As enterprises embrace NoSQL and other emerging database technologies, they are encountering familiar teething problems as they attempt to scale out and deal with stress points like soaring costs for hardware like fast media storage. In the thick of the enterprise shift to NoSQL is the Apache Cassandra database and leading platform vendor DataStax. Network ...Full article
The same person who once hacked HP printers and other telecommunications products to demonstrate the vulnerability of embedded devices has now developed a platform-independent real-time host-based intrusion defense system designed to secure all embedded products, regardless of vendor or operating system. Red Balloon Security's offering is, claims CEO and chief scientist Ang Cui, the opening salvo ...Full article
To address organizations' security, privacy, and data silo challenges, Phemi today unveiled its Zero Trust Data approach to big data which is based on the Zero Trust Networking model that demands adopters "never trust, always verify." Phemi's Zero Trust Data model embeds and enforces consent, data sharing pacts, and privacy policies at the data level, ...Full article
Amazon Web Services appears to have recovered from an outage that disrupted customers including Tinder, Netflix, and IMDb on Sunday. And while the service's disruption should not dissuade businesses from cloud adoption, it should encourage them to ensure they are doing enough to keep operations running smoothly. The company's oldest public cloud datacenter, located in ...Full article
You may have noticed that big retailers like Target, the target of a massive security breach, have finally gotten around to installing new "point of sales" terminals. Moreover, your bank may have at last started distributing more secure EMV chip cards. (EMV stands for Europay, Mastercard and Visa, the global standard for credit cards equipped ...Full article
Microsoft is leading the way to the future of the enterprise business model. This might be hard to believe considering the company’s track record of locking users into its stack by creating a strong affinity between those users and its products. However, several months ago, the tech juggernaut announced its Cloud Storage Partner Program, which ...Full article
Global supercomputer maker Cray's recent deals with Danish and Swiss meteorological organizations further cemented its leadership in the weather business, but Cray predicts blue skies ahead for expanding sales across an diversified group of corporate clients. The company this week inked a contract with longtime customer Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), which installed a Cray ...Full article
Adoption and expansion of Docker application container technology continues to gain steam. San Francisco-based Docker, the de facto leader of the Linux distributed app container movement, announced an update this week to its Docker Hub, the cloud service designed to automate developers' workflows. The update includes a new application architecture and a new "front-end technology ...Full article
The key to protecting corporate data and preventing security breaches are policies that limit the sharing of access credentials, a new security survey concludes. The enterprise security survey released this week by corporate security vendor Centrify Corp. found that 59 percent of U.S. IT managers shared access credentials with other employees "somewhat often." Fifty-two percent ...Full article
By leveraging publicly available information, companies like BitSight and SecurityScorecard rate most businesses' cybersecurity profiles, information third parties like CISOs, CSOs, CIOs, insurers, investors, financiers, employees and, perhaps, cyber criminals, use to judge organizations' stability.Full article
Storage leader EMC Corp. said it is bundling commodity servers with ScaleIO software to serve as a "node" for deploying and leveraging software-defined storage. EMC's ScaleIO Node is designed to scale out from three to more than 1,000 nodes across multiple stacks, the company said Wednesday (Sept. 16). Performance is said it scale linearly at, ...Full article
Even before it gets off the ground, HP Enterprise – one of the two companies HP will split into by year’s end – is getting its wings clipped: HP announced plans yesterday to cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs from HP Enterpise. It’s not yet clear what this will mean for HP's aspirations and operation in ...Full article
Workload management and optimization solutions developer Univa is entering the Docker orchestration frenzy with today's release of the Univa Grid Engine Container Edition product. In September 2014, Univa told EnterpriseTech of plans to add Docker support, predicting it would arrive March 2015. But Univa invested more time speaking to customers, researching the market, developing a solution, ...Full article
Tableau Software expands general business-users' access to data with Tuesday's release of Tableau 9.1, featuring a redesigned mobile app and enhanced cloud capabilities. The update, which comes about four months after Tableau unveiled version 9.0, includes easier security and authentication for the enterprise and new ways to work with data, the business intelligence software developer said. ...Full article
PernixData aims to further simplify storage managers' jobs with today's release of FVP version 3.0, Freedom, and software platform Architect. The company's technology decouples storage performance and management functions from an organization's underlying storage hardware, allowing an enterprise to maximize application performance, attain predictable scale-out growth, and minimize storage costs, according to the San Jose, ...Full article
Apache Cassandra, the Java-based distributed NoSQL database, is making inroads in production despite lingering skepticism about its ability to handle mission critical deployments. While Cassandra remains a second fiddle to NoSQL database market leader MongoDB, it has emerged as among "the best of the rest," according to Matt Aslett, research director at 451 Research. Doubts ...Full article
With its newly announced Salesforce IoT Cloud, Salesforce looks to expand far beyond its traditional customer relationship management (CRM) and sales roots to become the central hub for the connected analytics and business insight critical to organizations' ongoing and future success. The IoT Cloud connects everything in Salesforce, tackling digital content including websites, blogs, and ...Full article
When most hear the term "High-Performance Computing" or HPC, what often comes to mind is the image of well-funded research laboratories, think CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the sheer processing and calculation power is critical to very specialized and advanced scientific and research missions. Such highly performing computing clusters are often capable of processing tens ...Full article
The current IT infrastructure shaped by the proliferation of mobile devices will soon give way to a "sensory swarm" that will overtake the current Internet of Things (IoT) while adding intelligence to a range of networks and infrastructure, a futurist predicts. "In the near future, we are going to have a sensory swarm, a great ...Full article
In a bid to bolster its toolbox for developing cloud-based applications, IBM said this week it would acquire StrongLoop Inc., an application development software startup. Two-year-old StrongLoop, based in San Mateo, Calif., is a provider of application development software that emerged last year called Node.js. The development framework is widely used to create and deliver ...Full article
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