The semiannual release of the FortiGuard Labs “Global Threat Landscape Report” is usually a good opportunity to get a temperature reading on the state of cybersecurity. Based on the latest report, released in August, ransomware is boiling hot. Threat intelligence from the first half of 2021 showed a tenfold increase in ransomware attacks, with noticeable ...

Cloudera Inc. and theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, co-hosted the “Transform Innovative Ideas Into Data-Driven Insights” event in early August, which featured interviews with company executives, customers and industry analysts. Along with numerous stories written from the event, here are five additional insights you might have missed. (* Disclosure below.) 1. Data integrity will take ...

Clouds and flash may sound like the description for a sudden summer thunderstorm, but they actually represent the two most disruptive forces in the enterprise storage business over the past 15 years. The cloud platform, led by the introduction of Simple Storage Service, or S3, from Amazon Web Services Inc. in 2006, put object storage ...

When Oracle Corp. acquired the rights to MySQL through its purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, the company had a decision to make. Should it pursue a set of partnerships to retool the database technology for broader enterprise use, or should it integrate hardware and software innovation into its own in-house engineering solution? Oracle ...

The reliance on third-party cookies to track user behavior for advertising is going away based on plans outlined by Google LLC, provider of the dominant Chrome browser with 69% of the market. What will this mean for the advertising industry and consumers? This was a focus of “The Cookie Conundrum: A Recipe for Success,” a ...

The reality in 2021 is that IT infrastructure must facilitate digital business strategies. For storage vendors, data sits at the heart of this model, and the challenge becomes delivering solutions that emulate the cloud experience to drive true business value. Over the past year, Pure Storage Inc. has been following a course that reflects enterprise ...

EC2, also known as Elastic Compute Cloud, sits at the core of the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform, and the company is celebrating the technology’s 15th birthday this year. What many people may not know is that the original version of EC2 was built not in the United States, but in South Africa. EC2, which ...

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, turns 15 years old this year, marking a significant milestone for both the company and the computing world it serves. The EC2 instance, a virtual server running applications on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure, sits at the core of the cloud provider’s platform, allowing users to rent storage, network ...

For a company that emerged from stealth mode only months ago, Dasera Inc. has managed to capture a surprising number of awards. The data security company’s website lists 10 accolades, including a listing among CRN’s “Top 10 Hottest Cloud Security Startups,” and recognition as a winner of the Cyber Defense Magazine Global InfoSec Awards in 2021. ...

After launching MySQL HeatWave in December, Oracle Corp. did not wait long to add enhancements to the database query accelerator and ratchet up the competitive pressure in the process. The company announced a number of new enhancements and features for HeatWave this month. In an exclusive interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming video studio, Nipun ...