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Quantum tech solves GPS denial

Monday, May 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

Q-CTRL, the global provider in quantum infrastructure software, recently announced successful field trials of a new generation of quantum-assured navigation solutions validated to outperform comparable conventional alternatives in challenging real-world settings. This marks the first achievement of commercial quantum advantage for any of the recently posed applications ...

Red Hat Device Edge deployed to space station

Thursday, March 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

Red Hat, Inc. and Axiom Space, will collaborate on Axiom Space’s Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1), targeted to launch in spring 2025 to the International Space Station. Powered by Red Hat Device Edge, the data processing prototype will conduct tests on the space station and demonstrate initial Orbital Data Center (ODC) capabilities. The prototype will te...

Off-the-shelf intelligent automation beats custom ECM monitoring

Monday, October 14, 2024 by Austin Harris

The accumulation of digital information is overwhelming, and the reliance on increasing access must be recognized. The danger in this climate is that storage capacity can be quickly consumed if structured and unstructured data are not adequately managed. More storage can lead to more costs and complexity - especially regarding compliance mandates. On top of that, more t...

Automation product Skyvia released

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Skyvia has announced the successful completion of the beta phase and the official release of the Automation product. This tool is designed to automate workflows and processes, helping organizations save time and resources while driving increased business efficiency. The new functionality enables users to build event-driven automation workflows, seamlessly integrating da...

OCI and AWS capabilities released by Oracle

Friday, September 20, 2024 by Austin Harris

Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simpl...

DevOps World Backup Day

Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

On Friday, March 31, we celebrate World Backup Day. The date is not accidental - it has been assumed that on April Fools’ Day, no one wants to discover that potential data loss wasn't a simple hoax. World Backup Day - best practices and pledge for DevOps On this day, cybersecurity specialists from around the world will come together to urge everyone to m...

DIY data storage platform Koor launches

Friday, November 10, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

Koor Technologies, a monitoring, management, and automation provider that makes it easy to operate large-scale data stores, officially launched as a company. Its platform, Koor Data Control Center, now in beta, helps medium-size and large organizations that struggle with storing and managing data by themselves in a simple, cost-effective way. To lead the buildout of ...

How people respond to ransomware attacks

Monday, April 10, 2023 by David Carvalho

Ransomware attackers extorted $456.8 million from victims in 2022, 40% down from the $765.6 million in the previous year. However, before we clink glasses to celebrate victory, there are some significant caveats to consider. The recent hack of Euler Finance where $135 million in staked Ether tokens (stETH), was drained from the protocol, is a case in point. How organiza...

SaaS backup platform SaaSBACKUPSM lands from Asigra

Friday, March 17, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Asigra Inc has announced SaaSBACKUPSM, a powerful new SaaS-based backup platform designed to provide comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities to SaaS applications that include Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and far beyond. Through innovative API connectivity, SaaSBACKUP is able to support a large macrocosm of SaaS applications with enterprise-class d...

NHS 11 attack: What we learned

Friday, August 19, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Databarracks provides secure Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Business Continuity solutions in the UK. Chris Butler is the Head of Databarracks' Resilience and Continuity Consulting practice, a fellow of the Institute for Leadership and Management, a Member of the Business Continuity Institute, and a Certified Information Security Manager. But...

Software cyberattack predictions for 2022

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by Richard Harris

Nigel Thorpe hails from a software development background and moved to the IT security industry with Entrust Technologies during the early days of PKI. His knowledge has benefited a number of security companies in the UK, Canada, and the USA, and he now serves as Technical Director at SecureAge Technology. With a wide range of experience in different business environmen...

StorONE launches backup storage

Friday, November 19, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

The latest ransomware variants perform what is known as sleeper attacks, which avoid discovery by slowly infecting data. By the time an organization realizes it is dealing with a ransomware attack, a high percentage of data is encrypted. Modern backup storage needs to not only provide immutability of backup data it must do so, without impacting performance for pote...

Crypto APIs launch MPC Wallet as a Service

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

The Bulgarian-based Software-as-a-Service startup Crypto APIs has launched an improved Wallet as a Service (WaaS) to provide small and medium businesses, enterprises, and institutions with a more secure and reliable multi-currency digital wallet. Crypto APIs launch MPC Wallet as a Service The service utilizes an advanced Multi-Party Computation (MPC) cryptographic...

Kubernetes operations platform gets more funding

Thursday, September 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Rafay helps platform teams move beyond traditional Kubernetes cluster management to streamlined Kubernetes operations for modern applications. Rafay Systems Kubernetes operations platform gets $25M in funding Rafay Systems, the platform for Kubernetes Operations, has announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation from ...

Couchbase accelerates enterprise applications for customers

Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris

Couchbase, Inc., provider of a modern database for enterprise applications, announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 7. This landmark release bridges the best aspects of relational databases like ACID transactions with the flexibility of a modern database, allowing enterprises to confidently accelerate strategic initiatives such as more quickly moving busi...

Beta support for Kubernetes announced by Druva Inc.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Druva, Inc. announced beta support for Kubernetes workloads which delivers complete application protection that is accessible by all teams, including the central IT team and DevOps. Offered through Druva Cloud Platform, users can quickly recover, migrate, or clone Kubernetes workloads, alongside existing data center, and cloud workloads from a unified interface. Combini...

ArangoDB add new features to their scalable multi-model graph database

Thursday, August 27, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

ArangoDB announced the GA release of ArangoDB 3.7. ArangoDB 3.7 introduces new graph and search features that improve the database's capability to work with highly-connected data at any scale -- furthering the company’s goal of providing the most flexible database on the market. Key features in ArangoDB 3.7 include improvements for distributed scale-out gra...

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...

Freedom and Growth plans for Kubernetes from Platform9 lands

Tuesday, March 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Platform9 announced the availability of new Freedom and Growth plans for their Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) Service. Users can sign up online for free with the Freedom plan and instantly deploy Kubernetes clusters of up to 20 nodes (800 vCPU’s). The Growth plan starts under $500/month, including an option for month-to-month payments, and provides 99.9% SLA a...

Data Privacy Day 2020 is here

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 by Richard Harris

Data Privacy Day is here, and with the recent implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act, the timing could not be better to discuss the importance of taking steps to protect sensitive data while also keeping personal data private and secure. Similar to GDPR, CCPA will have a profound impact on data privacy and protection, making this year’s Data Priv...

Yellowbrick Data launches Cloud Data Warehouses and DR services

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Freeman Lightner

Yellowbrick Data, a provider in enterprise data warehousing, has announced the Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and the Yellowbrick Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) service. The Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse has been operating in enterprise production environments since early 2019, and both new products leverage the power of the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, the...

Build applications at speed with Cohesity Agile Dev

Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Freeman Lightner

Cohesity has announced the launch of Cohesity Agile Dev and Test, a new solution that addresses key bottlenecks organizations face in building applications at speed. It moves away from the request-fulfill model where developers request access to production-grade data and wait sometimes weeks for IT operations teams to provide the data needed to build...

MariaDB enterprise server helps you sleep at night

Thursday, June 20, 2019 by Richard Harris

MariaDB Corporation announced the release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4, code-named “Restful Nights” for the peace of mind it brings enterprise customers. Databases are the backbone of critical business services used every day. A database failure can result in sleepless nights for everyone involved. The new MariaDB Enterprise Server includes added f...

MongoDB launches new version of core at MongoDB World 2019

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 by Richard Harris

MongoDB, Inc. announced the latest version of its core database at MongoDB World this year, MongoDB 4.2. Key features such as distributed transactions, field level encryption and an updated Kubernetes Operator raise MongoDB’s established reputation for supporting a wide variety of use cases for thousands of customers, which range from innovative cloud-native start...

Acronis gives developers early access to new cyber platform

Monday, April 29, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

Acronis announced the opening of its core platforms, enabling broad, third-party developer access to the Acronis Cyber Platform to encourage expanded functionality and application integrations while expanding their opportunities in Acronis’ large ecosystem. The Acronis Cyber Platform, which is the foundation of the company’s existing services, features a ...

Running applications directly from Cohesity now possible

Monday, March 4, 2019 by Richard Harris

Cohesity announced new capabilities that empower enterprises to run applications from Cohesity as well as third parties directly on the Cohesity DataPlatform. This milestone is a big step forward in empowering enterprises to derive insights from their most valuable business asset, their data. This is the first time that enterprises are able to run applications ...

Best gifts for programmers, developers, and nerds 2018

Friday, December 14, 2018 by Richard Harris

Why is it so hard to buy something for techie people? It’s probably because they seem to just “get” whatever they want at the moment the need arises. Programmers, developers, and designers can be some of the worst about it too, because a lot of what we need to have just to do out jobs, falls in the category of a gift to ourselves too. Yeah - I rea...

How the reddit security breach reminds us to be careful

Monday, August 6, 2018 by Austin Harris

reddit recently disclosed in their announcements feed of a security breach into their system which the hacker "managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords." Include in the disclosed information was some reddit source code and some log files. They went on to sa...

Geodata analysis and storage optimization enhanced by HarperDB

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 by Austin Harris

HarperDB has new features that allow real-time geo-analysis, storage optimization for edge devices and the ability to run massive data analysis. As a result, they say companies tackling complex IoT projects can achieve a more intelligent edge without incurring further storage or hardware costs. HarperDB features include: Geographical Data Analysis: HarperDB'...

Working remote at faster speeds with Accelion

Monday, July 2, 2018 by Austin Harris

Penguin Computing announced the availability of the Accelion managed data access platform, a complete managed file transfer and remote access solution that gives global, cross-functional teams the ability to work with vast amounts of geographically dispersed data and do so with greater speed, security, and reliability. Penguin Computing customers now have the ability...

KaiOS talks smart feature phones and app developers

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by Richard Harris

KaiOS is a Linux-based mobile operating system built on a fork of Firefox OS that first appeared in 2017 and was developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc. in San Diego. We recently chatted with Tim Metz, Marketing Director at KaiOS Technologies, about KaiOS' emerging operating system for smart feature phones. We discuss why these devices are becoming relevant again, what...

AI test automation capabilities released for Eggplant suite

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 by Austin Harris

Eggplant announced the latest enhancements to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. The advancements support Eggplant’s mission "to use AI, machine learning, and analytics to optimize the digital experience, allowing teams to keep up with the pace of DevOps, and improve time to market and customer satisfaction."The latest product releases will enable Eggplant...

What some experts are saying about GDPR

Friday, May 18, 2018 by Austin Harris

The GDPR bill is causing an uproar in the industry as the compliance date comes ever nearer. Yet few can say they actually know much about the bill that will come into place on May 25th.GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is an expansion upon the EU’s previous Data Protection Act of 1998, extending the boundary of its territorial mandate from whatever juris...

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud launched for GA

Sunday, April 1, 2018 by Richard Harris

Oracle has announced the availability of a new service based on its Autonomous Database named Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at "half the cost of Amazon Web Services."Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of t...

Music in apps: A chat with the CEO of feed.fm

Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Richard Harris

Music licensing is a pain. We know it's there for a very good reason, but let's be honest... It can be a serious barrier to the perfect experience that app developers hope to convey. Finding the right music can be a big part of that, but nobody wants to settle for the generic royalty free music.That's why we talked to Jeff Yasuda, CEO and Founder of feed.fm, to learn ab...