Dell Tech World was the talk of the industry last week. In part it’s because Dell is rolling out initiatives to try and address their key areas as those technologies move closer to the cloud. Dell APEX storage for public cloud was a key piece. APEX is a software defined storage platform for AWS and Azure that integrates with existing tools to create a hybrid multicloud experience. Also of note was Dell NativeEdge, a software platform that can help manage deployment of applications and devices at the edge of the enterprise. Also announced along with NativeEdge is Project Fort Zero, Dell’s implementation of zero trust network architecture (ZTNA). The last big announcement was a partnership with Nvidia to provide the Project Helix platform to run Nvidia generative AI. Helix sees Nvidia H100 GPUs running in PowerEdge servers.
0:46 – Red Hat Summit Headlined With Ansible Announcements
Red Hat Summit was the other big event happening last week and the biggest announcements from the show happened around Ansible. The first was Ansible Lightspeed, an AI-assisted code creation platform powered by IBM Watson. Users can input natural language prompts and recieve YAML code in response for playbooks. Ansible also gains an event-driven capability in version 2.4 that rolls out in June. This increases the number of ways that users can activate Ansible scripts across hybrid cloud instances. You can now trigger scripts to run based on outage information, service ticket creation, and even configuration drift.
Read More: Red Hat Summit 2023: The Biggest Announcements
6:46 – Mirantis Introduces Centralized, Enterprise-Wide Management of Lens Pro for Simple, Secure Operations
Mirantis announced a new feature to help manage Kubernetes this week. Lens Control Center is a follow up to their successful Lens Pro release last year. Lens Control Center has enterprise SSO capabilities, centralized management of Lens Pro deployments, and accounting and billing enhancements. Lens Control Center is aimed to help companies successfully scale out their deployments of Lens and Lens Pro to keep their Kubernetes farms corralled.
Read More: Mirantis Releases Lens Control Center for Centralized Management of Lens Pro for Large Enterprises
10:53 – A Real Backdoor Did the Trick for Barracuda
The email security team at Barracuda Networks needs to come up with something quick. That’s because they announced CVE-2023-2868, which is a backdoor remote command injection that has been actively exploited since October. The exploit can ambush operations teams with specially crafted TAR files. Barrracuda suggests you burn, burn, burn the affected appliances and contact them for a replacement.
Read More: Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months
14:48 – HPE Results Buoyed By Aruba
HPE released their quarterly results this week. Results were mostly in line with expectations although there was a miss of their previous guidance. The big news is that HPE Aruba Networking rose to become the second-biggest division of HPE by revenue, sliding past storage for the first time. Given the focus of the deepening of the relationship between the two during Aruba Atmosphere last month and the announcements coming during HPE DIscover in June, what do you think this means for the future of HPE?
Read More: Hewlett Packard Enterprise reports fiscal 2022 results with record Q4 performance
18:25 – Dell Tech World Looks to Appeal to All
Dell Tech World was the talk of the industry last week. In part it’s because Dell is rolling out initiatives to try and address their key areas as those technologies move closer to the cloud. Dell APEX storage for public cloud was a key piece. APEX is a software defined storage platform for AWS and Azure that integrates with existing tools to create a hybrid multicloud experience. Also of note was Dell NativeEdge, a software platform that can help manage deployment of applications and devices at the edge of the enterprise. Also announced along with NativeEdge is Project Fort Zero, Dell’s implementation of zero trust network architecture (ZTNA). The last big announcement was a partnership with Nvidia to provide the Project Helix platform to run Nvidia generative AI. Helix sees Nvidia H100 GPUs running in PowerEdge servers.
Read More: 4 top takeaways from Dell Technologies World (from AI to cloud to edge)
29:02 – The Weeks Ahead
Cloud Field Day 17 May 31 – June 1, 2023
Security Field Day June 28-29, 2023
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