Tech Primers

What Is Dent?


The Linux Foundation has created Dent, a network operating system (NOS) designed for the world of decentralized enterprises. And it's as easy to install as Linux.

By: Mary Jander
December 20, 2021
News/Analysis

Oracle to Pay $28.3 Billion for Cerner


Oracle is set to pay about $28.3 billion to add Cerner, a market-leading electronic medical records company, to its list of cloud-enabled enterprise applications.

By: Mary Jander
December 20, 2021
News/Analysis

Cockroach Labs Scores $278 Million, Eyes IPO


Cockroach Labs, maker of CockroachDB, has scored $278 million in Series F funding on a valuation of $5 billion.

By: Mary Jander
December 16, 2021
News/Analysis

Why Fixing the Log4j Flaw Will Take a Lot of Work


Wide distribution of the open-source software Log4j will present cybersecurity headaches for quite a long time.

By: Andrew Braunberg
December 15, 2021
News/Analysis

HashiCorp Market Value Holds at $15B


HashiCorp is now public with a $15 billion valuation.

By: R. Scott Raynovich
December 13, 2021
News/Analysis

China AI Firm's IPO Stalls After U.S. Criticism


China's SenseTime machine-vision firm put its IPO plan on hold after the U.S. Treasury Department condemned its contribution to human rights abuse in the PRC.

By: Mary Jander
December 13, 2021
News/Analysis

Aryaka Expands Network-as-a-Service, SASE Options


Aryaka introduces private IP networking as well as integrated SASE services.

By: R. Scott Raynovich
December 07, 2021
News/Analysis

Cyber Command Takes Gloves Off on Ransomware


The head of U.S. Cyber Command indicates that high-profile ransomware attacks may call for government action, and a "hackback" bill has been introduced in the Senate.

By: Andrew Braunberg
December 07, 2021
News/Analysis

Fungible Boasts Hyperscale Datacenter Record


Fungible Inc.'s data processing unit (DPU) has broken a storage performance record at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the vendor says it's working in public cloud networks too.

By: Mary Jander
December 07, 2021
News/Analysis

Amazon Updates Inspector Vulnerability Management


This week at re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a significant update to Inspector, its vulnerability management solution.

By: Andrew Braunberg
December 02, 2021