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Citrix Unveils New Incentives to Facilitate Seamless Customer Migration to the Citrix Platform

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

These offerings encompass discounts and enhanced usage rights, serving as incentives for both new and existing customers.

Key Points: 
  • These offerings encompass discounts and enhanced usage rights, serving as incentives for both new and existing customers.
  • The strategic design of these incentives aims to facilitate a seamless migration of workloads from current vendors, such as VMWare or F5, to environments optimally supported by the capabilities of the Citrix platform.
  • Current Citrix customers with additional use cases involving VMware will receive unlimited capacity of the new Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud subscription upon committing to a 50% expansion of their current investment with Citrix.
  • As part of the newly formed Citrix platform, enterprises now enjoy full access to the complete suite of both Citrix and NetScalerⓇ capabilities through either the Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud subscription or Citrix Platform License.

5G Open Innovation Lab Announces its 9th Startup Batch

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced today its Batch #9 cohort, eleven startups carefully curated from around the globe to embark on 5G OI Lab’s Spring program, which begins this week.

Key Points: 
  • 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced today its Batch #9 cohort, eleven startups carefully curated from around the globe to embark on 5G OI Lab’s Spring program, which begins this week.
  • The industry is at an inflection point and there is growing recognition that 5G is far more than a communication backbone.
  • And as evidenced at Tacoma Tideflats, our robust software ecosystem can be tapped to solve real business challenges in new and exciting ways,” says Jim Brisimitzis, Founder and General Partner of the 5G Open Innovation Lab.
  • The startups selected to join the 5G Open Innovation Lab’s Spring Batch 9 include:
    Graphiant - Graphiant creates Network Edge to integrate the enterprise-grade performance of MPLS with agility and cost savings.

NetApp Fights Ransomware in Real-Time with Built-In Artificial Intelligence on Enterprise Storage and Enhanced Cyber-Resiliency Solutions

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

NetApp is one of the first to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly into enterprise primary storage to fight ransomware in real-time.

Key Points: 
  • NetApp is one of the first to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly into enterprise primary storage to fight ransomware in real-time.
  • “NetApp is taking an aggressive and proactive approach to protecting our customers’ data against cyber threats using artificial intelligence.
  • We are the first storage vendor to explicitly and financially guarantee our data storage offerings against ransomware,” said Mignona Cote, CSO at NetApp.
  • NetApp Keystone Ransomware Recovery Guarantee extends NetApp’s current Ransomware Recovery Guarantee to our leading storage-as-a-service offering, NetApp Keystone.

Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes Improves Support for AI and Windows Workloads

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Mirantis today announced the latest release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK).

Key Points: 
  • Mirantis today announced the latest release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK).
  • MOSK 24.1 is built on OpenStack Antelope – the first OpenStack release designated as SLURP (Skip Level Upgrade Release Process).
  • Users of MOSK 24.1 running OpenStack Yoga will be able to upgrade directly to Antelope, skipping the intermediate OpenStack Zed.
  • Mirantis offers a TCO calculator that will provide an approximation of how much can be saved by moving to Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes from other infrastructure, such as VMware.

Arista Introduces Universal Network Observability

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Arista’s CloudVision® Universal Network Observability™ (CV UNO™) system, available as a premium feature license on Arista CloudVision, enables the automation of network, systems, and application/workload visibility, coupled with AI-driven proactive analysis and prescriptive recommendations, which significantly reduces human error, accelerates issue resolution for unforeseen events, and provides precise root cause analysis of network events and their impact on application delivery.

Key Points: 
  • Arista’s CloudVision® Universal Network Observability™ (CV UNO™) system, available as a premium feature license on Arista CloudVision, enables the automation of network, systems, and application/workload visibility, coupled with AI-driven proactive analysis and prescriptive recommendations, which significantly reduces human error, accelerates issue resolution for unforeseen events, and provides precise root cause analysis of network events and their impact on application delivery.
  • “Bringing together multiple network domains with full application visibility and troubleshooting will streamline network operations and improve uptime and reliability.
  • This holistic data, coupled with CloudVision’s deep view of the networking state within Arista Network Data Lake (NetDL™) , CV UNO, presents a composite picture of the entire network and application environment.
  • “Arista’s Universal Network Observability, built upon Arista EOS® and CloudVision platforms, fulfills this critical client need.”
    CV UNO consists of the following components:
    CV UNO Sensor collects, normalizes, and curates flow/SNMP data from various sources like VMware vCenter, DANZ Monitoring Fabric, and third-party network devices and forwards them to NetDL.

  Cloud Governance Meets GenAI in New Thought-Provoking White Paper from CoreStack

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider, today announced that it has published a new white paper titled “Cloud Governance Meets a Powerful Ally in Generative AI,” the latest in a series of thought leadership publications focused on revolutionizing the cloud governance landscape.

Key Points: 
  • CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider, today announced that it has published a new white paper titled “Cloud Governance Meets a Powerful Ally in Generative AI,” the latest in a series of thought leadership publications focused on revolutionizing the cloud governance landscape.
  • Co-authored by CoreStack’s Chief Strategy Officer, Robert Ford, and Director of Data Science, Scott Tucker, the white paper examines the role of GenAI in cloud governance.
  • Cloud management is about doing things right, whereas cloud governance is about doing the right things right.
  • Visit www.corestack.io/white-papers to download this white paper and more thought leadership from CoreStack.

NetApp Reports Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024 Results

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

NetApp announced the renewal of its collaboration with Microsoft with cloud storage solutions Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and CloudOps solutions from Spot by NetApp.

Key Points: 
  • NetApp announced the renewal of its collaboration with Microsoft with cloud storage solutions Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and CloudOps solutions from Spot by NetApp.
  • NetApp was named “2024 Company of the Year in Global Hybrid Cloud Storage Management Industry” by Frost & Sullivan.
  • NetApp, the NetApp logo, and the marks listed at http://www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
  • NetApp management compensates for these limitations by analyzing current and projected results on a GAAP basis as well as a non-GAAP basis.

Arrcus Supports VMware Telco Cloud Platform for Next-Generation Network Architecture from Edge to Datacenter

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Arrcus’ ACE platform, which is already certified for VMware Telco Cloud Platform to run on VM or hypervisor environments for edge infrastructure, now expands to distributed data center architectures.

Key Points: 
  • Arrcus’ ACE platform, which is already certified for VMware Telco Cloud Platform to run on VM or hypervisor environments for edge infrastructure, now expands to distributed data center architectures.
  • These processes handle substantial amounts of data across distributed data centers, spanning from the cloud to the edge.
  • Achieving scale and multi-tenancy involves virtualizing and sharing both the physical network and compute nodes among diverse customers and workloads.
  • The ACE platform facilitates the creation of distributed data center fabrics, spanning from edge to hyperscale to the cloud.

Leading ASPM Platform ArmorCode Appoints Aaron Feigin as Chief Marketing Officer

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

ArmorCode, the leading unified Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform for managing vulnerabilities and weaknesses across applications, infrastructure and the software supply chain, today announced the appointment of Aaron Feigin as Chief Marketing Officer.

Key Points: 
  • ArmorCode, the leading unified Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform for managing vulnerabilities and weaknesses across applications, infrastructure and the software supply chain, today announced the appointment of Aaron Feigin as Chief Marketing Officer.
  • Feigin brings 25 years of experience leading communications and marketing for disruptive technology brands, including Sumo Logic, VMware and Borland.
  • Prior to ArmorCode, Feigin was the Chief Communications and Brand Officer at Sumo Logic, a leader in big data analytics, security and observability.
  • The ArmorCode ASPM Platform unifies the siloed world of software security and helps organizations understand and improve their software security posture.

Apporto Launches a Hybrid Solution to Help Stranded VMware Horizon Customers

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Apporto NextGen is designed to cater to the evolving needs of organizations, including those currently utilizing VMware Horizon and Citrix systems.

Key Points: 
  • Apporto NextGen is designed to cater to the evolving needs of organizations, including those currently utilizing VMware Horizon and Citrix systems.
  • It uniquely allows customers to leverage their existing hardware investments while offering the option to transition seamlessly to cloud-based or hybrid models, providing maximum flexibility and cost efficiency.
  • In light of the changes and price increases facing VMware Horizon and Citrix customers, Apporto NextGen emerges as a competitively priced alternative, made even more attractive with promotional pricing.
  • Until Sept 30th, 2024, Apporto is available for the simple cost of the legacy Horizon or Citrix support/subscription fee.