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To address the growing misunderstandings, risks and complexities when leveraging service providers, HITRUST is introducing a new program to clarify the roles and responsibilities regarding ownership and operation of security controls while automating and streamlining the assurance process when security controls are shared or inherited.

Protecting sensitive information is a challenge for any organization and even more so for organizations that leverage service providers. The risks associated with control failures by third party service providers – such as cloud hosting, platform-as-a-service, or a business process outsourcer – continue to increase as customers don’t fully understand their responsibilities, coupled with the complexity of assessing security control effectiveness when control responsibility is shared.

The HITRUST Shared Responsibility Program will remove the guesswork, ambiguity and confusion in understanding the roles and responsibilities between customer and their service provider relating to shared and inherited controls by outlining data governance, information risk management and regulatory compliance requirements in clear, concise language.

SIOS Technology Corp., the industry pioneer in providing intelligent application availability for critical workloads, today announced that it will showcase advanced research in the application of Machine Learning (ML) aimed at lowering cloud costs while optimizing High Availability (HA) for critical applications operating in the cloud at AWS Summit in Atlanta, GA on September 13 in Booth #612. SIOS is an exhibiting Silver Sponsor.

"The move from datacenter to the cloud is well underway for many applications, but the migration of critical applications based on SAP, SQL Server and Oracle has just begun," said Jerry Melnick, president and CEO, SIOS Technology. "At SIOS, we have a long history delivering HA software to ensure availability and we’ve developed leading-edge machine learning solutions to help IT understand and optimize computing infrastructures. At the show, we’ll give attendees a peek into the future of how these technologies used together can deliver the confidence and cost savings that will be essential for operating in the cloud."

Organizations that bought into proprietary IoT platforms are finding themselves tied to limited functionality, locked into a particular vendor, and unable to scale. Enterprises have had to piece together multiple vendors’ solutions, manage all of the complexities of integration, and deal with security risks of the patchwork, only to end up with incompatible connectivity, a rigid architecture from black box solutions, and minimal interoperability. These setbacks cause businesses to miss out on technological advances such as machine learning, real-time decision-making, and cloud/hybrid flexibility.

Cloudera with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, and Eurotech, a long-time leading provider of industrial embedded hardware, have collaborated to develop an end-to-end architecture that is based on open standards and is integrated, flexible and runs on multi- or hybrid-cloud environments. This architecture is designed to provide the foundational components that organizations need to quickly and securely roll out IoT use cases.

ParkMyCloud, the leading enterprise platform for continuous cost control in public cloud, and CloudHealth Technologies, trusted cloud management platform provider, today announced that they have furthered their partnership with a technology integration that provides customers with end-to-end multi-cloud cost control and visibility.

More than $12.9 billion will be wasted on unused cloud resources this year – which means public cloud users have an immediate need for automated savings and governance. Customers leveraging ParkMyCloud and CloudHealth’s integrated solution are empowered to reduce this cloud waste – in fact, customers already using both platforms currently save an average of more than $25,000 monthly on their cloud bills.

AppSec teams are constantly caught between the need for proper security testing and the ability to allow developer teams to meet strict deadlines. AI software will dramatically decrease threat vector identification times and improve the efficiency of false positive identification. As a result, businesses will increase the speed at which developers are made aware of potential application security vulnerabilities and deliver real-time security risk assessments.

 

If you were to pose this question, "Can a single Virtual Volume (VVol) span different physical arrays/devices?" to your storage vendor or to VMware support today, you’d likely receive the following answer: "No. vSphere does not support this."

Nevertheless, with the VMware certified, universal vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provided from DataCore, you can easily achieve that with full VMware support and without VVol certified hardware today.  Use of local discs alone, or in combination with other storage arrays as part of the Virtual Volumes datastore, would even be sufficient.

Watch this on-demand webinar to discover:

• How to setup such a solution in real life
• How to implement auto-tiering across different arrays 

CA Technologies, a leader in industry application performance management solutions today announced new survey research, "Seven Trends in Docker Container Monitoring," a study conducted in collaboration with Gatepoint Research. As application containerization adoption continues to rise, the survey findings examine key challenges and provide guidance for organizations to maximize their container investments.

Containers offer immense value to enterprises by allowing developers to easily build, ship and run any application virtually anywhere, as a lightweight, self-sufficient package. In turn, organizations benefit from the ability to enable instant application portability. According to a recent Gartner study of 664 respondents, "65% of respondents stated that their organization expected to deploy containers into production by the end of 2017…Further, an additional 13% expect to deploy containers during 2018, suggesting that interest and adoption will only increase."

"Digital transformation initiatives increasingly rely on cloud-based containerized applications that cannot be managed with traditional IT monitoring tools," said Ali Siddiqui, general manager of the Agile Operations, CA Technologies. "These new app architectures create blind-spots or worse, a surge of false alarms that prevent teams from fixing problems quickly. CA Technologies unique approach to container monitoring delivers full visibility in these most dynamic environments."

Pluribus Networks announced the release of Netvisor ONE 3.1 with support for additional Dell EMC Open Networking switches, enabling new interface speeds, greater intelligence and the extension of its unique software-defined network fabric architecture from the data center to the network edge. This brings the total number of Dell EMC Open Networking switches supported by Pluribus Networks to nine.

Building on the previous Netvisor ONE Network Operating System (OS) integrations with the widely-deployed Dell EMC Z- and S-Series switches, Pluribus has added support for the Dell EMC S4148F-ON, S4148T-ON, S4128F-ON, S4128T-ON, and S5048F-ON models. These high-performance Open Networking switches, designed for enterprise and service provider data center and network edge deployments, deliver increased capacity and support for 25 GbE and 100 GbE interfaces to meet the increasing demands of virtualized and multi-cloud operations.

NetJapan, Inc., publisher of backup, disaster recovery, and virtualization software, releases ActiveImage Protector 2018 SP2 for Hyper-V Enterprise with a new feature, ReZoom it! Live, and support for ActiveVisor management console.

After a disaster, malware infection, or system failure, large multi-terabyte virtual machines can take hours to recover. ReZoom it! Live eliminates this time-gap between failure and recovery by providing system availability while recovering a virtual machine. ReZoom it! Live boots the virtual machine from the host’s backup when the recovery process begins; bringing the virtual machine online while simultaneously recovering the VM. All changes made during the ReZoom it! Live process will be available when the recovered virtual machine is subsequently booted.

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) aren’t new – both are ideas that emerged in the 1950’s. But after incubating for 50+ years, it’s only in the past few that they have made unprecedented advances in capability, scalability and accessibility.  

Make sure to register and join Zenoss and Nancy Gohring, senior analyst at 451 Research, for a live 45-minute webinar Wednesday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m. CDT, where they will discuss key trends in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the impact of cloud computing on ML and AI and what it all means for IT Ops and DevOps teams.

They will dive into:

• Digital transformation, "Fast IT," and the rampant risks
• Trends for ML and AI and the impact they have on IT
• Cloud computing and its implications for observability
• Contextualizing all data for faster, safer IT

Register today to learn more about leveraging modern technologies to reduce the risk of digital transformation.