Logz.io Launches COVID-19 Dashboard
Logz.io this week launched a Community COVID-19 Dashboard Project that seeks to provide software developers and data scientists a reliable source of data to assess the global impact of the pandemic. Dotan Horovits, product evangelist for Logz.io, said the goal is to help organizations make sense of often conflicting data by making it accessible using […]
Startup Aims to Manufacture Ventilators Using 3D Printers
A startup company is in the early stages of building a proof-of-concept that would allow local hospitals to employ 3D printers to manufacture ventilators and other medical equipment to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Veritx president James Regenor said company executives have already been involved in use cases in which the military has used 3D […]
COVID-19 Reaction: Massive Spike in IT Incidents
A report published this week by PagerDuty, a provider of an incident management platform, finds organizations that rely on the platform to manage IT issues are managing on average double the number of incidents since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In some industry segments, such as online learning services, travel and entertainment services, the […]
Quick Base Makes Free Low-Code Platform Available for First Responders
Quick Base, a provider of a platform for building low-code applications, announced this week that it is making its platform available for free through Sept. 30 to first responder organizations that need to build applications quickly to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Jay Jamison, chief product and technology officer for Quick Base, said it’s apparent first […]
New Relic Gives COVID-19 Relief Agencies Free 90-day Access
New Relic will provide free access to the entire New Relic One observability platform for 90 days to any organization engaged in COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts that have a specific benefit to the public. Erin Dieterich, director of corporate social responsibility at New Relic, said it’s apparent that the IT platforms of both nonprofits and […]
Free Remote Endpoint Protection Solution From Qualys
Qualys today announced it is offering a completely free, 60-day version of its cloud-based remote endpoint protection solution. The product is fully featured, with nothing turned off in the free version. It’s also cloud-based, so there are no worries about hosting the solution. This comes at a perfect time, with so many workers working remotely. […]
COVID-19 Pandemic: Appian Offers Free HR App
Appian, a provider of a low-code platform for building applications, has decided to make available a free application to help organizations with 1,000 or more employees track healthcare incidents stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed mainly for human resources (HR) professionals, the COVID-19 Response Management application is designed to track the health and work status […]
Cato Networks Offers Instant SD-WAN Service
Cato Networks has added an instant-on capability to its software-defined wide area network service (SD-WAN) service to make it easier for IT teams to provide employees with remote access to applications. Dave Greenfield, technology evangelist for Cato Networks, said rather than having to configure and install a virtual private network (VPN) client on every device […]
The 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge takes on COVID-19
By Willie Tejada, Chief Developer Advocate, IBM Nearly one month ago, together with Creator David Clark Cause and in partnership with United Nations Human Rights and the Linux Foundation, we announced climate change as the theme for the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. In that brief period, much has changed. COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has spread across […]
Coronavirus Response: Atlassian Expands Free Software
Atlassian announced today it will make cloud-based versions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core available for free as part of an effort to assist organizations whose employees are working remotely to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Robert Chatwani, chief marketing officer for Atlassian, said given the current unprecedented situation the […]
Catchpoint Provides Free Remote Monitoring Tools to Help Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
Catchpoint announced today it will provide free access to tools to monitor remote network connections to help organizations that are helping to combat the COVID-19 virus by requiring employees to work from home. Company CEO Mehdi Daoudi said supporting an entire workforce that suddenly needs to work remotely is clearly a major IT challenge. To […]
