Silvia Fregoni

Silvia Fregoni is a writer for SiliconANGLE Media's roving news desk, theCUBE, covering enterprise technology trends and exclusive interviews with the industry's top leaders. As a lawyer and dedicated scholar, Silvia enjoys learning about all things tech.

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Running anywhere and compatible with containers, Postgres eases business path to innovation

Enterprises taking the path of modernizing their IT infrastructure and using data to gain insights need the flexibility to handle hybrid environments distributed on local legacy systems both in the cloud and at the edge. The open-source relational database management system Postgres can accelerate business innovation by being the database that works anywhere and being ...

Digital transformation, changes in the database market drive Postgres growth

Anyone looking at the history of the open-source relational database management system Postgres, which dates back to the 1970s with Ingres, would expect an outdated technology, no longer in use today. It turns out that the recent acceleration of digital transformation and changes in the database market, as well as product innovations themselves, have made ...

HPE aims to build dataspaces to democratize data, empower food and health projects

Data can generate valuable insights to solve problems not only for business, but also for government and society. And for this, it needs to be available, organized and secure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is applying its computing capacity, security solutions and governance capabilities to tackle data challenges and empower data projects that are meaningful to ...

HPE, AMD step up partnership to accelerate time-to-value across hybrid cloud

Accelerating time-to-value across a hybrid infrastructure that meets the needs of increasingly demanding workloads and applications is, without a doubt, the goal of every company. It is also the reason behind the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and the Advanced Micro Devices Inc. partnership, which has intensified even more recently. With the introduction of AMD’s latest ...
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Data explosion pushes businesses to ‘learn at the edge,’ says AI exec

Extracting the most value from data often involves building artificial intelligence systems that can make predictions or assist business leaders in decision making. But storing the data and deploying smart models on an exceptionally large scale is too difficult and onerous. The only possible way to deal with the explosion of data generated by the ...

Freddie Mac overcomes 50 years of legacy systems to build an award-winning data program

Going through a digital transformation to build a data-driven ecosystem is not always an easy task for companies. Now imagine this task for an enterprise over 50 years old and with 5.5 billion data points in a portfolio of 11 million contracts. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (known as Freddie Mac), an entity that supports the ...

Securonix powers next-gen SIEM with Ahana Cloud for Presto and open data lake analytics

Ransomware attacks such as the one suffered recently by the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut down the pipeline supplying oil to America’s East Coast for five days, are increasingly common and require companies to be prepared to respond quickly once a risk arises. The hybrid cloud security specialist Securonix Inc. has partnered with Ahana Cloud ...

Protegrity protects kinetic data by making it worthless in the wrong hands

The rise of ransomware attacks has heightened companies’ concerns about cybersecurity and paralyzed organizations from freely using their kinetic data to gain insights. The best way to change the ransomware game is to make the data worthless in the wrong hands, according to Rick Farnell (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Protegrity Inc. And ...

Orca’s new agentless approach to cybersecurity eliminates cloud blind spots

Businesses are moving ever more rapidly to the cloud to innovate, modernize and scale, but legacy security solutions are not always best suited to ensure that trajectory. Noticing blind spots along this path, Israeli company Orca Security Ltd. has developed a born-in-the-cloud solution for the cloud. It is an agentless security platform to replace old ...

Lacework scales up automated security across cloud workloads and containers

The rise in cloud adoption and the modernization of business IT infrastructure have increased the attack surface that cybercriminals can gain access to, and massive data breaches have become regular news. Because the rule-based mechanisms that purported to identify and deter bad guys were not designed to monitor such dispersed hybrid environments, Lacework Inc. decided ...