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FEATURE
For commercial drone pilots, the sky’s the limit now
Dan Landis was a model aircraft enthusiast who cut his cut his teeth flying drones in Afghanistan and Iraq as a military contractor. Desiree Ekstein was a videographer whose mother suggested a drone might give her work some new perspective. Scott Shepard was a commercial photographer who was introduced to drones by a client whose ...
JetStream combines replication, cloud storage for fast data restoration
A year and a week after emerging from stealth, data migration software developer JetStream Software Inc. is entering the data protection market with a service that backs up entire virtual machine images to on-premises infrastructure, the cloud or a combination. JetStream is aiming the service at cloud service providers and managed service providers who will ...
Looker broadens functional focus with new visualization app for sales pros
Continuing its recent campaign to expand into functional specialties, Looker Data Sciences Inc. today is rolling out an extension to its business intelligence platform targeted specifically at sales professionals. Looker for Sales Analytics joins Looker for Digital Marketing and Looker for Web Analytics, which were both introduced last October and which enter general availability this ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD
As hybrids flower, a new era dawns in cloud computing
For Kenny Mullican, the decision about whether to use a hybrid cloud was once cut-and-dried. “It was a binary choice between your own servers and going with a public cloud,” said the chief information officer at Paragon Films Inc. Fear of losing control over mission-critical systems is one reason the company, which makes stretch films ...
MapR separates Kubernetes storage and compute to boost container flexibility
MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up its efforts to hasten its customers’ moves to software containers with a new set of features in its MapR Data Platform that separates computing from storage. MapR described the enhancements, announced today, as deep integrations with the core components of Kubernetes, which is the open-source software that orchestrates applications running in ...
SonicWall report paints sobering picture of cyberthreat trends
SonicWall Inc., the network security provider that spun out of Dell Technologies Inc. in 2016, today released its 2019 Cyber Threat Report, and the results don’t make happy reading for security personnel. The findings, which were gleaned from the company’s network of more than 1 million sensors around the world, finds that malware attacks grew 22 percent ...
Ctera adds edge file server based on HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged platform
Ctera Networks Ltd. today expanded its line of hyperconverged platforms for distributed organizations with a new model that manages data across multiple clouds. The Ctera X Series combines a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. SimpliVity processor with Ctera’s global file system to support edge storage with unified access across a corporate network. The Israel-based company describes its ...
VMware refreshes cloud portfolio with its first native hyperconverged appliance
Showing more confidence that its hybrid and multicloud strategies are finding favor with enterprise customers, VMware Inc. today is expanding both the functional and geographic scope of its services. In particular, the company introduced a version of its Cloud Foundation migration product that runs natively on a hyperconverged hardware platform, which combines computing, storage and ...
Io-Tahoe upgrades data catalog to spot and tag personal info in data streams
Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is enhancing its machine learning-driven data catalog with features that it says can discover and classify streaming data. The capability can be used, among other things, to discover personally identifiable data while it’s still in motion to enable better regulatory compliance. The privately held ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
In cybersecurity, it’s AI vs. AI: Will the good guys or the bad guys win?
Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn’t release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try to trick recipients into clicking malicious links, originated 91 percent of all cyberattacks ...
