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Fortinet Claims Industry's First SD-WAN ASIC

Security specialist Fortinet announced what it claims is the industry's first application-specific integrated circuit for the burgeoning software-defined wide-area networking space.

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NFV Specialist netElastic Bakes SD-WAN Into Enterprise Branch Router

netElastic unveiled an enterprise branch router featuring software-defined wide-area networking to ensure mission-critical business applications are identified and prioritized over less important traffic.

Use PowerShell to Tag Amazon EC2 Instances

If you need to tag several instances (think bulk!), the filtering capabilities of PowerShell can make the process a lot easier.

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Backup to the Cloud: Data Protection Best Practices

There are key differences between cloud backups and backups that are created on-premises that need to be considered when protecting your data.

Google Cloud Chooses DataStax for 'Database-as-a-Service' Offering

DataStax recently announced that it had been chosen by Google Cloud as one of its Database-as-a-Service offerings, which is part of Google Cloud's "OSS Managed Partner Services Initiative."

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Versa Networks Continues SD-WAN-to-Cloud Trend

Versa Networks is yet another software-defined wide-area network specialist to provide its wares in a cloud-delivered managed service, a growing trend in the industry.

Using DTrace for Windows

DTrace isn't a magic cure all for your system and applications, but it's an extremely powerful tool that can make it easy to monitor, troubleshoot and examine your system. Here's how.

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Citrix Taps Google Cloud Platform for Virtualized SD-WAN Offering

Add Citrix Systems to the growing list of software-defined wide-area network vendors taking their wares to the cloud -- in this case the Google Cloud Platform.

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ADARA Takes SD-WAN Offering to Cloud

ADARA Networks unveiled a cloud version of its software-defined wide-area network solution, promising to reduce network latency and improve performance via real-time performance monitoring and programmability.

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Windows Sandbox, Part 2: How To Install and Use the New Windows 10 Feature

In this second article of a two-part series, Tom Fenton takes you step-by-step to create a temporary desktop environment with Windows Sandbox.

Windows Sandbox, Part 1: How To Install Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18323

Run untrusted or new software in Windows Sandbox without affecting your host desktop.

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Cisco Extends On-Premises 'ACI Anywhere' SDN Offering to AWS Cloud

Cisco Systems followed up on its ACI Anywhere initiative announced last January that seeks to extend its software-defined networking technology called Application Centric Infrastructure beyond the datacenter -- in this case to the AWS cloud.

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Stealthy Start-Up Portends 'Second Wave of SD-WAN'

Israeli start-up flexiWAN has emerged from stealth with a software-defined wide-area networking offering that portends the "second wave of SD-WAN," marked by an open architecture in addition to open source software.

Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 4 Support for VMware vSphere 6.1, Citrix XenServer 7.6, Others

Cyber protection and hybrid cloud storage provider Acronis released Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 4 at the beginning of April.

Robin.io Collaborates with Google Cloud on Anthos Storage API

This week at Google Cloud Next '19 in San Francisco, Calif., hyper-converged Kubernetes platform provider Robin.io announced its partnership with Google Cloud to bring additional capabilities to Google Cloud Anthos, formerly Google Cloud Services Platform.

Best Practices for AWS Tagging Revisited

The trick to using a minimal number of tags is to make sure that all of the tags that you do use are both meaningful and useful.

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Juniper Remakes SD-WAN Offering into Cloud Service

Juniper Networks announced its SD-WAN solution is now available in a cloud-delivered "as-a-service" offering, with the aim of simplified management of disparate resources.

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Xen Project 4.12 Released

The Xen Project 4.12 features security and code size improvements, plus x86 architectural renewal.

Decoding the Latest Generation of Intel CPUs

Here's what the naming scheme means for the 2nd-Gen Xeon CPUs Intel released at the beginning of the month.

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Intel Releases GA of 2nd-Gen 'Cascade Lake' Xeon CPUs

Support for Optane DC Persistent Memory is one of many new features in Intel's latest generation of chips.

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