Business Software for IBM Cloud

SecureIdentity DLP is a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to safeguard data across various environments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid setups, effectively mitigating risks associated with malware, insider threats, and human errors. This protection operates across multiple channels and file types, ensuring sensitive information is blocked in both structured and unstructured data storage systems. Our platform not only identifies the user, device, and data in use but also allows organizations to monitor activities in real-time, providing clarity on who is accessing what at any given moment. As integration with other security solutions increases, our DLP becomes vital for organizations aiming to adopt emerging technologies securely. Unlike our competitors, our DLP offerings stand out by effectively addressing risks posed by both trusted and untrusted users through innovative algorithms and advanced fingerprinting techniques. Furthermore, SecureIdentity DLP features real-time protocol inspection, even for those that are unfamiliar, and possesses the capability to halt data loss instantaneously, thereby enhancing overall data security. This proactive approach ensures organizations can maintain the integrity and confidentiality of their data in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

The SecureIdentity Platform empowers organizations to establish verifiable trust across all their operations. By identifying the user, the device, and the data involved, it allows for precise tracking of actions at any moment. SecurEnvoy collaborates with top technology companies to ensure robust security and reassurance. Our platform includes numerous pre-built integrations with widely-used business applications and solutions. For more details on specific integrations or to discuss your unique requirements, feel free to reach out to our technical team. Leveraging artificial intelligence, SecureIdentity IRAD continuously assesses user behavior, detecting any anomalies or unusual interactions in real-time. This capability enables a comprehensive analysis of user engagement, effectively identifying potential risks as they arise. Additionally, this proactive approach ensures organizations can respond swiftly to any security threats.

Nutanix Files Storage offers a straightforward, adaptable, and innovative scale-out file storage solution tailored for the data-centric age. With just one click, you can perform updates seamlessly and oversee all storage functions from a unified interface. It allows for flexible scaling, whether up or out, using your preferred hardware while providing a cloud-like consumption model. Gain insights into your data usage, track who is accessing it, and leverage automated management for enhanced control. According to an IDC study, Nutanix Files Storage minimizes operational overhead by 66% compared to traditional siloed storage, leading to a remarkable 414% return on investment and a payback period of just seven months. Designed to support billions of files and tens of thousands of user sessions, Nutanix Files Storage can easily accommodate growing environments; a single click is all it takes to scale your cluster elastically, whether by enhancing compute and memory for file server VMs or by adding additional file server VMs. This comprehensive platform also allows you to utilize the same resources for object and block storage, providing a versatile solution for diverse storage needs. Users can thus experience both efficiency and flexibility in managing their data ecosystems.

Nutanix AOS Storage represents an innovative approach to storage solutions, moving away from conventional SAN and NAS systems towards a highly automated, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure. Its distributed architecture provides enterprise-level capabilities, ensuring both high availability and resilience for critical applications. Among its standout features is data locality, which keeps data in close proximity to the application, thereby minimizing latency; intelligent tiering that efficiently manages data across SSD and HDD for optimal performance; and robust data protection features such as granular snapshots and self-healing functionalities. Furthermore, AOS Storage allows for linear scalability, enabling organizations to begin with a small setup and expand effortlessly as their requirements grow. With the added advantage of flexible hypervisor options and support for a variety of data services, it proves to be an adaptable solution that meets the diverse needs of different applications and workloads. This versatility makes Nutanix AOS Storage a compelling choice for businesses looking to modernize their storage infrastructure.

Randtronics DPM Database Manager offers a robust solution for securing column-level data within databases, ensuring that no modifications to application-level code are necessary, thus remaining entirely invisible to users and applications interacting with the database. This software effectively safeguards data across various platforms, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB for iSeries databases. Users can mask sensitive information in designated columns or opt for data tokenization by integrating with the DPM Token Manager. The system's rules are highly adaptable, providing protection regardless of a user's or application’s access level, which includes safeguarding against database administrators (DBAs) accessing sensitive information. Additionally, these rules can be modified on-the-fly through the console, allowing for immediate application to the data being protected. This innovative approach guarantees that column-level data remains secure without necessitating any changes to existing applications, ensuring seamless integration into current database environments. Ultimately, the DPM Database Manager empowers organizations to maintain data privacy and compliance effortlessly.

With the increasing complexity of the attack landscape, businesses are facing a critical shortage of adept security professionals to defend against cyber threats. The urgency of timely responses is vital for reducing the risks associated with cybersecurity incidents; however, the multitude of security tools available often results in a cumbersome management process for security teams, leading to significant time and resource expenditures. Securonix's Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform enhances the efficiency of security operations by automating responses that provide valuable context, along with recommending playbooks and subsequent actions to assist analysts in their decision-making. By streamlining incident response through features such as integrated case management and compatibility with over 275 applications, SOAR ensures that security teams can access SIEM, UEBA, and network detection and response (NDR) solutions all from one centralized interface, thereby optimizing their workflow and effectiveness. This comprehensive approach not only aids in quicker incident resolution but also helps to alleviate some of the burdens caused by the current talent shortage in cybersecurity.

iSecurity AP-Journal serves to safeguard essential business data against both insider threats and external security breaches while also keeping managers informed about any alterations to information assets, thereby simplifying the IBM i journaling process. It meticulously records the details of activities—who did what, when, and which specific actions were taken. Unlike the standard IBM i journaling, it captures database access (READ operations) directly into journal receivers, making it a vital element for meeting compliance requirements. The solution actively monitors modifications to objects, application files, and their members, while also accommodating periodic structural changes in application files. It facilitates the observation of application files during such changes, and offers programmable routines tailored to specific field exits. Moreover, it provides real-time alerts for any changes in critical business data, with these notifications triggered by thresholds defined by users. In addition, it generates detailed reports that present all application modifications on a unified timeline and in multiple formats, ensuring comprehensive oversight of data integrity. This level of reporting not only enhances transparency but also aids in maintaining robust security protocols.

Real Identity™ provides rapid, sub-second decision-making capabilities that facilitate timely and relevant messaging. This innovative platform empowers leading global brands to accurately identify individuals and ethically engage with them at any location and time, thereby fostering significant experiences. With the ability to connect with audiences at scale and with precision, brands can enhance every customer interaction. Additionally, Real Identity allows companies to effectively manage their identity systems by utilizing five decades of expertise in data and identity, coupled with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies. In the fast-paced adtech sector, swift access to identity and data is essential for enabling personalization and informed decision-making. As the landscape evolves away from cookies, first-party data signals will become crucial for driving these initiatives, ensuring that communication remains vibrant between individuals, brands, and publishers. By crafting impactful experiences across all channels, businesses can not only impress current customers and prospects but also maintain compliance with regulations and outpace their competitors. Ultimately, Real Identity™ positions brands to thrive in a dynamic environment while enhancing their customer engagement strategies.

Strong digital security is possible with the world's most trusted on-prem identity and access management (IAM). Identity Enterprise is an integrated IAM platform which supports a wide range of consumer, worker, and citizen use cases. Identity Enterprise is ideal for high-assurance applications that require zero trust for thousands or millions users. It can be deployed on-premises as well as virtual appliances. Never trust, always verify. Your organization and user communities are protected both within and outside the perimeter. High assurance use case coverage includes credential-based access, smart cards issuance and best-in class MFA. This will protect your workforce, consumers, and citizens. User friction can be reduced with adaptive risk-based authentication and passwordless login. You can use digital certificates (PKI), which provide a higher level security, whether you have a physical smartcard or a virtual one.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is fast and cost-effective, allows Windows-based companies to achieve Zero Trust. Start with an easy to use, easy-to deploy on-premises MFA system. Then, if necessary, migrate to Identity as a service in the cloud. The seamless integration between the two provides a frictionless experience and three additional authentication options: mobile push, device fingerprint, grid cards. One license, one solution to secure and empower your digital business. Adaptive authentication and self-service password changes reduce friction for users. Different authentication methods can be provided for different users and different requirements. There are many options for authenticators, including SMS, voice, email, and OTP. Option to use smart phone biometrics such as fingerprint and facial match. ActiveSync for Outlook prevents unauthorized devices from accessing users’ email without the need for MDM integration.

NetOwl EntityMatcher offers a reliable, swift, and expandable solution for identity resolution, taking into account not just the similarities in entity names but also critical attributes like date of birth, place of birth, address, and nationality. Additionally, it allows for identity resolution using social network details, including information about an individual's employer, spouse, or associates. Utilizing its proprietary search and indexing engine, NetOwl can combine evidence from various entity record attributes, providing a highly effective, scalable, and user-friendly approach to matching. Users can define application-specific business rules that dictate which combinations of record attributes need to be matched and establish the importance of each attribute. Furthermore, by incorporating our machine learning-driven multicultural and multilingual name matching solution, NetOwl NameMatcher, the system enhances the sophistication of name matching across different types of entities. This integration ensures that identity resolution maintains a high level of accuracy and adaptability in diverse scenarios.

NetOwl Extractor provides exceptionally precise, rapid, and scalable entity extraction across various languages through the use of AI-driven natural language processing and machine learning techniques. This named entity recognition tool can be utilized both on-site and in the cloud, facilitating a wide range of Big Data Text Analytics applications. Supporting over 100 distinct entity types, NetOwl presents a comprehensive semantic ontology for entity extraction that surpasses conventional named entity extraction tools. Its offerings encompass individuals, numerous organization categories (such as corporations and government entities), diverse geographic locations (including nations and cities), as well as addresses, artifacts, phone numbers, and titles. This extensive named entity recognition (NER) serves as a crucial basis for more sophisticated relationship and event extraction processes. The software is applicable across various sectors, including Business, Finance, Politics, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Military, National Security, and Social Media, making it a versatile choice for organizations seeking in-depth textual analysis. Furthermore, its adaptability to different environments ensures that users can effectively harness its capabilities to meet their specific needs.

NetOwl TextMiner merges the acclaimed NetOwl Extractor with Elasticsearch to deliver an innovative text analytics solution. This software harnesses the full spectrum of NetOwl's functionalities, making it perfect for conducting "what if" analyses, performing discovery tasks, facilitating quick-response investigations, and carrying out thorough research. By incorporating all the text analytics features of the NetOwl Extractor—including entity extraction, relationship and event extraction, sentiment analysis, text categorization, and geotagging—TextMiner presents a comprehensive text mining platform. The results generated by the Extractor are stored within Elasticsearch, which offers a range of intelligent search and analytical capabilities. The synergy between Elasticsearch and NetOwl ensures rapid and scalable real-time text analysis suited for handling Big Data. Furthermore, the user-friendly web-based interface of TextMiner can be easily configured to accommodate various analytical needs, enabling users to swiftly access only the most valuable insights from extensive text datasets. This adaptability not only enhances usability but also allows for more tailored analysis across multiple domains.

NetOwl NameMatcher, recognized for its excellence in the MITRE Multicultural Name Matching Challenge, delivers unparalleled accuracy, speed, and scalability in name matching solutions. By employing an innovative machine learning framework, NetOwl effectively tackles the intricate challenges of fuzzy name matching. Conventional methods like Soundex, edit distance, and rule-based systems often face significant issues with precision, leading to false positives, and recall, resulting in false negatives, when confronting the diverse fuzzy name matching scenarios outlined previously. In contrast, NetOwl leverages a data-driven, machine learning-based probabilistic strategy to address these name matching difficulties. It automatically generates sophisticated, probabilistic name matching rules from extensive, real-world multi-ethnic name variant datasets. Furthermore, NetOwl employs distinct matching models tailored to various entity types, such as individuals, organizations, and locations. To add to its capabilities, NetOwl also integrates automatic detection of name ethnicity, enhancing its adaptability to the complexities of multicultural name matching. This comprehensive approach ensures a higher level of accuracy and reliability in diverse applications.

Origina stands out as a premier independent provider of third-party software support for IBM software, catering to a wide range of clients with over 800 IBM products available through the Passport Advantage program. Our team of Global IBM® Experts offers around-the-clock support, ensuring that customers receive assistance within just 30 minutes, thanks to our rigorous Service Level Agreements (SLAs). By transitioning from IBM to Origina for their software support needs, clients can realize significant savings of up to 50 percent annually, while also enjoying the benefits of avoiding mandatory upgrades. This approach not only enhances financial efficiency but also allows clients to derive maximum value from their IBM software by prolonging its effective use. Origina is committed to revolutionizing software support through its foundational principles: extending the software lifecycle, safeguarding its security and stability, and improving its overall functionality and performance. Ultimately, our goal is to empower customers, maximizing their investment in technology while ensuring they receive the highest quality of support.

Software Asset Management (SAM) operates on a unified architecture, facilitating quicker results to significantly reduce expenses and mitigate license compliance issues. Address the complexities of distributed IT spending by identifying costs categorized by geography, cost centers, vendors, products, and personnel. Take a strategic approach to compliance and cost insights for your extensive roster of publishers, allowing for informed decision-making. Evaluate license compliance thoroughly and streamline positions for even the most intricate on-premises and SaaS offerings. Enhance SAM initiatives by integrating data from any current discovery tool at your disposal. Transition from a reactive stance to a proactive one—identify software expenditures prior to any IT modifications taking place. Achieve a unified perspective on the consumption of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS while enhancing cost efficiency in cloud services through Cloud Insights. Track usage patterns and fine-tune licenses for engineering and specialized industrial software applications. Simplify and automate the allocation of hardware and software assets for newly onboarded employees to enhance operational efficiency. Utilize workflow lifecycle dates from the content library to monitor software end-of-support timelines within your application stack, ensuring timely updates and compliance. This comprehensive approach not only minimizes risks but also maximizes the value derived from your software investments.

Machine owners and machine builders can share and access the data they choose in a highly secure manner. This will increase uptime for critical equipment, reduce customer visits, and improve tool performance. Telit secureWISE®, provides secure, configurable remote connectivity over private networks to equipment. It allows machine builders and machine owners to collaborate remotely in ways that improve the equipment's performance at all stages of the process. This also protects valuable intellectual property (IP). Tool makers can use Telit secureWISE to monitor and mediate deployments remotely. It allows manufacturers and tool owners to create a secure infrastructure that allows machine builders to securely access their infrastructure with full audit capabilities. secureWISE Factory provides machine builders remote monitoring and mediation that improves machines and increases equipment uptime.

Dqlite is a high-speed, embedded SQL database that offers persistent storage and utilizes Raft consensus, making it an ideal choice for resilient IoT and Edge devices. Known as "distributed SQLite," Dqlite expands SQLite's capabilities across multiple machines, ensuring automatic failover and high availability to maintain application uptime. It employs C-Raft, an optimized implementation of Raft in C, which provides exceptional performance in transactional consensus and fault tolerance while maintaining SQLite’s renowned efficiency and compact size. C-Raft is specifically designed to reduce transaction latency, enabling faster operations. Both C-Raft and Dqlite are implemented in C, ensuring they are portable across various platforms. Released under the LGPLv3 license with a static linking exception, it guarantees broad compatibility. The system features a standard CLI pattern for initializing databases and managing the joining or leaving of voting members. It also incorporates minimal, configurable delays for failover alongside automatic leader election processes. Additionally, Dqlite supports a disk-backed database option with in-memory capabilities and adheres to SQLite's transaction protocols. The blend of these features makes Dqlite a powerful solution for modern data storage needs.

With just one command, you can swiftly create an Ubuntu virtual machine using Multipass, which is capable of launching and managing VMs while configuring them with cloud-init, akin to public cloud environments. This tool allows you to experiment with cloud launches right on your local machine at no cost, and in just five minutes, you'll realize how effortlessly a lightweight cloud setup can be achieved. To get started, you can launch several LTS instances, check their status, execute commands, apply cloud-init configurations, and remove older instances as needed. For those looking to master the Linux command line, the "Ubuntu Server CLI cheat sheet" serves as a quick reference for skills ranging from basic file management to advanced deployments like Kubernetes and OpenStack. Multipass also features a command line interface that simplifies the launching, management, and interaction with Linux instances. You'll find that downloading a fresh image is incredibly fast, enabling you to have a fully operational VM in mere minutes. Furthermore, you can create Ubuntu instances and initialize them with cloud-init metadata, similar to setups on AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle clouds, allowing you to effectively simulate a cloud deployment directly on your workstation. This capability makes it easier than ever to experiment and learn about cloud computing without the need for extensive resources.

Quickly set up and operate OpenStack on a Linux machine with ease. Designed with developers in mind, it’s perfect for use in edge computing, IoT applications, and various appliances. MicroStack provides a complete OpenStack experience packaged neatly into a single snap. This multi-node OpenStack deployment allows you to run it directly from your workstation. While its primary audience is developers, it remains an excellent choice for edge environments, IoT setups, and appliances. Just download MicroStack from the Snap Store and start your OpenStack environment in no time. Within minutes, you can have a fully functional OpenStack system at your fingertips. It runs securely on your laptop, utilizing advanced isolation techniques for safety. This implementation features pure upstream OpenStack components, including Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, and Cinder. All the exciting features you’d like to explore in a compact, standard OpenStack setup are readily available. You can easily integrate MicroStack into your CI/CD workflows, allowing you to focus on your tasks without unnecessary complications. Keep in mind that MicroStack requires a minimum of 8 GB of RAM along with a multi-core processor to function smoothly. Enjoy the seamless experience of working with a robust OpenStack environment.

If you're seeking to implement an information kiosk, a digital signage display, an entertainment system for vehicles, or a home automation interface, Mir on Ubuntu provides the quickest route to deployment. Serving as a system-level component, Mir facilitates the creation of innovative user experiences and is compatible with a variety of Linux-based devices, from traditional desktops to IoT and embedded systems. It effectively replaces the X window server system, which has been widely utilized across Linux desktop environments. This transition allows manufacturers and desktop users to benefit from a powerful, efficient, flexible, and secure graphical environment. For over 30 years, the X windowing system has been the backbone of graphical user interfaces on Linux, successfully catering to both system-level and application-level needs. Nevertheless, modern users demand a more cohesive, integrated, and secure experience, which the X system struggles to provide. Consequently, Mir stands out as a contemporary alternative, designed to meet those evolving expectations and enhance the overall user experience.

MicroK8s offers a lightweight, low-ops Kubernetes solution tailored for developers working with cloud environments, clusters, workstations, Edge, and IoT devices. It intelligently selects the optimal nodes for the Kubernetes datastore and seamlessly promotes another node if a database node goes offline, ensuring no administrative intervention is required for robust edge deployments. With its compact design and user-friendly defaults, MicroK8s is designed to operate effectively right out of the box, making installation, upgrades, and security management straightforward and efficient. Ideal for micro clouds and edge computing, it provides full enterprise support without a subscription, with the option of 24/7 assistance and a decade of security maintenance. Whether deployed under cell towers, on race cars, in satellites, or within everyday appliances, MicroK8s guarantees the complete Kubernetes experience across IoT and micro clouds. Its fully containerized deployment ensures reliable operations, complemented by compressed over-the-air updates. MicroK8s automatically applies security updates by default, though users can choose to defer them if desired, and upgrading to the latest version of Kubernetes is just a single command away, making the process incredibly simple and hassle-free. This combination of ease of use and robust functionality positions MicroK8s as an invaluable tool for modern developers.

Insight represents the ability to perceive and comprehend how systems function in innovative ways, allowing for the simplification of complexities and the initiation of proactive measures. It is derived from a blend of visibility, knowledge, and experience, forming the foundation for meaningful transformation. The ABB Ability™ solutions merge ABB's extensive industry knowledge with cutting-edge connectivity and software advancements, enabling instantaneous, data-informed choices that enhance safety and intelligence in operations while maximizing resource efficiency and fostering a low-carbon future. Our expansive suite of digital tools equips organizations to automate, optimize, and safeguard their operations, propelling them toward elevated performance levels and sustainable development. Harness the capabilities of the newest IoT mobile technologies to enhance interactions with drives in industrial settings, thereby improving operational efficiency, optimizing asset management, and refining processes for quicker decision-making and increased productivity. This issue of ABB Review, recognized as the longest-standing corporate technical journal worldwide, is fully dedicated to exploring various aspects of ABB's innovations and contributions. By delving into these advancements, readers can gain a deeper understanding of how ABB is shaping the future of industry and sustainability.

Efficiently manage SSH keys for your team across various cloud environments and continents utilizing tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, CloudFormation, Terraform, or tailor-made scripts. Userify seamlessly operates across multiple clouds that are geographically dispersed and high-latency networks. It offers enhanced security measures with Curve 25519 encryption and bcrypt hashing, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and HIPAA standards. Additionally, it holds AICPA SOC-2 Type 1 certification and is trusted by over 3,500 organizations worldwide. Userify's passwordless SSH key logins provide both heightened security and ease of use. Uniquely, it is the only key management solution designed to function effectively over the open Internet. When it comes to de-provisioning administrators who depart from your organization, Userify simplifies the process to just one click. Furthermore, it assists in achieving PCI-DSS Requirement 8 compliance, effectively safeguarding PII and permanently eliminating the use of ec2-user. Lastly, Userify also supports compliance with HIPAA Security Rule, ensuring protection for critical healthcare systems and PHI by restricting internal access and authority.

The adaptable Collaboration Suite designed for high-performing teams, SmartShare consolidates all essential updates into one centralized platform. Its renowned Company Overview feature provides a comprehensive snapshot of customer-related information on a single screen, including details about active projects, deals, contracts, and offerings. SmartShare enhances organizational structure by streamlining the way individuals collaborate and share data. With the centralization of information, teamwork among colleagues and departments sees significant improvement, leading to feedback from customers indicating an average time savings of one hour per employee each day. A sophisticated, integrated access rights management system ensures that data is safeguarded and accessible only to authorized personnel. Access permissions can be customized at various levels, including individual, team, binder, project, and document, providing flexibility and security. Moreover, the incorporation of email management within the shared environment significantly boosts productivity and fosters effective collaboration among team members. This innovative approach not only simplifies communication but also enhances the overall efficiency of the working process.