IT for the Modern Age

The Internet of (Living) Things: Tracking dairy cow eating habits

Cargill and Consumer Physics team up to offer Reveal, a real-time analysis tool that tracks dairy cow diets. Call it the Internet of Living Things.

Lufthansa Systems taps Portworx for stateful containers

The storage issues around containers are real. Portworx helps Lufthansa Systems with theirs.

PitchBook moves to a microservices infrastructure – scaling the business through scalable tech

A good case study in the move from monolithic tech to microservices.

OwnBackup wants to broaden the backup footprint

Instead of recovering data to allow business continuity, OwnBackup's new solution is about creating a fully populated sandbox for development and testing.

Augury scoops up cash to power the industrial IoT

Customers are interested in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which means investors are, too. And Augury is benefitting.

GE’s Predix wants to help the industrial IoT shine

GE’s CEO famously opined that the former industrial giant is now a software company. The latest Predix industrial IoT announcements justify that statement.

Armis wants to resolve the IoT security issue

Armis' new solution provides an agentless IoT security platform that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.

Cloud helps Elon Musk further his audacious goals

Elon Musk is perhaps the best modern example of a technology visionary. But that vision requires a heap of resource to execute upon. That’s where the cloud comes in.

Delivering agility to Paychex with XebiaLabs

Paychex went from following a waterfall development cycle to becoming agile with the help of XebiaLabs products.

PureSec picks up investment because serverless is exciting

There’s plenty of industry buzz around serverless computing, and PureSec is jumping on that gravy train.

Capriza touts its mobile-first strategy for the enterprise

Mobile. It’s the choice of a new generation. And Capriza has a million users to prove the point.

DataStax wants to manage Apache Cassandra anywhere

The future is hybrid cloud, and DataStax wants to be a single pane of glass across all Apache Cassandra databases.

RackWare, like everyone, wants to manage hybrid clouds everywhere

Because the future is hybrid and heterogeneous, RackWare's RMM 6.0 offers management across different deployment options—cloud and on premises.

BackupAssist takes a step back in time with a SME backup tool

BackupAssist's new version targets SMEs, allowing customers to use their preferred public cloud vendor to store their data. But is it really needed?

Signal Sciences wants to protect ALL the web

The cybersecurity space is awash with vendors offering discreet solutions. Signal Sciences wants to be the one-stop shop for web security.

Tricentis and Panaya automate SAP testing

The idea behind the joint solution from Tricentis and Panaya is to automatically test SAP business processes.

Mirantis scores sweet Vodafone deal. More fuel for the OpenStack fire

Vodafone selected Mirantis to deliver OpenStack as part of Vodafone's network virtualization program—Vodafone Ocean.

Red Hat rolls out the announcements at its annual summit

News from last week's Red Hat summit, including OpenShift.io, Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes and Container Health Index.

Wasabi serves up some spicy AWS-killer claims

Wasabi says it is disrupting the cloud storage market, claiming its cloud storage is six times faster than Amazon S3 and cheaper than AWS Glacier.

Healthcare data breaches skyrocket, but is there good news coming?

Bitglass’ Healthcare Breach Report provides a sobering view of the state of healthcare data security.