Microsoft’s AI division just found out they made a mistake. Three years ago they accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of data to a public GitHub repo while contributing to AI learnign models. A security research team found the exposure recently, which came from a misconfigured Azure Blob storage URL that was overly permissive and difficult to manage. This Shared Access Signature, or SAS, token is designed to give teams full control over shared files. However, the difficulty in managing it makes it appear almost impossible to use correctly. The leaked data included passwords, keys, and an archive of internal Microsoft Teams messages.
0:49 – BackBox and Paessler Team Up for Backups
Paessler is partnering with Networking Field Day presenter BackBox to bring config backup to your enterprise. BackBox has the capability to save network device configuration data as well as other critical information like license keys. BackBox can validate these backups and restore bare metal devices if necessary. Paessler is integrating monitoring capabilities with their flagship PRTG platform to allow you to manage the status of your configuration backup and restore jobs.
Read More: Securing your backups with BackBox and Paessler PRTG
3:11 – Lenovo Leaps Into AI at the Edge
Today Lenovo announced a new edge-focused AI solution. Lenovo TruScale for Edge brings an IaaS platform to the world of edge computing. TruScale will allow Lenovo to sell solutions to customers looking to ramp up their presence at the edge and start to work on complex compute subjects, such as AI. The centerpiece of the platform is the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 which is powered by the AMD EPYC 800 CPU.
Read More: Lenovo Delivers AI at the Edge, Bringing Next-Generation Intelligence to Data
7:28 – Announcements from Intel’s Innovation
Intel has some exciting news coming out of Intel Innovation this week. Intel showed off their first chiplet-based design using Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express, or UCIe, as the bus powering the chiplet data exchanges. They also talked about using glass substrate in CPUs in the future as a way to keep Moore’s Law relevant into the 2030s. And it wouldn’t be a presentation in 2023 without talking about AI, so Intel introduced their Ultra series processor that has an integrated neural processing unit (NPU) to help provide local inferencing support. Oh, and Sierra Forrest will have a 288-core variant coming out soon.
Read More: Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon
12:00 – HyperFlex Flexes Its Last
Cisco announced this week that their HyperFlex data center HCI solution is now end of life. This news comes on the heels last month of Cisco and Nutanix creating a global partnership to run Nutanix software on Cisco UCS hardware. Cisco has committed to delivering all the current HyperFlex features on the roadmap but nothing that was in the planning stages as of September 12. Cisco and Nutanix are working on migration strategies and licenses to move customers from HyperFlex to Nutanix solutions. Tom, is this a recognition that customers prefer Nutanix over everything else?
Read More: Cisco HyperFlex End-of-Life FAQ
16:44 – Microsoft’s Security Leaks Get Worse
Microsoft’s AI division just found out they made a mistake. Three years ago they accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of data to a public GitHub repo while contributing to AI learning models. A security research team found the exposure recently, which came from a misconfigured Azure Blob storage URL that was overly permissive and difficult to manage. This Shared Access Signature, or SAS, token is designed to give teams full control over shared files. However, the difficulty in managing it makes it appear almost impossible to use correctly. The leaked data included passwords, keys, and an archive of internal Microsoft Teams messages.
Read More: Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage
27:01 – 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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