TrueNAS R30 launches from iXsystems
Friday, December 23, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
iXsystems, the company behind TrueNAS, has announced the RELEASE of TrueNAS SCALE 22.12 "Bluefin", the second major version of TrueNAS SCALE and the industry’s most powerful open source hyper-converged storage OS. Developed in true open source fashion alongside the hundreds of thousands of members in the TrueNAS Community, this storage software release f...
Files acquires ExaVault
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Richard Harris
Files.com, the Cloud-Native SaaS platform for File Integration and Automation, announced the acquisition of ExaVault, a major cloud file transfer vendor for SMB and mid-market businesses. The acquisition will generate the largest cloud-native files platform, with over 6,500 active business-to-business (B2B) customers.
Through its award-winning enterprise-grade file t...
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...
Motorola predicts what working from home could look like
Thursday, January 14, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
With no change in the WFH environment coming without a COVID-19 vaccine, tech companies will focus on developing and enhancing camera and audio improvements, changes in collaboration technologies, and increased focus on ergonomic designs and larger, moveable, and portable displays.
Work from home smart technology improvements
The office will likely transform from ...
Database ecosystem will flourish in 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Related to COVID-19, I think the big stories will revolve around managing remote workforces, cost-cutting by the consolidation of empty buildings, and adapting to changes in consumer behavior.
Database ecosystem will flourish in 2021
Despite the fact that IT budgets have been tight in 2020, businesses have adapted to the changed consumer behaviors. As a result, I ...
New outsourced app development service launches
Friday, January 31, 2020 by Richard Harris
System Soft Technologies (SSTech) announced the formal launch of an application development outsourcing service to help SMBs drive the innovation required to meet the demands of digital transformation.
The AppSimpleTM service successfully offered in beta in 2019, supplements and enhances the design, test, and deployment skills and experience of SMBs’ in-house t...
NodeSource pricing tier has changed
Thursday, August 16, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
NodeSource announced the release of a new, integrated product platform. Teams can now benefit from a more cohesive set of solutions for Engineering and DevOps, as well as a more streamlined user experience. This release also marks the first time NodeSource has offered a free-forever pricing tier, targeted at individual developers or those working on small projects. An a...
Applitools raises $31M to advance visual AI
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Applitools has announced it has raised $31 million in Series C funding led by OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, with participation from its existing investors Sierra Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. Applitools will use this investment to fuel market expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring sol...
IBM MaaS360 comes to the Cloud Marketplace
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
Ingram Micro Inc. is helping drive AI-powered cloud technology with the addition of IBM MaaS360 with Watson on the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, an automated e-commerce platform that offers more than 200 vetted cloud services. This expanded relationship with IBM Security helps Ingram Micro reseller and solution provider partners deliver a leading endpoint security sol...
Zebra to introduce first SMB Mobile Device
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Zebra Technologies Corporation has introduced the TC20, a rugged, value-driven mobile computer designed to meet the specific needs of small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The TC20 is a light, durable and long-lasting mobile device developed for indoor use for SMBs in sectors such as retail and hospitality. With the TC20, SMBs can now enjoy business-ready functions ...
Small business and mobile apps insight
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are moving rapidly toward adopting mobile apps in 2017, according to new research from Clutch. They report that 42% of SMBs have built their own mobile app, and the survey indicates that SMBs increasingly view them as a worthwhile tool to improve business operations and return on investment.Two-thirds (67%) of SMBs surveyed said ...
HPE signs OEM deal with Mesosphere to help modernize datacenters
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and reseller agreement with Mesosphere to help customers transform and modernize their data centers with hybrid IT solutions that span traditional infrastructure, private, public and managed cloud services.As part of this OEM and reseller agreement, HPE will be a ...
Cohesity Makes New Updates to Its Hyperconverged Secondary Storage Platform
Friday, February 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cohesity has released version 2.0 of its Cohesity Data Platform, a hyperconverged secondary storage solution which includes new performance, management, and security features for enterprise customers across a wide range of industries. The Cohesity Data Platform helps companies consolidate secondary storage use cases, such as disaster recovery, data protection, test...
CodeLathe's FileCloud Adds Microsoft Azure File Storage as Storage Option
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
CodeLathe’s FileCloud has added support for Microsoft Azure File Storage as a backend file storage option. The FileCloud platform allows businesses and managed service providers to host their own end-to-end file sync, share and mobile access solution with the ability to deploy the high available, redundant and scalable FileCloud on Azure Cloud infrastructure.Azure File ...
HiveIO Launches IaaS Software Defined Compute Solution
Thursday, November 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Hive-IO has launched its software-defined compute solution available as a complete infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering for large enterprise and SMB customers.Hive-IO provides a unified architecture on a bare metal install that can remove up to 30% of existing hardware requirements and eliminate vendor layer complexity. For cloud-enablement it offers a lightweigh...
Local Advertising Changes Could Provide Boon for App Publishers
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Very few app publishers have the opportunity to take advantage of local advertising revenues. Part of the problem has been the ability for smaller local advertisers to tap into the reach of the plethora of apps that serve in-app advertising.While well known publishers like Pandora and Zinga have made some inroads into tapping into the local advertising market, it’s been...
Apigee Introduces New SaaS API Management Product for SMBs
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Apigee has introduced a new API management product called Apigee Edge SMB which has been designed for the requirements of small and mid-sized businesses. It is offered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product for managing, securing, scaling and analyzing an unlimited number of APIs.The Apigee Edge API platform provides capabilities including API monetization, PCI compl...
Study Shows DevOps Are Unsure On How to Approach Mobile Development
Thursday, September 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
If there is any consensus on how developers and DevOps teams are approaching the mobilization of their efforts, it’s that there is no consensus. A case in point is a new study conducted by Telerik, which surveyed 2,200 developers and IT executives to determine priorities and pain points surrounding application development - from desktop to mobile - as well as exami...
