WhatsApp to offer encrypted video calling

WhatsApp is to add encrypted video calling to its service on Monday, as it continues to bolsters security on the app.

This new and secure addition to the app is designed to compete with other popular video calling services, like FaceTime and Skype.

WhatsApp to offer encrypted video calling

Sednit: A very digested read

Sedit is one of the most notorious groups of cyberattackers operating in the world today. Active from at least 2004 – possibly earlier – it has unfortunately stepped up activity over the past two years, keen to hit its targets as hard as possible.

All too aware of this, ESET, a global leader in information security, has been relentlessly pursuing Sednit over this time, an exercise which has proved to be highly informative. This has resulted in a trilogy of papers, which details many aspects that are unique to the group.

Sednit: A very digested read

9 Ways CEOs Can Best Hone Their Leadership Skills

While some people are born leaders, it’s an area everyone can stand to improve upon — especially if you’re trying to grow a team.



9 Ways CEOs Can Best Hone Their Leadership Skills

ICO concerned about privacy protection on WhatsApp/Facebook

An Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation into WhatsApp’s decision to share customer data with Facebook has confirmed initial concerns that personal information is not being properly handled.

The UK’s information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said in an official company blog that consumers have been left in the dark about this development.

ICO concerned about privacy protection on WhatsApp/Facebook

Unmasking the Bonasira Cyperine Author

Following our research on Cyperine 2.0 and Next Man History Stealer, the malware author rebranded their info stealer as Medusa. While it basically has the same featurse as Cyperine, you now need a valid account to access the builder. The example below compares Cyperine on the left and Medusa on the right, which shows a user logged in as Deadzeye.



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Apple ID smishing evolves to lure more victims

Smishing is nothing new. We’ve been warning readers of We Live Security about SMS phishing attacks (also known sometimes as SMSishing) for years.

But even if they’re not new, they continue to pose a threat to many smartphone owners and – in some cases – have even been seen to evolve as scammers attempt to trick more users into handing over their precious credentials.

Apple ID smishing evolves to lure more victims

Google fixes Safe Browsing security loophole

Google has announced new measures that resolve a security loophole that allows certain websites to circumnavigate its Safe Browsing service.

Writing for its official security blog, Brooke Heinichen, a strategist for the tech giant’s safe browsing team, said that it has picked up on a pattern of behavior that subverted this important security mechanism.

Google fixes Safe Browsing security loophole

Tesco Bank not alone in being targeted by Retefe malware

Tesco Bank, which recently saw thousands of its customers lose funds to cybercriminals, has been found on the target list of the so-called Retefe malware. This trojan horse goes after users’ online banking credentials, which can be then misused to conduct fraudulent transactions. Many more thousands might be at risk as the malware’s target list contains several other banks.



Tesco Bank not alone in being targeted by Retefe malware

News UK Leverages BMC Digital Service Management Solutions

Read all about it! BMC enables News UK to develop and implement a service asset strategy to support tier-1 services that drive newspaper sales and ad revenues



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Fabric-Ready: Q&A with Ziften’s Josh Applebaum

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Careers in fighting cybercrime

One of the ways in which STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™ – which describes itself as “the global online safety awareness campaign to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online” – works towards achieving its aims is by inviting participating partners such as ESET to offer tips and advice in the course of its frequent Twitter chats (#ChatSTC).



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Is Your WordPress Site the Next Victim of a Cyber Attack?

Unfortunate as it is for webmasters, there will never be a time when black hat SEO schemes cease to exist. Hacker culture only continues to advance and evolve right alongside online development, so the best thing you can do is ensure that your website is protected.

Sucuri, an authority in cyber security, monitors hacker trends and threats across the major CMS platforms and leans over 500 hacked sites daily. Just recently, they identified new occurrences of hacked subdirectories on WordPress.

Is Your WordPress Site the Next Victim of a Cyber Attack?

The Dos and Don’ts for an Aesthetically Pleasing Website

Small business owners know that content is vital for increasing reader engagement, encouraging customers, and pushing people through the sales funnel. That being said, even the most interesting information in the world won’t do well if it’s on a poorly designed website.

There are specific design choices (like white text on a black background) that discourage readers by making the viewing experience unpleasant or even uncomfortable. If you want to build the most beautiful and effective site possible, follow this list of dos and don’ts.

The Dos and Don’ts for an Aesthetically Pleasing Website

Analysis of ISC BIND DNAME Answer Handling DoS (CVE-2016-8864)

A defect in BIND's handling of a DNAME answer was fixed in a critical update from the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) several days ago. This defect affects all BIND recursive servers, and can be exploited to remotely take down recursive servers by sending a simple DNAME answer thereby causing a denial of service (DoS.)



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Why Healthcare Security Breaches Are Big Wins for Cybercriminals

The healthcare industry is under attack for a reason. Cybercriminals view it as a place that’s ripe for “big wins,” and the number of large healthcare institutions recently falling victim to data breaches shows they’re having success.



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Secure your router: How to help prevent the next internet takedown

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of webcams? After the Dyn DDoS last month, this is a question on the minds of a lot of security people. Someone recently asked me if we shouldn’t adopt a new name for the Internet of Things (IoT) because the existing term is too vague. I responded that this vagueness was in fact the desired effect; many people have little to no understanding of how many devices in their house are now interconnected. This leaves us surrounded by things that are effectively web-enabled computers, which most people don’t even know need to be secured.

So what do you need to do to help secure your devices, to decrease the chances of their being used for ill? There are a few things you can do, regardless of whether you know exactly which devices need protecting. You may be able to improve the security of the IoT devices themselves, which is ideal if the device is one that will accompany you in your daily travels.

Secure your router: How to help prevent the next internet takedown

Targeted online guessing ‘a major threat to online security’

Targeted online guessing represents a major threat to online security, according to new research.

The paper found that this tactic exploits security shortfalls in many users, which, in this instance, is to use the same password – often containing personal information – across multiple accounts.

Targeted online guessing ‘a major threat to online security’

BMC’s Control-M Delivers Simplified Management for SAP® Workloads

Control-M extends support to SAP S/4HANA® to improve digital enterprise agility 



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Shopping at the Online Blackmarketplace

Malware and hacking services are becoming commoditized. Ransomware as a service has become popular this year. More effective security tools have cybercriminals looking for new tools and techniques to more effectively target victims and bypass security. And malware developers are continually looking for new markets where they can connect and sell their services.



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How to do an APK Analysis Using AppMon

There are a great many tools available to help quickly analyze the behavior of mobile malware samples, making the task easier for analysts, testers, and pen testers. In the case of Android, one such app is AppMon, which, through its binary instrumentation, provides access to the log showing which functions are being used and their respective parameters.

In this article, we will take a look at how it works.

How to do an APK Analysis Using AppMon

Is the New Hype App Appropriate for Small Business?

Vine’s glory days may be over, but its creators don’t look to have given up on social apps just yet.



Is the New Hype App Appropriate for Small Business?

Colossal DDoS attack in Liberia wipes majority of country offline

Liberia has been hit with one of the most harmful DDoS attacks yet, with most of its residents unable to get online.

It has been revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October.

Colossal DDoS attack in Liberia wipes majority of country offline

Don’t Call Me an Expert, Call Me a Hacker

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I can see your texts: A deep dive into SMS/messaging clients, security, and privacy

My mother texted me the other day about cycling and performance components. No one other than myself really wants to read that. Looking at the multitude of different types of SMS users out there, however, there is a very high probability that there is someone who wants to read or gain access to another user’s SMS messages. What kind of SMS client is their target using? Is the target taking precautions to protect their data? Does the target even know what data is stored on their device and how easily it can be accessed?



I can see your texts: A deep dive into SMS/messaging clients, security, and privacy

Join Us for Microsoft Chat About Using the Cloud to Grow Your Business #MSBizTips

The cloud can be an elusive concept for a lot of business owners. You probably know that it’s important. But you might not understand exactly what kind of impact it can have on your business or how you can best utilize it as a business tool.

Since there are many different cloud based tools and features, it can be a good idea to get different perspectives to help you make the most out of it for your small business. And you have the opportunity to get some of those different perspectives as part of an upcoming Twitter chat.

Join Us for Microsoft Chat About Using the Cloud to Grow Your Business #MSBizTips

William Hill website hit with DDoS attack

UK-based bookmaker William Hill has been hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, preventing many of its customers from being able to access its main website.

The company had, earlier this week, (November 1st) revealed on social media that its website was experiencing “a few technical issues”.

William Hill website hit with DDoS attack

Verizon Calls New LG Phone Perfect for Content Creators, But Why?

The V20 from LG (KRX:066570) was announced in August, and it is now available online from Verizon (NYSE:VZ) targeting content creators.

Today’s smartphones are more than just phones, and manufacturers are addressing different segments with a range of models. With the V20, LG has designed a device with quality audio/video capture technology, and a removable battery to ensure you always have power with extra batteries.

Verizon Calls New LG Phone Perfect for Content Creators, But Why?

KLA-Tencor Declares Regular Cash Dividend For The Second Quarter Of Fiscal Year 2017 (NASDAQ:KLAC)

KLA-Tencor Declares Regular Cash Dividend For The Second Quarter Of Fiscal Year 2017 (NASDAQ:KLAC)

The Angry Spam and The Tricky Macro Delivers Updated Hancitor

Hancitor is one of the better-known malware downloaders due to its numerous SPAM runs and evolving delivery technique. It reminds us of Upatre, which gained notoriety status over the past two years but has now died down, possibly due to the takedowns of its major payloads. In the case of Hancitor, it still seen as a favourite carrier of very much active malware families such as Pony and Vawtrak.

Just recently, we found a new spam campaign of Hancitor with some notable developments that may have been in the previous variants, but were not discussed in any other reports. This article revolves around the macro tricks it uses to stall analysts, and new commands that it utilizes to better persist on infected devices. Finally, this variant also contains an interesting piece of comment by the malware author written in the macro code, which made us feel obliged to take a closer look in the first place.

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Penn State Health Selects Cerner's Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle

Penn State Health Selects Cerner's Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle

November 03, 2016

Academic health system to integrate revenue cycle management platform with existing EHR

Penn State Health has selected Cerner Millennium Revenue Cycle™, a patient-centric financial management platform designed to optimize provider and user workflow. The new platform will be integrated with the existing Cerner electronic health record (EHR) at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, resulting in a Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle™ across the health system, including more than 60 clinics.

As part of the expanded relationship, Cerner will also extend the clinical and financial health information technology system to Penn State Health St. Joseph, previously St. Joseph Regional Health Network.

“Having one integrated platform will support our efforts to create seamless coordination and collaboration among our departments and venues of care,” said Stephen Massini, chief financial officer, Penn State Health. “Incorporating clinical data into our revenue cycle processes will enable a better experience for our patients and providers and enhance our ability to holistically manage our patient’s financial responsibility.”

Cerner’s Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle is designed to support clinicians and staff to update the billing process throughout the patient’s visit, enhance clinical documentation to help improve reimbursement and limit claims errors. Patients will benefit by having direct access to their clinical results and a streamlined financial experience, including visibility of their financial liability from a single source.

“This expanded relationship makes Penn State Health a robust academic client with an integrated health IT system that supports the delivery of high quality care across the continuum,” said Dick Flanigan, president of Cerner HS. “We look forward to providing Penn State Health with a platform that works for the organization versus the organization working around a disrupted and disparate system.”

Estonia: Digital powerhouse offering e-residency to non-nationals

Ask anyone what the most digitally advanced country in the world is and it’s a safe bet that they’ll say either the US or China, followed by Japan or even the UK. Not many would think of a tiny northern European country in the former Soviet Block, but Estonia is a decade ahead of other developed countries in terms of technological advancement.



Estonia: Digital powerhouse offering e-residency to non-nationals

Jon Hunter Named BMC’s Worldwide Head of Sales for Digital Service Management

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Brocade to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results on November 21, 2016 (NASDAQ:BRCD)

Brocade to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results on November 21, 2016 (NASDAQ:BRCD)

Solutions - Precision Voltage Reference Drives Up to 200mA, Achieves 0.1ppm/mA Load Regulation & 10ppm/°C Drift

MILPITAS, CA – November 3, 2016 – Linear Technology announces the LT6658, a precision voltage reference that incorporates two high current output buffers. Based on a 2.5V bandgap voltage reference, each output can be separately configured for any voltage between 2.5V and 6V. Both outputs offer 0.05% initial accuracy, 10ppm/°C temperature drift and only 1.5ppm of low frequency noise. The outputs can drive up to 50mA and 150mA, respectively, and sink up to 20mA. Typical load regulation is only 0.1ppm/mA with up to 150mA of load current. In parallel, the buffer outputs can be combined for even higher current capability.



Solutions - Precision Voltage Reference Drives Up to 200mA, Achieves 0.1ppm/mA Load Regulation & 10ppm/°C Drift

Inspira Health Network Selects Cerner's Clinical and Population Health Management Systems

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Inspira Health Network Selects Cerner's Clinical and Population Health Management Systems

November 02, 2016

Regional health care network brings advanced health IT platform to pursue improved care delivery and management

Inspira Health Network, one of the region’s leading networks of health care providers, has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement a network-wide health IT system. Named InspiraOne, Cerner’s integrated health IT system will support the delivery of care across the full continuum of primary, acute and advanced services.

“We see InspiraOne as more than just a health IT system. It’s the catalyst to dramatically transform how we are able to care for our patients at our more than 100 points of access,” said John DiAngelo, president and CEO of Inspira Health Network. “Since engaging with us after the Siemens Health Services acquisition, Cerner has proven its dedication to help us achieve our goals to improve the quality and safety of our patient care.”

As part of InspiraOne, Cerner’s Millennium® electronic health record (EHR) will be extended across Inspira’s three hospitals and more than 100 ambulatory clinics, which will displace 17 disparate IT platforms, including the Soarian clinical platform.

Inspira will also implement HealtheIntentSM, Cerner’s near real-time population health management platform designed to aggregate data from multiple sources into a single patient record. With HealtheIntent, Inspira will provide more than 1,100 clinicians a more holistic view of a person’s health status and help them develop insights and identify opportunities to improve care coordination across five counties.

Additionally, Inspira will leverage Cerner’s remote-hosting services for the management and support of its EHR, an offering where Cerner will manage and deliver clinical data from its data center.

For seven consecutive years, Cerner has been named “Best in KLAS” for its CernerWorks Remote Hosting Option. The KLAS report is based on feedback from thousands of health care providers globally who rank health care suppliers based on their ability to meet the needs of health care organizations.

“Inspira encourages its population to lead healthier lives by creating a culture of proactive health management. The network-wide EHR and population health management platforms will help Inspira manage and engage individuals across the region it serves,” said Dick Flanigan, president of Cerner HS. “We are grateful for the confidence Inspira has shown in Cerner, and we are proud to welcome them to the Cerner family.”

From IBM:

Prana Studios Taps IBM Cloud to Create Complex Visual Special Effects

Leading visual effects and animation studio chooses IBM Cloud to run and develop critical applications for the creation of next-generation visual effects

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BANGALORE, India - 02 Nov 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Prana Studios, a leading 3-D animation and visual effects studio, has selected IBM Cloud to run new high resolution rendering jobs that are required to create high-quality visual effects.

As an award-winning visual effects company, Prana collaborates with major movie studios and independent production companies around the world to create state-of-the-art visual imagery for full-length feature animated, live action and hybrid films. It also creates visual effects for special-venue attractions and live shows.

Earlier this year, the company turned to IBM Cloud as its platform of choice to create the Ultra-High Definition (UHD) special visual effects for a high end theme park attraction in the U.S. The project required over one thousand bare-metal servers to render a highly photo-realistic 24K 3D-Stereo show in a format that was twelve times larger than the typical 2K UHD content projects Prana manages. That’s because the imagery and animation would be presented by 12 projectors simultaneously, each projecting at 60 Frames Per Second (FPS) in 3-D stereo across a massive 400-foot wide U-shaped screen inside the attraction. (Most movies project at 24 FPS.)

Though Prana operates a large data center of its own, it turned to IBM and IBM Cloud for its high-performance bare-metal servers, global scalability with 47 data centers around the world, and flexible infrastructure and pricing. 

“Scaling to cloud was the logical next step for us to continue to operate efficiently even on such a complex project,” said Anish Mulani, President and COO. “In our experience with other cloud vendors they relied too much on virtual machines and a template approach to the technical and cost aspects. This was further augmented by the excellent support team from IBM who were available on site to understand our specific workflows and engineer the cloud infrastructure to our performance requirements.”

“Prana has earned a reputation as an innovative, creative powerhouse, so its selection of the IBM Cloud as the platform for this unique attraction was a natural fit,” said Vivek Malhotra, Director, Cloud, IBM India and South Asia. “From the compute-intensive work for this project to the need to connect with its client, the power and availability of our bare metal servers helped them achieve their goals and make their deadlines.”

In addition to being compute-intensive work, the amusement park project was also highly iterative, with creative enhancements at every step. In order to enable Prana to turn-around the show in the time allocated, the rendered output on the IBM Cloud was transferred back to Prana’s on-premise servers via IBM Aspera’s high-speed file transfer technology. This ensured the client continued to engage with Prana creatively without having to worry about the impact of creative changes on the production schedule and quality of the show.

IBM Cloud delivers fast, easy and automated access to public, private and hybrid cloud services to help clients digitally transform. IBM Cloud is a growing collection of services including analytics, mobile, networking, storage, Internet of Things and cognitive computing. As a result, IBM helps companies securely manage and gain insight into their data no matter where it resides.

Prana is a wholly-owned subsidiary of parent company, Prana Studios Inc., in Los Angeles, California.

About Prana Studios

For more information on Prana visit www.pranastudios.com.

About IBM Cloud

For more on IBM Cloud visit www.ibm.com/cloud-computing. 

From IBM:

IBM Named A Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

- IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale deliver scalable storage for file, objects and big data analytics
- Nuance Communications moves critical data for new application development between file, object and cloud

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ARMONK, NY - 02 Nov 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has been recognized as a Leader for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage in Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.

According to Gartner, “Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have the highest scores for their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. A vendor in the Leaders quadrant has the market share, credibility, and marketing and sales capabilities needed to drive the acceptance of new technologies. Market Leaders will typically be able to execute strongly across multiple geographies with products that cover both distributed file systems and object storage offerings. They will also have consistent financial performance, broad platform support and flexible deployments models.”

Earlier this year in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Object Storage2 report, IBM received the highest scores for key use cases important to customers, including: Analytics, Archiving and Cloud Storage. Further extending the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution offering, IBM recently announced new public cloud services that complement it’s scalable object storage on premises offering with unique hybrid cloud options across the expansive network of IBM Cloud data centers around the world.

“IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Cloud Object Storage have combined to offer clients a flexible, scalable solution that can be deployed on premises and also use public cloud services,” said Ed Walsh, general manager of IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure. “By automating the movement of object storage to the cloud within Spectrum Scale, IBM’s Transparent Cloud Tieringextends traditional storage in cloud repositories with policy driven, simplicity, security, and control.”

Nuance: Managing R&D Data on HPC Grid with IBM Spectrum Scale

To support its research and development teams, voice and language solutions leader, Nuance Communications utilizes high performance computing (HPC) grids for the development of new applications – everything from speech recognition and imaging to mobile-enabled and healthcare functions. The team tasked with providing the infrastructure for its globally dispersed developers sought a solution to provide scale and anytime, anywhere accessibility, with regionalization and secure segmentation as necessary, to the data stored within its HPC grids.

"Spectrum Scale transparent cloud tiering not only gives us the ability to add cloud and object storage easily but also allows us to move data seamlessly between file, object, and cloud,” saidBob Houvener, Sr. Dir Global IT Infrastructure and Advanced Computing, Nuance Communications, Inc. “We can move towards maintaining a unified view of all our data under a single security and management infrastructure.”

Today, Nuance has become more efficient in its use of storage both vertically, to scale to growing capacity demands and horizontally to automatically manage different storage types, each with differing costs.

1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, October 20, 2016.ID: G00307798, Analyst(s): Julia Palmer, Arun Chandrasekaran, Raj Bala.

2  Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Object Storage report, March 31, 2016 ID: G00271719; Analyst(s): Arun Chandrasekaran, Raj Bala, Garth Landers. *Use Cases: Analytics, Archiving, Cloud Storage.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About IBM

For more on IBM Storage, visit www.ibm.com/systems/storage.

For more information on IBM Cloud Object Storage, visit https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/products/storage/object-storage/

From IBM:

IBM Drives Cloud Storage with New All-Flash and Software Defined Solutions

- Cloud enabled storage provide data access necessary for today’s cognitive business
- Unisys relies on IBM Spectrum Virtualize for new cloud services

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ARMONK, N.Y. - 02 Nov 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new hybrid cloud all-flash storage solutions developed to modernize and transform storage deployments, providing a strong bridge to the development of cognitive applications. These new solutions and software allow clients to store their valuable data where it makes the best business sense.

According to the analyst firm, Evaluator Group, flash and hybrid cloud technologies are dramatically changing the way companies deploy storage and design applications. As new applications are created--often for mobile or distributed access--the ability to store data in the right place, on the right media, and with the right access capability will become even more important.

Companies are adding cloud to lower costs, flash to increase performance, and software-defined storage to add flexibility. IBM is integrating these capabilities together with security and data management for faster return on investment.  IBM uniquely offers choice of on premise storage or software defined solution, or as a cloud service.

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite addresses the often rigid economics of data management through the opportunity to test new hybrid cloud and cognitive applications at no additional charge and by reducing software costs up to 40 percent when compared with a non-integrated solution.

“Data feeds the engine for cognitive applications that deliver client value and competitive advantage. Helping clients evolve from having data obligations to using its data to better serve its business is at the heart of today’s wide-reaching announcement,” said Ed Walsh, general manager, IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure. “Hybrid Cloud enablement, as a standard feature for new and existing users of Spectrum Virtualize gives our clients more control to store their data where it can have the most impact to its business.”

With today’s news, IBM is announcing comprehensive new solutions for clients and partners to take advantage of hybrid cloud and flash environments. New today is:

• Hybrid cloud enablement for existing and new on-premises storage: enhancements toIBM Spectrum Virtualize bring hybrid cloud capabilities for block storage to the IBM Storwize family, IBM FlashSystem V9000, IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and VersaStackTM, as well as nearly 400 storage systems from IBM and others.
• Data sharing to the cloud: IBM Spectrum Scale now syncs file and object data across on-premises and cloud storage to connect cloud native applications. Relying on access to data wherever it resides, this can drive cognitive application development.
• High density, highly scalable all-flash storage: with a new high density expansion enclosure and new 7TB and 15TB flash drives, IBM Storwize solutions can grow up to 8x larger than previous solutions without disruption. Up to 32PB of flash storage in only four racks to meet the needs of fast-growing cloud workloads in space constrained data centers.
• All-flash performance for big data and analytics workloads: IBM’s new DeepFlash Elastic Storage Server (ESS) offers up to 8x better performance than HDD based solutions for big data and analytics workloads. Built with IBM Spectrum Scale it includes virtually unlimited scaling, enterprise security features, unified file, object, and HDFS support.
• Faster decision making on larger data sets: new high-performance flash capability for IBM’s DS8880 storage system provides 2x better performance and 3x more efficient use of rack space for mission-critical applications such as credit card and banking transactions as well as airline reservations running on IBM z Systems and IBM Power Systems.

Unisys builds reliability into its federal government cloud offering with IBM Spectrum Virtualize

The world's largest companies and government organizations rely on Unisys to solve its IT and business challenges. Through the ‘Cloud and Enterprise Compute Services’ that Unisys offers to U.S. federal government clients, the company is addressing a need of data agility and lower operational costs. For Unisys, proving this functionality must come with assurances that client data will be available where and when and within a transparent price the client controls.

“We differentiate our enterprise cloud service by providing demanding performance and uptime Service Level Agreements. IBM’s flash, software, and hybrid cloud solutions help us meet these requirements through achieving the right balance of our client’s performance and cost needs,” said Steve O'Brien, Chief Architect, Enterprise Storage Services, Unisys Federal. “In systems running IBM Spectrum Virtualize software, we are able to deliver a workable conduit to hybrid cloud for enterprise block storage.”

Backed by IBM storage solutions today Unisys has built its own block storage cloud for federal government clients.  With this solution, Unisys delivers distinct and reliable gold, silver and bronze tiers of performance in a multi-tenant, software-defined storage cloud.

Availability

New hybrid, cloud enabled storage solutions based on IBM Spectrum Virtualize software will be available worldwide in early December from IBM and through IBM Business Partners.

For more information about IBM Storage, visit ibm.com/storage. Follow IBM Storage on Twitter at @IBMStorage or @IBMSystemsISVs