DC: Storage, AI, IoT, DDN, Zscaler, Sophos, Tenable, Webinars (Thur., Aug 14th Afternoon)
Articles Posted Week of Aug 4th, 2025 — Aug 10th, 2025 (329/1/8)
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Storage
Backblaze Q2 2025 Drive Stats: New 20TB+ Deep Dive, Aging Models Hold Steady
Sandisk Unveils 256 Tb Ssd For AI Workloads, Shipping In 2026
AI
How AI Agents Are Transforming The Application User Experience
Gen AI Disillusionment Looms, According To Gartner'S 2025 Hype Cycle Report
IoT
DDN News
DDN Infinia Named the Most Innovative Product of the Year in CRN's 2025 Tech Innovator Award
DDN Powers the AI Factory of the Future with Record-Breaking Performance Density
Zscaler News
Sophos News
Tenable News
This session reveals how forward-thinking organizations are leveraging AI-enabled Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) to transform compliance from a bureaucratic burden into their secret weapon for smarter security. We'll be joined by the VP of Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance at C2 Labs for a full perspective on AI and automation in GRC. Register
Storage
Backblaze Q2 2025 Drive Stats: New 20TB+ Deep Dive, Aging Models Hold Steady
Backblaze has released its Q2 2025 Drive Stats report, offering another detailed look into the health and performance of the hard drives powering its cloud storage infrastructure....more
Sandisk Unveils 256 Tb Ssd For AI Workloads, Shipping In 2026
The Sandisk UltraQLC SN670 drive comes in 256 TB and 128 TB capacities, and uses BiCS 218-layer 3D NAND with its CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) 2 Tb die design, and a PCIe gen5 NVMe interface....more
Snia Announces Storage.AI
Industry Leaders Combine Forces to Solve AI-Related Data Challenges...more
Unpacking Storage in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0
VCF 9.0 was released in mid-June and one important component in that portfolio is the storage stack. VMware's built-in storage solution VCF 9.0 had a new release of vSAN which we are going to explore further following TFD's session on this topic....more
AI
How AI Agents Are Transforming The Application User Experience
KJ Kusch, global field CTO for WalkMe, a unit of SAP, explains how the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) agents will transform the application user experience....more
AI Agents In Cybersecurity: A Practical Roadmap For Leaders
AI agents have gone from buzzword to boardroom priority in the world of cybersecurity....more
AI: Do Or Don't Believe The Hype
If you've been anywhere near a tech conference, your LinkedIn feed, or a DevOps Slack channel lately, you've probably heard someone claim AI is either the greatest productivity weapon since version control. or the world's most overhyped autocomplete....more
Gen AI Disillusionment Looms, According To Gartner'S 2025 Hype Cycle Report
The report lays out the top 4 innovations of 2025, including what's in and what's on the way out....more
IoT
Top 7 IoT Trends To Watch In 2025: What's Hot?
We are in the mid of July 2025 and the world of connected devices is evolving rapidly. Businesses, developers and consumers are keenly observing the IoT trends 2025....more
DDN News
DDN Infinia Named the Most Innovative Product of the Year in CRN's 2025 Tech Innovator Award
DDN announced that its groundbreaking AI data platform, DDN Infinia, has been named the Most Innovative Product of the Year in the AI Infrastructure category of CRN's 2025 Tech Innovator Awards....more
Now in its eighth year, DevOps Experience returns on September 25, 2025, to celebrate eight years of transformation, innovation, and community. Register
DDN Powers the AI Factory of the Future with Record-Breaking Performance Density
Proven. Powerful. MLPerf-Validated: DDN AI400X3 Sets the Bar for AI Infrastructure...more
DDN Touts MLPerf Storage Benchmark Performance
DDN announced it has set a new benchmark for performance and efficiency with its AI400X3 storage appliance in the latest MLPerf Storage v2.0 benchmarks. Powered by DDN's EXAScaler parallel file system, the AI400X3 is engineered to accelerate AI workloads....more
DDN Wins Best in Show Award for the Most Innovative Customer Implementation at FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage
DDN has received a Best in Show honor at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage for the Most Innovative Customer Implementation-recognizing the company's continued leadership in advancing the performance, scalability, and efficiency of AI and data-intensive environments....more
Zscaler News
Securing Out-of-Band (OOB) Access with Zscaler Cellular
In an environment where uninterrupted access to critical infrastructure can define operational success or failure, Out-of-Band (OOB) access is a necessity, not a luxury....more
Tracking Updates To Raspberry Robin
Raspberry Robin, also known as Roshtyak, is a malicious downloader that has been actively targeting systems since 2021 and primarily spreads through infected USB devices....more
Zscaler Sharpens Zero-Trust Approach As Ransomware Threats Escalate
As ransomware attacks evolve from encrypting data to stealing it, a zero-trust framework becomes increasingly critical. This approach replaces traditional security models with a 'never trust, always verify' posture that treats every access request as a potential threat....more
Sophos News
Shared Secret: EDR Killer In The Kill Chain
A look under the hood at a tool designed to disable protections...more
Tenable News
CVE-2025-53786: Frequently Asked Questions About Microsoft Exchange Server Hybrid Deployment Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Frequently asked questions about CVE-2025-53786, an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange Server Hybrid Deployments....more
Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Security Trails AI Usage, Putting Data at Risk, IBM Warns, as OWASP Tackles Agentic AI App Security
Check out fresh insights on AI data security from IBM's 'Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025.'...more
Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Analyzes Malware Used in SharePoint Attacks, as U.K. Boosts Cyber Assessment Framework
Check out what CISA found after it dissected malware from the latest SharePoint hacks. Plus, the U.K.'s cyber agency is overhauling its cyber framework to keep pace as threats escalate....more
How Exposure Management Moves Beyond Vulnerability Scans To A Unified View Of Risk
In this post, we look at the results of a survey taken during a recent Tenable webinar on the level of familiarity with exposure management....more
Most organizations today employ a multi-cloud environment, but finding the best fit between app interoperability, different configurations and analyzing efficiencies between cloud instances is the ultimate game of TETRIS. And with almost half of organizations using public cloud GenAI services, the struggle is real. Register
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