Value Journal | Issue 22 | May 2018

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Issue 22 // May 2018

DELL EMC TAKES OPEN NETWORKING TO THE EDGE FOR NEXT-GENERATION ACCESS New platform family and software bundles enhance SD-WAN to speed digital transformation and expand opportunities for service providers and enterprises. Dell EMC has introduced its Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) family, the first-to-market software-defined wide area network solution (SD-WAN) with the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor, to help speed digital transformation by connecting the enterprise edge to the cloud via universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE). The new virtualized solutions will enhance or displace expensive fixed-function access hardware.

As a leading use case, the Dell EMC VEP provides next-generation access to the network via SD-WAN. By enhancing WAN operations and economics, service providers and enterprise customers can drive growth,

strengthen competitive differentiation and improve the end-user experience. Built with advanced intelligence for network virtualization and software-defined architecture, the Dell EMC VEP4600 provides an open Intel architecture-based platform to support multiple simultaneous virtual network functions (VNF). Numerous proprietary physical devices can be consolidated into this Continued on page 3

Microsoft announces new intelligent security innovations The new security features enable enterprises to secure their data and networks more easily.

Microsoft has announced several new intelligent security tools and technologies to help enterprises more easily secure their data and networks against today’s biggest threats as well as address

emerging threats aimed at IoT and edge devices. Microsoft is introducing Azure Sphere, the industry’s first holistic platform for creating highly secured, connected MCU devices on the intelligent edge. Featuring an entirely new class of MCUs with more than five times the power of legacy MCUs, an OS custom built for IoT security, and a turnkey cloud security service that guards every Azure Sphere device. With Azure Sphere, Microsoft extends the boundaries of the intelligent edge, to power and secure an

entirely new category of devices. The firm has introduced several new intelligent security features for its Microsoft 365 commercial cloud offering designed to help IT and security professionals simplify how they manage security across their enterprises. Microsoft has released Microsoft Secure Score and Attack Simulator. Secure Score makes it easier for organizations to determine which controls to enable to help protect users, data and devices by quickly assessing readiness and providing an

overall security benchmark score. It will also let organizations compare their results to those with similar profiles using built-in machine learning. Attack Simulator, a part of Office 365 Threat Intelligence, lets security teams run simulated attacks to event-test their employees’ responses and tune configurations accordingly. Also available with the upcoming Windows 10 update, are new automated investigation and remediation capabilities in Windows Continued on page 3

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