Confronted with a host of market challenges, from supply chain and cybersecurity concerns to a lengthy pandemic and pent-up demand for edge technologies, what should a vendor in the Amazon Web Services Inc. partner ecosystem do? Apparently, the answer is to step on the gas. AWS Partner Network companies are accelerating innovation through a series of ...

Security of the software supply chain is a noble, yet elusive goal. Just how difficult is it? Data supplied by the company that runs the Apache Maven Central Repository provides a measure of the challenge. After it was reported that the Log4j JavaScript tool had a serious security flaw, 10 million versions were downloaded over ...

Less than one month after closing the acquisition of Trifacta Inc., Alteryx Inc. — a provider of software for data exploration and self-service preparation — has taken the next step. It has combined its low-code/no-code analytics portfolio with Trifacta’s cloud-native offerings into a single solution: Alteryx Analytics Cloud. The latest announcement caps a two-year transformation ...

Seventy percent of organizations want to be more data driven; 88% still face technology constraints, and 95% struggle with operational challenges around data and analytics. Those were a few of the findings from an IDC Infobrief, commissioned by analytics automation company Alteryx Inc. and released in early February. The report highlighted a fundamental problem: Mountains ...

The past two years have taught the world that working from home can sometimes be just as effective as working in the office. While there were people working remotely prior to the start of 2020, the onset of a global pandemic significantly changed the equation. A Gallup survey in the fall of last year found ...

When it comes to software supply chain security, the problem confronting the tech industry today can be summed up in one five-letter word: chain. Chain links formed into a length of support can be incredibly strong, as long as all of the links remain sturdy. However, the failure of one link can compromise the strength ...

When Swami Sivasubramanian was a Ph.D. student in 2005, he landed a research engineer internship at Amazon.com Inc. He soon realized that Amazon was more than an online retailer. It was a technology company that happened to do e-commerce. The company’s technological bias led to a white paper in 2007 that outlined the concept for a ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal. That was the validation NoSQL document database provider MongoDB received in early February when Oracle Corp. announced availability of the Oracle Database API for MongoDB. ...

When one major breach technique becomes successful, it’s a sure bet that rapid adoption by threat actors will follow. This maxim has become more evident following a successful attack on the software supply chain through a breach of SolarWinds Inc. more than one year ago. Software supply chain attacks grew 650% in 2021, according to a report ...

With the onset of a global pandemic two years ago, remote work became the norm for a majority of enterprise firms. A significant percentage of the workforce was predicted to return to the office by the end of 2021, but the rise of COVID variants threw a wrench into those plans. Meeting the challenges posed ...