Open source relational database company Splice Machine announced Wednesday that its data platform will be available on AWS as a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) later this year. With Splice Machine, users can both power applications and perform analytics without the need for ETL and separate analytical databases, such as Amazon RedShift or Snowflake. With Splice Machine’s Cloud RDBMS, companies get complete ANSI-SQL, ACID compliant transactions, secondary indexes, referential integrity, triggers, stored procedures […]

IDrive Online Backup expanded its IDrive Vault making it capable of being deployed in AWS, leveraging Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). IDrive Vault (Private Cloud) acts as a safehouse for user data, now bringing the benefits of Amazon Web Services to go along with the simplicity of the IDrive software. This gives users a dedicated infrastructure for easy access to their data within their geographic […]

Big Switch Networks announced Tuesday new capabilities of Big Cloud Fabric (BCF), including comprehensive networking support for hyper-converged solutions powered by VMware vSAN and virtual desktop and application solutions with VMware Horizon, as well as multi-container networking support for Mesosphere DC/OS and Kubernetes container orchestration platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. With further increases in performance, scale and deployment flexibility, Big Cloud Fabric is the ideal next-generation switching network […]

F5 Networks introduced Wednesday security solutions that provide visibility, context, and control to overcome evolving threats. In a digital-driven economy, applications deliver business services for a variety of access points and locations, opening up new risks and attack vectors—particularly as IT teams extend security and encryption capabilities across cloud, data center, and hybrid environments. The majority of web traffic is now encrypted, meaning attempts to address application security via traditional […]

Barracuda announced Wednesday its new Vulnerability Remediation Service, a cloud-based solution that makes it easier for organizations of any size to deploy comprehensive web application security with minimal administrative overhead. Barracuda Vulnerability Remediation Service automates security policy enforcement with on-demand or scheduled scanning and automatic remediation of web application vulnerabilities, simplifying security operations for DevOps teams especially as application developers look to leverage the agility and elasticity of public cloud […]

Developer of Software Defined Storage (SDS) offerings, OSNEXUS announced Thursday QuantaStor SDS Data Migration Edition to help enterprises migrate and transport multiple terabytes of file, block and object storage between datacenters and on-premises sites using mobile hardware and a custom licensed edition of QuantaStor SDS. QuantaStor SDS allows IT administrators to set up and manage complex open source scale-out file, block and object storage technologies with only a few mouse […]

Avast Software, provider of digital security products for consumers and businesses, released Tuesday the 2017 editions of AVG’s products, AVG AntiVirus FREE, AVG Internet Security and AVG TuneUp. Released less than 120 days after Avast’s acquisition of AVG, these new products combine the technologies of both Avast’s and AVG’s technology to deliver family-friendly, security protection combined with performance enhancements for customers’ PCs, and a clean, simple look and feel. A […]

IBM Watson Health and Illumina announced on Monday their partnership to expand access to genome data interpretation by integrating Watson for Genomics into Illumina’s BaseSpace‫ Sequence Hub and tumor sequencing process. The collaboration is designed to help standardize and simplify genomic data interpretation. By adding Watson for Genomics to Illumina’s next-generation sequencing platform, researchers who use Illumina’s cancer genome sequencing panel will have rapid access to information to help interpret […]

Red Hat announced Wednesday availability of Red Hat CloudForms 4.2, the latest version of its open hybrid cloud management solution. IT operations teams can face slow, manual processes to deliver services internally, which may cost time, money and competitiveness. To address these challenges, IT teams can use Red Hat CloudForms to increase service delivery while enabling IT teams to focus on critical, business-impacting issues. Currently available for immediate download from […]