Dutch CERRIX targets European expansion with new investment
Belgian investor Fortino Capital supports CERRIX in its ambition to help companies with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software.
CERRIX's platform offers capabilities for Business Process Management, Risk and Compliance Management, and auditing. With risk management tooling, CERRIX can c... Read more
Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar to step down as CEO
The company that Farquhar founded with Mike Cannon-Brookes 23 years ago will soon have to do without his day-to-day involvement.
Farquhar will step down as co-CEO on Aug. 31 of this year. Cannon-Brookes was the other co-CEO for all those years and will continue as sole CEO after Farquhar's depar... Read more
ServiceNow sees revenue growth of 24%
In the first financial quarter, ServiceNow posted revenue of $2.6 billion, or about €2.4 billion.
Exactly one year ago, ServiceNow posted revenue of nearly $2.1 billion. With that, the company saw its revenue increase 24 per cent year-on-year. The most revenue now comes from subscriptions; las... Read more
Update: IBM confirms multi-billion acquisition of HashiCorp
Update 25/04/2024 - IBM has announced it is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion, equivalent to about €5.97 billion.
With the acquisition, IBM is adding a "suite of leading hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products". With this, Big Blue aims to help companies struggling with applicatio... Read more
Snowflake enters the LLM war with introduction of Arctic
With the new Large Language Model Arctic, Snowflake can help companies generate code and SQL.
In this way, Snowflake aims to compete with existing models. With the introduction of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, a large market has emerged, but more and more alternatives are emerging that can substan... Read more
Veeam acquires Coveware to better protect customers against ransomware
With Coveware, Veeam gains new incident response options. Coveware's technology and staff deal with ransomware assessment and negotiation to end downtime as quickly as possible.
Coveware is used mainly by cyber extortion victims, but the service can also help enterprises prepare for incident res... Read more
Google will build third data center in Groningen
After the earlier data center in Eemshaven and the started construction in Winschoten, a third data center is coming to Groningen. With an investment of €600 million, the site at the Westpoort business park will further support businesses and consumers.
In announcing the new data center, Googl... Read more
Bug bounty in practice: the final layer of security
What does a bug bounty program look like, and what does it deliver? We talk to Visma about its usefulness for security professionals and the ultimate benefit for the user of the software.
"With the bug bounty program, we have extra eyes looking at our products," explains Chief Information Securi... Read more
Increase of nearly 60 percent in phishing attacks
The year-over-year growth is primarily attributed to the use of generative AI for voice phishing (vishing) and deepfake phishing.
That's what data from Zscaler shows. The company analyzed 2 billion blocked phishing transactions on its Zero Trust Exchange platform. Cybercriminals appear to use ge... Read more
Dutch Single Quantum achieves long-distance Quantum Key Distribution
In cooperation with Toshiba, Single Quantum has made the technology suitable for more than 300 kilometres of fibre-optic connections.
In Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), high-performance and quantum computers generate keys that are resistant to decryption. Toshiba's QKD technology is delivered ov... Read more