Todd R. Weiss

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Technology Journalist at Freelance

Technology journalist, storyteller, former analyst at The Futurum Group, toy taxi collector, vintage Miata driver, Philadelphian. Telling your technology story.

Articles

Google's Cloud IDP Could Replace Platform Engineering

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Todd R. Weiss

Google Cloud has unveiled a new Internal Development Platform (IDP) that could fundamentally reshape how software is built, potentially making traditional platform engineering obsolete by shifting development responsibilities from individual developers to integrated cloud services. Platform engineering makes business application building easier by providing curated, tested, proven and helpful development tools for software engineers so they can build their projects for their companies.
Barracuda Networks Unveils BarracudaONE to Simplify Cybersecurity for Businesses

3 weeks ago | channele2e.com | Todd R. Weiss

MSP, Security Operations, Channel partners For many business customers today, having to piece together and manage multiple cybersecurity tools from various vendors has become a huge burden that also can leave them vulnerable to hackers and cyberattacks due to unintended gaps in their security.To battle these challenges, Barracuda Networks has unveiled its new BarracudaONE cybersecurity platform, which brings together all of its individual security offerings into a single platform that...
Beyond Platform Engineering: The Rise of Platform Democracy

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Todd R. Weiss

Since first appearing on the IT radar around 2015, platform engineering continues to bring revolutionary and evolutionary changes in how software is built by developers. Under platform engineering, IT systems administrators are tasked with choosing and assembling proven, curated and regularly maintained development applications that are gathered together and then delivered to a company’s developers through an all-in-one self-service portal.
Kaseya’s New CEO, Rania Succar, Takes the Reins With Goal of Driving MSP Success

3 weeks ago | channele2e.com | Todd R. Weiss

Channel chiefs, Channel, MSPTech executive Rania Succar, who previously was a business leader at QuickBooks Money and at Intuit Mailchimp, was today named as the new CEO of cybersecurity and IT management software vendor Kaseya. Succar’s hiring ends a five-month executive search that began in January when Kaseya’s longtime CEO Fred Voccola, who led the company for 10 years, resigned his post to become the company’s board vice chairman.
Cork-Rewst Partnership Delivers Automated Vulnerability Management for MSPs

3 weeks ago | channele2e.com | Todd R. Weiss

MSP, SSO/MFABusiness, Technology, Internet and network concept. Automation Software Technology Process System. To help MSPs automatically identify and fix security vulnerabilities for business customers, risk insights vendor Cork Protection has integrated its platform with the automation platform from Rewst to better protect users and business operations.
In an Uncertain 2025, MSPs Should Expand Their IT Security Services: Analyst

3 weeks ago | channele2e.com | Todd R. Weiss

MSP, Managed Security Services, Security Program Controls/TechnologiesThere is a lot of economic turmoil and worry in the world right now, caused by President Trump’s constantly changing up-and-down tariffs, by large-scale DOGE-inspired government job cuts, by general economic uncertainty, and by global political and trade shifts and upheaval.
DartPoints Sets Stage for Growth in Underserved Markets After Major Investment

3 weeks ago | channele2e.com | Todd R. Weiss

Channel investors, ChannelGlowing light market chart of business glowing stock graph or investment financial data profit on growth money diagram background with diagram exchange information. 3D rendering. DartPoints, a high-performance data center services vendor, recently received a $250 million majority investment from mid-market investment firm NOVA Infrastructure and other investors to help DartPoints grow its data center operations.
Google Study: 65% of Developer Time Wasted Without Platforms

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Todd R. Weiss

For more than a decade, tens of thousands of Google software engineers have been creating and streamlining their innovative work using platform engineering inside the company’s huge and flexible application development environment. This finely honed internal IT environment continues to be a specialized software building skunk works and resource that brings Google much of its huge business flexibility and success.
Vectra AI Broadens its AI Agents to Bolster Cybersecurity for Customers

1 month ago | channele2e.com | Todd R. Weiss

AI/ML, MDR, MSP, Managed ServicesVectra AI has added its latest powerful AI agent, Vectra AI Analyst, to its AI agent portfolio, giving business customers broader cybersecurity tools that aim to boost the efforts of internal IT security teams in battling threats from hackers and other bad actors.
Technology News | Silicon UK

1 month ago | silicon.co.uk | Todd R. Weiss |Peter Judge |Michelle Maisto |Max Smolaks

Low energy ARM processors are ready to take over the data centre. They need some software, and the Raspberr Pi can help, says Peter Judge