Dell Technologies this week launched a series of initiatives intended to provide IT organizations with multiple deployment options for Dell EMC appliances and servers, including forthcoming managed service offering through which Dell will manage private cloud platforms based on VMware software on behalf of customers. Announced at the Dell Technologies World 2019 conference, Dell EMC […]
Boxes vs. Services: The Infrastructure Equation
Infrastructure is changing as more services replace the need for hardware-based architectures There has been a lot of change in the last few years, and that change shows no sign of slowing down. I’m one of those people who likes to know they could work offline if needed, yet in this day and age if […]
DevOps Chat: Purpose Built Appliances for Containerized Applications with Diamanti’s Mark Balch
Back in my StillSecure days, building purpose-built appliances for security was all the rage. Over time, though, security-as-a-service captured much of the market (although security appliances are still a big seller). For containerized applications, you may think cloud is the way to go. But the folks at Diamanti say that purpose-built appliances for containerized applications […]
Threat Protection Appliances: As Valuable to Security as Your Toaster
Nothing in the IT security community is as widely deployed and universally reviled as anti-virus. But, threat detection appliances, including intrusion prevention appliances, application firewalls and advanced threat protection appliances, should be almost as reviled. These appliances are nearly as useless as they are toxic. They do a horrible job finding problems and ultimately create […]