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OpenNebula 6.0 "Mutara" is the first stable release of the OpenNebula 6 series, laying the groundwork for the completely integrated and automated enterprise edge cloud. The powerful distributed cloud architecture enabled by OpenNebula 6.0, and developed under the auspices of the ONEedge innovation project, is composed of edge clusters that can run any workload-both virtual machines and containers-on any resource-bare metal or virtualized-anywhere-on-premises and on public cloud providers.

Trifacta announced a major expansion to its platform to deliver the data engineering cloud. "Trifacta is addressing the needs of modern data workers by providing a collaborative, cloud environment where users of all skill levels can come together to improve data quality and streamline data operations as they on-board, assess, and refine raw data," said Trifacta CEO Adam Wilson.

Yellowbrick Data announced Yellowbrick Manager which gives customers unified control of data warehouses across distributed clouds, and general availability of its new Andromeda optimized instance for customers with data sovereignty or high-performance requirements. The company has added more agile data movement capabilities to help customers more easily integrate Yellowbrick with data lakes built on cloud object stores like Amazon S3. Distributed clouds are an emerging architectural pattern characterized by a mesh of interconnected physical and virtualized infrastructure, forming a best-of-breed, logical cloud managed by a single, unified control plane.

Cisco announced new server solutions supported by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to bring new performance and security capabilities to customers' hybrid cloud infrastructure. To help technology teams address increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, Cisco today is introducing Unified Computing System server models with the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Code42 announced it has integrated its Incydr data risk detection and response product with Okta Identity Cloud. The integration combines Code42's data-centric strategy to insider risk with Okta's leading approach to identity and access, and provides security buyers with an easier way to build data security environments rooted in Zero Trust.

A critical security vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance would allow privilege escalation and the ability to take over the administrative rights for the solution. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload platform is designed to provide cybersecurity defense for virtual servers and workloads that are hosted on the VMware's vSphere platform.

A report released Tuesday by Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team Unit 42 examines how the cloud migration has affected security and what organizations can do to better protect themselves. The rise in security incidents has been triggered in part by the inability of many organizations to automate cloud security.

The Cloud Security Alliance and AlgoSec published research which queried nearly 1,900 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations, sought to gain deeper insight into the complex cloud environment that continues to emerge and that has only grown more complex since the onset of the pandemic. Respondents' leading concerns over cloud adoption were network security, a lack of cloud expertise, migrating workloads to the cloud, and insufficient staff to manage cloud environments.

It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools' Day, Redmond has said. The web giant's Threat Analysis Group said it had detected in March a bogus security company SecuriElite reaching out to legit professionals via social media, such as LinkedIn and Twitter.

A critical vulnerability recently addressed in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload could be abused to execute code on a vulnerable server, according to a warning from a security researcher who discovered the bug. "A malicious actor with network access to the administrative interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance may be able to obtain a valid authentication token, granting access to the administration API of the appliance," VMware notes in an advisory.