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IBM and Telos team to automate compliance and cybersecurity risk management
IBM Corp. and enterprise security specialist Telos Corp. are teaming up to help businesses cope with the seemingly unfettered growth of new regulations. The two companies are launching Active Governance Services, a set of information technologies and best practices that help enterprises operationalize and automate both cybersecurity compliance and regulatory risk. There’s no question that ...
Survey finds tool fragmentation frustrates full-stack observability goals
With modern information technology constructs such as microservices, containers and serverless environments proliferating, the task of ensuring that applications are available and running smoothly has never been more challenging. Traditional application performance management tools aren’t up to the task, so a new discipline — “observability” — has emerged that encompasses the myriad factors that make ...
Sumo Logic adds reliability management features to its observability platform
Sumo Logic Inc., maker of an analytics-based platform for application performance management and observability, today introduced a new reliability management feature of its Sumo Logic Observability platform that’s based on a service level objective methodology. Reliability management focuses on the performance and reliability of applications from the end user’s perspective rather than monitoring infrastructure. That’s ...
Oracle adds performance evaluation and listening features to HCM suite
Oracle Corp. today rolled out a series of updates to its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management suite, including a team skills portal, performance evaluation support and a feature that helps managers listen better to employees. Citing a Gallup Inc. survey that found that the top quartile of companies with engaged employees experiences lower turnover and absenteeism ...
Dell customers can now manage their own APEX storage
Dell Technologies Inc. is broadening the range of options for customers of its APEX Data Storage Services with a new option that allows them to maintain operational control of file and block storage services with Dell providing support and upgrades for a subscription fee. The announcement continues the evolution of APEX as Dell’s form of ...
Strong cloud growth propels Oracle results
Oracle Corp. reported strong revenue growth in its fiscal first quarter, beating analysts’ estimates and bucking the recent trend of mixed financial results by enterprise software companies. Profit declined in large part because of the $1.7 billion in capital investments the company made to build out its cloud infrastructure. Total revenue rose 23% in constant ...
Oracle brings its souped-up MySQL database to the Amazon cloud
Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade to the popular open-source database engine that combines online transaction processing, analytics, machine learning and machine learning-based automation within a single MySQL instance. Oracle said ...
MariaDB, Qlik team up to encourage migration from older databases
MariaDB Corp. and cloud data integration firm Qlik Inc. are teaming up to make it simpler for companies to migrate from older database management systems to MariaDB’s Enterprise Server, Xpand distributed SQL database or SkySQL cloud database service. MariaDB, which sells a commercial version of the open-source MariaDB DBMS, said its engine can do the ...
Ambient AI adds 25 new behaviors to its image threat detection library for video surveillance
Ambient AI Inc., developer of physical security software that uses image recognition to identify threats captured on security cameras, today announced that it has added 25 new behaviors to its threat detection library. That brings the total number of visual scenarios it can now analyze to more than 150. The new behaviors include the ability to ...
Livestorm aims for Zoom’s videoconferencing stronghold with new enterprise features
Videoconferencing platform Livestorm Inc. today is announcing a slate of new features aimed at enterprise customers. They include integration with popular marketing automation platforms, expansion of the maximum meeting size to 3,000 attendees, simplified billing and reporting, and new security features. The six-year-old firm, which has raised more than $39 million, positions itself as a soup-to-nuts ...