Transformation with Digital Automation

Mark Ackerman – Regional Director, MESAT & EE More and more organizations’ today focus on ‘creating a digital workplace’ with increased investments in AI, cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile and Social technology, among key drivers for the company’s growth. The drive to get digitisedis fuelled by globally recognized brands in the aviation, banking & finance, transport and Oil & Gas sectors taking the lead to get transformed by automation, intuitive consumer experiences, machine learning and an increased use of connected devices. Today, enterprises are looking to ‘consumerize’ the user experience and improve employee productivity and efficiency. This is done by … Continue reading Transformation with Digital Automation

Infoblox Research Finds Explosion of Personal and IoT Devices on Enterprise Networks Introduces Immense Security Risk

Infoblox Inc., the network control company that provides Actionable Network Intelligence, today announced new research that exposes the significant threat posed by shadow devices on enterprise networks. The report titled “What’s lurking on your network: Exposing the threat of shadow devices” found that enterprise networks across the US, UK and Germany have thousands of shadow personal devices – such as laptops, kindles and mobile phones – and Internet of Things (IoT) devices – such as digital assistants and smart kitchen appliances – connecting to their network. Over a third of companies in the US, UK and Germany (35 percent) reported … Continue reading Infoblox Research Finds Explosion of Personal and IoT Devices on Enterprise Networks Introduces Immense Security Risk

Red Hat and Microsoft Co-Develop the First Red Hat OpenShift Jointly Managed Service on a Public Cloud

Microsoft and Red Hat expand partnership around hybrid cloud, container management and developer productivity Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today expanded their alliance to empower enterprise developers to run container-based applications across Microsoft Azure and on-premises. With this collaboration, the companies will introduce the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public cloud, combining the power of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud. “Gartner predicts that, by 2020, more than 50% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 20% … Continue reading Red Hat and Microsoft Co-Develop the First Red Hat OpenShift Jointly Managed Service on a Public Cloud

Hybrid Approach to Security Needed for Maximum Protection Against Cyber Attacks

By: ‎Ashraf Sheet, Regional Director Middle East & Africa at ‎Infoblox Are Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS) security solutions truly the panacea they are publicized to be? The answer is, it depends on how the SaaS solution is architected. A majority of SaaS-only security solutions are “overlay” solutions that simply provide an additional layer of security on top of an enterprise’s existing network and security infrastructure. These overlay solutions are easy for the vendor to develop, but difficult for the customer to combine with other existing security solutions and derive value from. In contrast, a hybrid approach to security is one that tightly … Continue reading Hybrid Approach to Security Needed for Maximum Protection Against Cyber Attacks