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  • General Dynamics, T-Mobile, AWS, Others Form 5G and Edge Coalition

    General Dynamics, T-Mobile, AWS, Others Form 5G and Edge Coalition

    General Dynamics, T-Mobile, AWS, Cisco, Dell Technologies, and Splunk have formed a coalition to accelerate 5G and edge adoption.

    The next generation wireless tech is already revolutionizing multiple industries and making edge computing a viable option for many companies. With high speeds and low latency, 5G is competitive with the fastest broadband available.

    General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has formed a coalition with like-minded companies in an effort to further the adoption of 5G and edge computing.

    “We share a common vision of how 5G, edge and advanced wireless technologies can transform government operations,” said Ben Gianni, GDIT’s senior vice president and chief technology officer. “Forming this coalition will help us bring our collective strengths together to provide technical differentiation and the most beneficial solutions for our government customers.”

    GDIT will focus on designing and deploying secure 5G solutions with its partners, while each member of the coalition will leverage its specialties. AWS brings its cloud infrastructure to the table, T-Mobile will provide the network bandwidth, Cisco will provide 5G and mobile edge computing solutions, Splunk will handle cybersecurity automation, and Dell will leverage its open infrastructure, edge computing, and AI abilities..

    “As part of this new coalition, we can collaborate with other technology, telecommunications and government leaders to help power an inclusive future,” said Carl DeGroote, vice president of federal sales, Cisco. “We’re excited to apply our 5G core and mobile edge compute expertise to accelerate the adoption of 5G and help advance wireless and edge technologies across government agencies.”

  • AWS Network Firewall Unveiled to Help Protect VPCs

    AWS Network Firewall Unveiled to Help Protect VPCs

    AWS has unveiled the AWS Network Firewall in an effort to help customers protect their cloud-based virtual networks.

    AWS is currently the top cloud platform, with 31% of the cloud computing market. One of AWS’ biggest strengths is the breadth and depth of services the platform offers.

    The company is building on that with its latest announcement, AWS Network Firewall, “a high availability, managed network firewall service” for virtual private clouds (VPC). The new service complements the other firewall capabilities AWS currently provides, such as “Security Groups to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Network ACLs to protect Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect web applications running on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer (ALB) or Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Shield to protect against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.”

    The AWS Network Firewall can be setup with just a few clicks, and the company touts its ability to scale as needed, eliminating the need to manage additional infrastructure.

    “With AWS Network Firewall, you can implement customized rules to prevent your VPCs from accessing unauthorized domains, to block thousands of known-bad IP addresses, or identify malicious activity using signature-based detection,” writes Channy Yun is a Principal Developer Advocate for AWS. “AWS Network Firewall makes firewall activity visible in real-time via CloudWatch metrics and offers increased visibility of network traffic by sending logs to S3, CloudWatch and Kinesis Firehose. Network Firewall is integrated with AWS Firewall Manager, giving customers who use AWS Organizations a single place to enable and monitor firewall activity across all your VPCs and AWS accounts. Network Firewall is interoperable with your existing security ecosystem, including AWS partners such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk. You can also import existing rules from community maintained Suricata rulesets.”

    The news is a welcome addition to AWS’ cybersecurity services and will help customers keep their VPCs even safer.

  • Splunk CEO: Every Company Needs A Data Czar

    Splunk CEO: Every Company Needs A Data Czar

    “Every company is going to need a Data Czar, a data leader, a Chief Data Officer, over time,” says Splunk CEO Doug Merritt. “One of the big points of digitization is you now get a bunch of data that you didn’t have before so that you can actually begin to act in real-time on these different signals. That needs somebody that understands data and guides data across an organization.”

    Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk, discusses how big data has spurred the need for every enterprise company is ultimately going to need a Data Czar:

    Big Data Drives Society Forward

    Almost everything in the world has got some type of WiFi or network connection so there is a ton of data that is flying around the stratosphere at this moment. The difficulty is being able to capture that data and begin to make sense of it so you can serve customers more effectively, reduce costs, optimize your supply chain, and hear signals from your employee base.

    All the different capabilities that if you understand big data, and cloud certainly helps dramatically there, you can actually drive society forward. It’s what we call turning data into action, bringing data to every question, every decision, and ultimately into every action, so that we can keep our organizations and our society moving forward.

    Every Company Needs A Data Czar

    Every company is going to need a data Czar, a data leader, a Chief Data Officer, over time. One of the big points of digitization is you now get a bunch of data that you didn’t have before so that you can actually begin to act in real-time on these different signals. That needs somebody that understands data and guides data across an organization.

    That pull from corporations is what pulls companies like Splunk and others forward to help the technical population within those organizations to actually make sense of data. We also help the sales, marketing, and finance departments, and any people in organizations that are leaning more heavily on data gathering and data science in making sense there.

    Splunk CEO Doug Merritt: Every Company Needs A Data Czar
  • Coronavirus “Social Distancing” Feeds Digital Transformation Movement

    Coronavirus “Social Distancing” Feeds Digital Transformation Movement

    “When I think out over the next two or three years, and even the next few months with coronavirus, it feeds into this whole digital transformation movement,” says Splunk CEO Doug Merritt. “If this becomes a new normal and we start to adapt to more of a social distancing that just means more digital usage. There are a lot of great digital technologies we can all lean on so that we can still move forward with business.”

    Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk, discusses how the coronavirus is feeding into the digital transformation movement in an interview with Jim Cramer on CNBC:

    Coronavirus Causing Business To Lean On Digital Technologies

    It’s a brave new world. I think we’re all going to learn this in the coming months. Like every other company should be doing, we’re putting our employees health and safety first. We are encouraging people to work from home. We are a Zoom customer and a Slack customer. There are a lot of great digital technologies we can all lean on so that we can still move forward with business. 

    We’ve got a great install base of 20,000 customers that actively use Splunk. Over 80 percent of our revenues come from that install base. My hope is that for a lot of the transactions, they’re just expansions or additional capabilities from some new products that can be attached to the existing contracts. We’ll see we’ll see like we all do. I didn’t think well going into 2020 that I’d be a CEO of a company that was going through something like coronavirus. 

    Coronavirus “Social Distancing” Feeds Digital Transformation

    When I think out over the next two or three years, and even the next few months with coronavirus, it feeds into this whole digital transformation movement. If this becomes a new normal and we start to adapt to more of a social distancing that just means more digital usage. The companies that we are all relying on, all the digital properties, have Splunk as their backbone to make sure that their services work effectively. 

    Whether it’s Slack or Zoom or AWS as a overall customer of ours, if we all turn digital that falls into the trend we’ve been seeing. We now need to make sense of what’s happening in that digital environment. We need to make it resilient and we need to make it safe, which means more Splunk.

    Coronavirus “Social Distancing” Feeds Digital Transformation Movement – Splunk CEO

  • Scott Thompson Steps Down From F5 and Splunk Inc.

    Scott Thompson’s not so subtle departure from Yahoo left some wondering if he in fact, does have health problems or just fabricated a clever excuse to sidestep allegations that he intentionally perpetuated the myth that he held a bachelors degree in computer science. In any event, he stepped down as CEO of Yahoo and now we find he has also resigned several other boards where he held positions of influence.

    As of Friday, Thompson resigned his position on the board of directors at F5, a technology company focused on the organization of internet traffic. No specific details were given about the departure, but we can assume it is related to him recently being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

    Today, we hear that he is resigning from his board of directors position at Splunk as well. After joining the software company in October last year, his resignation was made official on Friday. Splunk Chairman and CEO Godfrey Sullivan comments on Thompson’s departure, “On behalf of the company’s management and board of directors, we thank Mr. Thompson for his contributions to the company. In regard to recent health issues, we wish Scott all the best for a fast and full recovery”.

    As you might recall, Thompson officially resigned from Yahoo, but it is widely believed he was forced out after the scandal over his credentials. Yahoo claimed there was due “cause” for him leaving and was justified in not paying him severance, but he was allowed to keep his make-whole stock options which yielded him millions off his work at Yahoo.

    No real evidence has been offered verifying the 54-year-old’s cancer diagnosis, but he has explained that he wishes to keep the details of his personal health private. We will keep you updated on Thomson’s health and the dealings over at Yahoo as 2012 continues to bring change.