Enterprise IT Vendor News Posted Sept. 27th, 2021
Posted in Volume 282, Issue 4 - Sept 20th, 2021 — Sept 26th, 2021
Each week I select 60-90 items from mainstream IT publications and publish them on the website for “IT News and Events.”
I also select press releases from various mainstream IT vendors and certain vendor blog articles. In this issue the vendors are:
Citrix News
Business Resilience And Lessons Learned From The Pandemic
There have been many takeaways from our experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a key lesson is the importance of business resilience
[Citrix News, September 22nd, 2021]
What are the cost benefits of DaaS?
As workforces leave the confines of the office to work remotely, it's more important than ever for organizations to support their employees with the tools and information they need to get their jobs done
[Citrix News, September 23rd, 2021]
Southern Housing Group Simplifies Work With Citrix
Association uses cloud-delivered digital workspace solutions to remove frustration and complexity technology can create, empowering employees to focus on and do what they do best
[Citrix News, September 21st, 2021]
How Citrix SD-WAN Helps Coillte Forest Manage Irish Woodlands
Coillte Forest is a state-owned agency in Ireland responsible for the sustainable use and management of woodlands in the country that account for about 7 percent of Ireland's total land mass.
[Citrix News, September 23rd, 2021]
Previewing Citrix Launchpad: Cloud
The global pandemic has sped up the digital transformation that was already under way at companies around the world
[Citrix News, September 21st, 2021]
Digital Transformation: Now Is The Time To Be Bold And Ambitious
The global pandemic has given us the chance to reimagine how we do business, proving that work can be done from anywhere
[Citrix News, September 20th, 2021]
Red Hat News
Should I Migrate My Application To The Cloud? Here's How To Decide
There comes a time in the life of an application when someone asks: "Should we move this to the cloud?" Public and private clouds often breathe life into existing applications with more flexibility, simpler maintenance, and better performance
[Red Hat News, September 23rd, 2021]
Friday Five - September 24, 2021
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
[Red Hat News, September 24th, 2021]
Red Hat Shares - DevSecOps
All organizations are susceptible to information security threats―from cybercrime, which was predicted to cost the world US$6 trillion in 2021, to human error, which accounts for 95% of cybersecurity breaches
[Red Hat News, September 23rd, 2021]
Red Hat Insights And The Delivery Of A New Security Recommendation
This is one story of how Red Hat Insights created a new recommendation to address a high impact vulnerability that might affect Red Hat customers
[Red Hat News, September 21st, 2021]
Red Hat Offers Various Free Fundamentals And Just-In-Time Learning Opportunities
It is no secret that organizations value candidates who demonstrate a commitment to staying abreast of new technologies and industry trends
[Red Hat News, September 22nd, 2021]
Automating The Implementation Of System-Wide Crypto Policies With RHEL System Roles
Having properly configured and consistent cryptography settings across your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environment is a key part of system security
[Red Hat News, September 22nd, 2021]
Dell News
The Edge - Old, New, Borrowed And Blue
Edge computing may be "the oldest emerging technology." It leads to new frontiers, called "near edge" and "far edge," borrowing from the past while propelling us to a better future
[Dell News, September 22nd, 2021]
Focus On Outcomes, Establishing Efficient And Effective IT Operations
Key findings on the business value and benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service with Dell Technologies APEX from IDC.
[Dell News, September 23rd, 2021]
Talking Tech with Travis - Episode Four: Cybersecurity and CloudIQ
Travis Vigil talks with Maxim Balin, a Top 100 certified ethical hacker and Dell Technologies employee, about cybersecurity and CloudIQ.
[Dell News, September 23rd, 2021]
Three Ways To Simplify Multi-Cloud Data Protection
How to protect your most valuable asset in the cloud.
[Dell News, September 22nd, 2021]
Delivering The Path To Autonomous Operations With CloudIQ
Learn about the latest CloudIQ innovations and why Autonomous Operations are critical to organizations' digital futures
[Dell News, September 22nd, 2021]
Supercharging Our Software-Defined Strategy With Powerflex
Learn how Dell EMC PowerFlex is accelerating Dell IT's software-defined strategy to deliver agility across its environment.
[Dell News, September 23rd, 2021]
Oracle News
Kaltura Selects Oracle As A Strategic Cloud Infrastructure Provider And The Companies Extend Their Oem Partnership In Push To Expand Video Services
Partnership will deliver live, real-time, and on-demand video, and visual marketing services to Oracle Cloud customers and fuel rapid international expansion
[Oracle News, September 22nd, 2021]
BT And Oracle To Accelerate Delivery Of New 5G Services In The UK
Oracle Communications Converged Policy Management will support new 5G offerings across the EE mobile network
[Oracle News, September 23rd, 2021]
Oracle Announces Fusion Marketing, The First Solution To Fully Automate Lead Generation And Qualification
Fusion Marketing enables marketers to automate lead generation and qualification from campaigns that span traditional marketing and advertising channels
[Oracle News, September 20th, 2021]
University of Oxford and Oracle Cloud System Helping Researchers Identify COVID-19 Variants Faster
Global research community using genomic sequencing platform, running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to discover and act on potentially harmful new coronavirus mutations
[Oracle News, September 20th, 2021]
Cablenet Monetizes Fast Growing Mobile Business With Oracle
Cloud native converged charging, policy and billing foundation helps Cypriot service provider accelerate new market offerings and better serve customers
[Oracle News, September 20th, 2021]
Cisco News
Cisco Fuels Innovation And Critical Connectivity At The Indy Autonomous Challenge
Cisco is enabling critical car-to-trackside connectivity for the first autonomous race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with Dallara-built AV-21 racecars using highly reliable, ultra-low latency wireless technology
[Cisco News, September 21st, 2021]
Cisco Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
Cisco Board of Directors declares quarterly cash dividend.
[Cisco News, September 21st, 2021]
Telehealth: A Revolution To Patient-Centered Healthcare
How the COVID-19 pandemic didn't just shift healthcare administration, it also shifted its mindset
[Cisco News, September 21st, 2021]
IBM News
Banks Across Africa Turn To IBM Hybrid Cloud And AI Solutions To Accelerate Digital Innovation
African banks including EcoBank, Attijariwafa Bank, United Bank of Africa, Co-operative Bank of Kenya, Nedbank and Banco Mais are tapping into IBM technologies to help advance financial inclusion across the continent
[IBM News, September 22nd, 2021]
IBM and Airspan Networks Plan to Work to Accelerate 5G-enabled Open RAN Adoption in Europe
Via IBM and Airspan's planned testbed in Germany and France, European telco customers would have ability to trial edge applications and network slicing over long distances using 5G-enabled Open RAN
[IBM News, September 21st, 2021]
Telefonica Chooses IBM To Implement Its First-Ever Cloud-Native 5G Core Network Platform
IBM collaborates with Telefonica to modernize Telefonica's 5G core network platform built with IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation, Red Hat OpenShift and Juniper networking
[IBM News, September 23rd, 2021]
Nutanix News
Nutanix And Citrix Team To Power Future Of Work
Partners Join Forces to Help Customers Deliver Secure, Reliable Work from Anywhere
[Nutanix News, September 21st, 2021]
Nutanix Cloud Platform Breaks Down Silos In Hybrid Multicloud Operations
AOS Version 6 and New Platform Innovations Deliver Enterprise-Grade Virtualization with Virtual Networking, Security and BCDR
[Nutanix News, September 21st, 2021]
Nutanix Cloud Platform To Deliver Strengthened Data Services For Unstructured And Structured Data
Focus on Performance, Scale, Mobility and Governance for Objects, Files and Databases
[Nutanix News, September 21st, 2021]
Fortinet News
Vaccine Passports For Sale On The Dark Web
Many thanks to Shunichi Imano and Val Saengphaibul, who helped contribute to this blog.
[Fortinet News, September 20th, 2021]
Fortinet Again Named A Leader In The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant For Wan Edge Infrastructure, Placed Highest In Ability To Execute
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Delivers Superior User Experience and Advanced Security to Enable Work from Anywhere
[Fortinet News, September 22nd, 2021]
Fortiguard Labs Threat Landscape Report Highlights Preferred Cyber Adversary Attack Techniques
The threat landscape is unpredictable, with many moving parts as well as social and economic changes affecting it all of the time
[Fortinet News, September 20th, 2021]
VMware News
New Research From VMware Reveals Deepening Divide Between Developer And Security Teams
Security teams must rethink processes to aid innovation and customer experience
[VMWare News, September 22nd, 2021]
VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) Achieves FedRAMP High Agency Authority to Operate
Authorization will enable government agencies to implement broad cloud initiatives, adopt remote workforce strategies, and drive digital transformations in a highly secure hybrid environment
[VMWare News, September 21st, 2021]
VMware Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure for Fourth Consecutive Year
Company Also Scores Highest in the Cloud-First WAN Use Case in the 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for WAN Edge Infrastructure Report
[VMWare News, September 22nd, 2021]
HP News
HP Reinvent Fall '21
Introduces most robust channel intelligence platform: HP Amplify Data Insights
[HP News, September 22nd, 2021]
HP Supports Partners For Defining Hybrid Decade Ahead At Global Partner Conference
At HP Reinvent Fall '21, HP unveils new products, services and solutions to accelerate the hybrid workplace, harness the power of data and supercharge partner growth in 2022 and beyond
[HP News, September 22nd, 2021]
AWS News
AWS Announces General Availability Of Amazon Quicksight Q
New machine learning powered capability in Amazon QuickSight lets anyone type questions about their business data in natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations in seconds
[AWS News, September 21st, 2021]
AWS To Open Data Centers In New Zealand
New AWS Region will allow customers to run workloads and securely store data in New Zealand while serving end users with even lower latency
[AWS News, September 21st, 2021]
Lenovo News
Lenovo Receives IT Industry's Highest Overall Score In 2021 Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index
Company improves scores across all core rating topics, breaking into AA+ rating and an overall best industry score
[Lenovo News, September 22nd, 2021]
Lenovo Partners With A New Global Class Of 'Lenovo Innovators'
These 10 global creators aim to inspire people to innovate and reach their full potential through technology, bringing to life Lenovo's 'Smarter Technology for All' vision.
[Lenovo News, September 23rd, 2021]
Recorded Future News
China-Linked Group TAG-28 Targets India's 'The Times Group' and UIDAI (Aadhaar) Government Agency With Winnti Malware
India continues to bear the brunt of hostile cyber operations from Chinese state-sponsored groups. Earlier this year, Insikt Group documented a RedEcho campaign targeting India's critical national infrastructure following a rapid deterioration in bilateral relations after both countries clashed on the China-India border.
[Recorded Future News, September 21st, 2021]
The Cozy Relationship Between Russian State And Criminal Actors (Podcast)
Recorded Future's Insikt Group recently published a report titled, Dark Covenant: Connections Between the Russian State and Criminal Actors.
[Recorded Future News, September 20th, 2021]
HPE News
Chemist Warehouse turns to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to transform its data center with new hyperconverged and VDI solutions
Australia's powerhouse pharmacy retail chain supports rapid growth and innovation with a hyperconverged platform and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution powered by HPE ProLiant servers
[HPE News, September 21st, 2021]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Opens New Collaboration Hubs In Uk As Team Members Are Given The Flexibility To Work From Anywhere
New sites in Reading and Manchester redesigned as collaboration and culture hubs with a focus on teamwork, creativity and talent development
[HPE News, September 21st, 2021]
Microsoft News
Season 2 Of Microsoft Envision: Answering Big Questions Facing Business Leaders
Last year, we reimagined Microsoft Envision as a digital series for senior business leaders from around the world and across industries to come together and discuss the biggest challenges and opportunities during these extraordinary times
[Microsoft News, September 23rd, 2021]