CloudAtlas AWS capabilities released from UnifyCloud
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 by Richard Harris
UnifyCloud announced the expansion of its CloudAtlas platform to include comprehensive support for Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this enhancement, UnifyCloud now offers a unified solution for cloud transformation across all three major cloud platforms - Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS.
UnifyCloud announces expansion of CloudAtlas platform to accelerate migration ...
Top data predictions for 2024 from Alluxio
Thursday, February 8, 2024 by Richard Harris
Alluxio’s Founder and CEO Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li forecasts major developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud, data and analytics, devops and storage in 2024. Data strategies will continue to require solutions that enable enterprises to manage complex data across diverse sources, optimize performance, scale in hybrid/multi-cloud environments, and operate efficie...
Cloud computing skills will be in high demand for 2023
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Drew Firment from Pluralsight and asked him all about their predictions for 2023, including what are the most in-demand cloud computing skills, what your business needs to do to adopt the cloud and reach cloud maturity, the upcoming trends in cloud computing that will become a larger part of the landscape in 2023, whether the cloud s...
Major cloud provider to start pricing war in 2023
Thursday, January 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
The current cloud pricing model is very restrictive and follows a Hotel California style of easy in, hard out due to egress prices. This creates a moat-like structure where everything a business does must occur within one cloud for cost reasons. Due to this, it is likely that a major cloud player will make a shift and drop egress pricing in 2023, setting off a major pri...
SaaS will be all about specialization in 2023
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Most cloud providers have become comparable in basic capabilities and there is very little to differentiate them. The journey from here is going to be about specialization. Companies will need to start diving a little deeper into the key value they are looking for and which cloud provider can provide it best. For example, for some AI and ML capabilities, there may ...
Switching to a 4 day work week
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 by Richard Harris
Employees have increasingly voiced the value of their work-life balance throughout the past few years, and with Americans quitting their jobs at staggering rates, it’s becoming increasingly clear that employers will need to listen if they want to retain top talent. According to Gartner, a shortened workweek is the most-wanted recruitment and retention strategy by ...
Oracle Web3 development accelerates
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
InfStones and Oracle have announced that they are collaborating on integrating InfStones’ leading blockchain development platform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to accelerate Web3 development. This collaboration will help deliver important insights that drive the evolution, development, and adoption of Web3 applications worldwide.
InfStones en...
ImmuniWeb Neuron web security scanning
Friday, June 10, 2022 by Richard Harris
ImmuniWeb has announced the launch of ImmuniWeb Neuron, a web application and API web security scanning solution that is based on the award-winning ImmuniWeb AI Platform available.
ImmuniWeb Neuron is designed to rapidly scan tens, hundreds, or even thousands of web applications and APIs for vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and misconfigurations. It c...
VMware Tanzu Application Transformer launches
Friday, February 4, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
VMware has announced the general availability of an Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu. Application Transformer for Tanzu is a tool that aids in the discovery, analysis, and containerization of legacy applications thus helping customers to simplify and accelerate their app modernization journey by targeting their re-platforming strategy on the well-known "5&#...
App modernization in 2022
Monday, January 10, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ajay Patel is the General Manager for VMware’s Modern Applications & Management Business with the mission to be the leader in application modernization, cloud-native application development, and multi-cloud management through VMware Tanzu and vRealize portfolio.
Ajay has over 30 years of enterprise software expertise. Ajay previously served as the Treasurer...
Quantum, Metaverse, NFTs and Healthcare blockchains coming in 2022
Saturday, January 8, 2022 by Richard Harris
Manjusha Madabushi is the CTO and Co-Founder of Talentica Software, the global leader in product development services for early and growth-stage technology businesses. She has mentored over 70 start-ups in building successful products across domains like FinTech, Media & Ads, EdTech, and Healthcare in a career spanning more than 3 decades. Manjusha is an avid h...
Cloud and cyber asset management trends for 2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Companies have been racing to mature their technologies and pursue digital transformations in the last few years, as a way to gain or maintain competitive advantage and resilience. This has led to an emerging area of focus: cyber asset management. Organizations are now taking inventory of their IT infrastructure and prioritizing more agile cyber asset management process...
Networking trends in 2022 from Itential
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
A recent Itential report shows that only 34% of network management professionals are completely satisfied with the tools and processes they use for network configuration management, a tumultuous setup for the year ahead. Peter Sprygada, Vice President of Product Management at Itential shares his 2022 predictions and some prominent networking trends to look out...
OutSystems launches Project Neo platform
Thursday, November 18, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
OutSystems has unveiled an application platform that enables development teams to build state-of-the-art cloud applications. Today, more than 14 million people use apps created on the OutSystems platform. Customers rely on OutSystems to build everything from mobile apps and consumer websites to workgroup apps and extensions of other core systems like Microsoft, SAP...
Promon partners with F5 to simplify mobile SDK integration
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
Promon, the Oslo-based app security company announced its partnership with F5, the multi-cloud application security and delivery company. This partnership now enables F5's customers to seamlessly implement the F5 Bot Defense Mobile SDK. The solution provides developers with the necessary tools to protect their applications from bot attacks utilizing Promon'...
Open source services from Rafay Systems
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
Rafay Systems announced its plans to open-source its Zero-Trust Access and GitOps services. Developers will be able to take advantage of and contribute to, these battle-tested services that significantly reduce the complexities associated with securing access to and automating the ongoing operations of Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications. These two service...
wasmCloud platform updates
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
WebAssembly pioneer Cosmonic has announced the 0.50 release of wasmCloud. The distributed application framework and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project was created for building universally portable cloud-native applications with WebAssembly that can plug into multi-cloud, multi-edge, and now far-edge environments directly inside the browser.
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Hedera Hashgraph ecosystem expands
Monday, September 20, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Hedera Governing Council has announced the approval of a plan to allocate 10.7 billion hbars (approximately 20% of total supply), currently worth US $5 billion as of September 16th, 2021, towards the development of the Hedera ecosystem. The resolution was approved at the July 14th Governing Council meeting, at which time the value of the allocation was approximately...
Improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Technology integration allows customers to securely leverage existing keys, secrets, tokens, and certificates into declarative CI/CD pipelines and ease the management of HashiCorp Vault infrastructure and security practices.
Opsera and HashiCorp partner with plans on improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform ...
Kubernetes for the enterprise as Canonical sees it
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 by Richard Harris
Nearly five years ago, throngs of people in cities across America started roaming streets, parks, and other places to hunt down creatures on their cell phones. The launch of Pokémon GO on July 5, 2016, created a craze, peaking at 45 million daily users and smashing previous estimates of player traffic.
Behind the scenes, a new open-source technology played a p...
Not all security vulnerabilities are created equal
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 by Jack Mannino
Applications are the heart of employee and user productivity. There are billions of applications each with a specific function, value and, unfortunately, they also provide one of the easiest openings for cybercriminals and hackers to gain access to critical IT infrastructure and information assets. While most IT security professionals implicitly understand the concept o...
Opsera raises $15 Million for continuous orchestration of DevOps
Friday, April 30, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Opsera announced $15 million in Series A funding led by Felicis Ventures. Existing investors Clear Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Firebolt Ventures, and new investor HMG Ventures, also participated. With a total of $19.3 million in funding since it was founded in 2020. Opsera will continue to grow its world-class engineering team, and accelerate its global sales, market...
Six areas of focus for continuous security
Friday, April 16, 2021 by Jack Mannino
Applications are the heart of employee and user productivity. There are billions of applications each with a specific function and value and, unfortunately, they also provide one of the easiest openings for cyber criminals and hackers to gain access to critical IT infrastructure and information assets. While most IT security professionals implicitly understand the conce...
Lab on the cloud lets you test before getting hardware
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced its new “Lab on the Cloud” environment where Renesas solutions, including popular evaluation boards, winning combinations and software, are hosted in a remote lab that customers can access and test online.
The Lab on the Cloud provides users with quick access to Renesas solutions before they receive a physica...
Governance of storage will be a major focus in 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
In hybrid- and multi-cloud environments, global visibility, and governance of storage will be a major focus moving forward.
Governance of storage will be a major focus in 2021
Organizations must determine how to effectively provision and administer storage capacity in different locations, whether the location is a data center or the cloud.
With those capabiliti...
How DevOps will change in 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
DevOps will become much more security-aware. We’ll see greater attention paid to the newly expanded surface area created in the practice of DevOps and how to proactively protect against vulnerabilities in DevOps.
How DevOps will change in 2021 and the Impact from it
First, IT Ops and DevOps teams will need to reorient their processes to one that unifies...
Cloud and the future of work
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Transformation is inevitable. CDOs who can build a factory of data products and bring value in digital transformation to their shifting businesses will be heroes. They will be the people who extend an olive branch to technical audiences because data products cannot be built without technical support. The CDO will have a dual role in their company, fostering a good relat...
Kubernetes market to overcome adoption barriers in 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Despite its advantages, we predict that 2021 will finally see the Kubernetes market overcome adoption barriers and cloud-native technologies will continue to develop and evolve.
Cloud-Native Stack Adoption No Longer a Proof of Concept
Cloud-native stack adoption will continue to grow, but the “quality” of growth is changing. In previous years we saw a ...
MemSQL is now SingleStore
Monday, November 2, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
MemSQL announced a name change. The company is now known as SingleStore, which better describes the organization’s expansive value proposition.
“It is a momentous day,” said SingleStore CEO Raj Verma. “We have built a technology that can provide our customers with unprecedented speed, scale and concurrency. This is possible using SQL in a hybr...
cloudtamer io and Kublr team up to enable budget-based scalability
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
As the COVID pandemic drives large enterprises to lean heavily on cloud computing solutions to enable their global workforce, Kublr and cloudtamer.io jointly announced today an integration between their respective platforms to help customers better manage their cloud-native and container-based IT infrastructure.
Driven by the needs of its enterprise customers, Kublr,...
Collibra integrates data governance on the Google Cloud Platform
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, has further expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, offering Collibra as a managed service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Jim Cushman, Collibra’s chief product officer, and Evren Eryurek, director of product management for Google Cloud, shared news of the integrated offering in a presentation this week at ...
Fourth annual DevSecOps survey from Gitlab
Monday, May 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
GitLab released the results of its fourth annual DevSecOps survey uncovering how roles across software development teams have changed as more teams adopt DevOps. The survey of over 3,650 respondents from 21 countries worldwide found that rising rates of DevOps adoption and implementation of new tools has led to sweeping changes in job functions, tool choices and or...
Postal.io redefines offline B2B marketing
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Offline sales and marketing engagement is being redefined by Postal.io, particularly in today’s era of social distancing and remote work brought about by the global coronavirus pandemic. Ushering in a new era of capability and control, Postal’s sales and marketing automation platform enables enterprise B2B companies to effectively manage offline marketing pr...
Couchbase improves Kubernetes operator to deliver cloud native
Thursday, April 30, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Couchbase announced Version 2.0 of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (“Autonomous Operator”), the most mature and advanced operator in the industry. As enterprises continue to move to the cloud, DevOps, and microservices architectures, Autonomous Operator Version 2.0 helps to:
Empower Developers: Unlocks developers’ productivity wi...
Immediate availability of SkySQL from MariaDB
Thursday, April 2, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
MariaDB Corporation announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, and optimized with a cloud-native architecture. SkySQL delivers the “MariaDB in the cloud” experience customers have been waiting for - fully-featured, fully c...
