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We are proud to announce that our solution, Raysync, has been awarded as the ‘Best Virtualisation Support’ in Data Mover Challenge (DMC) 2021 at Supercomputing Asia 2021.

In an effort to further enhance a company’s cyber defences, we want to highlight a common cyber-attack that everyone should be aware of – phishing.

“Phishing” is the most common type of cyber-attack that affects organizations like ours. Phishing attacks can take many forms, but they all share a common goal – getting you to share sensitive information such as login credentials, credit card information, or bank account details.

Although we maintain controls to help protect our networks and computers from cyber threats, we rely on you to be our first line of defence.

We’ve outlined a few different types of phishing attacks to watch out for:

Phishing: In this type of attack, hackers impersonate a real company to obtain your login credentials. You may receive an e-mail asking you to verify your account details with a link that takes you to an imposter login screen that delivers your information directly to the attackers.

Spear Phishing: Spear phishing is a more sophisticated phishing attack that includes customized information that makes the attacker seem like a legitimate source. They may use your name and phone number and refer to [Your Company Name] in the e-mail to trick you into thinking they have a connection to you, making you more likely to click a link or attachment that they provide.

Whaling: Whaling is a popular ploy aimed at getting you to transfer money or send sensitive information to an attacker via email by impersonating a real company executive. Using a fake domain that appears similar to your client (hallandleepartnerss.com), they look like normal emails from a high-level official of the company, typically the management, and ask you for sensitive information (including usernames and passwords).

Shared Document Phishing: You may receive an e-mail that appears to come from file-sharing sites like Dropbox or Google Drive alerting you that a document has been shared with you. The link provided in these e-mails will take you to a fake login page that mimics the real login page and will steal your account credentials.

To avoid these phishing schemes, please observe the following email best practices:

·        Do not click on links or attachments from senders that you do not recognize. Be especially wary of .zip or other compressed or executable file types.

·        Do not provide sensitive personal information (like usernames and passwords) over email.

·        Watch for email senders that use suspicious or misleading domain names.

·        Inspect URLs carefully to make sure they’re legitimate and not imposter sites.

·        Do not try to open any shared document that you’re not expecting to receive.

·        If you can’t tell if an email is legitimate or not, please forward it to [email protected].

·        Be especially cautious when opening attachments or clicking links if you receive an email containing a warning banner indicating that it originated from an external source.

It is essential for everyone to keep each other safe from cyber threats by following these tips. Hope you find them useful!

Imagine this…

You just spent a lot on a rack of servers and multiple GPUs to solve your computational problems.

You don’t know it yet, but your GPUs are mostly left untouched even with finely tuned models and servers, so you end up wasting space, energy, and well. your power bills.

GigaIO™ solves this problem with FabreX – the highest performance, lowest latency rack-scale network you can get.

With FabreX, you can now increase utilisation and eliminate over provisioning of resources, which helps reduce cooling expenses. On top of that, you’re also able to save space with fewer power-consuming servers and accelerators for the exact same performance.

You must be wondering…

What is GigaIO™?

GigaIO™ provides Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure solutions, which comes in both hardware and software.

The hardware consists of:

·        FabreX Top of Rack (TOR) Switch

·        FabreX PCIe Gen4 Adapter

GigaIO™ FabreX™ Network Adapter Card enables non-blocking low-latency PCIe Gen4 which gives AI/ML, HPC, and Data Analytics users the flexibility to create exactly the system they need for optimised performance and reduced total cost of ownership.

·        Accelerator Pooling Appliance

The GigaIO™ Gen4 Accelerator Pooling Appliance is the industry’s highest performing PCIe accelerator appliance fully supporting PCIe Gen4 with up to 1Tb/sec bandwidth into and out of the box. Support up to 8 double-width PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 accelerator cards with up to 300W delivered to every slot; and 2 PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 low-profile slots.

 Besides GPUs, it also supports FPGAs, IPUs, DPUs, thin-NVMe-servers and specialty AI chips.

 The software offered:

 ·        FabreX Software

A Linux-based, resource-efficient software layers engine that drives the performance and dynamic composability of GigaIO’s Software-Defined HardwareTM (SDH).

It integrates with Bright Cluster Manager that supports popular HPC workload schedulers such as SLURM, PBS Pro & OpenPBS, LSF, Altair Grid Engine, Kubernetes.

For infrastructure integration it supports Bright Cluster Manager VMware vSphere integration and Supermicro SuperCloud Composer.

What solution does GigaIO™ offer?

Through an all-new architecture, GigaIO™ offers a hyper-performance network that enables a unified, software-driven composable infrastructure.

In other words, GigaIO™ allows CPU, GPU Accelerator, and NVMe drives that are installed in any server or in an external chassis to be shared among multiple servers. As a result, you no longer have to detach drives from the initial physical server to be reinstalled in another server.

 Namely, GigaIO™ FabreX enables you to connect 32 GPUs with only 1 server. Not only does this reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO), the infrastructure management is simpler too. Additionally, the low latency interconnection also provides superior performance.

What do we mean by reducing TCO?

By implementing GigaIO solution, you can:

1.      Spend less to get the same performance and capacity as compared to other solutions.

2.      Get ROI (Return on Investment) faster because it allows the customer to do exactly the same things but with lower cost. The GigaIO solution enables you to achieve ROI in half the standard time.

3.      Do more things with GigaIO, for example, GigaIO supports orchestration of ANY Compute, Acceleration (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs), Storage, Memory (3D-XPoint) or Networking resource for any workload using an Enterprise-Class, Easy-To-Use and Open Standards high-performance network.

How does it work?

FabreX is the only fabric which enables complete disaggregation and composition of all the resources in your server rack. Besides composing resources to servers, FabreX can also compose your servers over PCIe (and CXL in the future), without the cost, complexity and latency hit from having to switch to Ethernet or InfiniBand within the rack.

With any workload that needs more than one server and more resources (storage, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.), FabreX is exactly what you need. Typical workloads centre around the use of GPU and FPGA accelerators, including AI/ML/DL, visualisation, High Performance Computing and Data Analytics.

For more use cases visit our solutions page.

In Robust HPC, we use GigaIO’s FabreX universal dynamic fabric to enable true rack-scale computing, breaking the limits of the server box to enable the entire rack the unit of compute.

 Resources such as GPU, FGPAs, ASICs and NVMe are connected via low latency FabreX switches (less than 110ns with non-blocking ports) and can be configured in various ways depending on your needs.

Long story short, you get the flexibility and agility of the cloud, but with the security and cost control of your own on-prem infrastructure.

Get in touch with Robust HPC – an authorised reseller of GigaIO in Southeast Asia, to know more about how organisations use GigaIO and find the right use case to address your computing needs.

When tasked with keeping track of the network devices in an organization, many IT professionals instinctively open a fresh Excel sheet, punch in their assets, and build from there. Others will search for “IT inventory Excel template” or “Managing hardware in Excel” to give them a head start. Spreadsheets are familiar, easy to whip up and scalable… right? But Hold on.

System Administrators who had swapped their spreadsheets for a dedicated IT Asset Management solution rarely look back. Here are four reasons to look at.

Let Humans Do What Humans Do Best

Ask yourself this:

·        Do you ever find yourself copying or typing those software license keys manually?

·        Tired of tracking warranty statuses by digging up the serial number from an old receipt or boxes?

·        Do you sometimes spend hours on editing an inventory task? And are you sure it’s 100% accurate?

·        Is the official version of your network inventory doc named Asset_List v2_(copy)(copy)(3).xlsx?

If all this sounds familiar, you have been doing machine work all this time. An automated network discovery solution can gather a wealth of knowledge in minutes, while you focus on actual work. Inventory won’t take hours, and there’s no chance of typo’s when entering that OID or serial number.

More importantly, it keeps your data up-to-date, so you don’t have to edit your records after every maintenance. With a database full of information that you hadn’t even thought of tracking, you can bring up a report that suits your needs on the spot. No need to plan ahead for every possible challenge, and no lost time on entries you never even use.

People make mistakes, and their time is valuable. Your server can collect detailed information for you, without human errors. Focus on managing your IT, rather than your spreadsheets filled with inaccurate network info.

Up-to-date Asset Data at your Fingertips

Some information changes too rapidly to manage in spreadsheets. Our ITAM (IT Asset Management) Solution allows you to stay up to date with what’s going on at all times. Besides, it informs you when anything, in particular, requires your attention.

It allows you to manage the entire life cycle and history of an asset, along with a complete audit trail. Keep track of who borrowed which laptop, when they were online, and when the warranty expires. Spreadsheets equal limitations, and at best, help you to list your devices. With an automated solution, you own your network.

Centralized ITAM System of Record

It’s very hard to keep spreadsheets standardized. Everyone has their own ideas, tastes and methods for them. Even with shared workbooks, you can’t be sure that the info stored in these documents is accessible to other staff and is maintained properly.

 Our ITAM Solution lets different users access the information they need, in one central system. The database is always consistent, and users with different skill levels and permissions can access that data in a way that suits them.

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One Spreadsheet to Rule Them All?

If your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If your only tool is a spreadsheet, everything looks like a table. Why should the way you interact with your network be dictated by the format of a spreadsheet?

An ITAM solution is built for the job and will serve you a custom view, depending on whether you need to find local admins, view the percentage of remaining disk space on a hard drive, or get an overview on a specific asset or user.

Are you tired of using Excel spreadsheets and CSVs to track and manage your entire IT network? Start your free Lansweeper trial today and make time for what you do best. If you don’t know how to start, feel free to contact us at Robust HPC, our consultants are happy to show you how.

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