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Vendor Revenue in the Worldwide Server Market Increased to $19.8 Billion in Q1 2019

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 4.4% year over year to $19.8 billion during the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19). Worldwide server shipments declined 5.1% year over year to just under 2.6 million units in 1Q19, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.

AWS Launches Amazon Personalize to Bring ML Technology to its Customers

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of Amazon Personalize, bringing the same machine learning technology used by Amazon.com to AWS customers for use in their applications – with no machine learning experience required.

What is DNS Hijacking and Mitigation Methods

DNS (Domain Name System) is crucial to all organizations that rely on the Internet for conducting business - it's critical for the performance and reliability of your internet applications and cloud services. DNS failure or poor performance leads to applications, data and content becoming[...]

New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide

Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet.

Microsoft and Oracle to Interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud

Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can now seamlessly connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud[...]

Best Ways to Keep Your Cloud Environment Secure

As enterprises move their applications and data to the cloud, they’re faced with new challenges, and the most common one is how to keep the cloud environment secure.

2018 in Numbers: Data Breaches Cost $654 Billion, Expose 2.8 Billion Data Records in the U.S.

Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing over $654 billion to U.S. organizations, according to ForgeRock.

Poor Data Management Can Cost Organizations $20 Million Each Year

Over the past decade, the amount of data generated has exploded; data growth and sprawl is so rampant that by 2025 we will generate more than 175 Zettabytes of data each year, up almost two thirds from 20181.

Growing Reliance on Open Source Libraries Leaves Many Companies Vulnerable

Organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on open source libraries (OSLs) to develop code for software and websites. However, Jing Xie, senior threat intelligence researcher for Venafi, warns that the growing reliance on OSLs for software development leaves many companies vulnerable to[...]

Palo Alto Networks Confirms PureSec Acquisition

Palo Alto Networks is on a cloud security shopping spree as it builds out its new Prisma cloud security strategy. This week the company confirmed acquisitions of PureSec and Twistlock.