Cubic announces NIAP Common Criteria Testing Validation for DTECH Labs Products with Aruba VMC

Cubic Corp. announced that its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division completed National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria testing and validation for its DTECH M3X and M3-SE servers using version 8.2 of Virtual Mobility Controller (VMC) from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. 

The M3X-APP and M3-SE-SVR4 are now listed as IPsec VPN Gateway, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) Access System and Traffic Filtering Firewall solutions on the NSA CSfC Components List.

The combination of Aruba VMC with Cubic’s modular servers provides highly secure networking utilizing VPN, Wireless Lan Controller (WLC) and firewall capabilities in a small ruggedized platform that meets MIL-STD 810 and 461 test methods.

Cubic offers networked Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defense, intelligence, security and commercial missions. These solutions provide information capture, assessment, exploitation and dissemination in a secure network-centric environment. Enabled by six decades of success, Cubic’s commitment to continuous innovation ensures that customers are prepared for their next mission.

Cubic's DTECH M3 Series servers such as the M3X-APP and M3-SE-SVR4 are a crucial component of many U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and international defense partners’ programs and infrastructure. 

The Aruba and Cubic solution allows the hyper-enabled operator to safely transmit secure/classified data over available commercial or unsecured networks. The Aruba and Cubic products validated in this process represent a best-in-class solution offering unsurpassed quality and performance.

“Common criteria validation and the inclusion of Cubic equipment on the National Security Agency (NSA) CSfC Components List marks a significant evolution in our CSfC partnering strategy. We are trusted by our most demanding customers to provide a reliable and secure solution for their most challenging missions,” said Mike Barthlow, senior vice president and general manager, Rugged IoT, Cubic Mission Solutions. “This milestone represents an important step forward in our commitment to both the CSfC program and to our broad base of DoD customers with secure wireless needs.”

AstroNova releases TrojanLabel T5, a professional, in-line digital color label press and finishing system

AstroNova Inc., a data visualization technology company, announced global launch of the TrojanLabel T5, a larger version of its TrojanLabel T4 professional label press and finishing system, with the addition of UV flexo varnish capabilities.

The T5 all-in-one digital print and finish in-line labeling solution was demonstrated for the first time in September at Labelexpo Europe 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The T5 is already up and running at customer sites in Europe and the United States.

The TrojanLabel T5 is built on AstroNova’s TrojanLabel T3 Digital Inkjet Label Press platform integrated with a smart, compact converter unit featuring UV flexo varnish, lamination, rotary die-cutting, slitting, and waste removal. Following the introduction of the T4 two years ago, the T5 is the company’s latest high-production label printing and converting solution for the professional printing market. 

The T5 adds several additional enhancements such as spot and SUPERgloss varnish, lamination, slit and rewind, and cold foil application for silver, gold, and metallic decorative accents, all in a single compact platform.

With the addition of the T5 to its product line-up, AstroNova continues to offer a broad range of products to suit a variety of labeling and production needs. From QuickLabel tabletop, on-demand printers to TrojanLabel full-print finishing systems, and a range of complementary solutions including software, label materials, accessories, and global technical support, AstroNova provides total peace of mind to customers and channel partners alike.

“The T5 is a great step up in our offerings, providing professional printers and large brand owners with a high-performance system that delivers great results from start to finish,” said AstroNova president and CEO Greg Woods. “We are excited about the addition of this unique, versatile solution to our TrojanLabel family of professional digital color label presses and specialty printers.”

Borusan Holding adopts A10 Networks Thunder SSLi to protect network from hidden threats

A10 Networks announced that Borusan Holding has selected A10 Thunder SSL Insight to help protect its network from hidden threats that may come in with the growing amount of encrypted internet traffic. Thunder SSLi is a comprehensive SSL/TLS decryption solution that enables security devices to analyze enterprise internet traffic against potential threats.

The vast majority of web and application traffic is encrypted using SSL/TLS to ensure data integrity and privacy, not necessarily security. This creates real issues as security tools become blind to any nefarious activity happening in encrypted traffic - before the attack, during the attack, and even after the attack. Criminals take advantage of this and hide attacks in an enterprise’s encrypted traffic.

Guarding against such hidden threats is a top priority for Borusan. Volumes of encrypted web traffic were rising dramatically, driven by the adoption of Microsoft Office 365 and other cloud-based applications. Outbound SSL traffic was a growing blind spot.

Borusan evaluated the SSL inspection products and chose Thunder SSLi because of its interception technology, source-side NAT support, and integrated load balancing, which helps to distribute internet traffic between proxy appliances.

Thunder SSLi decrypts traffic across all ports, enabling third-party security devices to analyze all enterprise traffic without degrading performance. Thunder SSLi decrypts HTTPS traffic and forwards it in clear text to the firewall, proxy, IPS and deep-packet inspection solutions. Thunder SSLi then re-encrypts traffic and sends it off to its final destination.

“Today, encryption has become ubiquitous. And while encryption can ensure the privacy of the data, it can put enterprises at risk,” said Yasir Liaqatullah, vice president of product management at A10 Networks. "Cyber criminals are increasingly taking advantage of encrypted traffic to launch phishing and ransomware attacks, and to spread viruses and Trojans embedded into documents. Thunder SSLi is a high-performance, dedicated SSL inspection solution that allows enterprises to remove the blind spots while maintaining compliance with privacy standards.”

Cisco joins with Perch Security to help MSPs protect, detect and respond to an increasing threat landscape

Cisco partnered with Perch Security to deliver a new security solution for managed service providers (MSPs) who are challenged by an evolving threat landscape. MSPs are on the front lines of protecting their clients against data breaches, malware, ransomware and other attacks for which they are often unprepared. 

To address these threats, Cisco is applying its security expertise and portfolio to MSPs in partnership with Perch to bring them the tools that will strengthen their security posture and better protect both themselves and their clients.

The combined technology solution offers clear benefits for Cisco partners and their customers by correlating events from both the endpoint and network, reducing ticket counts and lowering labor costs. 

Perch has integrated with Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints and Cisco Umbrella, ingesting their logs and feeding them into Perch’s security information and event management (SIEM) solution.

Its features include Perch’s Security Operations Center (SOC) that provides event correlation, alert review, and custom alert options; and Perch’s Duo integration correlates Duo Multi-Factor Authentication and endpoint visibility with data from other Perch-connected cloud services, such as Office 365, Cisco Umbrella and Cisco AMP. 

By combining these solutions into a single pane of glass, alerts are correlated and consolidated to reduce tool sprawl. Perch feeds data from cloud services and security products into a single data lake that is monitored by Perch SOC.

This announcement ties into the newly created Cisco Secured MSP offer, which includes a free, internal use license program and gives MSPs the ability to elevate their internal security and protect themselves from attack. This works by using DNS solution from Cisco Umbrella for MSP, next-generation endpoint detection and response with Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) and cloud-based threat detection from Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud. 

The Cisco secured MSP offer brings the best of security to every MSP and the knowledge and training to get it right the first time through the Protect Your House course on ConnectWise MSP University. Cisco helps partners grow managed service revenue with incentives, promotions and market development funds (MDF). 

Teradici broadens support for Hyperconverged Infrastructure offerings with HPE SimpliVity

In an effort to provide a more streamlined and flexible option to reduce the complexity in delivering services from various data center and cloud combinations, Teradici expanded its support for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions. 

With this expansion, Cloud Access Software can better offer organizations a single interface for remote desktops that can be deployed across the combination of widely used on-premises, private, or public clouds that works best for them.

With Cloud Access, users get the software, tools, and support to migrate legacy applications, as-is, to the cloud or datacenter of their choice; deploy, manage, and access virtualized workspaces from any combination of private or public data centers; and, manage and optimize existing PCoIP endpoints & hardware (including PCoIP Remote Workstation Cards). 

It also scales business effortlessly and improves administrative efficiency by automatically provisioning remote workstations, managing cloud compute costs and brokering PCoIP connections to remote Windows or Linux workstations, from a single console.

Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures are now a reality for many enterprises, offering a practical solution to provide desktops for remote employees, improve data security, and prepare for disaster recovery.

Teradici Cloud Access Software and its included Cloud Access Manager simplifies the configuration and deployment of remote desktops, regardless of physical location. 

Valued for its high security and reliable performance in even the most demanding use cases, Cloud Access Software can provide Windows or Linux desktop access from a wide variety of on-premises data centers and private clouds utilizing HPE SimpliVity, KVM, Nutanix AHV, or VMware ESXi; from public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure); or combinations of the above, all utilizing a single, simple interface that reduces the support required from enterprise IT teams.

HPE SimpliVity is designed to simplify the delivery of virtual machines at scale, enabling IT administrators to back up, clone, and restore virtual machines quickly, easily and cost effectively, without requiring specialized skills. 

The ability to use Cloud Access Software within an HPE SimpliVity solution provides an option that supports Teradici PCoIP technology, renowned for its efficiency, security, and visual fidelity in delivering virtual desktops and workstations to a variety of devices, including PCoIP Zero Clients, thin clients, and software-defined endpoints. 

For those who already have Teradici technology deployed in other data centers or as part of their public or private cloud deployments, this further simplifies the addition of the HPE SimpliVity platform to their technology stack.

“We see a wide diversity of cloud computing needs, based on each organization’s infrastructure and business requirements,” said Ziad Lammam, vice president of product management for Teradici. “Our aim is to reduce complexity and provide the flexibility to deploy virtual desktops across whatever hybrid or multicloud implementation works best for our customers. Ensuring that Cloud Access Software is easy to deploy across a wide range of HCI solutions is a key initiative to meet those customer needs.”

“Teradici has recently joined the HPE Technology Partner Program as a Silver Tier member, and Teradici Cloud Access Software has now been validated with HPE SimpliVity and ProLiant Servers,” said Carl Shanahan, WW Sr. Program Manager, HPE Technology Partner Program. “HPE is committed to innovating new solutions and enabling mutual growth together with our partners to solve our customers’ biggest business problems. Together we can offer our customers our latest validated technology to accelerate innovation and deliver business value.”

SolarWinds improves digital transformation with Microsoft Azure, helps tech pros better monitor, manage, secure hybrid IT infrastructures and applications

SolarWinds announced this week a wave of updates across its IT Operations Management offering, including the Orion Platform suite of products, and its application performance management (APM) suite. This extends SolarWinds support for organizations investing in Microsoft Azure as their digital transformation partner, and offers technology professionals the comprehensive ability to monitor, manage, and secure hybrid IT operations.

SolarWinds announced updates spanning both its SaaS-delivered APM suite, and the SolarWinds Orion Platform, which scales to encompass monitoring of on-premises and cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure, with support for monitoring Azure IaaS (Windows and Linux) and PaaS services, as well as Office 365.

SolarWinds now includes AppOptics and Pingdom (part of the SaaS-delivered APM suite). Included in AppOptics is the capability to monitor key Azure services and extended support to provide powerful application performance monitoring with tracing and code-level troubleshooting for applications running on an Azure App Service. 

Combined with the integration between AppOptics and Loggly, this extends its full-stack traces-to-logs support to provide comprehensive monitoring of Azure, applications running on Azure, and the logs created by those applications. Pingdom also extends support of Azure through the recently released Pingdom API 3.1, which makes it even easier to capture performance and availability data from Azure web applications.

The Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) adds new database performance analysis and recommendations for Azure SQL Database Managed Instances and adds support for the latest versions of various databases including SQL Server 2019, Oracle 19, MariaDB 10, and MySQL 8.

Its Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) provides an improved ability to monitor and alert on changes made within Windows systems running on Azure IaaS and adds support for detecting and tracking changes on Linux servers.

Orion Maps now includes editing capabilities to deliver improved context and relevant visualizations with background images, and more. The SolarWinds Service Desk (SWSD) integrates with the Orion Platform for streamlined IT Service Management (ITSM) governance and workflow. This integration improves time-to-resolution by automatically creating IT incident tickets in SWSD when an Orion alert is triggered; and the cost calculator for Azure identifies total spend for cloud services across one or several Azure subscriptions as a free tool for tech pros.

To ease customers’ public cloud migrations, SolarWinds and Microsoft have partnered to certify the Orion Platform and its modules for Azure, and make them available within the Azure Marketplace. SolarWinds has added support for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance as the Orion database, helping customers reduce management overhead and total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with traditional database deployments.

“SolarWinds customers can now enjoy the benefits of cloud when choosing Azure for their network and systems management products,” said Wisam Hirzalla, director product marketing for Azure at Microsoft. “We’re delighted to have SolarWinds enable customers to run their IT operations solution in the Microsoft cloud."

With this support for running on Azure, SolarWinds empowers organizations with the deployment flexibility they need in today’s hybrid environments. Through the Azure Marketplace, customers can deploy the SolarWinds systems and network management software on Azure in typically as little as 30 minutes, and existing customers can migrate on-premises deployments of the Orion Platform and its modules to Azure-deployed instances.

Supermicro boosts performance using high-density, embedded servers with the Intel Xeon E-2200 processors

Super Micro Computer enhanced on Thursday performance on a range of servers, workstations, and motherboards that leverage the new Intel Xeon E-2200 processors. 

In addition to refreshed four- and six-core processors, Intel has introduced new eight-core processors where the top frequency rate can increase to 5 GHz from 4.5 GHz on specific processors with Turbo Boost, bringing up to a 16 percent gain in multi-threaded integer operations. 

The Intel Xeon E-2200 family also supports 128GB of 2666 MHz memory, double the amount from the previous processor generation.  

Supermicro's X11SC-series motherboards for Intel Xeon E-2100 will also support the new Intel Xeon E-2200 processors with eight different models in Micro-ATX, Mini-ITX, and Wide I/O (WIO) form factors for a variety of end markets. Customers can use these motherboards for entry-level servers, SMB systems, workstations, edge computing, and other appliances. 

By installing motherboards based on the Intel Xeon E-2200, customers can increase computing power without additional system reconfiguration requirements, whether they are using an optimized Supermicro chassis, or one of their own. The new Intel Xeon E-2200 processors include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) for enhanced application code and data security.

The Intel Xeon E-2200 processors will instantly increase the computing capability of selected Supermicro systems across several product families. Enterprise and SMB customers can get more performance out of their entry-level 5019C-series servers and 5039C-series workstations.

Data centers that implement MicroBlade and MicroCloud high-density systems, as well as users of the SuperBlade GPU Blade, will also benefit greatly from the additional cores and higher frequency in their multi-node implementations. 

As edge computing continues to grow with IoT and 5G deployments, the Intel Xeon E-2200 processors will enable the addition of more end devices and local processing to support new services with 1019C and 5019C rackmount servers.

"At Supermicro, we design our building block motherboards, chassis, and system solutions to enable a rapid transition to the latest processors," said Ivan Tay, vice president, product management, Supermicro. "With the latest Intel Xeon E-2200 processors running up to eight cores and up to 5 GHz, our customers can quickly realize performance gains in their power-efficient systems."