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Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower
The premise of the project was simple. Get valuable software released faster, with higher quality and reduced risk. Yet there was also a big problem, neatly outlined halfway into a PowerPoint presentation. The project’s premise wouldn’t work because of stated reasons such as “we’re regulated” or “we’re not building websites” or even “our people are too ...
Oracle NetSuite strengthens SuiteSuccess with vertically and globally focused enhancements
Oracle NetSuite is following the mantra of strength in numbers. The company that was one of the earliest players in cloud computing back in 1998 announced 14 new editions of its SuiteSuccess industry cloud solutions and 20 enhancements for its core application technology on Tuesday. And that’s on top of additional capabilities released for its SuiteAnalytics ...
Amberdata focused on building ‘Google for the blockchain’
A Deloitte report released last year found that nearly 40 percent of senior executives surveyed had little or no knowledge about the blockchain. Yet, the decentralized general ledger platform, originally built 10 years ago for tracking cryptocurrency exchanges, continues to attract enterprise interest as evidenced by recent blockchain-related endeavors announced by players such as Cisco Systems ...
The e-commerce rocket ship takes off at Magento Imagine 2018
With a platform for open commerce innovation, Magento Inc. has seen an increasing number of businesses embrace its technology, to the point where it now handles more than $155 billion in gross merchandise volume annually. The world of online retail is evolving rapidly, and the company has built a portfolio of cloud-based solutions for merchants ...
Airmen boldly turn to ‘Star Trek’ for inspiration in custom-built Air Force software project
The United States Air Force calls its coding initiative the Pathfinder Project, but the airmen participating in a new approach for the delivery of combat applications preferred to name their work after a hyperspace route used by renegade freighter captains in the legendary “Star Trek” television series: Kessel Run. “The joke is that we’re delivering ...
Cybersecurity fatigue sets in while investors look for a shot of adrenaline
In the fast-moving world of cybersecurity, the operative word today is fatigue. Information technology organizations have alert fatigue from having to deal with every possible minute-by-minute hint of a data breach or ransomware attack. Enterprise security executives are worn out from endless meetings and board-level discussions about corporate risk profiles. Cybersecurity professionals are so fatigued ...
Cyber Threat Alliance blows out one candle on its celebratory cake
With tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, this month, the chances were good that a few of them celebrated birthdays. But it’s unlikely that any of them celebrated a birthday as recent as Michael Daniel (pictured), because his milestone was one year old. As the president and ...
IBM continues to fine-tune DSX in concert with Hortonworks
Nearly one year ago, IBM Corp. announced plans to combine its data science platform with Hortonworks Inc.’s software for data management. What IBM brought to the partnership was its Data Science Experience, or DSX, solution, designed to let developers create analytics models and machine learning tools quickly. Since then, IBM has been fine-tuning its data science ...
Hortonworks enlists Apache Atlas to follow the trail of data breadcrumbs for GDPR
With the deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation barely a month away, companies are looking for tools to track and identify any and all information on European citizens that could be contained in corporate databases. The law provides European citizens with the “right to be forgotten,” but to meet that standard, companies ...
Hortonworks co-founder outlines edge strategy and standards initiative for big data
In February, Hortonworks Inc. announced general availability of DataFlow 3.1, the company’s data-in-motion platform for edge and streaming analytics. The release provided further evidence that Hortonworks intends to include edge computing in its competitive strategy for the Apache Hadoop market. “That certainly has to be a part of our strategy because it is part of ...
