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Halcyon lands large investment to defend against ransomware

TechCrunch

” Halcyon attempts to detect and block known bad executables like off-the-shelf commodity ransomware and pass unknown but suspicious executables to additional “protection layers” for further analysis. .” It’s an odd dichotomy. ” Miller might assert that Halcyon is without direct competitors.

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Containers and Software-Defined Servers: A Win-Win

TidalScale

TidalScale has introduced a new concept in the computing fabric: Software-Defined Servers , which allow users to aggregate off -the-shelf commodity servers together in such a way that they form a virtual machine that spans the hardware servers but looks like a single large server to an operating system.

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DevOps: Principles, Practices, and DevOps Engineer Role

Altexsoft

Developers wrote code; the system administrators were responsible for its deployment and integration. DevOps stands for development and operations. It’s a practice that aims at merging development, quality assurance, and operations (deployment and integration) into a single, continuous set of processes. What is DevOps?

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