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Blackbaud | July 18, 2020

American cloud software firm Blackbaud has confessed to having been hit by ransomware and paying a ransom as it was unable to block the attack before its data was exfiltrated, though it managed to prevent the encryption taking place. The company, which refers to itself as the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, said in a statement that the data had been exfiltrated, using PowerShell scripts as is the usual practice, in May. Blackbaud, ...

CLOUD SECURITY

Orange Business Services | September 13, 2022

Orange Business Services has today consolidated its recent acquisitions Basefarm, Login Consultants, and The unbelievable Machine Company (*um) into the Orange family. The move reinforces its standing as a leading global network-native digital services company, underscoring its cloud-first vision as the focal point for all new digital experiences and accelerating a secure and sustainable transformation for customers. The acquisitions of Basefarm, a European player in cloud-based i...

CLOUD DEPLOYMENT MODELS

Lumigo | June 17, 2022

Lumigo, the modern cloud application observability platform, has announced the addition of containers and Kubernetes support to its main offering. Lumigo now provides true end-to-end observability for the whole range of cloud services used in modern applications, including AWS Lambda, serverless services like DynamoDB, and containers. Modern cloud applications are primarily developed utilising microservices, with many essential services being entirely handled by cloud providers or...

siliconangle.com | January 21, 2020

Canonical Ltd. has come up with a way to distribute compute-intensive applications from the cloud so they can run seamlessly on low-powered Android devices.The solution, announced early today, is a platform called Anbox Cloud. It uses Android as a guest operating system to containerize workloads so they can easily be distributed from the cloud, where they run, to any kind of mobile device. The ability to offload compute, storage and energy-intensive applications from devices to the cloud ...