Just think of all the people that tried to reach out to their credit card companies after the recent Target breach.  Then Neiman Marcus, then (add name here).  Well it happens every day, all the time and when you want to reach a company, there’s no doubt that when you’re on hold, entering and re-entering ...

2014 is shaping to be quite a year for Egnyte, the file sharing for enterprise company.  The major players in the industry (Box and Dropbox) fighting over the top spot, while Egnyte is firmly securing itself as the #1 file sharing alternative to Box and Dropbox in the enterprise.  Egnyte announced this week that they ...

Well they didn’t exactly focus much into security, but taking in the discussions throughout this week’s Open Compute and OpenStack events, it is rather clear that data center architecture is moving towards rapid scale, massive scale and towards getting more and more value out of the data center.  We’re seeing this gravitation to ubiquitous platform ...

Securing the cloud is a big task, no matter what particular element you are looking at. MongoHQ announced this week that they are adding a host of new security features to their powerful platform.  MongoHQ provides . First off, the newly introduced security feature package gives customers the tools to control and see who accesses ...

One of the biggest most promising trends in the security business today is this unison of data analytics and security in one happy package.  A number of leading products have implemented analytics into their security platform and it figures to be a big field yet again in 2014.  Perhaps none of these examples may be ...

According to a tweet by Bloomberg, Microsoft’s search for a CEO has come to an end, and the company is preparing to announce its new leader to the world.  The named replacement, or shall we say successor is Satya Nadella.  Nadella is a Microsoft veteran, with over 20 years at the company.  He boasts strong ...

Codero Hosting announced today that it has secured $8 million in new financing.  The financing comes from Silicon Valley Bank and Farnam Street Financial.  This is notable as it is a blue chip finance arrangement and mainstream financing, not an equity deal.  It means that the company is really hitting its growth in a competitive ...

Big Data startups are rolling and show no signs of slowing down anytime soon.  That’s certainly the case with Boundary, which announced a massive growth of 400% year over year base increase.  The company now analyzes up to 2 trillion metrics per day, and 500 billion of those come from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...

A recent briefing with Black Lotus executives Arman Khalili and Xenophon Giannis gave us a look behind the operation, some trends in the industry, and also announced a free tier to their DDoS protection services.  Black Lotus is in the business of maintaining site availability and protection from the dreaded Distributed Denial of Service attack ...

Accellion CEO Yorgen Edholm shared some projections about enterprise security and cloud computing for 2014.  2013 was a year that was marked by a lot of security breaches including: February’s onslaught of hacks for Facebook, Twitter and Apple, the obvious – NSA scandal and The New York Times and Wall Street Journal hacks, and Edholm ...