An outage on the Verizon network caused issues for teleworkers and students across the Northeast on Tuesday, as other cloud and service providers also confirmed outages at the same time.
Mimecast said Tuesday that its certificate compromise was carried out by the same threat actor behind the SolarWinds attack and provided hackers with access to customers’ on-premises and cloud services.
‘Google has built a reputation and a pedigree of sharing and bringing to market the champagne that they drink in-house,’ says Arun Perinkolam, Deloitte Consulting’s Google Cloud cyber practice leader.
The developer of a platform for processing and analyzing huge volumes of data will use the funding to hire across its engineering, customer support, and sales and marketing operations this year.
‘The pandemic has made inequities in our technology infrastructure increasingly apparent, leaving those in rural and low-income areas struggling to work and learn effectively from home, putting disadvantaged people at an even greater disadvantage,’ says Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell.
‘It‘s fair to say that the overall demand exceeded our planning, and as a result, we did have some supply constraints as we ended the year,’ AMD’s CEO says. Shortages for the company’s processors are expected to continue through the first half of 2021 as AMD’s manufacturing partners continue to build capacity.
‘We are positioned to return to growth in 2021 and expand into new markets. We plan to stand up three separate businesses: software, financing and innovation by 2022 to provide greater focus, flexibility, and visibility,’ says Xerox CEO John Visentin.
‘I see Cisco focusing on high-speed technology and connectivity, with a layer of security,’ a Cisco partner tells CRN regarding the Catalyst portfolio updates.
The chipmaker kicked off the program with 14 certified GPU servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Gigabyte, Supermicro and Inspur, promising optimized performance for AI applications, frameworks and domain-specific software development kits from Nvidia’s NGC hub.
‘As customers moved towards object storage, we decided an acquisition would be the fastest way to get it. Caringo had the most advanced technology, but was lacking the financial backing and the support of a strong channel. There are other object storage companies, but they don’t have the maturity the Caringo Swarm offers,’ says Gerardo Dada, DataCore’s chief marketing officer.
The carrier experienced revenue declines within its business segment, especially in the enterprise space, in fourth-quarter 2020. 5G will be the focus in 2021, says Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.
EdgeQ claims its RISC-V-based 5G modem chip can replace the functions of multiple, discrete hardware components, including Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs, in 5G base stations, lowering the costs and power of such deployments significantly.
The Tel Aviv-based startup offers a virtualization platform that allows organizations to split up Nvidia GPUs into smaller, virtual GPU instances so that multiple workloads can run on the same GPU, speeding up the pace of GPU-based projects while also increasing the utilization of existing infrastructure.
‘Joining forces, we will deliver the enterprise-grade features, including world-class security and scale, that have been missing from the edge until now,’ says F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou on the done deal.
The big data analytics superstar has a market valuation approaching $30 billion, a number that could grow by the company goes public – likely sometime this year.
‘This has been extreme pain. People are annoyed and upset, but understand it could have been a lot worse if they had been breached,’ Silicon East President Marc Harrison tells CRN.
Mimecast said Tuesday that its certificate compromise was carried out by the same threat actor behind the SolarWinds attack and provided hackers with access to customers’ on-premises and cloud services.
