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Cloudify and Fortinet have established a technology partnership to address the challenges of network functions virtualization (NFV) in order to help organizations quickly, effectively and securely provision and deploy new network services across hybrid environments-brownfield and greenfield-at a fraction of the time and risk.

Cloudify makes open source software used by large telecoms, Tier 1 network operators and large enterprises for cloud infrastructure, applications and NFV automation and management. Fortinet’s award-winning FortiGate network security platform provides end-to-end security across the entire network.

The NFV reality of decoupling network functions from the underlying hardware on which they run is now here. With NFV, many physical network functions-like load balancers and firewalls-are becoming virtualized network functions (VNFs) that are shipped and delivered via software. Because VNFs are deployed only when needed, NFV can substantially improve network cost efficiency, responsiveness and security.

Flexxible|SmartWorkspaces for Citrix Cloud provides an innovative way to manage and monitor enterprise cloud infrastructure through a single pane of glass. The product is designed for companies of any size and has been verified as Citrix Ready as an on-site layer for on-premises computing for Citrix Cloud. It provides two storage options, including fast all-flash storage provided by the appliance, or by utilizing a user’s existing network storage to leverage existing investments and reduce TCO. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct can be used for replication.

Flexxible|Hawk is a critical component shipped with Flexxible|SmartWorkspaces for Citrix Cloud. Flexxible|Hawk is a milestone innovation that provides multi-tenant and multi-environment cloud management from a single pane of glass. Hosted in Microsoft Azure, Flexxible|Hawk also allows the operations team to schedule and manage updates, and it extends Citrix Studio capabilities to support multiple global locations.

SolarWinds , a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Loggly, Inc., a provider of cloud-based log monitoring and log analytics software. With the transaction, the company also will add to its team of world-class software engineering talent.

Loggly is a SaaS-based, unified log monitoring and log analytics product, that aggregates, structures, and summarizes log data so users can analyze and visualize their data to answer key questions, spot trends, and deliver actionable reports. The acquisition complements the company’s existing portfolio of SaaS-based cloud monitoring solutions and SolarWinds plans to continue investing to innovate and enhance Loggly.

With the acquisition, SolarWinds also will deepen its cloud-software engineering and analytics expertise. Former Loggly executives Manoj Chaudhary, CTO and VP, Engineering, and Vito Salvaggio, VP, Product will join SolarWinds as leaders in engineering and product, respectively. Members of the core development, operations, support, sales, and marketing teams will transition as part of the transaction.

"This acknowledges the investment we’ve made and the expertise that our people bring to our customers looking to move to AWS, as well as those seeking to optimize workloads that are already running on AWS," said Ryan Pelerin, CEO of WSM. "In 2017, we saw a huge spike in requests for help with migration to AWS and we expect that the interest in AWS will grow even faster in 2018. Achieving the Advanced level is not an end for us as we will continue our efforts to further develop and expand our skills to best serve our customers on AWS."

Analysis How will the bugfixes for Intel’s Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities affect storage?

IBM – which plans to release firmware updates tomorrow that address Spectre-like bugs in its designs for its POWER CPUs – has said that its storage won’t be affected at all. We received an IBM statement which confirmed: "IBM Storage appliances are not impacted by this vulnerability."

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