Nurturing customer loyalty with banking services

As we move further in a free-market economy, brands across all industries are pressed to constantly reinvent themselves and offer products and services that distinguish them from fellow competitors. Increasing audience loyalty is an ongoing battle fought in multiple fields. There is always a step [...]

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A disrupting effect of COVID-19 on healthcare

The worldwide healthcare system was not designed to deal with the COVID-19 crisis that emerged in 2020. It is still a large-scale health challenge that requires the mobilization of all the available resources. Due to the outbreak, health services and treatments were disrupted. According [...]

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The claims process taking too long

According to Verisk, a data analytics company, auto insurers in the U.S. lose $29 billion annually due to errors and omitted information. Though the sources of this claim leakage vary, inaccurate estimation of vehicle damage after an accident is one of them. Therefore, it becomes [...]

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This month’s Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting centered around the recent developments under CF4K8s, and how the initiative differs/relates to KubeCF. CF4K8s is a deployment artifact for the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime (CFAR) on Kubernetes. KubeCF is a distribution of CFAR for Kubernetes.

At the meeting, there were also [...]

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The Customer Collaboration award

Today, Altoros is honored to announce it has received Pivotal’s Systems Integrator Award for Customer Collaboration for the Americas region. The recognition was given at Pivotal’s Partner Summit during the SpringOne Platform conference in Austin, TX. For many years, Altoros has been assisting the users of the [...]

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A new ordering service available

Kafka-based consensus (ordering service) poses a viable fault-tolerant solution for Hyperlуdger Fabric to be used in a production-grade network. Since version 1.4.1, the Fabric introduced the Raft ordering service. With this option, you get a distributed fault-tolerant service, which is easier to set up and maintain. [...]

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What’s needed for a DApp on CF+K8s

Using blockchain, various industries have been able to improve efficiency through automation of mundane, manual processes in a secure and transparent manner. Commonly, for a blockchain (Ethereum) implementation in production, there is a need for:

a server-client app to build a network
a decentralized app (DApp) [...]

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Dmitry Lavrenov

Security of sensitive data is a top priority and a major concern of software development today. In this article, Dmitry Lavrenov of Altoros explains how to prevent disclosure of sensitive data in case your machine is compromised and blockchain applications are executed in a trusted environment.

As an [...]

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Three major steps

With the launch of Pivotal Container Service (PKS) back a year ago, we’ve overviewed its capabilities from a developer perspective and recently explored the changes introduced in version 1.3.

This blog post demonstrates how to deploy PKS version 1.2.6 on AWS in an automated way using the CLI commands [...]

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PKS version 1.3

A year ago, Pivotal released Pivotal Container Service (PKS)—a tool enabling operators to deploy, run, and provision enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters. Then, we provided an overview of PKS v1.0, investigating hands-on experience with the service.

Recently, Pivotal Container Service v1.3 has been released, adding the latest stable version of Kubernetes, [...]

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