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VMware Surpasses Major Virtual Cloud Network Milestones

Posted on April 9, 2020 by City Today News (City today.media)

Number of Virtual Cloud Network Customers Has Grown on Average 50 Percent Each Fiscal Year Since May 2018, Now Totaling More than 15,000

VMware NSX-T 3.0 and vRealize Network Insight 5.2 Simplify Cloud and Container Networking, Security, and Application Discovery to support Agility and Business Continuity

VMware Brings One-Click Automation Matching the Public Cloud Experience

Bengaluru. (April 9, 2020) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the number of VirtualCloud Network customers now exceeds 15,000, including 89 of the Fortune 100 and eight of the top 10 Telcos, and has grown on average 50 percent each fiscal year since May 2018. VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network solution is an integral component of VMware Cloud Foundation, which is offered on all major hyperscale cloud providers – AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud – and uniquely enables VMware to make private clouds as efficient and agile as public clouds and support business continuity efforts.

The company also announced new networking and security innovations that will significantly enhance any company’s ability to deliver the public cloud experience on-premises. With the VMware NSX-T 3.0 and VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.2, enterprises gain even higher levels of automation and insight for networking functions that span services from Layer 2 switching all the way to Layer 7 application firewall, load balancing and IDS/IPS filtering.

Seven years ago, VMware pioneered software-defined networking, de-coupling network functions from physical devices analogous to de-coupling virtual servers from physical servers. This helped reduce application deployment times from months to minutes and made microsegmentation economically and operationally feasible to help stop the internal, lateral spread of malware. Two years ago, VMware introduced the Virtual Cloud Network, extending virtual networking and security capabilities from edge to core to cloud for any workload running in VMs, containers, or bare metal. Today, VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network solution is the industry’s only complete Layer 2-7 virtual networking stack, delivering highly innovative capabilities for switching, routing, firewalling, and SD-WAN completely in software for enterprise and Telco/5G environments.

“Our Virtual Cloud Network solution is helping our customers provide the public cloud experience on-premise, removing the inefficient IT ticket requests and long waits for networking and security changes,” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager, Networking and Security Business Unit at VMware. “Across private, public and Telco clouds, and from the data center to the branch office, the Virtual Cloud Network has simplified networking, and saved customers time and money. Our data shows customers can experience as much as a 59 percent reduction in capital expenditures and 55 percent reduction in operational expenditures over traditional networking solutions ⁽¹⁾.”

New Innovations for The Virtual Cloud Network

Automation and replacement of legacy network and security infrastructure continue to be the key drivers for adoption of the Virtual Cloud Network. Today, VMware is delivering new innovations against its vision for the Virtual Cloud Network as the enabler for delivering the public cloud experience on premises:

Delivering the Public Cloud Experience: Adoption of cloud computing and support for digital businessinitiatives demand improved data center network agility and business continuity. NSX-T 3.0 introduces NSX Federation, enabling enterprises to deliver a cloud-like operating model with fault isolation domains and global policies that are synchronized across all locations. A fault isolation domain allows customers to better ensure that networks aren’t brittle. They will now be able to contain any network problems to

a single zone minimizing the severity and impact of problems when they arise. VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.2 introduces flow-based application discovery across multiple VMware platforms using machine learning to better understand categorized applications by tier.

Making Security Intrinsic: VMware is taking internal security to the next level following the introductionsof the industry-first Service-defined firewall and NSX Intelligence with the general availability of Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS) capabilities for the Service-defined Firewall. NSX Distributed IDS/IPS takes advantage of VMware’s unique intrinsic understanding of the services that make up applications to match IDS/IPS signatures to specific parts of the application. NSX Distributed IDS/IPS signatures are application specific and only applied to the appropriate servers, resulting in fewer false positives and significantly higher throughput. These capabilities enable efficiency and flexibility that cannot be matched by legacy and proprietary hardware-defined systems and are a major differentiator of the software-based scale-out approach of VMware NSX.

Full Stack Networking and Security for Modern Applications: Applications and microservices run on awide variety of heterogenous endpoints such as VMs, containers, and bare metal servers, creating a challenge to consistently connect and secure them. NSX-T treats containers and VMs as first-class citizens, having supported Kubernetes platforms for more than two years. With the NSX-T 3.0 release, enterprises can extend its full stack container networking services including switching, routing, distributed firewall, micro-segmentation, and load balancing to the newly released VMware vSphere with Kubernetes and VMware Cloud Foundation 4 platforms, the VMware Tanzu portfolio, and non-VMware Kubernetes platforms.

End-to-End Visibility and Analytics: VMware vRealize Network Insight, available as on-premises softwareor SaaS, provides end-to-end network visibility and analytics to optimize network performance and troubleshoot the entire Virtual Cloud Network, including the virtual overlay and physical underlay, and spanning data centers, multi-cloud environments, and branch locations. New flow-based application discovery leverages unsupervised learning, statistical techniques, enriched network flows, and advanced application labelling algorithms to discover application and tier boundaries, providing insights into network communication density, applications patterns, and enhanced security recommendations. Other enhancements include, AWS Direct Connect support, VMware SD-WAN application and business policy statistics, enhanced Kubernetes visibility and support for VMware NSX-T 3.0.

Networking for Next-Generation Telco Clouds and 5G: With the Virtual Cloud Network, operators canbuild scalable networks to support 5G and edge strategies. VMware NSX plays a key role in accelerating network performance and efficient end-to-end network operations in the network core, serving as an SDN layer for virtual network functions. NSX-T 3.0 introduces capabilities such as L3 EVPN for VM mobility, multicast routing for scalable networking, and accelerated data plane performance. Additionally, VMware SD-WAN acts as an intelligent overlay in conjunction with 5G’s network sliced underlays to deliver more cost-effective, high-performance, application-aware services at the network edge.

Virtual Cloud Networking for Azure Edge Zones: VMware is working with Microsoft to offer SD-WANsolutions for Azure Edge Zones, which deliver Azure services and enable customers to seamlessly deploy and run Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) including VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud. The VMware SD-WAN solution is fully integrated with the Azure portal and will enable Zero Touch Provisioning across Azure Edge Zones while shielding customers from operations and VNF life cycle management complexities. VMware SD-WAN makes intelligent decisions based on network conditions and steers traffic on the optimal network path that meets SLAs and helps optimize the user experience for applications such as Office 365 or Microsoft Teams.

Virtual Cloud Network Empowers a Remote Workforce

With VMware NSX and SD-WAN, organizations can support business continuity with more secure, reliable access for traditional and SaaS applications, including VoIP, UCaaS, collaboration, and VDI, from providers such as Microsoft, Zoom, Vonage, Ring Central, Windstream. With VMware NSX, customers can protect their remote workers who are using virtual desktops to access enterprise applications. NSX allows customers to easily microsegment and comprehensively enhance the security of their VDI environment without making any changes to their existing network infrastructure. VMware SD-WAN delivers an optimal teleworking experience for work-at-home users. VMware SD-WAN recently released significant enhancements for enterprise routing and security, analytics, and management as well as specific enhancements for business continuity and work from home deployments. To help organizations quickly empower a remote digital workforce, VMware is offering a comprehensive solution with Secure VDI with NSX and offering the VMware SD-WAN Work @Home free trial, which provides end user hardware and hosted services for up to 90-days for up to 100 employees using two Work @Home bundles.

Proposed Customer and Industry Commentary

IDC is a premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services and events. Brad Casemore,research VP for datacenter networking at IDC said: “In a world increasingly defined by hybrid IT andmulticloud, network agility must involve not just network automation, but intelligent network automation capable of delivering actional insights. Modern cloud-native applications and multicloud deployments have resulted in the need for network and security services to become software-defined, distributed, and increasingly composable and modular so that they can be applied on a per-application basis. With a complete Layer 2-7 portfolio – built both organically and through acquisitions such as VeloCloud, AVI Networks, Nyansa and Veriflow – VMware is well positioned to help enterprises successfully address the proliferation of multiple, heterogenous siloes of infrastructure created by modern applications and to deliver a simpler approach to providing intelligent networks for hybrid IT and multicloud environments.”

Ceridian is a leading provider of Human Capital Management software, transforming the employeeexperience through a combined payroll, HR, benefits, workforce management, and talent management solution. Warren Perlman, CIO at Ceridian said: “For Ceridian, cloud is the play. We’re looking to drivethe highest levels of automation across our environment like you get in the public cloud. The VMware Virtual Cloud Network gives us this model for networking and security. VMware NSX enables Ceridian to treat network infrastructure as code to deliver new software releases and deploy our applications much faster. VMware has helped us change our network security architecture by replacing many physical security solutions with the VMware Service-defined Firewall. VMware vRealize Network Insight provides network visibility and real-time access to application and network security information that previously took multiple people and multiple solutions to gather.”

Availability

VMware NSX-T 3.0 is generally available today. VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.2 is expected to be available in VMware’s fiscal Q1 FY21 which ends on May 1, 2020.

Additional Resources

• Read about how VMware will deliver networking solutions for Azure Edge Zones

• Check out more details about the Virtual Cloud Network

1-Estimates based on VMware’s DICE ROI and Value Modeling tool which contains detailed real-world customer data, April 2020

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Bluecat Paper ties up with Polish designer to create World’s first Bee Saving Paper

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Bangalore, Wednesday, April 09, 2020 – Bangalore based Tree Free paper manufacturer, Bluecat Paper today announced the collaboration with Poland based founder of BEE SAVING PAPER, Anna Gadecka to create a one of its kind paper which helps save the diminishing bee population. The paper is created from residual lemon grass, as bees love and are attracted to the scent of lemon grass. Seeds such as mustard and basil are added to further attract bees.

The Bee Saving Paper is also used to produce a range of products like bookmarks, gift bags and tags, notebooks and thank you cards. The paper has seeds of bee friendly flowering plans embedded to facilitate pollination.

It is a researched fact that bees play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance and it is said that humans will not survive beyond four years if bees were to become extinct. Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and so keep the cycle of life turning.

Sadly, the bee population across the world is on a rapid decline due to excessive mobile phone signal radiation, loss of habitat due to deforestation, abandoned farms and simply reduction in bee friendly flowering plants. The bee saving paper can help struggling bees. Tear pieces of bee saving paper, wet it and put in under the bee. The paper acts like an energy drink for the bee, helping it revive itself

Speaking about this initiative with Bluecat Paper, Anna Gadecka, Founder, Bee Saving paper, said, “I have been researching on this for a while now and was looking for a tree free paper manufacturer and I was thrilled when I came across Bluecat Paper. It would have been detrimental to the cause if this had to be done with paper made from felling trees and this moral dilemma didn’t allow me to progress with my efforts. Now that we are associated with Bluecat Paper in our efforts, I am looking forward to Bee Saving Paper becoming a more widely accepted norm.”

Kavya Madappa, CEO, Bluecat Paper, said, “When Anna reached out to us, I was excited with the possibilities of this effort. Bluecat Paper was saving trees and Anna was trying to save bees. This alone was a valid reason to collaborate and take this forward. It’s going to be an exciting journey with Anna in our attempt to save our planet.”

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ITC provides Meals, Food Products & Hygiene Essentials to the Needy across 17 States

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by City Today News (City today.media)

• 10 lakh pieces of Savlon soaps• 6 lakh packets of Sunfeast Biscuits• 3 lakh packets of YiPPee! noodles• 1.5 lakh packets B Natural Juices distributed so far• ITC’s Foods Business has curated special boxes of Aashirvaad and Sunfeast for children and elderly• ITC Hotels and ITC Paperboards Divisions distributing meals and hygiene products

As part of the multiple initiatives undertaken by ITC in India’s fight against the Coronavirus, the Company is working closely with district administrations across 17 states in the country to provide essential food items like atta, noodles, biscuits & juices and hygiene products like soaps for people in distress.

This initiative is currently going on in full swing with more than 1 million pieces of Savlon soaps, 3 lakh packets of YiPPee! noodles, nearly 6 lakh packets of Sunfeast biscuitsand 1.5 lakh packs of B Natural fruit juices being delivered to district authorities till date. In some parts, the police administration has requested for soaps for their personnel which has also been provided. Savlon soaps have also been provided for district health centres in some states including West Bengal.

ITC Foods Distributing food items to children and elderly:

To provide support to the children and senior citizens across Indian households, ITC Foods is sending food supplies across the country through its ‘Aashirvaad Box of Hope’ and ‘Sunfeast Box of Happiness’ initiative. ITC has joined hands with 3 leading NGOs building a seamless network to deliver essential food supplies to those severely impacted by the current lockdown. With support from the State Government, ITC’s Foods Division has also provided help to the residents of Bhilwara district in Rajasthan, one of the worst affected districts by distributing 10 kilograms of Aashirvaad Atta to cover approximately a month-long staple requirement and some snacks like Bingo! for the members of some of the families from the region.

Distribution of cooked meals:

Given the urgent requirement to provide cooked meals to migrant workers and needy people across the country, ITC Hotels as well as ITC factories are providing extensive support to Governments across different states, based on the requirements of the local administration as well as hospitals. ITC Maurya and Sheraton in New Delhi have been providing over 1500 meals daily for distribution to migrant workers. ITC Gardenia in Bengaluru is lending its support with 1000 food packets daily for 15 days (15000 meals) to the Municipal Corporation. ITC Grand Central in Mumbai has made arrangements to deliver meals to doctors in MG Hospital. Food has also been catered to doctors at the Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai by ITC Grand Central. Fortune Hotel in Lucknow is also lending assistance through the provision of more than 1000 meals per day. This initiative will be progressively rolled out in other metros based on the need. ITC’s Paperboards Business has been distributing over 1400 meals to migrant labourers around the factory in Bhadrachalam. In addition, ITC factories in Saharanpur, UP well as ITC teams in Patna have been providing more than 3500 cooked meals per day in proximate areas.

Distribution of Hygiene Products:

In addition to providing meals, ITC Hotel properties in Jaipur and Goa have made meaningful contributions by providing shower caps for doctors and healthcare workers as well as ensuring availability of sanitisers.

In Bhadrachalam, ITC’s Paper and Paperboards Divisiondistributed masks and hand gloves to truck drivers as well as sanitisers to public health workers in Secunderabad. The Business also disinfected around 18 villages around the Bhadrachalam factory. Awareness programmes were also conducted by the Well Being out of Waste Teams in 16 districts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

ITC’s Corona Contingency Fund of Rs 150 crore:

As an organisation committed to serving national priorities, ITC has taken several other initiatives over the last few weeks to support lives and livelihoods during the unprecedented crisis posed by the Coronavirus pandemic. ITC has set up a Contingency Fund of Rs 150 crore to provide relief to the vulnerable and most needy sections of society who have been harshly impacted by the pandemic. In support of the Government’s efforts in mitigating the crisis, ITC pledged its contribution of Rs 100 crore to the #PMCaresFunds

Ensuring Distribution of Essential Commodities to Consumers:

To ensure the availability of essential items such as ITC’s different Food products and Savlon hygiene products across the country, ITC’s entire supply chain right from agri sourcing to production to distribution is working tirelessly battling all odds to ensure that consumers are not inconvenienced on account of shortages or unavailability. ITC has also been working closely with Government authorities and local administration to ensure that manufacturing and distribution of ITC’s essential commodities continue uninterrupted with minimum people. ITC has redoubled its efforts to ensure a heightened level of precaution and have implemented strict protocols for personal hygiene, sanitation and social distancing in its factories that are producing essential commodities. For those who have to work in factories or maintain supplies in markets, every safety precaution including supply of sanitizers, protective gear, masks, regular temperature checks, staggered work timings and availability of 24×7 medical support have been implemented.

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Trend Micro Research finds Misconfiguration as number one risk to Cloud Environments

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Cybersecurity must be considered at all points of a cloud migration

Bangalore, April 9, 2020 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the global leader in cloud security, today released the findings from research into cloud security, which highlights human error and complex deployments open the door to a wide range of cyber threats.

Gartner predicts that by 2021, over 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted multi-cloud or hybrid IT strategy. As cloud platforms become more prevalent, IT and DevOps teams face additional concerns and uncertainties related to securing their cloud instances.

This newly released report reaffirms that misconfigurations are the primary cause of cloud security issues. In fact, Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity identifies 230 million misconfigurations on average each day, proving this risk is prevalent and widespread.

“Cloud-based operations have become the rule rather than the exception, and cybercriminals have adapted to capitalize on misconfigured or mismanaged cloud environments,” said Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity for Trend Micro. “We believe migrating to the cloud can be the best way to fix security problems by redefining the corporate IT perimeter and endpoints. However, that can only happen if organizations follow the shared responsibility model for cloud security. Taking ownership of cloud data is paramount to its protection, and we’re here to help businesses succeed in that process.”

The research found threats and security weaknesses in several key areas of cloud-based computing, which can put credentials and company secrets at risk. Criminals capitalizing on misconfigurations have targeted companies with ransomware, cryptomining, e-skimming and data exfiltration.

Misleading online tutorials compounded the risk for some businesses leading to mismanaged cloud credentials and certificates. IT teams can take advantage of cloud native tools to help mitigate these risks, but they should not rely solely on these tools, the report concludes.

Trend Micro recommends several best practices to help secure cloud deployments:

Employ least privilege controls: restricting access to only those who need it.
Understand the Shared Responsibility Model: Although cloud providers have built-in security, customers are responsible for securing their own data.
Monitor for misconfigured and exposed systems: Tools like Conformity can quickly and easily identify misconfigurations in your cloud environments.
Integrate security into DevOps culture: Security should be built into the DevOps process from the start.

For more information and to read the full report, please visit:

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/virtualization-and-cloud/exploring-common-threats-to-cloud-security.

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ಉಡುಪಿನ ಉದ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ಬ್ರಾಂಡ್ … ಲೋಗೋ … ಫೌಂಡರ್ ಶ್ರೀ. ಎಂ ಜಿ ರೆಡ್ಡಿ (ಮಾಜಿ ಎಂ.ಎಲ್.ಎ & ಎಂ.ಎಲ್.ಸಿ, ಎಪಿ) ಪಿ.ಎಂ ಕೇರ್ಸ್ ನಿಧಿಗೆ 25 ಲಕ್ಷ ರೂಪಾಯಿಗಳನ್ನು ಕೊಡುಗೆ ನೀಡಿತು ಮತ್ತು ಕೊರೋನ ವೈರಸನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮೂಲನೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಶ್ರೀ. ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ ಅವರ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಕೋನಕ್ಕೆ ಬೆಂಬಲ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಅವರು ಕಟ್ಟುನಿಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಸೂಚನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸಲು ನಾಗರಿಕರಿಗೆ ಸಹ ಒತ್ತಾಯಿಸಿದರು, ಕೇಂಧ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ಆಯಾ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರಗಳು ಕಾಲಕಾಲಕ್ಕೆ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಹಿತಾಸಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಹೊರಡಿಸಿದ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ದೂರವನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಉತ್ತಮ ಸೇವೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆಂಬಲವು ಅಗತ್ಯವಿರುವ ತನ್ನ ಮಾತೃಭೂಮಿಗೆ ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಬಹುದು ಅವರು ವೈದ್ಯರು ಮತ್ತು ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ, ಪೊಲೀಸ್, ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ, ಅಗತ್ಯವಾದ ಐಟಂ ಮಾರಾಟಗಾರರು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಬಾಹ್ಯಾಕಾಶ ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಗೊಳಿಸುವ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳಿಗೆ ವಿಶೇಷ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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