Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco’s Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS). The worst of the vulnerabilities could let an attacker escape from the guest virtual machine (VM) to the host machine, Cisco disclosed. The other two problems involve letting a bad actor inject commands that execute at the root level and allowing a remote […]
Nutanix offers virtual private cloud HCI, multicloud workload management
Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its AOS operating system and Era database-management service designed to make it easier for enterprises to manage data, workloads, and business-continuity security tools in hybrid cloud environments via software-defined networking capabilities AOS and Era are both components of the Nutanix Cloud Platform. AOS 6, the new version of Nutanix’s hyperconverged […]
What’s New in VMware Horizon 8 v2106 & v2103
News What’s New in VMware Horizon 8 v2106 & v2103 By Tom Fenton 07/28/2021 VMware released Horizon 8 version 2106 on July 15, 2021, and v2103 on March23, 2021. Usually, I like to write an article about each VMware release but as these are rather minor releases, I will combine them into a single article. […]
Cybersecurity Threatscape: Ransomware Reigns, Accounting for 63% of Malware
News Cybersecurity Threatscape: Ransomware Reigns, Accounting for 63% of Malware By David Ramel 07/15/2021 You need only look at recent news headlines to see how costly ransomware attacks are plaguing enterprises these days, but a new report puts some data behind the troubling accounts. Positive Technologies this week published its Cybersecurity Threatscape Q1 2021 research […]
IBM Open Sources Framework to Quicken AI on Hybrid Clouds
News IBM Open Sources Framework to Quicken AI on Hybrid Clouds By David Ramel 07/08/2021 IBM Research has open sourced a new framework for working with Big Data/AI/ML projects on hybrid cloud implementations. Specifically, the new CodeFlare framework simplifies the integration and efficient scaling of Big Data and AI workflows onto the hybrid cloud. It […]
Skills Dearth Hinders Enterprise Kubernetes/Cloud Native Adoption
News Skills Dearth Hinders Enterprise Kubernetes/Cloud Native Adoption By David Ramel 06/30/2021 Canonical published a new cloud native tech report with a focus on Kubernetes, finding that the growing ecosystem has yet to achieve full enterprise adoption, with a lack of in-house skills a primary challenge. While Canonical is widely known for its Ubuntu Linux […]
Azure VM Image Builder Goes GA for Windows and Linux
News Azure VM Image Builder Goes GA for Windows and Linux By David Ramel 06/28/2021 Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images — with associated workflows and pipelines — for Windows and Linux. Building VM images is key […]
Report: Data Warehouses/Lakes Converge, Go Mainstream in the Cloud
News Report: Data Warehouses/Lakes Converge, Go Mainstream in the Cloud By David Ramel 06/25/2021 The data warehouse architecture and the data lake design pattern have converged to form a new, richer data architecture, a new report says, and both have already gone mainstream in the cloud. Published May 28 by TDWI, the “Building the Unified […]
Surveys Show COVID-19 Stresses on Cloud Costs, Security
News Surveys Show COVID-19 Stresses on Cloud Costs, Security By David Ramel 06/23/2021 The COVID-19 pandemic may be lessening in the U.S., but its effects on enterprise cloud computing costs and security concerns may well linger for a while, new surveys suggest. On the cloud computing costs front, a survey conducted by Anodot, “2021 State […]
Cloud Computing and Open Source: It’s Complicated
News Cloud Computing and Open Source: It’s Complicated By David Ramel 06/22/2021 The years-long friction between the open source camp and cloud computing platforms still lingers, a recent report reveals. The friction is caused by cloud vendors using open source software as the foundation of for-pay managed services. That can rile companies that serve as […]