Cryptzone has announced version 2.0 of AppGate XDP, Cryptzone’s dynamic, secure access control platform that dramatically reduces the attack surface for all users across applications and data hosted both on-premises and in the cloud.
Traditional security tools like VPNs, firewalls, and NACs are labor-intensive to manage, and provide all-or-nothing access, giving authenticated users overly broad network access and allowing wide-reaching breaches. AppGate XDP provides a simpler way – establishing secure, encrypted tunnels between users and authorized network resources. Everything else on the network is invisible and unreachable, regardless of where it is hosted, closing the door on attackers. Because AppGate XDP automatically adjusts access decisions based on policy and user context, the business obtains the agility it needs without overloading IT and Security teams.

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Impetus Technologies has announced that StreamAnalytix™ has been selected by Hortonworks® as a complementary solution to provide real-time streaming capabilities for the new version of Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF™).
HDF powered by Apache NiFi is an integrated platform to collect, conduct and curate real-time data, moving it from any source to any destination. StreamAnalytix is the industry’s first open-source based, enterprise-grade, multi-engine platform for rapid and easy development of real-time streaming analytics applications.

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Avi Networks has launched an integrated solution with Mesosphere to help enterprises build and deploy microservices applications at scale using Docker Containers. Unlike monolithic applications for which static, appliance-based load balancers were sufficient, dynamic microservices architectures require complete application services that match their agility.
The Avi Vantage Platform works with the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) and Docker containers to provide a dynamic service fabric for micro-segmentation, service discovery, graphical application maps, load balancing, and autoscaling capabilities deployed across thousands of DCOS nodes. The solution also provides end-to-end visibility and application performance monitoring based on which it autoscales application instances predictively to adjust for real-time traffic patterns.

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Electric Imp has expanded its focus to align with evolving commercial and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) opportunities.
”As our platform evolves, it is able to satisfy markets more demanding than the initial consumer segment,” said Hugo Fiennes, CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp. «Delivering over 500,000 units through our consumer device partners helped prove the scalability, reliability and usability of our platform, and now we are targeting our unique architecture at the problems facing the commercial and industrial customer. We see an immense opportunity in these markets and believe our approach enables our customers to quickly realize the benefits of connectivity without compromising on security or reliability.”

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Chetu Inc., a worldwide leader in custom software solutions for niche businesses, software-defined storage and data services platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Founded in 2000, Chetu Inc. is a global provider of customized software development solutions and IT staff augmentation services for software technology providers. By providing clients with unparalleled niche technology expertise and industry experience, Chetu has become the premiere long-term, back-end software development partner for start-ups, SMBs, and Fortune 500 companies. Chetu is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, with thirteen offices throughout the U.S. and abroad.

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The use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by medical professionals has increased dramatically. According to HealthIT.gov, 2015 statistics show that 56 percent of all U.S. office-based physicians (MD/DO) have demonstrated meaningful use of electronic health records. The downside of these statistics is that when HIPAA was enacted in 1996, privacy was not a major focus and it actually took HHS eight years to publish the initial HIPAA Privacy Rule. It then took the agency several more years to publish initial security rules which directed «covered entities» (e.g., providers, hospitals, health insurers) to perform a risk assessment, understand where their vulnerabilities were, and to adopt reasonable safeguards to fix them.

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Just ask VC Fred Wilson. He says, “Speed is more than a feature. Speed is the most important feature. If your application is slow, people won’t use it.” So if you’ve been wondering why speed has appeared in every ad and on every website and product, there’s your answer.
These days, it really doesn’t require much to prove that speed is the most important feature of your service; just pay attention to your surroundings one day. Take notice of the person next to you complaining that the mobile site they’re trying to use won’t load, or your cubicle buddy who is ready to throw their laptop out of the window because the tool their trying to use is down—it won’t take long before the idea clicks.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.

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“Our customers see PaaS and IaaS as cost-saving models to be applied based on specific project needs, noted Steve Ahlgrim, Business Development Manager at FalconStor, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff. “Depending on their level of IT expertise and staffing, PaaS can be the most cost effective solution.”

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Webpages are fickle.
Right when I think I know where everything is a label changes, a button is moved a couple of pixels to somewhere completely different in the page. For the last year or so, I have been working full time on a project building automated checks for a user interface.
There are a lot of challenges in UI automation – timing, selecting the right tests, figuring how to make tests powerful – but handling page objects is always the first I have to figure out.
Here are a few object recognition challenges I have come across and how I got past them.

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