When faced with a ransomware attack, organizations and government agencies need to have robust protocols in place to respond quickly. The importance of regular and secure backups cannot be overstated. The City of New Orleans learned this lesson firsthand during a complex and time-consuming backup and recovery process following a ransomware attack.
At Cisco’s global user event, Cisco Live, held recently in Las Vegas, Cisco didn’t launch several new routers, switches, and security devices as is usually the case. Instead, the announcements were centered around platforms and cross-product integration to simplify operations while delivering more value.
NVIDIA and Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank have partnered to create a platform for generative artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G applications based on NVIDIA’s GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip.
This week Veeam is holding its annual user event, VeeamON, in Miami, FL. This is the 9th year that Veeam has held the event, and attendance has steadily grown as Veeam’s customer base has enlarged. Headcount this year topped 16,000 people, an impressive number for a company not even two decades old.
Last week IBM held its annual Think event in Orlando, FL. The venue was near “Islands of Adventure,” which I felt was an interesting backdrop as corporate IT has become just that: a bunch of islands of adventure.