CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has built its reputation in providing cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, workloads, identity and data through the use of lightweight agents or sensors in a network. This week, the company unveiled new products to drive the convergence of security and observability with a centralized log management strategy based on technology acquired through the ...

Salesforce Inc. kicked off its Dreamforce conference this week by bringing 40,000 members of its extensive community together in San Francisco for the first time in more than two years and unveiling new offerings to allow them to connect with each other in new ways long after the event concludes Thursday. The Dreamforce event, built ...

At an event organized by the American Enterprise Institute in 2012, U.S. Army General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency at the time, called cybercrime “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” That was 10 years ago, and the cost of doing business has risen considerably since then. One FBI report pegged the ...

In the continued evolution of the cybersecurity landscape, there is trust and there is zero-trust. Both need to be carefully integrated into compute infrastructure to ensure data protection and cyber resilience. Zero trust dictates that users inside or outside an organization must be authenticated before system access is granted. This has become a key element in ...

Oracle Corp. is expanding the cloud footprint for its MySQL HeatWave database offering. Since the original launch of MySQL HeatWave in December 2020, Oracle has made several major enhancements to the high-performance database technology. However, the offering could only run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a potential liability in an increasingly multicloud world. Oracle took a ...

Oracle Corp’s. Exadata X9M online transaction processing database is like an automobile on the professional racing circuit. Every few months, Oracle takes the race car into the garage for fine tuning and it comes out with even faster performance around the track than before. Nearly one year after introducing the X9M, Oracle has teamed up ...

VMware Inc. spent the better part of the last week in August outlining a vision of the future for its customers. That vision will be multicloud or services for cross-cloud applications based on announcements made by the virtualization pioneer during the event. VMware focused on multicloud solutions that extended collaboration with Microsoft Azure and Amazon ...

The technology world is entering a new phase where code complexity and widespread use of global software tools have opened the door for a damaging security flaw that can last for years. The enterprise community received a preview of this in 2012 when a security flaw was introduced in an update for OpenSSL, a popular ...

During the recently concluded VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco, NetApp Inc. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership expansion that will include new customer-driven initiatives for migrating enterprise workloads to multicloud architectures. The partnership expansion followed many years of collaboration, a point that was noted during keynote presentations at the event by VMware executives. “It ...

One of the major changes at VMware Explore in August was the name itself. The event, previously known as VMworld, was rebranded in 2022 to reflect the company’s own transition from being a virtualization pioneer and developing the private cloud to what has become a multicloud universe. “It wasn’t just to come back to what ...