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 ...

Imagine for a moment there is a car on the market built with all of the desired features, faster than anything else on four wheels, and less expensive than other makes and models. It sounds too good to be true, but that is exactly how Oracle Corp. is positioning a database offering introduced late last ...

The third-party cookie is crumbling, and it’s not clear what will replace the web browsing technology. The third-party cookie, user information saved on a web browser when visiting a website, is undergoing a significant transformation. Escalating privacy concerns and a major change in data collection by Google LLC’s widely used Chrome web browser are threatening ...

When a single work of digital art, which will never hang on a physical wall, sells for $69 million at a Christie’s auction in March, or a picture of a routine column from a tech writer for the New York Times, which could be read online for free, is bought for an astounding $560,000, some perspective ...

IBM’s recent acquisition of Turbonomic Inc. was testimony that today’s multicloud and hybrid IT environments demand AI-driven application management tools to manage these increasingly complex infrastructures. But there is another dimension to this story: IBM is moving boldly into the container-native storage lane, and the Turbonomic purchase will help navigate. In the continued evolution of ...