Brian Njuguna

Brian is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. He has written for a variety of publications, including Blockchain.News and Capital.com. Brian has a penchant for technological innovations, including blockchain, cloud computing, data science, and cryptocurrencies, as he believes that they will reign supreme as the world gears toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He loves to attend rugby sporting events, travel, and listen to music. Brian lives in Nairobi, Kenya, and holds a bachelor’s of economics and statistics from Kenyatta University.

Latest from Brian Njuguna

How Couchbase utilizes operational data to deliver a highly interactive, customized experience

Every role within the enterprise will have the responsibility of analyzing data, given that data has emerged as the lifeblood of modern business. By partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc., Couchbase Inc. embeds operational analytics and democratizes data using its cloud database platform called Capella. This triggers a highly interactive, personalized and customized user experience, ...

MariaDB’s SkySQL takes data management to new heights, supports both transactional and analytical engines as one

While databases propel application development, their sprawling number is proving to be a complexity for developer teams managing them all. Through a database as a service infrastructure called SkySQL, MariaDB PLC looks to propel data management by rendering reliability, availability, performance, and security, according to Jon Bakke (pictured), chief revenue officer at MariaDB. “We’re building ...

SoftwareONE offers continued cloud optimization through FinOps

Thanks to increasingly complex cloud environments, the issue of cost optimization has become vital. By tapping into the financial operations (FinOps) discipline as its superpower from both a technology and licensing perspective, SoftwareONE AG heightens cloud value through spend optimization, according to Bernd Schlotter (pictured, right), president and member of the executive board at SoftwareONE. ...

Unifying transactional and analytical data for real-time insights

For a digital-first experience, relevant, consistent, and fresh data must be incorporated. SingleStore Inc. looks to propel real-time insights through the unification concept, and its Universal Storage helps with this objective, according to Domenic Ravita (pictured), vice president of developer relations at SingleStore. “For SingleStore that’s our specialty, in particular, to unify transactions and analytics for ...

How Veeam uses native snapshots as the first line of defense in backup and recovery

Since ransomware is pervasive and not a one-and-done occurrence, backup is core to any comprehensive security strategy, even in the cloud. Veeam Software Inc. looks to provide a secure backup strategy as part of the remediative recovery component with snapshots acting as the first line of defense for low recovery point objectives, according to Sam ...

Making medical IoT devices more secure with machine and deep learning

Even though smart medical devices are providing breakthrough improvements and reimagining patient experience, they open up vulnerabilities to new attacks and exploits that can disrupt hospital operations and put patients in danger. With a 200% increase in cyberattacks in healthcare organizations and connected devices expected to hit 1.3 billion in this field, Palo Alto Networks ...

Unit 42 highlights threat intelligence importance as Russia, Ukraine ransomware attacks fly under the radar

As threat actors continue to become more sophisticated, staying ahead of the curve is a game-changer. Threat intelligence is now more important than ever, because a perfect storm is brewing based on ransomware attacks between Russia and Ukraine, with nation-state actors undertaking significant cyber espionage work undetected, according to Wendi Whitmore (pictured), senior vice president ...

Palo Alto Networks enhances data protection by showing vulnerabilities in code repository

If a single exposed secret is left undetected, threat actors can easily take advantage and harm the entire application. Through the Prisma Cloud Secrets Security module, Palo Alto Networks Inc. addresses this challenge by seamlessly identifying secrets that have been laid bare across the entire application lifecycle for safety measures, according to Ankur Shah (pictured), ...

CDW partners with Palo Alto to enhance security through end-to-end managed capabilities

In the modern enterprise world, security issues go beyond ransomware attacks to include risk governance, vulnerability management and building a zero-trust framework. As Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Authorized Training Partner, CDW LLC offers advisory and consulting services that enable enterprises to rationalize the security aspect in their IT infrastructure, according to Stephanie Hagopian (pictured), vice ...

AWS partnerships help orgs accelerate FinOps, reduce risk with well-defined governance models

Based on recent Forrester study, 78% of respondents, including ISVs and end customers, disclosed that the lack of a well-defined governance model was putting their companies at risk, according to Whit Crump (pictured), director of Americas business development, worldwide channels and customer programs, AWS Marketplace, at Amazon Web Services Inc. The AWS Marketplace seeks to reduce ...