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It turns out that industrial enterprises are much better positioned to defeat most nation-state attacks on power plants, pipelines, and other critical infrastructures than governments are. Government intrusion detection is a little better at detecting attacks than our own systems and presents serious risks to corporate confidentiality.

Worldwide revenue from the Open Compute Project infrastructure market will reach $33.8 billion in 2024, according to IDC. While year-over-year growth will slow slightly in 2020 due to capital preservation strategies during the COVID-19 situation, the market for OCP compute and storage infrastructure is forecast to see a compound annual growth rate of 16.6% over the 2020-2024 forecast period. "IDC projects massive growth in the amount of data generated, transmitted, and stored worldwide. Much of this data will flow in and out of the cloud and get stored in hyperscale cloud data centers, thereby driving demand for infrastructure," said Kuba Stolarski, research director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies at IDC. OCP technology by segment.

Does your IT security model take into account things like pacemakers? According to Dr Victoria Baines, speaking at Infosec Europe, "We also perhaps neglect the idea that critical infrastructure might be inside people" as well as merely carried in their pockets. Baines was speaking during a panel webinar about protecting critical national infrastructure.

VMware introduced a new integrated feature in VMware vSphere 7 that will enable enterprises to deliver elastic infrastructure on-demand for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. With the newly integrated Bitfusion capabilities, VMware vSphere 7 will enable enterprises to pool their powerful GPU resources on their servers and share them within their data centers.

A code injection vulnerability affecting VMware vCloud Director could be exploited to take over the infrastructure of cloud services, Citadelo researchers have discovered. VMware Cloud Director is a cloud service delivery platform used by public and private cloud providers to operate and manage cloud infrastructure.

"Throughout the pandemic, Aruba's AI-powered infrastructure has adapted to optimize customers' reimagined work environments at half a million customer sites worldwide, with massive teleworkforces dispatched to work from home, and for essential mobile workforces." Through Aruba-led innovations or implemented in concert with Aruba Technology Partners, these solutions use IoT and Bluetooth radios already built into Aruba access points and managed from a single pane of glass.

VMware announced the availability of the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, a cloud service that combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of enterprise-grade on-premises infrastructure. "Today's IT teams are under constant pressure to deliver the advantages of a cloud operating model-namely, speed and agility-while still accounting for key security and compliance assurances," said Fidelma Russo, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. "VMware Cloud on Dell EMC further enables IT teams to transform the operation, management and protection of their on-premises infrastructure to a cloud model. Organizations can migrate existing VMware-based workloads immediately to this cloud service, eliminating any re-development, re-factoring, or architectural rework and related costs."

The research investigated the cyber resilience of organizations operating in the energy, finance, health, telecommunications, transport and water industries, located in the world's five largest economies: UK, US, Germany, France and Japan. Of the 370 companies surveyed, only 36 percent had achieved a high level of cyber resilience.

While some tweets taking aim at Houseparty appear to be dubious, evidence of any smear campaign has yet to surface, and it appears the $1m bounty has not been awarded. The Register twice asked Houseparty to confirm this.

While some tweets taking aim at Houseparty appear to be dubious, evidence of any smear campaign has yet to surface, and it appears the $1m bounty has not been awarded. The Register twice asked Houseparty to confirm this.