Woodstock Wire: Enterprise System News

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - Microsoft is rolling out its new Advanced Communications Plan for M365/O365 subscribers, while it puts some other anticipated calling plans on ice.

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - A new Node.js IoT SDK LTS branch has been released offering customers a guarantee that they will benefit from any necessary security or critical bug fixes with minimal impact to their device's stable code.

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Beginning September 1, 2020, new Azure SQL Database gateways in multiple regions will start accepting traffic

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - The Linux Foundation said today it's presiding over a new foundation that brings some of the world's most important open-source security initiatives under a new umbrella. The newly launched Open Source Security Foundation will host security...

Enterprise -- DevOps.com - The days of the siloed project manager and "skilled" development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of dev projects. In many cases, the knowledge gap between the project manager and the developer is...

Enterprise -- The Register - Lots of love for AMD and POWER 10 and a hint of some Google's operational code making it into future releases

Linus Torvalds has released a new version of the Linux kernel....

Business Wire -- Code42 announced that the Code42 Insider Threat Remediation content pack is now available on the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Marketplace.

Business Wire -- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leader in cloud data services, today announced the availability of Azure NetApp(r) Files in the government region data centers on Microsoft Azure. This expansion of Azure NetApp Files, one of the only Azure native, high-performance...

Business Wire -- Software intelligence company, Dynatrace, Inc. (NYSE: DT), today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 25,000,000 shares of common stock by certain selling stockholders of Dynatrace at a public offering price of $41.10 per share....

Business Wire -- Accenture completed the acquisition of systems integrator PLM Systems.

Life -- Phys.org - A quintillion calculations a second. That's one with 18 zeros after it. It's the speed at which an exascale supercomputer will process information. The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing for the first exascale computer to be deployed in...

Tech -- GeekWire - Microsoft's latest cloud partnership is with Land O'Lakes, the farming giant which will use Microsoft's Azure technologies to spur sustainable farming practices and help farmers be more efficient.

Infosec -- ISC2 Blog - By AJ Yawn, CISSP

Introduction

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the market-leading cloud service provider for many reasons. One of the reasons for its market share is the breadth and depth of security services available to organizations hosted...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - We initially launched Cloudflare Workers with support for JavaScript and languages that compile to WebAssembly, such as Rust, C, and C++. Since then, Cloudflare and the community have improved the usability of Typescript on Workers. But we...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - On a rolling basis throughout September 2020, we'll move Bandwidth to a source-destination billing model. Additionally, metering will be divided into inter-region meter IDs.

Enterprise -- InfoQ - In a series of three technical articles, AWS has recently introduced the new "Serverless LAMP stack". But not everyone in the open-source community believes that the successor of the LAMP stack is proprietary technologies from a single vendor,...

Enterprise -- Cisco Blogs - Back in the 1950s, when computers were quite the novelty, some researchers were optimistic they could turn their glorified calculator into an intelligent being. Since then, artificial intelligence (AI) has built a remarkably scattered track...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Lifecycle management for Azure Data Lake Storage provides an automated solution for tiering down infrequently used data to cooler tiers, allowing you to easily optimize your data for both performance and cost.

Enterprise -- Amazon AWS Blog - We are pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved FedRAMP JAB authorization on an additional nine AWS services. These services provide capabilities that enable your organization to:

Assemble and deploy serverless...

Enterprise -- Ansible Blog - Proper privilege management is crucial with automation. Automation has the power to perform multiple functions across many different systems. When automation is deployed enterprise-wide, across sometimes siloed teams and functions, enterprise...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - LightIngest is a command-line utility for large volumes of data ingestion, and for querying records on the time created, rather than the time ingested.

Enterprise -- HAproxy - The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller integrates with cert-manager to provide Let's Encrypt TLS certificates.

When it comes to TLS in Kubernetes, the first thing to appreciate when you use the HAProxy Ingress Controller is that all traffic...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora users reports issues with booting or dual-booting their devices.

Enterprise -- Channel Partner Insight - Cloud giants report slowed growth, but outlook remains positive



Microsoft went first in the latest round of financial results from the cloud leaders, revealing last week that Azure revenue growth slowed to 47 per...

Enterprise -- DevOps.com - Few would argue that the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn't dramatically changed enterprise IT. This is especially so when it comes to both the management of IT as well as the very relationship between IT staff and the rest of the business....

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Atlassian also reported its fiscal fourth quarter financial results after market close on Thursday.

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Azure Autoscale, which allows you to automatically manage your resources based on the load is now available in China North 2 and China East 2 regions

Enterprise -- Amazon AWS Blog - We're happy to share an update on the service documentation initiative that we first told you about on the AWS Security Blog in June, 2019. We're excited to announce that over 150 services now have dedicated security chapters available...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Effective September 1, 2020 Azure Analytics Data Bricks Meters will have a name change.

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Today we're launching the Azure Monitor Community Repository, which provides a collaborative space for community members to share and explore Azure Monitor artifacts such as queries [KQL], workbooks and alerts.

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - In order to simplify and streamline Azure Monitor Logs, we're moving all links and content from the Quick Start page to the Overview page. The Quick Start page will be removed in August 2020.

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,719,503) developed by Bar Oz, Tom, Herzliya, Israel, Bitterfeld, Robert, petach tikva, Israel, Erblat, Boris, Tel Aviv, Israel, Aron, Aviya, Shafir, Israel, Garty,...

Enterprise -- CIO - As software as a service (SaaS) has gained widespread market adoption, many initial deals are expiring and customers are facing renewal negotiations. But unlike other information technology deals, your negotiation leverage is much more compromised...

Enterprise -- DevOps.com - Edge computing has exciting potential, but there are certain considerations to thrive in today's competitive landscape Data is king, especially in the current era of the data-driven business, where a data mindset and analytical capabilities...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Access Windows Virtual Desktop from the new Remote Desktop client for Android.

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - The 20.07 feature release contains new features for application development and tenant certificate renewal, additional promotions of beta features to long-term stable (LTS), and enhancements to improve stability and troubleshooting of...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service (DPS) has released general availability support for Virtual Networks (VNET).

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - If you've been looking for an option to dump Google's Chrome browser, consider Microsoft's new Edge browser, which delivers much of the same experience you get from Chrome, with a few features that are downright superior. Here's how to get...

Enterprise -- Amazon AWS Blog - We're sharing an update to the Logical Separation on AWS: Moving Beyond Physical Isolation in the Era of Cloud Computing whitepaper to help customers benefit from the security and innovation benefits of logical separation in the cloud....

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - The Streaming Ingestion feature can be used when you need Near Real Time (less than 10 seconds) ingestion with small amounts of data and multiple tables.

Enterprise -- Microsoft Azure - Whether you're a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the...

Enterprise -- CRN - Microsoft's global channel chief reflects on Inspire.

Enterprise -- DevClass - Apache Arrow has released version 1.0 of its in-memory analytics development platform, touting binary stability of the columnar format, and a reworked compute kernel layer amongst other things. The platform is meant to enable big data systems...

Enterprise -- The Enterprisers Project - Why choose an enterprise Kubernetes platform? Think portability, time savings, and security and stability as you scale containers and move them among cloud services.

Enterprise -- Computerworld - If Microsoft decides to release just one Windows 10 feature upgrade annually, some customers - notably consumers and small businesses running unmanaged Windows 10 Pro PCs - will be forced into more work than they'd banked on.To read this...

Enterprise -- The Register - Microsoft's trashing the place, clearly. Or is it?

Poll GitHub has announced it will henceforth publish a public roadmap of current features....

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Google LLC announced a hat-trick of customer wins today that should help to showcase the growing strength of its public cloud computing services. The new customers include Indian information technology services giant Wipro Ltd., which...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - It's now easier to deploy and manage Windows Virtual Desktop as well as provide seamless meeting and collaboration experiences through integration with Microsoft Teams.

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Fraud Detector, a service that enables organizations to build customized machine learning models for catching fraudulent activity such as scam transactions. The service...

Enterprise -- InfoQ - An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages...