Security has seemingly fallen by the wayside in the cryptocurrency goldrush, leaving an industry exposed to black-hat hackers who use a simple phishing attack to walk off with millions of dollars from cryptocurrency exchanges or initial coin offerings. “Hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen from exchanges, and 10 percent of all the money [in ICOs] has ...

The lines between on-premises, cloud and edge computing continue to blur, and digital data has become scattered and muddled across the disparate environments. To handle the newfound complexities of managing big data, businesses need flexible computing infrastructure that can run autonomously, boosted by machine learning and artificial intelligence to unscramble the chaos and access key insights. Looking to meet the challenge is Cohesity ...

The public sector is traditionally last to adopt new technology. Convoluted regulations, long-winded approvals processes, and a general reluctance to step away from tried-and-true procedures have kept many agencies in the Dark Ages compared to their enterprise counterparts. However, an aging workforce, systems that are approaching end-of-life, and a realization of the huge benefits that can be obtained ...

Pedal bike enthusiasts are athletes, and among devotees there can be a cynicism for e-bikes, as if riding one is somehow cheating. Until recently, independent bicycle dealers avoided the trend as well, preferring to stick to selling low-tech, old-school bikes. But e-bike specialty stores are not concerned, as they look beyond the traditional market to appeal to a ...

The marriage of development and operations gave us DevOps, and now the happy twosome has become a threesome as security slips into the mix, creating development-security-operations, known as DevSecOps. As ever smarter cyberattackers bypass perimeter fence security solutions, data analytics companies bake security solutions into platforms and switch from reactive to proactive monitoring and troubleshooting. Announcing a cloud ...

Pitney Bowes Inc. ruled the mailroom back when information sharing required an envelope and a trip through the postal service, but its signature metering machines are now gathering dust as marketing, mail and commerce take place on virtual platforms. Determined not to join its postage meters as a relic of the past, the snail mail pioneer ...

From its beginning as a time management app for developer operations, PagerDuty Inc. has been user-centric, focusing on the needs of the operations team. Now the company is applying the power of artificial intelligence to its stockpile of event data, enabling real-time decision making at ground level. “Our focus is really on people and teams,” ...

Hyperconverged infrastructure has hit the mainstream, and the industry is moving toward a multicloud environment where customization and flexibility are key. Keeping ahead in such a fast-paced environment means listening to what the end user needs and constantly innovating to meet what the marketplace demands. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are working together to meet ...

Mix-and-match cloud services have become “la mode du jour,” as companies adopt multicloud strategies that enable picking and choosing providers and services to match specific workload needs. “In the last 24 months, enterprises went from being a single cloud to pervasive multicloud,” said Joe Kinsella (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of cloud management platform company CloudHealth Technologies Inc. “It’s a ...

Tape is the granddaddy of storage methods. Cheap, secure and durable, it has helped store data since the dawn of modern computing. But far from fading away, tape is proving a resilient solution in the storage marketplace. Predictions of 480 terabyte compressed capacity on a single cartridge make tape storage as relevant in today’s virtual marketplace as ...