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Multicloud, GDPR are no country for the data blind
How important is it for a company to be able to see all of its data all the time? As they adopt more cloud computing reservoirs than they can count on both hands, and the General Data Protection Regulation is imposing painful fines for compliance slips, it’s becoming pretty darned crucial. And those are just a ...
Raising apps-to-infra awareness when IT’s gone wild
Computing infrastructure and software applications have gone wild. Multiple clouds, edge devices and applications are distributed, federated and generally running errant all over the place. Realistically, most companies simply can’t contain everything in a single location anymore. They might, however, be able to see all these wild things and what they are up to via ...
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APIs are leaving crypto door ajar to burglars, says white-hat hacker
White-hat bounty hunters put enterprises’ cybersecurity systems to the test for pay. Their clients figure it’s preferable to pay a skilled hacker a reasonable fee to point out vulnerabilities than wait for a black hat to rob them blind. These pros are now putting cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings to the test — and ...
‘Explainable AI’ crunches data seven ways to Sunday
Is any term in technology today buzzing louder than machine learning? Maybe artificial intelligence. Aren’t they they same thing, sort of? Sort of. Customers need to get clear on what they expect ML or AI to actually do before they shop for a product. It may take the marrying of two or more types of AI to ...
Going to Oracle OpenWorld? Deets about Larry-the-Bear giveaway
Oracle Corp. is holding its yearly blowout conference, Oracle OpenWorld, in San Francisco, California, beginning next week. Sure to be among keynote topics are the evolution of the database in the cloud world, how Oracle is competing with database startups, and more. This year, attendees will have a chance to personally meet the database king himself, ...
Salesforce has competition from smarty-pants CRM startups
Anybody who’s known the joy of working in sales will recall the moment they gave up trying to read prospect’s minds. It’s no use. It’s a volume game. Just keep calling, emailing, following up with all the names on the contact list. The new breed of customer relationship management software might not make salespeople telepaths, ...
Blockchain easy-button alert: Say hello to automated security audits
It’s been a bountiful fortnight for blockchain’s encrypted ledger methodologies — particularly blockchain security. Hosho Group Inc. held HoshoCon — the first conference devoted to blochchain and cryptocurrency security — in Las Vegas, Nevada. And Amberdata Inc. just announced a groundbreaking tool that automates blockchain security audits. “Our goal is to basically make it very ...
No beating around the blockchain: Cryptosecurity real talk at HoshoCon
Something is missing in the swirl of glitter around blockchain and cryptocurrency: a hard, gristly conversation about security risks. Hosho Group Inc. wants to strike up this conversation without spoiling the party. In Nevada last week, the cryptosecurity provider brought together a group of technical and nontechnical people to exchange ideas and learn substantive skills to make blockchain ...
Startup fills SaaS’s internet-connectivity cracks with SDN
Who doesn’t like cloud-based plug-and-play software as a service applications? Nobody. And who doesn’t have a flawless internet connection they can depend on to always run them at maximum speed with no hiccups? Well, a lot of folks don’t, it turns out. This is where internet-overlay wide-area networking for optimized SaaS delivery comes in. It’s ...
No dataset is an island — at least not if you’re trying to get AI from it
A business has petabytes of data on initial customers, repeat customers, customers they lost, and customers that returned after trying a different brand. Obviously, that business is able to analyze the data and tweak its offerings to attract and retain more customers, develop artificial-intelligence engines that close more sales, and other cool stuff, right? Not if those ...