins

Following a sustained decrease in home ownership, the market is looking up, with property ownership up 1.3% since June 2016, now standing at 64.2%. The rise is small, but not insignificant. With the economy performing well, millennials who were heavily affected by the 2008 global recession are now starting to believe that they can be homeowners again. Part of this could be down to the way technology is affecting the house buying process. Cloud technology is playing its part in improving the efficiency of property management, while creating a secure and convenient service to house hunters.

 
July 25, 2018 Off

Five9 Announces New Integration With Google Cloud Contact Center AI – Provide Businesses the Ability to Improve Customer Service

By David
Grazed from Five9

Five9, Inc., a leading provider of cloud contact center software for the digital enterprise, today announced an integration with Google Cloud’s new Contact Center AI, a solution that combines multiple AI products to improve the customer service experience, as well as the productivity of contact centers.

Google Contact Center AI is a simple, secure, and flexible solution that allows enterprises with limited machine learning expertise to deploy AI in their contact centers. The solution integrates with Five9 making customer integration of AI into their systems easy.

Key features of Five9’s integration with Google Contact Center AI include:

July 24, 2018 Off

VMware and Google Preview a New Plugin Unlocking More Hybrid Cloud Scenarios

By David
Written by David Marshall

VMware and Google have announced a preview of a new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator, and support for GCP resources in VMware vRealize Automation.

The vRealize Orchestrator is used to automate other VMware products like the vSphere virtualization platform and the vCloud suite.  This new GCP plugin for vRealize Orchestrator is said to provide customers with a consistent management and governance experience across on-premises and GCP-based IT environments.  As an example, Google and VMware said a user would be able to use Google-provided blueprints (or build their own blueprints for Google Compute Engine resources) and publish them to the vRealize service catalog.  This means a user could select and launch resources in a predictable manner that would be similar to how they would launch VMs in their on-premises VMware environment, using a tool with which they are already familiar.  

July 24, 2018 Off

Preparing your business for a move to the cloud

By David
In order to secure success for your business, it is essential that you keep your organization moving forward. Instead of resting on your laurels, you should constantly be aiming for more. There are so many ways for you to enhance your operation and it would be a shame for you to allow these opportunities to slip through your fingers. One such opportunity is to move your business onto the cloud. It is a fantastic way for you to save your company time, money, and effort. It is also an excellent way for you to establish yourself as a forward-thinking organization that knows how to use technology to its advantage. Below are seven steps that will help you to achieve your goals.  

Weigh up the pros and cons of cloud computing

As a business owner, you should have total confidence in every move you make. Otherwise, it will be impossible for you to secure the backing of your clients, your employees, and your important investors. Even if you are fairly confident about a new initiative, it is still worth your while to weigh up the pros and cons. This is especially true when it comes to cloud computing. Moving your business onto the cloud is a huge step to take. It will completely transform your operation. That is why you should undertake an extensive research project before you get started.

July 23, 2018 Off

Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition Now Available on Google Cloud Platform to Drive Enterprise-Grade Data Backup and Protection

By David
Grazed from Cohesity

Cohesity, a leader of hyperconverged secondary storage, today announced that Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), providing a new, cutting-edge enterprise-grade solution for backup and recovery of applications that use Google Compute Engine. As a result, Cohesity now offers data backup and protection for a wide array of public clouds, empowering enterprise customers with an incredibly efficient and easy-to-manage solution for secondary data workloads across multi-cloud architectures.

Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition on the Google Cloud Platform delivers web-scale platform attributes such as unlimited scalability and resiliency for backing up applications running on Google Cloud Platform. The integrated solution provides enterprise-grade backup of applications that use Google Compute Engine (GCE), the infrastructure-as-a-service component of GCP, addressing a growing market demand.

July 23, 2018 Off

Arista Any Cloud Extends to Google Cloud Platform

By David
Grazed from Arista Networks

Arista Networks today announced its Any Cloud hybrid cloud networking platform, which reduces operational costs and complexity for enterprises migrating workloads to the public cloud from their on-premises datacenters, is now available on Google Cloud Platform. The new virtualized offering, Arista vEOS Router combined with CloudVision with Cloud Tracer functionality, provides consistent operations, orchestration, security, and telemetry across multi-cloud environments. 

"We are proud to be participating in the Google Cloud Partner Program and the ecosystem of Google technology partners that are helping to expand the cloud platform globally," said Manuel Rivelo, Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer. "The combined solution of Arista Any Cloud and the Google Cloud Platform will deliver new capabilities and value to our hybrid and public cloud customers."