The Hyperscale Data Center Era Requires a Hyperscale-Ready Firewall

You can read more about our news and what this means on TechCrunch →Big news today! We’ve raised US$12 million in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Heavybit and Uncork Capital. The new funding follows the seed round we announced just a few months ago in April, and will allow us to build out our team and product at a faster pace, given the level of demand accompanying the world

A data center is a physical facility that enterprises use to house their business-critical applications and information. As they evolve, it’s important to think long-term about how to maintain their reliability and security.What is a data center? Data centers are often referred to as a singular thing, but in actuality they are composed of a number of technical elements. These can be broken down in

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At Flash Memory Summit this week (online for the first time), Western Digital is showing off three new SSD products and have outlined the companys areas of strategic focus in a keynote presentation. First up, Western Digital is commercializing NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) technology with the new Ultrastar DC ZN540 datacenter SSD. We covered ZNS in depth earlier this year after the extension to t

Smart cities are already using real-time data to improve their operations. Adding intelligence and edge computing elevates the ‘smart’ concept beyond convenience and into the realms of autonomous and automated systems offering protection, saving costs and contributing to a sustainable future. A team of US universities, led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Metro21:Smart Cities Institute in Pittsburg

Modern hybrid and hyperscale data center architectures must include security that can keep pace with the demands of productivity and scalability.

Data continues to indicate that despite ridiculous oodles of hype, U.S. 5G networks aren’t much to write home about. According to a recent study by OpenSignal, the U.S. ranked dead last in terms of 5G speeds in a 14-country comparison, largely due to our failure to make mid-band spectrum available for public use. Other reports have repeatedly shown that many initial 5G networks are actually slower

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kameleon Security, a semiconductor startup with an advanced hardware cybersecurity platform for computing systems, today announced a collaboration with Xilinx, Inc. as well as plans to release a new cybersecurity product, the Kameleon ProSPU. The ProSPU is a state-of-the-art, Open Compute Project (OCP)-compliant cyber protection chip for servers, data center

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced BIG-IP Service Proxy for Kubernetes (SPK) and Carrier-Grade Aspen Mesh, two infrastructure solutions aimed at supporting the deployment and operation of cloud-native 5G standalone core networks. These solutions feature scalable performance, visibility, and security advancements that enable service providers to deliver innovative new 5G-ba