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Cisco embraces Kubernetes, pushing container software into mainstream

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Upgrades to Cisco AppDynamics and CloudCenter help troubleshoot problems and deploy apps in Kubernetes clusters. Cisco this week took big steps toward helping customers deploy, monitor and manage on-premises and public-cloud production-ready Kubernetes-based container applications. Kubernetes, originally designed by Google, is an open-source-based system for developing and orchestrating containerized applications. Containers can be deployed across … Read more

Microsoft holds up Windows 10 feature upgrade after finding BSOD bug

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The company delayed the update, which had been expected to arrive on either April 3 or April 10, for an unspecified period. Microsoft has postponed the release of the next Windows 10 feature upgrade for an unspecified period, saying that, among other things, the code harbored a bug that crippled some personal computers. “In certain … Read more

Top 6 Features in Windows Server 2019

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A preview of Windows Server 2019 adds features for hyperconvergence, management, security, containers and more. Because Microsoft has shifted to a more gradual upgrade of Windows Server, many of the features that will become available with Windows Server 2019 have already been in use in live corporate networks, and here are half a dozen of the best. … Read more

Cisco attacks SD-WAN with software from Viptela, Meraki acquisitions

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New Cisco software will address SD-WAN challenges with help improving application performance, planning bandwidth allocation, and modeling how policy changes might affect network performance. Cisco took the wraps off new software packages it claims will help customers manage their biggest networking blind spot: the software-defined wide area network or SD-WAN. The SD-WAN is typically made … Read more

SAP turns to prepay and iOS to mobilize SAP Cloud Platform usage

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SAP unveiled a new consumption-based commercial model for its platform-as-a-service offering at Mobile World Congress. It’s been over two decades since the first mobile phone networks introduced pay-as-you-go (prepaid) services; Now SAP is getting in on the act, unveiling a new consumption-based commercial model for its platform-as-a-service offering, SAP Cloud Platform, at Mobile World Congress. … Read more

Microsoft wants to use blockchain to secure your identity

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Microsoft plans to pilot a blockchain-based digital ID platform that would allow users to control access to sensitive online information via an encrypted data hub. Microsoft is working to create a blockchain-based, decentralized digital identity management platform that would allow users to own and secure access to their online persona via an encrypted database hub. … Read more

Google calls out Microsoft for failing to fix reported flaw

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Windows 10 flaw

Google’s Project Zero has gone public with a Windows 10 flaw that Microsoft claimed to have fixed in its February security update. Researchers at Google’s Project Zero unit dedicated to finding security vulnerabilities in software reported a flaw in Windows 10 in November 2017, which they claim has still not been fixed. The disclosure comes just days … Read more

Cisco CEO: “We are still only on the front end” of a new version of the network

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Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins says intent-based networking still has a long way to go, but products to support its initial phase are the fastest selling new product in the history of the company. Fresh off a positive earnings call that saw Cisco report $11.9 billion in revenue for the 2Q 2018 — a 3 percent … Read more

Cisco adds new capabilities to its IBN infrastructure

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Cisco has advanced its intent-based networking gear so now it can both verify that networks are actually running according to the intentions set by admins and also so it can help to find and resolve network problems faster on both wired and wireless networks. Cisco has advanced its intent-based networking gear so now it can … Read more