SQream native connector for SQream Blue
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 by Austin Harris
SQream announced the launch of its native connector that brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. This follows SQream Blue’s performance benchmarks that shattered existing performance benchmarks for speed and cost efficiency.
The nonprofit Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) developed the TPCx-BB as a benchmark for...
Custom Networks division created by Lumen
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 by Austin Harris
Lumen Technologies recently announced it has secured $5 billion in new business driven by major demand for connectivity fueled by AI. Large companies across industry sectors are seeking to secure fiber capacity quickly, as this resource becomes increasingly valuable and potentially limited, due to booming AI needs. In addition, Lumen is in active discussions with custom...
App deletion deadline from Apple
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Transcend, the platform that allows users to encode privacy across a company's tech stack has released the results of its latest survey of technology decision-makers, which assessed their readiness for Apple's in-app deletion requirements for iOS apps that offer account creation. The findings show that 71 percent of companies surveyed are not fully prepared...
Low code platform Zenity lands $5M in funding
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 by Austin Harris
Zenity exited stealth mode with a $5 million seed funding round, led by Vertex Ventures and UpWest, and backed by top executives such as the former CISO of Google, Gerhard Eschelbeck, and former CIO of SuccessFactors, Tom Fisher. With Zenity, businesses can promote citizen development and adopt Low-Code/No-Code platforms while avoiding critical data exfiltration or disr...
RAPIDS data access acceleration comes to MapR
Friday, October 12, 2018 by Austin Harris
MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced support within the MapR Data Platform to accelerate data access and production deployments for data science through the RAPIDS open-source software. MapR helps data scientists accelerate the access of required training data by focusing on easing the issues of on-boarding, cleansing, cataloging, and feeding data at high performance t...
Companies plan to invest in DataOps new survey finds
Thursday, June 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Inspired by the DevOps movement, Nexla, the inter-company Data Operations platform, is proving the DataOps movement is real by just announcing the results of the industry’s only annual data operations survey. The survey tracks the adoption and best practices of Data Operations (DataOps). It found that a staggering 73% of companies are investing in D...
Enterprises need a software security program
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 by Sammy Migues
The answer to the “why” enterprises need a software security program question is pretty straightforward. There are no circumstances under which any but the smallest firms can expect a collection of independent activities - a pen test here, an hour of training there, some free tools that may or may not work as advertised - will consistently result in appropriately secure...
Automated Security as a Service platform by ShiftLeft launches
Monday, October 16, 2017 by Austin Harris
ShiftLeft Inc. has introduced an automated Security as a service (SECaaS) for cloud software that creates custom security and threat detection for each application it supports. With ShiftLeft, organizations can now secure their cloud applications as part of their continuous integration pipeline, rather than merely reacting to threats discovered in production. ShiftLeft ...
Stop the menace of Android rooting malware attacks with RASP
Monday, September 25, 2017 by Frederik Mennes
One of the key security issues facing organizations that support Android devices is the risk of rooting malware. A number of malware families on the Android mobile OS attempt to obtain root access once installed because the elevated privileges gained come in handy to perform malicious activities.
What you need to know about Tordow v2.0 and Pegasus
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Oracle chats about the new data integrator cloud service
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
On February 13, Oracle unveiled Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service, Oracle’s new data integration cloud service aimed at simplifying and accelerating cross-enterprise data integration to support real-time analytics and help organizations drive better business decisions. With the increasing need for the enterprise to be effective and agile, organizations need seamless ...
Synopsys Makes Updates to its Seeker Runtime Security Analysis Tool
Monday, August 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Synopsys has released the latest version of its Seeker runtime security analysis solution. Seeker analyzes web application code and data flows at runtime using a technique known as an Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST), which detects and confirms exploitable security vulnerabilities and provides insight that allows developers to address their root causes. T...
LinkedIn Makes Rocket Data Open Source So You Can Cache Data in Your iOS Apps Too
Thursday, August 4, 2016 by Peter Livesey
Last year, LinkedIn began rewriting the LinkedIn flagship mobile application. The existing app had a number of challenges and hadn’t received a significant overhaul in some time. So we wanted the new version to not only look and feel updated, but also to have powerful infrastructure backend to support it.As a part of that effort, we wanted a caching system that would pr...
Study Show Companies Struggle with Big Data Management Performance Issues Because of Bad Data
Thursday, June 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
StreamSets has announced the results of a survey that delved into the challenges of bad data on data management performance issues. The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research and included responses from 314 data management professionals globally.The primary research goal was to capture how companies manage the flow of big data. The research also investigated and d...
How StreamSets Simplifies Setting Up New Ingest Pipelines
Friday, March 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Girish Pancha, CEO of Streamsets, to talk about how the company’s open source software is used to build and operate reliable ingest pipelines. StreamSets’ Data Collector is a low-latency ingest infrastructure tool that provides the ability to create continuous data ingest pipelines using a drag and drop UI within an integrated development enviro...
How Realm's New React Native Database Helps Developers
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with the Tim Anglade, Realm's VP Product + Marketing & Partnerships to talk about the recent announcement at Facebook’s React.js Conference of its new mobile database built specifically for React Native. The new solution is a replacement for SQLite and Core Data which offers a fast database with live objects, change events and support for un...
Unlocking the Potential of Accelerated IoT Development
Monday, July 6, 2015 by Gilad Khen
Anyone who has ever created an Internet of Things (IoT) solution knows the pain of integrating the various parts of the software into a single functioning app. In a typical IoT app you will most likely find logic for collecting data, transforming it, sending it to various services for processing or analysis, and finally storing it in one or more data stores. In man...
A Review of Database Technologies and Frameworks for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Marcin Warpechowski
Mobile app developers are continuously feeling the pressure to bring apps to market and update them faster and faster. This demand will only continue in 2015 and beyond. Many mobile app developers need a hard-working database behind the scenes for processing real-time data like transactions, inventory or users. This article offers insight on how mobile developers can im...
Checkmarx Releases New CxRASP Platform Offering Runtime Application Self Protection
Friday, February 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Checkmarx has announced the launch of its Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) solution, CxRASP, which utilizes two-point instrumentation technology to continuously observe an app’s bidirectional data flow, enabling the detection and defense against real-time attacks.CxRASP is the latest addition to the Checkmarx Application Security Hub which provides solutions f...
Good Technology Makes Enhancements to its Good Dynamics Security Mobility Platform, Part of its Enterprise Mobile Solution Services
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Companies that have integrated Good Dynamics Security Mobility Platform will benefit from the introduction of Good Dynamics Direct Connect, which provides enterprise developers the ability to address data privacy concerns and facilitates compliance with national and international data protection regulations by allowing organizations to keep application data within natio...
App Marketing Done Right: How to Market Your App in Today's Crowded App Stores
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Giancarlo Maniaci
Most advertising industry long-timers remember the infographic that was the first to comprehensively detail the landscape of interactive advertising in a somewhat organized fashion. I remember seeing it and thinking “It’s getting a bit crowded in here.”
Over the last decade, the era of the ad network has come – and almost gone. Around the turn of this century, prospect...