The week before Thanksgiving is always busy and this year was packed with great conferences. Supercomputing 24 took place in Atlanta and there was plenty to discuss with over 17,000 attendees learning about the latest technology. Let’s dive in to a few key announcements.
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1:29 – Clumio Backtrack Announced by Commvault
If you need to restore billions of stored objects to an S3 bucket, Commvault has a solution for you. The new release is from the recently-acquired Clumio and is called Backtrack. The new solution uses S3 versioning to help track backup copies of objects. It also helps you manage those versions to keep them from growing out of control with a GUi-based calendaring system. Backtrack will be available in preview in December and generally available in the first quarter of 2025. Stephen, this is the first release from Clumio since the Commvault acquisition.
7:11 – Aryaka Unveils New Survey Report Exploring Network Security Trends in Manufacturing
Aryaka’s latest survey explores network security challenges in manufacturing, revealing key issues like resource gaps, visibility, resilience, and cost control. Over 64% of respondents prioritize real-time network observability, while 54% stress the need for secure global connectivity. Manufacturers increasingly value converged solutions like Aryaka’s Unified SASE to streamline operations, enhance security, and address these evolving demands.
Read More: Aryaka Unveils New Survey Report Exploring Network Security Trends in Manufacturing
11:16 – Techstrong Launches PlatformEngineering.com
What could be more complicated than the cloud? If your organization has completed their cloud migration and started to build out the platforms and pipelines that leverage cloud environments you know there’s more than just making more clouds. There’s a special synergy between DevOps and cloud-native practices that has it’s own kind of language. That’s what the industry calls “platform engineering”. It’s a very unique way to look at the challenges faced by organizations growing beyond DevOps and cloud-native alone. How can you learn more about this new space? Thankfully our sister site TechStrong.TV has a new website dedicated to platform engineering, appropriately called PlatformEngineering.com
Read More: PlatformEngineering.com Launches: A New Hub for the Cloud-Native Era
15:25 – ISPs Say Their Customer Service is Great
ISPs are back in the news again as the FCC is poised to have some big changes in the next year. One of the things that is on the table is new regulations around mandated improvements to customer support. The ISPs are fighting back against those proposed regulations by saying market competition forces them to have great service or risk losing customers. Two different industry lobbying groups are opposed to the proposed rule change, which would require companies to offer live customer support representatives in a reasonable time frame. The ISP argument is the AI chat agents keep improving and can easily replace these folks.
Read More: ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers
20:23 – Red Hat Donates Tools to CNCF
During Kubecon, Red Hat announced that they are going to donate some of their container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The tools include ComposeFS for overlay file systems and Buildah, a tool for building Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. The biggest donation has to be Podman, a set of container management tools Podman has been positioned as an alternative to Docker for many years and Red Hat has been building around it as a way to help train new users on container basics.
Read More: Red Hat to Donate Podman Along With Other Container Tools to CNCF
23:56 – Cybercrime Costs Brits Billions of Bills
Reuters is reporting that cyberattacks have cost British businesses $55 billion over the past five years. The attacks awere specficially measured in lost revenue, with the number amounting to 1.9% of the total revenue reported over that period. The biggest offenders are email compromise and data theft. Surprisingly, only 61% of businesses were running anti-virus software and 45% were not using firewalls.
Read More: Cyberattacks cost British businesses $55 billion in past five years, broker says
28:27 – Announcements from Supercomputing 2024
The week before Thanksgiving is always busy and this year was packed with great conferences. Supercomputing 24 took place in Atlanta and there was plenty to discuss with over 17,000 attendees learning about the latest technology. Let’s dive in to a few key announcements.
Read More: Supercomputing 2024: A Playground for the Future of Technology
Read More: NSG Comes to SC24 with Money Map, AI Blueprint
Read More: This is the Next-Gen NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC for 800Gbps Networking
Read More: HPE Slingshot 400 Brings a Liquid Cooled 51.2T Switch and 400Gbps Networking
The Weeks Ahead:
AWS re:Invent – December 2 – 6, 2024
Mobility Field Day 12 – November 20 – 21
AI Field Day 6 – January 29 – 30
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