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Wiz has tons of competitors, and Microsoft is one of them, so are Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Crowstrike, SentinelOne, etc... Wiz is definately a leader but are in no way a monopoly, so I do not see this as an FTC play to stop the deal.

I had a very similar experience, I was leading the selection process for our new endpoint security vendor, Crowdstrike people: - verbally attacked/abused a selection team member - were ranting constantly about golf with our execs - were dismissive and just annoying throughout - raised hell with our execs when they learned they were not going to POC, basically went through everyone of them simultaneously - I had to get a rep kicked out of the rfp as he was constantly disrespectful

We did not pick them, and cancelled any other relashionship we had with them, in IR space by example.

Im running a very small podcast hosting company, and spotify is NOT a good player in this space. They are not respecting the standard in any way. As an example, instead of linking to the source url, they make their own copy and serve that instead in the app, so the hoster does not see any downloads, cannot do statistics, etc. It also add copy protection... They also do not refresh the original URL regularly or the content, so if a change was made to the file , description or image it will not show up on spotify unless you do some custom stuff (breaking other players).

So the break is already happening in this world...

In a nutshell (I have been in Cybersecurity for 18 years...) one key aspect of cybersecurity is to centralize all logs of security (and a few other tools) in a central repository and use that data to identify threats through rules, correlation, ML, analytics or any other means (SIEM space). Also compliance requirements...

Basically every vendor has its own formats, fields and the way to centralize this data (syslog still rules...) and parse it in a common way (a source IP is a source IP in all tech) has been a pain point since forever. There is basically a whole industry around it, and a whole bunch of logstash parsers have been scarificed. Even better is that vendors have a tendency to change format once in a while, so even some you have will break way more often then they should. Many vendors dont see that as an issue as it locks their clients in.

This is another attempt at solving this. It does seem to have traction for once, and nobody wants to piss off Amazon, if they make this a prerequesite to be on their marketplace then it will actually work.

OKTA SLAs and support terms specifically exclude AWS outages, so why would they?

Power footprint also confirms that the compute density is pretty low.

We built a few racks of Supermicro AMD servers (4 X computes in 2U), and we load tested it to 23kva peak usage (about 1/2 full with nthat type of nodes only, our DC would let us go further)

Were also over 1 PB of disks (unclear how much of this is redundancy), also in NVMe (15.36 TB x 24 in 2U is a lot of storage...)

Other then that not a bad concept, not sure of a premium they will charge or what will be comparable on price.

I'm working on many projects with RedHat, and have heavily dealt with IBM in the past.

I can definitely confirm that the IBM statement is true. Execs signed on many projects, and we were always stuck with a blue pile of unusable garbage at the end. For twice the price orginally agreed to...

Working with RedHat as of today is still, well, working with RedHat. Highly competent people building things that will run well for a long time, and (so far) still at a reasonable cost. I do start to see some changes on pricing (high increases are on the horizon...), and more red tape around things that don't fit in the standard boxes. So i'm trying to decouple some areas from being fully dependant to more standardized/vendor agnostic models to keep options opened (mainly in container space).

This is probably part of the reason why it's OEM-only. That way AMD can control where it's used, avoiding it competing with it's own EPYC server chips.

Happened here in Canada with Teleglobe. All their assets (mainly buried fiber links) were purchased for cheap by Tata Communication, which has been growing since.

Anyone in the security field has used any of these sites and can give feedback? I am looking for short/remote gigs to supplement my work now, could be interesting.

I was a full-time consultant for a while but decided to go back being a full time employee due to a new baby in the house.

Downtown Montreal here, speed right now: 83 mbit/s down 13 mbit/s up

Quite good, almost as fast as my home connection.

Wow, this is extremely useful and really addresses a major pain point.

I love it!

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