OpenStack East is expected to draw 500 attendees bringing IT professionals, developers and OpenStack supporters together to share case studies, trends, and plans for the world’s fastest-growing open source project.

This community event is being guided by a steering committee that includes representatives from the east coast OpenStack Meetups and organized by Tesora, along with GigaSpaces.

Scale Computing, the market leader in hyperconverged storage, server and virtualization solutions for midsized companies, was named the Best Midmarket Solution: Hardware of the Midsize Enterprise Summit XCellence Awards 2016 on May 3 in Indianapolis for its newly announced flash-integrated HC3 appliances.

Scale Computing was among the 60 top vendors at the Midsize Enterprise Summit demonstrating their cutting-edge products, services and new technology solutions designed to boost productivity and accelerate ROI. The MES XCellence Awards measure attendees’ perceptions of sponsor products, services, and presentations during the event with top honors going to the companies who earned the most votes during the event.

WinDocks, the Practical Windows container, announced a no-cost downloadable Community Edition, providing Windows professionals no-cost access to .NET and SQL Server containers using Docker commands. The company also announced availability of WinDocks products in Amazon Web Services Marketplace (AWS Marketplace), including a no-cost virtual machine (VM) based on the WinDocks Community Edition (AWS usage fees apply).

The WinDocks Community Edition includes the full WinDocks features, with a limit of five containers:

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EMC has expanded its VCE VxRack System 1000 to provide a “turnkey cloud-native IaaS experience” through new ‘Neutrino’ nodes. The expanded VCE VxRack System 1000 is designed to support multiple cloud-native IaaS and data stacks while enabling provisioning of cloud-native IaaS environments in less than one hour.

With EMC’s VxRack System, customers would be able to deploy an enterprise-grade cloud-native IaaS in just a few days with built-in automation as well as dynamically provision resources for the first time in less than one hour. In addition, the software automation layer enables simple ‘day two’ operations including monitoring and reporting, single click software upgrades, and single vendor support of these open-source, cloud-native IaaS and data stacks, automating what customers have discovered is a complex changing ecosystem and operational tasks that require rare and deep expertise…

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Huawei, a leading global ICT solutions provider, is hosting a two-day global gathering of government leaders from the public safety and security sector at its Safe City Summit 2016, being held in Dubai on May 17-18, 2016. Themed ‘Leading New ICT, Making Cities Safer’, the event will see local, regional and international guests attend workshops to gain insights on how cities around the world are deploying new ICT solutions by Huawei to protect their city’s property and assets, the safety of its citizens and visitors, and its emergency-service operations.

The Safe City Summit 2016 workshops will provide attendees with Huawei’s insights on trends in safe city construction and the key solutions helping to create a consolidated IT platform that is critical to providing more efficient emergency response services and quicker threat mitigation processes…

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From phishing attacks to new and creative malware to infected laptops, cyber-crime is globally growing at an alarming rate. These cyber criminals are not just targeting the blue chip companies and large corporations as the media reports. According to Symantec, 43 percent of cyber-attacks in 2015 targeted small-to-medium sized businesses with around 250 to 500 workers. Experts forecast a continuation of this trend in 2016 with the global cybercrime industry growing to $600 billion a year. The weak cyber security protocols of these businesses make them easy targets. They also offer access to larger corporations and the government who are their clients.

Malware

Malware lurks in the background stealing company data such as usernames and passwords. These malware is mostly installed by unsuspecting employees. According to Blue Coat, the average data breach can cost an organization 5.4 million dollars. In April 2016, MetStar, a non-profit organization running 10 hospitals in the Baltimore and Washington area was a victim of SAMSAM ransomware that encrypted sensitive data, requiring them to pay up the amount of 45 Bitcoins (approx. US$ 18,500) for the decryption key. Luckily, the IT department was able to detect the malware and prevent it from spreading further into their internal network…

Read more from the source @ https://tech.co/cybersecurity-threats-businesses-watch-2016-05

With the launch of Densify.com, Cirba Inc. takes away the effort and time necessary to deliver highly efficient and risk-free cloud infrastructure. At the core of Densify.com is Cirba’s proven predictive analytics engine which is managed for customers by world leading Densification Engineers.

“We recognized that many IT organizations want risk-free efficiency but haven’t the manpower nor the necessary analytics to deliver. The result has been to over-provision, in some cases by a lot,” said Gerry Smith, CEO of Cirba. “With Densify.com, we are offering these IT organizations very simple, fast and risk-free means to maximize infrastructure efficiency.”

The worldwide x86 server virtualization market is expected to reach $5.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 5.7 percent from 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. Despite the overall market increase, new software licenses have declined for the first time since this market became mainstream more than a decade ago. Growth is now being driven by maintenance revenue, which indicates a rapidly maturing software market segment.

Speaking ahead of the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit in Sydney, Michael Warrilow, research director at Gartner, said: "The market has matured rapidly over the last few years, with many organizations having server virtualization rates that exceed 75 percent, illustrating the high level of penetration."

Fujitsu is Japan’s largest Information Communications Technology (ICT) services provider, with 156,000 employees globally and US $41 billion in revenue. The company operates more than 100 data centers worldwide and holds the No. 1 spot in Japan’s ICT services market by revenue. By joining CNCF, Fujitsu is helping to advance the development of open source technologies, reference architectures, and common formats for cloud native technologies and services to drive the adoption of container technologies and microservices.

The Cool Vendors in Cloud and Emerging Technology Security, 2016 report by Gartner states, "Organizations are keen to explore the potential of cloud and IoT security technologies to help improve security operations, tackle fraud and raise threat awareness. Security and risk leaders need to fully engage with the latest technology trends if they are to realize policies that enable digital business opportunities while coping with hostile events. CISOs must drive the investigation of cloud security vendors who present new ideas and approaches, even if their solutions are not necessarily market-proven."