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Spectra Logic Helps Smooth On-Prem and Cloud Data Integration
“In every situation, there’s always some data that’s required on-prem.” It could be for regulatory or compliance reasons, efficiency reasons, or whatever—the takeaway is that for almost all… Read More
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A Distributed File System Installed in 90 Minutes? Peer Software Can Make It Happen
It all sounds so easy, doesn’t it? To get a distributed file system, or DFS, just get rid of all your existing storage, buy one vendor’s solution, and have one ecosystem to worry about, one “thr… Read More
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nOps: You Only Pay If We Save You Money
nOps is convinced that most companies overspend on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In fact, they’re so confident in this belief that they put their money where their mouth is: You don’t pay for their s… Read More
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Zirous Brings ‘Iowa Nice’ To IT Services
When you’re a U.S. Midwest-based IT services company, it might seem that you’re at an immediate disadvantage against huge providers on the coasts. But Zirous doesn’t see it that way at all. Head… Read More
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AutoCloud: Taking the Hassle Out Of Multi-Cloud Management
“All the (public) clouds are subtly different,” says Tyson Kunovsky, Co-Founder and CEO of AutoCloud. He’s simply echoing what every organization that uses more than one public cloud knows. Amaz… Read More
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Plug-and-Play Peace of Mind with Assured Data Protection
Corporate IT is tasked with “doing more with less” these days. That’s hard to do, especially when it comes to something as critical as data protection, including backup, redundancy, and Disaster… Read More
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Lucy’s ‘Answer Engine’ Saves Companies Time and Money
On its website, startup vendor Lucy defines its mission simply: Lucy solves a problem businesses have been grappling with for years - how to effectively manage all of the information living across dif… Read More
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Privacy Bee Reduces Your Employees’ Risk of Exposure
According to one statistic, 82% of all corporate breaches start as a social engineering or spearphishing attack. If that number scares you, you’re not alone. And that’s where Privacy Bee comes in… Read More
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KX Brings the Power of Time Series Data To You
Time series data is becoming more important to companies as a way to track change over time. This data, also known as time-stamped data, is a series of data points that are indexed in time order. Prop… Read More
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Decusoft Offers the Next Generation of Compensation Management Software
If you aren’t compensating your employees properly, you won’t compete in today’s global market. You won’t retain employees, and business will suffer. But how do you determine a competitive and… Read More
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Zipteam Matches Skillsets with Employees
When a company calls itself “Spotify for the workplace,” you take notice. That’s what I did when interviewing Daisuke Nishimura, product management and marketing for Zipteam, in this Spotlight S… Read More
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Why Data Warehousing Is Better in the Cloud
Traditionally, data warehouses have resided on-premises. This was fine, when there was much less data, and the world was not so massively connected. But that’s not the case anymore. There’s a t… Read More
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Verge: Virtualize Your Entire Data Center
Remember the first time you used virtualization? If you’re like most IT pros, that moment stayed with you, as it opened your eyes to new possibilities of what could be done. And now, Verge wants you… Read More
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Why ‘Behavioral Data’ Is Crucial To Understanding Your Customers
If you’re like most companies, you know some basics about your customers—what they’re buying and related information, for instance. But for most organizations, it doesn’t go much beyond that.… Read More
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Instabase Unlocks Your Unstructured Data
When you look at your paycheck, you don’t need to translate that into an understandable format—your brain already does that instantly, and knows how to read the information. That same idea is w… Read More
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MindWise: Monitoring the Dark Web To Keep You Safe
MindWise makes a bold claim on its website: Stop Fraud Before It’s Even Attempted. It’s the kind of claim that companies don’t make lightly. And MindWise says they can back it up. In this Spo… Read More
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Nethopper Connects Containers Across Multiple Clouds
There’s a dirty little secret in multi-cloud environments: Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform, doesn’t work across multiple clouds. That’s something many IT pros don’t know, and… Read More
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Stratodesk Offers Scalable, Unified, and Simplified Endpoint Management
Here’s how the work-from-home revolution affected one company: it had to send out 10,000 USB sticks to get its workforce back online. The employees had to use the stick to enable them to boot their… Read More
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Selector Leverages AIOps for Network and Application Observability
Silos—they’ve been the bane of IT admins for ages. And despite advances over the years, they continue to stubbornly hang around. This is a continuing problem, especially for network and applicatio… Read More
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Directus: Make Any SQL Database an API
On its website, Directus says “Our mission is to democratize data for everyone.” But what does that mean, and what does it look like? Those questions are answered in this Spotlight Series video fr… Read More
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CloudFix Provides Real Cloud AWS Savings—Right Now
Lots of vendors tell you they’ll save you money when using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Often, though, the reality is that those promised savings never materializes. CloudFix, on the other hand, mak… Read More
By Keith Ward
