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Software

Cloudflare Positioned As A Leader In The Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ For Web Application And API Protection

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced it has been named by Gartner® as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). This is the first year Cloudflare has been placed in the Leaders quadrant. “More than half of traffic across Cloudflare’s network is for APIs. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in building the best platform for protecting APIs and application web traffic,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “We’re proud to be recognized as a Leader in this space by Gartner and…

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DevOps

Top Trends In Cybersecurity 2022: A Gartner® Report

Is DevSecOps a Trend in Cybersecurity? Gartner recently released a report highlighting the top trends in cybersecurity for 2022. They discuss how businesses must reframe their security practices, rethink their technology, and adopt new responses to modern threats. This is in line with DevSecOps trends that we see in the market and hear about from our customers. Companies that are working in this way are taking a more holistic approach to cybersecurity by adopting tools that speed up and, when possible, automate security. They’re also putting the systems and processes in place to ensure that developers can implement security throughout the software…

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Public Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Recognized For IaaS+PaaS Abilities In 2021 Gartner® Solution Scorecard

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been recognized for its critical cloud abilities of compute, storage, network and security among global cloud service providers on the newly released 2021 Gartner® Solution Scorecard for Alibaba Cloud International IaaS & PaaS. Alibaba Cloud’s IaaS (infrastructure as a service) + PaaS (platform as a service) offerings were recognized with the 3rd highest overall solution score of 81% among all evaluated international vendors in this market. Alibaba Cloud scored 86% in the required criteria in the 2021 scorecard. It also met 74% of the preferred criteria and 58%…

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2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ For Cloud Database Management Systems Recognizes Google As A Leader

We are thrilled that Gartner has positioned Google as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). We believe the report evaluated Google’s unified capabilities across both transactional and analytical use cases, and showcases innovation progress in areas like data management consistency, high speed processing and ingestion, security, elasticity, advanced analytics, and more. With the recent announcement of Dataplex, organizations can centrally manage, monitor, and govern their data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts with consistent controls. Solutions like BigQuery ML provide a “built-in”…

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2022 Trends In Cloud Computing: Poly Cloud Specialization

Once, there were only three types of clouds: public, private, and the nebulous hybrid cloud which, depending on whom one asked, entailed a synthesis of the first two or one of them enjoined with on-premise resources. A number of more recent developments, however, have occurred to multiply the types of clouds and their purposes into the specialization befitting cloud computing’s preeminence in the contemporary data sphere. The past two years have proved the cloud’s the essence of remote collaboration, for which it furnished a distributed workspace resiliency for organizations of all types at the very moment these capabilities were necessary…

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29 Must-Know Cybersecurity Statistics For 2020

The damage related to cybercrime is projected to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. To give you a better view of the current state of overall security, we’ve collected 29 vital statistics about data breaches, hacking, industry-specific statistics, as well as spending and costs. The Big Five Worldwide spending on cybersecurity is going to reach $133.7 billion in 2022. (Gartner) 68% of business leaders feel their cybersecurity risks are increasing. Data breaches exposed 4.1 billion records in the first half of 2019. (RiskBased) 71% of breaches were financially motivated and 25% were motivated by espionage. (Verizon) 52% of breaches…

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Earth Day 2021: Technology Innovation Can Restore Our Planet

This year’s Earth Day theme is restoration. We need to reverse the detrimental effects of climate change and stop the pollution of our eco-system to preserve our planet for future generations. Consider this. Every year we are losing 4.7 million hectares of forests, an area larger than Denmark, according to UN data. For sports fans, this is the equivalent of more than 2.5 million soccer fields, based on an average field size of 1.86 acres. Planting billions of trees across the world is an immediate and effective way to combat reforestation and take carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere to tackle the…

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5 Data Trends That Will Take Your Business Forward In 2021, From Google Cloud Leaders

2020 was a year like no other, but the silver lining of a changed world brought data quality, speed, and insights to the forefront for businesses. Here’s what’s coming next. In this year of unexpected, often unimaginable events and constant change, some common themes rose to the surface. On the technology front, it became apparent that what we considered advanced a few years ago is now as essential as electricity. Top-notch videoconferencing and always-on wireless networks are no longer just nice to have, and neither are the data platforms that support enterprises. Knowing what employees and customers needed in 2020,…

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Cloudian Ranked Highest For All Use Cases In Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities For Object Storage Report

Cloudian announced that its HyperStore® object storage platform received the highest rankings across all use cases in Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities for Object Storage. As Gartner explains in the report, “in this research, we evaluate 11 object storage products against eight critical capabilities in use cases relevant to I&O leaders.” On a five-point scale, HyperStore had the following use case scores: Hybrid cloud storage – 4.25 Analytics – 4.23 Cloud storage – 4.23 Archiving – 4.21 Backup – 4.20 According to Gartner, “Critical Capabilities research complements a Gartner Magic Quadrant by allowing deeper insight into the providers’ product or service…

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