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There have been a number of articles written on data center outages and their business costs of lost productivity, infrastructure damage, loss of brand reputation and goodwill in the marketplace, and litigation costs. Data center outages can occur from a number of factors such as such as component quality issues, power supply disturbances, or human error. Even turning systems off for routine maintenance could lead to a potentially costly incident to the business. However a multiyear Pone …

A Forrester study predicts that enterprises must respond nimbly to address changing cloud markets and technologies.Cloud computing has moved past its "self-centered teenage years" to become a "turbocharged engine powering digital transformation around the world," states a new Forrester report, "Predictions 2019: Cloud Computing." The research firm predicts that in 2019 the cloud will reach "its more interesting young adult years, bringing innovative development services to enterprise apps rat …

In the ancient times the power sources in the world were explained through the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. In the modern times, anecdotally (or not) it has been added a fifth one which has resulted to be a very powerful element: information - aka data. We all have, create and use information in a daily basis, be this for personal or business reasons. So, how can something that everybody can have, be so powerful? Well, just like with the first four elements, its powe …

Cisco has unveiled a new version of Cisco UCS, its first server designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads.In a statement on Monday, the firm said that its Cisco UCS C480 ML will offer a complete range of computing options designed for each stage of the AI and ML lifecycle, including data collection, analysis near the edge and real-time inference at the heart of AI.It will also speeds up deep learning, the compute-intensive form of machine learn …

In Q4 2018, security researchers detected a number of new botnets, which included not only Mirai clones for a change. The fall saw increased activity on the part of the Chalubo bot, whose first attacks were registered in late August. Although the new malware employs snippets of Mirai code and the same persistence techniques as in the Xor.DDoS bot family, Chalubo is mostly a fresh product designed solely for DDoS attacks (for example, one of the detected samples was a SYN flood one). In Octobe …