Among the many transformations that took place as a result of the global pandemic was disruption of traditional data sources. If a restaurant suddenly had to suspend operations for six months and needed a loan, how could a lender rely on profit and loss statements or tax returns to evaluate the risk? This is the ...

A commonly understood principle in the tech world is that over time, every industry ultimately gets disrupted. It’s MySQL’s turn. The popular database technology was due for a shakeup after nearly 26 years. That disruption has recently been fueled by Oracle Corp., which released MySQL HeatWave in December. Other major cloud players and a growing ...

Commvault Systems Inc. is in its 25th year as an independent company, but it is an internal 18-month-old service that’s giving the company the look of a hot startup. The storage and data protection company unveiled a cloud-based backup and recovery SaaS service called Metallic in October 2019 and has been pleased with the traction ...

Rohit Ghai was named president of RSA Inc. in January 2017. His keynote address as part of the firm’s annual cybersecurity conference this month was his fifth, but it may well have been the first time that the words “chaos monkey” were part of his remarks. Chaos Monkey, originally designed by Netflix Inc. over a ...

The process of database management in the enterprise often involves the convoluted work of sizing, capacity planning and consolidation. In today’s modern IT landscape, this generally means a focus on applications. Running applications can be complex enough, but if one fails, the recovery process can rapidly become a huge headache. Oracle Corp. provides the remedy ...

As it prepares for its annual VeeamON virtual conference, May 25-27, Veeam Software Corp. remains busy moving a lot of the world’s data into the cloud. The backup and data protection vendor reported double-digit growth across the globe in early May, fueled by a significant shift of data stores to cloud platforms by its customers. ...

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are great for introducing services to new customers, making it easier to publish content fast and sharing information cross-platform. However, APIs aren’t so great for security. Consumer-focused companies that have learned this lesson in recent weeks include farm machinery manufacturer John Deere Inc., the Experian Inc. credit bureau, and exercise ...

Whether IT runs on-premises or in the cloud, there are always gaps in security. The key is to find them before the hackers do. Orca Security Ltd. has seized an opportunity to capitalize on a security-challenged IT environment by developing what it terms SideScanning security solutions, born in the cloud for the cloud. Orca’s approach ...

Compute functions have rights. That’s good when it comes to running a business operation, but it can be bad for security if those rights aren’t handled correctly. For Sonrai Security Inc. that means a process of reinvention, an opportunity to create new security solutions based on the rights assigned for three key control points in ...

When a company that controls two-thirds of a market announces it will stop using a certain technology, it’s news. Thus, when Google LLC, which presently owns 67% of the global browser market, declared early last year plans to cease the use of third-party cookies over two years, the news reverberated throughout the digital world. That ...