Big news this week from the boardroom as Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has announced her departure from the Cisco Board of Directors. The move comes as a surprise in a recent SEC filing and was announced without fanfare. Su had served on the Cisco board since 2019. She is also stepping down from the board of Analog Devices, a position she has held since 2016. There is speculation that this departure could signal that AMD will begin moving into the networking space more with a focus on DPU technology to compete against Cisco’s entrenched positions with networking hardware.
1:00 – StorMagic Announces Edge Control
StorMagic announced the release of their new Edge Control Dashboard today. The goal is to simplify management of SvSAN clusters no mattter where they are located. This centralized management system allows administators to manage geographically diverse deployments from a single pane of glass. Edge Control is hypervisor agnostic.
Read More: StorMagic Introduces Edge Control Software to Simplify SvSAN Monitoring and Management
3:39 – Former Palo Alto Employees Make Gusty Move
There’s a new startup in the security space and you might say they have guts. Three former Palo Alto employees, by way of Twistlock, have founded Gutsy. They’re targeting the process mining space to help optimize and remediate security processes. It takes a holistic view of the entire security posture of the organization and looks for inefficiencies. Surprisingly, co-founder John Morello mentioned that while the platform does include some AI features it’s not the focus of the platform.
Read More: Former Palo Alto Networks employees launch security startup, raise $51 million
7:38 – Huawei All-Flash Array is 2nd in the Market
Huawei is forging ahead in the increasingly-competitive all-flash array market with 33 percent growth, securing the second position after Dell. The entire external storage market faced challenges, with total revenue dropping by 14 percent with traditional HDD and hybrid revenues declining by 21 percent. Despite all this, Huawei’s significant growth in all-flash array revenue has solidified its position as a key player in the industry, trailing only Dell.
Read More: Huawei number 2 in all-flash array market, say analysts
11:15 – Cisco 0-day Backdoors IOS-XE
Cisco has a big problem to deal with today as they work on a massive backdoor in Cisco IOS-XE. The vulnerability is found in the web management interface and is being actively exploited by attackers. A vulnerability scanning firm said they were able to detect more than 10,000 affected devices with more very likely out there. Cisco is actively working to patch the affected systems but the current remediation is to disable the web server if possible.
Read More: “Cisco buried the lede.” >10,000 network devices backdoored through unpatched 0-day
14:43 – Cloudflare moves BMC from server motherboards
Cloudflare has released an article this week talking about their shift away from baseband management controllers (BMCs) toward a different style of lights-out system control. The summary of the discussion is that modern server motherboards are much more complex than the older BMC technology and forcing manufacturers to retool workflows to add less complex BMCs directly to the board is costly and wasteful. Instead, CloudFlare and others have adopted a PCI form factor solution called Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules , or DC-SCMs. The goal is to provide the same functions as a BMC but have the card able to be moved to a different server upon retirement and reduce costs for server motherboards.
Read More: Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards
19:34 – Nyriad Announces Game-Changing Storage-as-a-Service Offering
Today marks the launch of a new on-prem storage-as-a-service offering from Nyriad. Nyriad has been making waves as the only company with GPU-accelerated storage offerings. UltraIO-as-a-Service is a way for Nyriad to capture the market of on-prem devices that have requirements for very fast storage but don’t want to make the investment into traditional architectures.
22:37 – AMD CEO Lisa Su leaves Cisco Board of Directors
Big news this week from the boardroom as Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has announced her departure from the Cisco Board of Directors. The move comes as a surprise in a recent SEC filing and was announced without fanfare. Su had served on the Cisco board since 2019. She is also stepping down from the board of Analog Devices, a position she has held since 2016. There is speculation that this departure could signal that AMD will begin moving into the networking space more with a focus on DPU technology to compete against Cisco’s entrenched positions with networking hardware.
Read More: AMD CEO Su surprisingly leaves Cisco board of directors
31:20 – The Weeks Ahead
Cloud Field Day 18 + OCP Summit – October 18-19, 2023
Networking Field Day 33 – October 25-26, 2023
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