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Among software development and tech professionals, there’s a lot of buzz and hype around no-code platforms. No-code has enormous potential to transform the way we build applications and fundamentally shift the software development landscape. This is largely because line of business employees can use it to reconfigure and/or create applications to help them be more […]

Data security is always a major concern for consumers. We may listen to the warnings about data security breaches during major public security breaches, but on a regular basis, most of us underestimate the risk to our personal data that comes with connecting to public, shared or unsecured WiFi. Recent estimates showed that 87% of […]

When your dev team tells you they are planning to move one of your key applications to the cloud to become a SaaS service, usually one of two things will happen: First, they will attempt to recreate the exact functionality with the same architecture running on rented computers in the cloud. Advice: Run away, the […]

Company: LogDNA (centralized log management for DevOps teams) Company Description: LogDNA is a centralized log-management solution that helps modern engineering teams be more productive in a DevOps world. The product gives users instant access to, and control over, their logs so that they can understand, debug and troubleshoot their applications with ease. LogDNA’s intuitive user […]

It’s entirely possible that the U.S. government has undergone—and is still suffering the fallout from—the harshest, most potentially devastating cyber breach in the short history of digital information. Reuters broke the story last December that foreign entities—the National Security Agency and FBI have identified them as the Russian hacking group APT29, also known as Dark […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because […]

Enterprises using SmartNICs are reaping the benefits of network performance due to their ability to accelerate traffic and boost agility through programmability. What exactly is a SmartNIC, and what does it do? A NIC (network interface card) plugs into a server or storage array to enable connectivity to an Ethernet network. A DPU (data processing […]

Natural language technologies are quickly gaining traction in the enterprise. We are seeing huge numbers of companies every week rolling out text analytics solutions, speech recognition systems, chatbots and every other language-processing use case imaginable. It’s no surprise that over the past three years natural language processing (NLP) has become one of the most dominant […]

Staffing levels within IT operations (ITOps) departments are flat or declining, enterprise IT environments are more complex by the day and the transition to the cloud is accelerating. Meanwhile the volume of data generated by monitoring and alerting systems is skyrocketing, and operations teams are under pressure to respond faster to incidents. Faced with these […]

Customer-experience personalization is very important for most e-commerce, digital advertising and media companies. This is because the ability to provide relevant content, product recommendations, advertisements and other digital experience elements directly impacts the B2C companies’ performance. Although personalization capabilities are widely adopted across industries, customer communications and user interfaces include so many features that can […]

One of today’s most challenging security issues for the enterprise is stopping social engineering attacks. This is a common entry point for many attackers, and any organization can fall victim. Look at the recent attack on the SANS Institute, and, of course, Twitter. Despite the frequency and potency of social engineering attacks, we often see inadequate security […]

Improved threat-detection capabilities have led to the unintended consequence of “alert overload.” Whether due to detecting an abundance of real threats or generating an excess of false-positive alerts, security analysts have become overloaded with alerts from their cybersecurity controls. Most cybersecurity teams today do not have enough bandwidth to properly address every alert. Additionally, smaller […]