News Detail Seventh-annual user conference to feature keynote from Tom Hatch, SaltStack Co-founder, alongside engaging sessions and interactive demos dedicated to creating more secure and reliable digital infrastructure for modern enterprises PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– SaltStack®, the creators of intelligent automation for security operations and IT teams, and now part of VMware, today announced … Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 Seventh-annual user conference to feature keynote from Tom Hatch, SaltStack Co-founder, alongside engaging sessions and…

The data center industry continues to grow. Amazon, Google, Equinix, Digital Reality Trust, and numerous other providers can’t build their data centers fast enough, spurring investments in startups and a hefty amount of M&A activity. The sector was hot before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crisis has only increased interest as companies accelerate their migrations to the cloud. Goldman Sachs is the latest to make a big play in the data center market. The firm’s Merchant…

The vehicles manufactured by Volvo Trucks keep getting smarter. More than 350,000 Volvo rigs crossing North American highways each day are outfitted with IoT sensors that monitor conditions and send data for troubleshooting and analysis. Embedded telematics allow for over-the-air updates to engine software. The on-board technology, combined with a back-end analytics platform, enables Volvo Trucks to process millions of data records instantaneously. Using IoT and artificial intelligence, Volvo Trucks has been able to reduce diagnostic…

IT and security response to the coronavirus pandemic was heroic. Although many organizations had some degree of remote-work capabilities pre-COVID-19, the past year brought this work to new levels. Enterprise security has had to quickly evolve alongside the shift to remote work and cloud adoption. For example, companies successfully ramped up VPN infrastructure, shifted to online models of collaboration software, and re-examined security policies in light of a highly distributed workforce. Yet, these changes are…

Numerous early Starlink testers have been notified that they’ll soon be linking up to the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) internet in the “Better Than Nothing Beta” test. Better than nothing actually sounds pretty darn good. In this early stage, Starlink tells its early users to “Expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be…