The recent partnership between Cloudera Inc. and Nvidia Corp., announced in April, is worth watching as it represents an important step in creating architectures of the future for streamlining data science and machine learning pipelines. This DataOps trend, outlined by research firm Gartner as a key development for 2021, is being driven by growing enterprise ...

Concurrent with the latest enhancements for Oracle Corp.’s HeatWave MySQL database announced today, the company  is beginning to gather and report benchmark data from key customers since introduction of the service in December. The results initially show validation of the company’s claims on cost savings and performance. Two use cases from one U.S. and two ...

Mobile platforms and open-source software emerged as key cybersecurity issues at the annual Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference this week, judging from presentations by a mix of onsite attendees and virtual streaming of briefings from security researchers around the globe. In his opening keynote remarks, Black Hat founder Jeff Moss summed up the general feeling ...

IBM announced enhancements to its storage systems portfolio last month with a focus on two of the hottest topics in the enterprise world: security and as-a-service delivery. The company added new features and protections for its FlashSystem all-flash arrays by offering IBM Safeguarded Copy to create securely isolated data copies that cannot be changed. And ...

Cloudera Inc. has made recent moves landing it prominently in the news. While that has justifiably captured the interest of shareholders and Wall Street, perhaps more significant is the technological direction of the company going forward. Cloudera occupies an important place in the enterprise data cloud platform space, with 1,800 customers and quarterly sales of ...

Ahana Cloud Inc.’s open-source high performance SQL query engine has found a home in the cybersecurity space. Ahana began offering Presto, an open-source project originally developed at Facebook Inc. and incubated within the Linux Foundation, one year ago. Presto speeds up database queries from multiple sources, a key solution for handling tasks that require analysis ...

In early June, cloud providers, integrators, technology partners with Cisco Systems Inc., and industry analysts came together in a virtual format to discuss what tomorrow’s cloud will be. The discussion, part of “Future Cloud: One event, a world of opportunities,” focused on a number of key areas, including the work of enterprise developers, recent updates ...

Nutanix Inc. and Red Hat Inc. announced a strategic partnership today that will combine installation, management and interoperability of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV. The partnership will make OpenShift the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on Nutanix Cloud Platform, which will ...

It has been approximately two years since IBM finalized its acquisition of Red Hat Inc. for $34 billion, and the Red Hat Summit in April offered an opportunity to assess the state of the open-source world and the key projects brought about by the marriage of two key enterprise computing powers. The two-day virtual event was covered extensively ...

Ransomware attacks are a huge issue today, and one of the reasons is that malicious actors are finding a way through security defenses to penetrate systems. In most cases, the way they are getting in is through a successful phishing attempt. Cybersecurity researchers at FortiGuard Labs have seen a noticeable uptick in the sophistication of ...