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Cloud native is slashing preconceived ideas in DevOps, data and digitization
With data and analytics morphing into a core business function, and much of it being found in the cloud, cloud native is rapidly breeding innovation. The recent AWS Startup Showcase — “New Breakthroughs in DevOps, Analytics, and Cloud Management Tools” — recently took a look at 14 startups that are innovating, leveraging data and creating ...
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Upcoming Couchbase event highlights its approach to a modern database platform
NASDAQ newcomer Couchbase Inc., which went public this summer, claims some of the world’s biggest companies have migrated mission-critical applications to its version of the modernized, distributed database, operating in the growing world of hybrid computing — a system it says traverses legacy relational databases, replacing them easily with modern ones. On Oct. 20-21, the ...
Cloud-based security: Arctic Wolf’s cybersecurity game plan
Bringing together all aspects of cybersecurity under one umbrella, as opposed to unique attack-surface solutions being pitched individually, is the sales game plan behind Arctic Wolf Networks Inc.’s growth strategy — and it may soon lead to initial public offering. Arctic Wolf has been working with a range of companies, from small businesses to large ...
As microservices transform enterprise computing, architecture planning becomes more critical
Containers and cloud native development processes are changing the way the enterprise thinks about data storage management. With the current use of microservices, architecture planning is critically important, according to enterprise storage platform company Portworx Inc., a VMware Inc. partner. In fact, if organizations build architectures with forethought, then surprise escalations in scaling, as was the case early on ...
Cutting down on repetitive tasks is only one reason to automate, says Sapphire Health
Infrastructure management firms are aggressively exploring and implementing automation solutions, says a healthcare, managed services company. Sapphire Health believes cloud-readiness and containerization adoption and migration are among the reasons that its solutions for clients should now be engineered for automation. Alleviating the hassle of repetitive tasks is one of the back-stories, but it’s not all about ...
‘How to apply automation’ questions are getting solved
Automation is accelerating across IT, according to experts. The big question, though, is how one performs that automation more easily, across an organization’s workloads, networks, security and more. All the other ancillary domains or situations need it, in fact. Indeed, it’s not simply an acceleration of automation that’s occurring, but it’s “an acceleration of: how ...
A new kind of software is required for secure cloud digitization, says Okera
Complications relating to data security and privacy are escalating as organizations shift operations to the cloud. The problems become exacerbated because as organizations introduce layers of infrastructure, they face regulatory hurdles, according to one a startup that’s set out to tackle this very issue with something of a turnkey security and privacy operating system, specifically ...
Five themes you might have missed from the Amazon EC2 15th Birthday Event
The classic iteration of Amazon’s AWS Elastic Computing, or EC2, product is being retired just as EC2 reaches its 15th birthday. Hosting the party, theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, thought that the best way to celebrate would be to delve into just how the groundbreaking EC2 changed the face of computing all those pre-cloud years ago; ...
Ascend.io aims to simplify data engineering for better data interaction
Driving more value from data poses more quandaries nowadays than how to store and manage the stuff, according to an engineering startup firm that specializes in orchestration and pipelines. One problem is that data teams are at over-capacity; and another is that skillsets are so varied that solutions for extracting meaning from data aren’t a ...
Here are 5 insights you might have missed from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
The speed required to integrate, develop and perform analytics with containers is a key issue front and center in the enterprise, one that was discussed widely during the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. Computing at the edge, the need for real-time analytics — along with newer forms of DevOps, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery — ...
