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Google employee startup Chainguard focuses on open-source and supply chain security
Supply chain attacks — a cyberattack that targets weaker elements in a company’s supply chain — are on the rise, with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity predicting a four-fold increase in attacks in 2021. In early October, a group of five former Google employees started Chainguard Inc., a startup focused on open-source supply chain security. “The ...
How the largest e-commerce platform in Turkey modernized its infrastructure to improve product recommendation algorithm
Trendyol, the largest e-commerce platform in Turkey, has been a loyal user of public database company Couchbase Inc. for several years. Originally, using a legacy database, the platform decided to migrate to accommodate an efficient recommendation domain that would recommend various products to shoppers, with the help of Couchbase. Tackling this migration was no easy ...
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Chronosphere makes waves with cloud native observability platform
Last week, Chronosphere Inc., a cloud-native observability platform, received $200 million in funding, with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. This two-year-old startup company is seizing the opportunity to get an early start in cornering the cloud observability market as cloud and hybrid cloud solutions spread throughout the enterprise, boosting the great digital migration. “Probably about 2017, 2018 ...
HPE solidifies edge-to-cloud service stance at Oct. 19 event
It’s 2021, and we’re all living on the edge. As cell phones, gaming devices and smart home appliances fill almost every American household, the edge is a rapidly growing market, with The Linux Foundation expecting more than $700 billion in capital investment to be made in edge IT infrastructure over the next decade. The edge market is ...
Becoming ‘cloud smart’ – Why the future of cloud services depends on partnerships, not competition
It’s no secret that the pandemic has forced almost everyone and everything to undergo dramatic change. Businesses are especially rushing to adapt to a rapidly developing digital economy as remote services and interactions accelerate toward being a necessity. And companies such as VMware Inc. are stepping in as the unsung heroes in these situations, curating ...
How the pandemic and cloud infrastructure changed the education world overnight
The pandemic transformed the world overnight, with the public sector being no exception. Education was especially hit hard, with millions of students globally switching to remote classrooms and depending on the integrity of the internet to further their learning. With team efforts from educators and tech companies alike, education has been radically transformed, joining other ...
The machine learning tactics behind PavCon’s predictive models for the Air Force
With petabytes of sensitive information in its possession, strategy and engineering firm PavCon LLC uses Amazon Web Services Inc. to keep its data secure as a U.S. Air Force contractor. The company also uses that information to improve its current systems and leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict potential threats and upcoming maintenance. ...
Girls in Tech partners with AWS in initiative to bring more women to public sector
A labor shortage is in effect in America, brought on by the now-dwindling pandemic as businesses scramble to find talent to fill empty seats. But as companies search for viable workers, historically passed-over applicants are starting to gain attention thanks to efforts by activists everywhere, encouraging more and more people to pursue jobs in STEM. ...
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Then and now: AWS pushes 10 years of GovCloud, sets its own new bar
It’s the 10th anniversary of GovCloud, a specialized Amazon Web Services infrastructure built for U.S. government customers designed to handle sensitive data, workloads and applications in the cloud. A decade ago such a feat seemed near impossible, given the public sector’s rightful hesitance to adopt cloud computing services. Today GovCloud boasts several high profile users ...
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Under the microscope: HPE’s journey to the top of the cloud services market
Enterprises are turning to cloud and hybrid cloud solutions, resulting in the need for easily managed cloud architecture globally. Chief technology officers now have the option of remotely deploying applications through Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s GreenLake console, thanks to cloud-native on-prem infrastructure. Aruba Central, HPE’s cloud-based network management and monitoring solution, is assisting HPE in ...









