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Inside AWS’ decision to make its own custom chips
Having been in existence for the past 15 years, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 houses more than 475 instances and continues to be one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s most potent weapons. EC2 is eyeing 500 instances by the end of the year, and its key drivers entail optimizing price performance and supporting new ...
Cohesity uses multi-layered threat defense model to minimize ransomware blast radius
Ransomware is no longer in oblivion, because it can be easily accessed from places like the Dark Web. Therefore, top of mind for enterprises when dealing with this serious threat is endpoint security and backup and recovery. To reduce the adversity of ransomware, Cohesity Inc. deploys a four-layered threat defense framework, which includes an AWS-powered ...
Skyflow uses polymorphic data encryption as its secret sauce when maximizing PII privacy
Enhancing personally identifiable information (or PII) privacy is no longer an afterthought; it’s a fundamental component in an enterprise, just like data security and backup. Therefore, isolating PII is not a choice; it’s necessary for optimal security. Whether it’s a new brokerage application or the largest bank in the world, all companies need a PII ...
TEKsystems ‘works backward’ to help orgs achieve innovation and growth
With data being the lifeblood of many enterprises, a detailed approach is necessary for better decision-making that optimizes customer satisfaction. For the past two years, the full-stack integration partnership between TEKsystems Inc. and 1Strategy, a TEKsystems company, has offered competencies such as data and analytics, DevOps, security, migration and machine learning when it comes to ...
Databricks provides data lakehouse as a single source of truth
Having a unified data platform not only minimizes costs, but also enhances scalability, governance, security and performance, because data engineers, analysts and scientists — using different programming languages — work collaboratively on the same data. Combining the capabilities of a data warehouse and data lake eliminates the complexities of moving data back and forth across ...
Zerto responds to new data threats with orchestrated data recovery in the cloud
With data protection encompassing backup and recovery, it is no longer a bolt-on or afterthought in enterprises; it is the last line of defense if an attack strikes. Having a timely recovery strategy as part of the overarching security is paramount, according to Caroline Seymour (pictured, right), vice president of product marketing at Zerto Ltd., ...
Veeam offers immutability in cloud native data protection
With the exponential growth of data worldwide, managing backups calls for more innovation, as traditional methods such as tape libraries and secondary sites are being phased out. Moving workloads and extending backup targets to the cloud is becoming the new norm, according to one chief technology officer. For the past five years, the partnership between ...
Snyk takes application security to the developer’s doorstep
With billions of dollars spent on endpoint and runtime security, a cultural shift is happening because developers are taking up the security mantle to tame vulnerability from the onset. For the past six and a half years, developer security platform Snyk Ltd. has been building momentum within development communities around the world that are fast ...
5 insights you might have missed from the Boomi: Hyperautomation & the Future of Connectivity event
Based on the diversity happening in the IT world, connecting the dots in terms of integration is becoming more prudent, because any second saved in connectivity makes a huge difference in today’s digital era. With more than 18,000 customers, Boomi Inc., recently sold by parent company Dell Technologies Inc., is crafting a name for itself in ...
Dell renders automation as a prerequisite to digital transformation
With business-to-business, business-to-customer and even customer-to-customer interactions becoming digitized, enterprises are taking the digital transformation route to gain a competitive edge. Automation has emerged as a hot topic, because all these digital interactions need to be seamlessly connected, and autonomous operations fill this void. Even though the underlying technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and ...