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vSphere 7 Debuts with Kubernetes Support Among Many New VMware Products

VMware today marked "a new chapter" in its history with the introduction of a portfolio of application/infrastructure modernization offerings headed by the new vSphere 7 with Kubernetes support.

Review: ATEN CS1964 4-Port Triple Monitor DisplayPort USB KVM Switch

Tom Fenton reviews the ATEN CS1964 4-Port Triple Monitor DisplayPort USB KVM Switch and discovers the joy of switching between computers and displays without having to plug in different cables or a mouse and keyboard, regardless of the content to be displayed.

First Major Release of Kubeflow Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes Ships

Kuebeflow, an open-source, cloud-native machine learning (ML) toolkit for the Kubernetes container-orchestration system, is out in version 1.0, its first major release.

AWS Leads in Cloud AI Dev Services, Research Says

Amazon Web Services, a dominant cloud computing platform that tops many industry rankings, is also No. 1 when it comes to cloud artificial intelligence developer services, according to new research.

Publishing Applications From the AWS Serverless Application Repository

Brien Posey takes you through the steps for deploying serverless applications on the AWS cloud, explaining how users can choose from hundreds of preconfigured applications ready for use in the Serverless Application Repository, or publish their own private applications.

Report Reveals Top 5 SD-WAN Vendors in 'Breakout Year'

New research reveals an exploding market for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) that topped $1 billion in 2019, propelled by five leading vendors.

Google Cloud Hits Major League Baseball Home Run, AWS Is Out

The major cloud computing platforms like to publicize their big customer wins, and Google Cloud stealing Major League Baseball business from Amazon Web Services could be considered a home run.

Report Details Evolving 'Good vs. Evil' Cybersecurity Struggle

VMware's new Carbon Black cybersecurity report breaks things down into the most basic of concepts: the eternal cat-and-mouse struggle between "good" and "evil," providing constiutents of the former with advice to defend themselves from those in the latter camp.

Pluribus UNUM Management Platform for SDN Adds Dell Virtual Edge Integration

Integration with virtual network functions (VNFs) hardware from Dell EMC highlights an update to the Pluribus UNUM management platform used with the company's Adaptive Cloud Fabric (ACF), which provides a controllerless approach to software-defined networking (SDN).

Working with EC2 Placement Groups

Multi-tier applications are typically composed of services that span several virtual machine instances. While there is nothing stopping you from creating these EC2 instances in the usual way, AWS gives you the option of using placement groups, which helps you to strategically locate EC2 instances in a way that is beneficial to your workloads.

How to Install and Use NetropyVE 4

Tom Fenton does a step-by-step review of the installation and use of NetropyVE 4, a software version of the well-regarded Netropy hardware appliance for WAN emulation and testing.

How to Verify 'New' Storage Devices on eBay

Tom Fenton demonstrates how to use SMART data on a Windows system to see if a storage drive has been previously used or not.

Cisco, Google, Microsoft Lead Chorus of New Security Initiatives

Cisco, Google, Microsoft and other industry heaveyweights led a chorus of recent announcements from security players large and small as the RSA Conference continues in San Francisco.

What Is a Modern Desktop?

Paul Schnackenburg takes a look at just what a "modern desktop" means today in the Microsoft IT camp -- investigating different management approaches that just might improve the lives of you and your end users.

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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 Touts Continuous Community Innovation Stream

The new Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 for cloud computing includes a refined long-life support lifecycle and a commitment to continually infuse open source community innovations via stream releases.

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2020 Tech Salary Study Pegs Cloud Engineer at $128,347

It's good to be a technologist with cloud skills, and even better to have data-wrangling cloud skills.

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Report: Cloud Management Platforms Focus on Security, Cost Management

Platforms for managing multicloud -- private/public cloud -- services and resources are emphasizing security and cost management functionality in a growing market, says research firm Gartner in a new Magic Quadrant report.

Cisco Internet Report Touts 5G Mobile, Marks More DDoS Attacks

Cisco's huge new Annual Internet Report predicts great things for mobile 5G in the next few years but also warns of an increase in the size and frequency of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Hard Drive Performance Testing: NVMe vs. SATA SSD

Tom Fenton uses various Linux tools to test the performance of NVMe and SATA SSD hard drives.

GigaSpaces In-Memory Analytics Platform Now a Managed Google Cloud Service

GigaSpaces announced that its in-memory analytics processing platform, InsightEdge, is available to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users as a managed service.

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