Category: News

September 4, 2018 Off

Neverfail Opens Cloud Services Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia

By David
Grazed from Neverfail

Neverfail, provider of mission-critical cloud, business continuity, cloud workspaces and cloud file storage solutions, today announced that its new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, will be online and serving a variety of Neverfail’s clients starting in September 2018.

The Ashburn data center is a key component in Neverfail’s ongoing global expansion of its cloud and software solution offerings, making it easier for Neverfail customers to serve the US region.

 
September 4, 2018 Off

NTT Security launches Web Security as a Service (WSaaS) as part of its strategic partnership program with Symantec

By David
Grazed from NTT Security and Symantec
 
NTT Security, the specialized security company of NTT Group, has announced it is ready to deliver its first unified service in partnership with Symantec Corporation. NTT Security, which announced its intention to enter into a strategic partnership in April, will integrate Symantec’s cloud based security service with NTT Security’s enhanced threat detection, providing Web Security as a Service (WSaaS).

WSaaS will be the first service offered through the partnership program, which was set up to bolster web security services to clients across the cloud, mobile and on-premise, and will be delivered as part of NTT Security’s Global Managed Security Services. NTT Security has been developing various technologies to provide more sophisticated cloud based security services as part of the program.

 
September 3, 2018 Off

Hyper-V Failover Clusters – What You Need to Know and How 5nine Can Help

By David

Building a Hyper-V failover plan is a critical step for any organization wishing to maintain 24/7/365 availability of their Microsoft Cloud. However, configuring Hyper-V failover clusters and managing Hyper-V hosts has its own set of unique challenges, nuances and steps. This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V failover challenges, discusses its benefits and shares some resources where virtualization administrators can access more information.

A Brief Introduction to the History of Hyper-V Failover Clusters

A Hyper-V failover cluster is a group of Hyper-V hosts that can synchronize in a way so that one host can take the load (virtual machines, services, processes, etc) if another fails or suffers performance issues. Windows Server Administrators who wish to fortify their server workloads have a helpful option – Hyper-V failover clustering – right inside Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and 5nine Manager.

September 3, 2018 Off

5 Tips on Making Your Business More Data-Driven

By David
Businesses and business owners have more instruments and resources to use when it comes to making critical decisions in today’s modern world. Aside from the wealth of software and tools you can now add to your business workflows, there is also more data to process and insights to gather than ever before.

This can be a great advantage or a challenge, depending on how you approach making data-driven decisions. The key to turning a wealth of data into a competitive advantage is good data management. In this article, we are going to go over the five tips on how you can make your business more data-driven.

Understand the Boundaries

August 31, 2018 Off

Genomics & the Cloud: What’s Next?

By David
Article Written by Avery Phillips

Saving patient data to the cloud can mean using big data to improve medicine and discover problems that doctors might have missed. Uploading an entire gene sequence and studying the sequence – a branch of molecular biology known as genomics – could have an even bigger impact on medicine as a whole in the coming years. Let’s look at the good and bad of the future of genomics and the cloud.

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Personalized Gene Editing

One of the biggest advancements in recent years is CRISPR, a method of editing genes that has made editing individual genes much easier and cheaper than in the past. It can be used to fight world hunger by making plants produce more fruit or become more resistant to anything from weather, insects, or blight, and even edit a person’s genes. It’s not quite at the stage where it’s ready for humans, but it’s close. 

Now, combine an easy way to edit genes with big data. First, the patient’s gene sequence is uploaded to the cloud. This lets a computer comb through and identify what could be changed with CRISPR, to either reduce the chance for disease or eliminate it entirely could be in our near future. It seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it could very soon be a reality. Using big data to essentially crowdsource the solution to medical problems is not new, however.

August 30, 2018 Off

Smart Availability – The Key for Producing Business Value Through Digital Transformation

By David
Written By Don Boxley, CEO and Co-Founder, DH2i (www.dh2i.com)
One needn’t be a technology expert to realize that an outage or loss of service of any type or any length of time is unacceptable for today’s business organization (of course, nonprofits and government organizations are not very keen on downtime either). Even during the wee hours of the morning, “planned” system downtime is becoming less and less tolerable, especially given today’s global economy. While most are asleep in one geography, it is prime business hours in another.
Availability has become a chief priority for most IT professionals in today’s business organizations, whether your compute resources are located onsite, in the cloud, or spread across a hybrid environment. What IT professionals are beginning to realize, is that traditional options for high availability (HA) have limitations, and that continuous operational efficiency shouldn’t monopolize an organization’s financial or personnel resources with endless testing and retesting of availability.
August 29, 2018 Off

Using iCloud For Beginners

By David
If you own an Apple product, you may want to start making use of one of its greatest features, iCloud. If you want to set up an iCloud account and understand all of its features, read on to make the most of your phone, tablet, or MacBook.  
 
What is iCloud? 
iCloud is an Apple based service which covers a variety of cloud-based products and services, including contact, emails, and calendar syncing, location device settings, and music storage. The iCloud in general is used, like other cloud based services, to store and keep your information and memories safe. This means if something happens to your device and you have been backing up your data to the cloud, you can re-access and re-install all of your data back onto your device, or onto a new one. This is great for many reasons, including providing you with the ability to make more use of your devices storage, as iCloud storage is separate to how much your device can store. You can also access all your data, photos, and music from any other internet-connected phone, laptop or tablet. All you need to know is your Apple ID and password. 
 
August 24, 2018 Off

ScienceLogic Brings AIOps Technology to VMware Cloud on AWS Customers for Total Infrastructure Visibility

By David
Grazed from ScienceLogic

ScienceLogic announced that ScienceLogic SL1 is available to customers of VMware Cloud on AWS. Powered by algorithmic IT operations (AIOps), SL1 delivers real-time context to operational data for customers of VMware Cloud on AWS.

VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud that extends on-premises vSphere environments to a VMware SDDC running on Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal infrastructure that is fully integrated as part of the AWS Cloud.

SL1 enables VMware Cloud on AWS customers to understand how mission-critical applications connect to their underlying IT infrastructure through consistent, controlled visibility and management. Multi-dimensional topology maps, known as PowerMap, enable real-time views into infrastructure, application, and service health so IT can proactively and responsively inform, analyze, and act. This context is driven by PowerSync, which allows businesses to combine data across multiple silos and generate insights that drive automated actions, regardless of whether a service runs on-premises or in the cloud. The result offers enterprises the opportunity to stay ahead of market competition by applying machine-speed to ongoing business growth.

August 24, 2018 Off

Liquidware Celebrates 10 Years of Desktop Virtualization Innovation at its 10th VMworld Show

By David
Grazed from Liquidware

Liquidware, the leading third-party provider of platform-agnostic end-user computing solutions, will be showcasing its products at VMworld in Las Vegas from August 26 – 30, 2018. This will be the tenth time in its decade-long existence that Liquidware has participated as a sponsor in what it describes as "a strategic show" for its brand. Consequently, it is sending its heavy hitters to field questions from VMworld’s technically-biased delegates at booth #2126.

"During the show, we will preview upcoming versions of all solutions in our workspace environment management suite including additional cloud native integration features in ProfileUnity and FlexApp and enhanced user experience reporting in Stratusphere UX," said Jason E. Smith, VP Product Marketing at Liquidware.

August 24, 2018 Off

SevOne Expands Industry Leading SD-WAN Monitoring Solution by Adding Support for VMware NSX SD-WAN

By David
Grazed from SevOne

SevOne announced that its SevOne SD-WAN Monitoring Solution will now support VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud. Based on the SevOne Data Platform, the SD-WAN Monitoring Solution, released earlier this year, increases operational agility of Managed Services Providers (MSPs) offering multiple, complex network services over their multi-tenant, multi-vendor networks.

The enhanced SevOne solution, scheduled for release in calendar Q4, will deliver the foundation of real-time and historical visibility into enterprise and service provider networks with customizable, persona-based dashboards for network operations/engineering, product owners and business executives. MSPs can easily extend the solution for visibility across their entire service delivery path including enterprise wi-fi from campus to branch, software defined datacenters and more. With the ability to create customized KPIs based on specific tenants, WAN paths and health indicators of their multi-vendor-based SD-WANs, MSP network operations and engineering teams now have greater insight into the network services running on them, helping ease MSPs transition from offering only MPLS-based services to new hybrid SD-WAN-based services.