Well, it finally happened folks, and I guess the third time is the charm. If rumors are to be believed, Cisco had approached Splunk on two separate occasion to talk about acquisition, but their offers were rebuffed for unknown reasons. This time it appears that all the planets and comets have aligned and Splunk has entered into a definitive agreement with Cisco to be acquired for $28B.
1:44 – Palo Alto in Advanced Talks to buy Talon and Dig
The world of security continues to consolidate as Palo Alto, now a $70B market cap company and security and networking juggernaut is in advanced talks to acquire Talon and Dig to help round out its existing product portfolio. Talon Cyber Security makes an enterprise browser for distributed workforces and Dig Security specialized in securing data across public clouds. The former addresses the need to secure endpoint devices that typically use a TON of web applications. This is an alternative to using a Cloud Proxy like Zscaler. Dig Security monitors your cloud data real estate and looks for potential leaks, prevents sensitive data from leaving the org, and responds to active threats. Geez, maybe Microsoft could have used that with the 38TB of data they leaked last week.
Read More: Sources: Palo Alto Networks in advanced talks to buy Talon and Dig in a $1B security sweep
3:00 – Solidigm Unveils DT-P5810 SCL SSD
Last week at Storage Field Day, Solidigm unveiled the D7-P5810, an ultra-fast SLC SSD for data center applications. This new drive offers remarkable performance, with up to 50 Drive Writes Per Day for random workloads and outperforms competitors by up to 2X in caching, HPC, and other intense applications while costing significantly less than non-NAND storage-class memory technologies. The Storage Field Day delegates were impressed by this new drive and the possibilities it opens in application acceleration, as demonstrated by Solidigm’s CSAL demo.
Read More: Solidigm Presents at Storage Field Day 26
6:42 – Open ToFu Joins Linux Foundation
Previously know as the OpenTF project, OpenToFu has been officially accepted as a Linux Foundation project. This is a response to the recent changes HashiCorp made to its licensing for core products like Terraform. The BSL licensing restricts the use of each product as a direct competitor to a HashiCorp offering. The founders of the OpenToFu project are largely Terraform Cloud competitors that do not wish to pay a licensing fee to HashiCorp for continued commercial use of Terraform.
Read More: Linux Foundation Launches OpenTofu: A New Open Source Alternative to Terraform
10:14 – CoreWeave Chooses VAST Data for Next Gen Public Cloud
CoreWeave and VAST Data are teaming up to create an AI cloud powered by NVIDIA. CoreWeave, the leader in AI as a service, will use the VAST Data Platform to build a scalable and high-performance cloud for AI and accelerated computing. This partnership aims to offer secure, multi-tenant solutions for machine learning, and the companies promise substantial cost savings and speed advantages. We’ve spoken about CoreWeave before, and we know VAST Data well, so what should we make of this?
12:40 – Mirantis Announces Lens AppIQ
Mirantis has announced a SaaS service meant to build on their existing Lens set of products. Lens Desktop is a client based solution meant to help DevOps engineers and platform teams monitor and manage the applications running on Kubernetes clusters. Lens AppIQ enhances that functionality by moving the monitoring components into each K8s cluster and providing a central monitoring point for an application-centric view of workloads. It can work in tandem with Lens Desktop, extending functionality, or be presented separately to folks who might not have the client installed, such as developers or security team members.
Read More: Improve App Management with Deep App-Centric Intelligence with Mirantis Lens AppIQ
15:25 – Sierra Forest Coming Soon from Intel
Intel is proclaiming that their processor and manufacturing roadmap is not just on track but accelerating! The next Xeon SP, called “Birch Stream”, includes future releases nicknamed “Granite Rapids”, “Clearwater Forest”, and “Sierra Forest”, and all are coming in the next year. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger emphasized the importance of cloud and developers, and Sierra Forest is particularly interesting in that it packs 288 cores onto a single processor and is manufactured using a 5-nanometer EUV process. What’s your take on Intel’s Innovation announcements?
Read More: Intel Xeon Roadmap on Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon
20:08 – Cisco Set to Acquire Splunk
Well, it finally happened folks, and I guess the third time is the charm. If rumors are to be believed, Cisco had approached Splunk on two separate occasion to talk about acquisition, but their offers were rebuffed for unknown reasons. This time it appears that all the planets and comets have aligned and Splunk has entered into a definitive agreement with Cisco to be acquired for $28B.
Read More: Cisco to Acquire Splunk, to Help Make Organizations More Secure and Resilient in an AI-Powered World
28:22 – The Weeks Ahead
SNIA SDC and Storage Field Day 26 – September 18-21, 2023
Edge Field Day 2 – October 4-5, 2023
Cloud Field Day 18 + OCP Summit – October 18-19, 2023
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