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PacketFabric | January 06, 2023
PacketFabric, a provider of on-demand connectivity for the enterprise cloud, has joined the Google Cloud Marketplace as a technology partner. This will allow organizations to connect multi-cloud environments to multiple 100 Gbps connections for data migration and automate direct connectivity between private cloud colocation and cloud providers on PacketFabric's private network.
PacketFabric's Cloud Router offering, available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, provides a self-service network-as-a-service platform with private and secure connectivity between cloud providers and optimized, low latency service. Using SADA’s marketplace integration services practice, PacketFabric was engaged end-to-end in the process of By joining the Google Cloud Marketplace, PacketFabric can provide organizations with an automated and optimized network solution that is secure, reliable, and cost-effective.
"PacketFabric is proud to be a NaaS leader and be available to customers on Google Cloud Marketplace. As many enterprises move to Google Cloud they now have instant access to the industry's lowest friction and most scalable multi-cloud routing solution."
Dave Ward, Chief Executive Officer, PacketFabric
The Cloud Router also lets businesses control traffic between cloud providers and regions and automate direct connections between private clouds in colocation and cloud providers. PacketFabric services are billed hourly, monthly, or up to 36 times per month. With PacketFabrics Cloud Router, organizations can maximize the use of their cloud-based applications and services by connecting their multi-cloud environments to multiple 100 Gbps connections for data migration.
About PacketFabric
PacketFabric is the Connectivity Cloud. It was built from the ground up to be flexible, scalable, fast, programmable, and secure, with no trade-offs. This lets businesses build a flexible cloud core that gives them the best digital business results. The Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform from PacketFabric uses a private optical network that can grow very quickly, the latest packet-switching technology, and automation from beginning to end. PacketFabric provides private and secure on-demand connections between hundreds of the world's best colocation facilities and cloud service providers. With an advanced Application Program Interface (API) and web portal, IT, network, and DevOps teams can set up cloud-scale connectivity in minutes.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP TOOLS, SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
OpenSynergy | March 06, 2023
OpenSynergy has announced that the ‘COQOS Hypervisor Software Development Kit’ (SDK) has been successfully ported to the STMicroelectronics Stellar family of Integrated MCUs. The software firm, based in Berlin, has collaborated with STMicroelectronics to prove that the automotive virtual platform, 'COQOS Hypervisor SDK for real-time processors', uses hardware virtualization and extends it. Virtualization allows automakers to safely and successfully run numerous processes and applications on a shared piece of hardware without interfering with one another. Future generations of the domain and zonal designs will be built on the foundation created by this method technically.
To fully utilize the vast potential of the new class of automotive MCUs, function separation by hardware virtualization is not enough. To further facilitate the integration of several applications and operating systems working simultaneously, various functions are placed side-by-side on virtualization technology such as COQOS Hypervisor SDK. OpenSynergy's COQOS Hypervisor SDK includes a hypervisor and virtual devices, enabling the systems to connect without additional hardware. Thus, ‘VIRTIO-CAN’ is used instead of traditional CAN buses (a CAN implementation in shared memory, instead of wires). Since 2018, OpenSynergy has been an active member of the OASIS Open consortium, specifying the essential devices per the open VIRTIO standard for developing these virtual devices.
Using the COQOS hypervisor in conjunction with STMicroelectronics' Stellar virtualization technology, it is possible to entirely isolate the software from the hardware, allowing the operating systems and the applications executing on them to function in isolation from one another. They can be modularly updated also.
Philippe Prats, Vice President of Automotive Marketing and Applications, EMEA Region, STMicroelectronics said, "We developed Stellar Integration MCUs for Software Defined Vehicles specifically to deliver hardware virtualization able to integrate many real-time and multi-ASIL vECUs".
(Source – CISION PR Web)
Hardware virtualization enables domain functions (such as power distribution, body control, and GW functions) to function concurrently on a single Stellar MCU. Stellar's high-performance, multi-core design expands integrated functions necessary for a zonal or domain-based strategy. Spatial aggregation of functions, such as zonal computers, will be favored by future architectures as it reduces the cabling required for the entire vehicle. In addition, reduced vehicle weight and simplified integration are possible due to the cost savings made possible by harnessing via zonalization and virtual ECUs.
About OpenSynergy
OpenSynergy, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Berlin, provides embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles. Hypervisor and communication products enable integrated driving. It's communications platforms include the automotive-leading Bluetooth stack Blue SDK. Many OEMs use it as their Bluetooth reference. OpenSynergy offers complementary Automotive-Grade software components for the Android Open Source Project to enhance Android's automotive adoption. In addition, it offers engineering services for product customization.
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WatchGuard Technologies | February 21, 2023
On February 20, 2023, WatchGuard Technologies released a line of tabletop firewall appliances for remote and distributed businesses called the Firebox T25/T25-W, T45/T45-POE/T45-W-POE, and T85-POE. They are part of the Unified Security Platform architecture of WatchGuard Cloud and can be managed from a distance.
These devices offer secure solutions for small offices, home offices, retail settings, and remote users, with little network configuration and management needed. Different devices have different throughput and port options to meet the needs of different businesses.
Ryan Poutre, product manager at WatchGuard Technologies, said, "Attackers pose advanced and sophisticated threats to IT environments of all sizes and types, but SMBs and branch offices usually don't have dedicated technical staff to install, configure, and manage network security appliances." He also said, "This new generation of fireboxes takes full advantage of our unified security platform architecture." This lets MSPs offer the strong solutions and easy management they need to meet the needs of a wide range of customers and deployment scenarios."
(Source: ITWire)
The Fireboxes are made to help managed service providers offer a simple, reliable solution to a wide range of customers and deployment scenarios.
About WatchGuard Technologies
WatchGuard Technologies is a globally recognized leader in providing award-winning products and services with a focus on network security, endpoint security, secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence. With over 18,000 security resellers and service providers and 250,000 trusted customers worldwide, the company aims to offer enterprise-grade security that is simple and accessible to businesses of all types and sizes. WatchGuard Technologies was started in 1996 and has its main office in Seattle, Washington. It also has offices in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America to serve the needs of midmarket businesses and distributed enterprises.
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