Category: Performance, security, and availability

March 6, 2018

Multicloud deployments are all the rage these days, and for good reason. They provide the ultimate in enterprises flexibility, letting you mix and match cloud services to meet your exact needs. As a result, they increase business agility and operational […]

February 27, 2018

MongoDB will add multidocument ACID transactions support to its NoSQL database of the same name. Multidocument ACID transactions support has been the most-requested feature sought for MongoDB, said Seong Park, MongoDB’s vice president of strategy and product marketing. Multidocument support is planned for […]

February 26, 2018

Datical, the leading provider of database release automation, today introduced Datical 5, the latest version of its enterprise-class platform for automating database releases to deliver efficiency, speed and risk reduction for database deployments. Datical brings continuous integration and continuous delivery […]

February 23, 2018

The industry is buzzing about Docker Containers and their rapid adoption.   It’s not widely known, but MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL are among Docker’s most popular images.  Microsoft has joined the fray with Docker as a feature of Windows Server 2016 […]

February 15, 2018

Python is a powerful programming language that is easy to learn and easy to work with, but it is not always the fastest to run—especially when you’re dealing with math or statistics. Third-party libraries like NumPy, which wrap C libraries, […]

February 14, 2018

Irrespective of the industry or company size, Big Data is playing a crucial role for business decision makers. Although many businesses have adopted Big Data Analytics as a critical component of their market analytics practices and customer experience enhancement, there […]

February 8, 2018

The biggest security problems inside your company may result from problems it inherited. While the news focuses on external threats to data center security — international hackers clacking away on their computers from the privacy of an unmarked building, for […]

February 6, 2018

DFLabs, a provider of security automation and orchestration, is receiving increased funding from an existing investor, allowing the company to expand and meet the growing demand for security. The $9 million from existing investor Evolution Equity Partners will capitalize on […]

February 6, 2018

Following the second phase of a global survey of more than 1,200 IT leaders, CA Technologies has revealed the results which show that, as software becomes more critical to business success in the digital economy, security concerns are exponentially on […]

February 2, 2018

Stibo Systems, the global leader in Business-first Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, today announced availability of the latest release of its award-winning MDM platform, STEP Trailblazer 8.3, in addition to the latest capabilities for Product MDM, Customer MDM, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)—providing […]

February 1, 2018

Security of data is a hot topic these days.  One of the security concerns auditors have is whether or not your SQL Server data is encrypted when stored At-Rest–meaning auditors would like to see all data encrypted on the actual […]

January 24, 2018

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the family of data products collectively referred […]

January 23, 2018

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, can today reveal that while the vast majority of global companies (95%) have adopted cloud services[1], there is a wide gap in the level of security precautions applied by companies in different markets. […]

January 18, 2018

Azure Security Center, Microsoft cloud-based security platform for customer instances, now supports custom assessments, allowing users to tailor the system to their needs. In its standard form, Azure Security Center uses a set of over 150 rules that are used […]

January 17, 2018

Maybe we should ask, “who or what killed anonymity?”  The question being debated over and over again is “have we given away our privacy for convenience and security?”  It would appear that the answer is “yes”. Some of our privacy […]

January 16, 2018

Kinetica today announced at Tableau Conference 2017 the availability of innovations to the industry’s fastest GPU-accelerated database that deliver new geospatial capabilities and enterprise-grade features for better performance and user experience, as well as improved efficiency and utilization to drive […]

January 11, 2018

Cybersecurity and terms written about it, such as “ransomware,” “malware,” and “hacker” have become part of our regular vocabulary. Concerns about protecting our identities and personal data are on the rise in our day-to-day lives. With the onslaught of news […]

January 9, 2018

Microsoft is lowering the cost of using its high-performance unlimited container option in the Azure Cosmos DB service. Cosmos DB, formerly called Azure DocumentDB, is the software giant’s globe-spanning distributed cloud database with NoSQL support. Users create fixed or unlimited […]

January 5, 2018

Constructing a modern database demands performance and ease of operations, both at scale. The performance aspect consists of two aspects: high-throughput and low-latency. While many businesses take a multi-tier application approach to meet throughput demands, they’re adding more latency with […]

January 3, 2018

As many enterprise applications mature, the increases in customers, functions, features and transaction rates require scaling up. Several alternatives for maintaining acceptable performance include installing or upgrading hardware resources such as CPU speeds, disk volume and computer memory. Of these, […]