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Active surveillance in low-grade NMIBC — results of an international two-round modified Delphi consensus
Abstract Standard management for recurrent low-grade non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (LG-NMIBC) often involves a substantial treatment burden, which is not justified by the relatively indolent course of the disease, prompting a need for de-intensification strategies. Active surveillance (AS) is an alternative approach aimed at reducing overtreatment in selected patients.
Case - Salvage nerve-sparing radical cystectomy for pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma of the bladder
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Oncologic Validation and Discriminative Ability of Pentafecta Criteria After Open Radical Cystectomy
ABSTRACT Objective To validate the pentafecta criteria proposed by the PROMETRICS group for outcome reporting after radical cystectomy in an open radical cystectomy cohort with long-term follow-up. To assess the discriminative ability of pentafecta criteria attainment for oncological endpoints. Patients and methods Between 01/2009 and 12/2017, 420 patients underwent open radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection and urinary diversion for non-metastatic bladder cancer.
Re: Christopher Soliman, Niranjan J. Sathianathen, Gianluca Giannarini, et al. There is a Need for a Universal Language in the Reporting and Grading of Complication and Intervention Events to Ensure Comparability and Improvement of Surgical Care. Eur Urol
We read with great interest the Platinum Opinion by Soliman et al. [ [1] Soliman C, Sathianathen NJ, Giannarini G, et al. There is a need for a universal language in the reporting and grading of complication and intervention events to ensure comparability and improvement of surgical care. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2021.12.022. ], who introduced the extraordinary Complications After Major and Minor Urological Surgery (CAMUS) collaboration.
Effect of comorbidities/comedications on sunitinib outcomes for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: the STAR-TOR registry
Globally each year there are an estimated 403,000 new kidney cancer cases and 175,000 deaths due to kidney cancer [1]. The most common form of kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which occurs in approximately 90% of cases [2]. Recent changes in the landscape of metastatic RCC (mRCC) treatment have seen the development of immunotherapeutic options, partly in combination with more traditionally used tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) [3].
Portworx Announces First Major Backup Update
by Michael Rink August 18, 2020 written by Michael Rink August 18, 2020 Today, Portworx announced that the first major update of their backup product, PX-Backup, will be available in Tech Preview later this week. The last half of the month will also see updates for Portworx Enterprise and PX-Autopilot for Capacity Management. Goutham Rao, Murli Thirumale, and Vinod Jayaraman cofounded Portworx in 2014.
Electronic cigarettes and bladder cancer - a game-changer?
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use has risen rapidly over the past decade, despite limited knowledge of the risk of carcinogenesis and broader health implications. A recent systematic review summarizes the current evidence on carcinogen biomarkers in the urine of e-cigarette users. The findings warrant consideration and indicate that further insights are urgently needed. References 1. Rink, M. et al. Smoking and bladder cancer: a systematic review of risk and outcomes. Eur. Urol.
Reply to Francesco Montorsi, Marco Bandini, and Andrea Necchi’s Letter to the Editor re: Malte W. Vetterlein, Jakob Klemm, Philipp Gild, et al. Improving Estimates of Perioperative Morbidity After Radical Cystectomy Using the European Association of Urolo
Publication History Published online: May 03, 2020Accepted: April 6, 2020;
Cohesity Announces Remote/Branch Office Appliance
February 19th, 2020 by Michael Rink Today, Cohesity announced a solution targeted at remote office or branch office (ROBO) locations. The solution combines Cohesity software with certified servers from Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Cohesity was founded in 2013. One of their co-founders worked at Google, so it is not surprising that they are partially funded by Google Ventures. The company is a well-established provider of both software and converged appliance data management solutions.
Cloudian Announces Adoption of Brand New Veeam v10
February 19th, 2020 by Michael Rink Today, Cloudian announced that it would be adopting Veeam's just released version 10 Veeam Availability Suite. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Veeam's release of v10 to general availability yesterday. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and primarily focuses on providing file and object storage software, although they recently spun off an edge AI-focused subsidiary.
Veeam v10 Enters General Availability
February 18th, 2020 by Michael Rink Today, Veeam released v10 of their popular Veeam Availability Suite. Veeam Availability Suite was first introduced in 2008 as Veeam Backup & Replication and has been their flagship backup solution ever since. Veeam was founded in 2006 and was recently acquired by Insight Partners for roughly five billion dollars. Veeam is well known for their data management and disaster recovery products.
MayaData Raises $26,000,000 from Investors
February 4th, 2020 by Michael Rink Today, MayaData announced it received additional funding totaling to twenty-six million dollars from investors, including AME Cloud Ventures, DataCore Software, and Insight Partners. MayaData was founded in 2011 under the name CloudByte and operated under that name until 2017 when it rebranded itself as MayaData. In both incarnations, MayaData specialized in enterprise containers like Kubernetes. DataCore Software is investing more than just money in MayaData.
Cisco & IBM Offer Managed Private Cloud-as-a-Service
February 3rd, 2020 by Michael Rink Last week, Cisco and IBM Services partnered to roll out a managed private cloud-as-a-service (CaaS / IaaS). Cisco was founded in 1984 and provides a wide range of networking, telecommunications, and data center hardware. IBM was founded in 1911 and is one of the oldest and most famous manufacturer and researcher of computer components and super computers. Cisco and IBM Services’s new Managed Private Cloud-as-a-service for x86 that is powered by Cisco UCS.
The promise and challenges of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in the management of non‐metastatic muscle‐invasive bladder cancer
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SIOS Technology Releases AppKeeper To North American Markets
January 28th, 2020 by Michael Rink Today, SIOS Technology Corp released AppKeeper. SIOS AppKeeper is intended to respond to Amazon EC2 service alerts automatically and is immediately available with a free 14-day trial for end-users and channel partners. SIOS was founded in 1999 that provides applications and services targeted at disaster recovery and prevention, or as they like to call it, IT resilience.
Red Hat Announces OpenShift Container Platform 4.3
January 15th, 2020 by Michael Rink Today, Red Hat announced plans to release OpenShift Container Platform 4.3. OpenShift Container Platform, sometimes shortened to just OpenShift, is Red Hat's Kubernetes based open-source software container application. When Red Hat says open-source, they mean open source. You can find the current full release notes here alongside the source code in their GitHub repository. Red Hat was founded in 1993 as an open-source software provider and advocate.
Aetina Adds New, Lower Cost, AI Edge Model
December 19th, 2019 by Michael Rink Aetina released new, lower-cost versions of their existing Aetina Jetson TX2 series carrier boards. Aetina was founded in Taiwan in 2012 and currently provides NVIDIA carrier boards. A carrier board (aka base board) houses the application-specific connectivity and multimedia interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, UART, HDMI, etc. The carrier board connects with the SoM via standard connectors such as SODIMM or MXM.
Dell EMC Adds Two Plugins To Unity XT
December 13th, 2019 by Michael Rink Dell Technologies released two plugins for Dell EMC Unity XT. Unity, in this case, does not refer to the popular video game software development environment, but to Dell's line of all-flash unified storage servers. The first plugin is for Kubernetes and is called the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin. The second plugin is a VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin.
Dell Adds Two Plugins To Unity XT
December 13th, 2019 by Michael Rink Dell Technologies released two plugins for Dell EMC Unity XT. Unity, in this case, does not refer to the popular video game software development environment, but to Dell's line of all-flash unified storage servers. The first plugin is for Kubernetes and is called the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin. The second plugin is a VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin.
HYCU Releases Multi-Cloud Application Migration as a Service
December 12th, 2019 by Michael Rink HYCU released HYCU Protege to general availability. HYCU Protege is currently available on an as-a-service model and provides multi-cloud migration, data management, and disaster recovery services. Previously known as Comtrade Software of Comtrade Group, HYCU renamed itself after its most successful product HYCU just last year, around March 2018.
Aerospike Releases Version 4.8
December 12th, 2019 by Michael Rink Aerospike released version 4.8 of their NoSQL database to general availability. Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.8 adds support for storing record data in Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (PMEM). Aerospike was founded in 2009 under the name Citrusleaf but in 2012 changed the company name to match the name of their NoSQL database. Aerospike 4.5 was released in December of last year with support for storing indices in persistent memory.
Scale Computing Releases Micro HCI Edge Appliance
December 11th, 2019 by Michael Rink Scale Computing, released the HE150 at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. The new HE150 is the latest addition to Scale Computing's HC3 Edge product line and is intended to allow them to serve customers and companies without the space or other resources for a server room. Scale Computing was founded in the mid-2000s and primarily provides edge-focused solutions.
Pivot3 Updates Acuity
December 11th, 2019 by Michael Rink Pivot3 released an update for their Acuity software. The update is aimed at improving their networks' resilience and improving customer's abilities to recover from the loss of a cluster node or other partial outage. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform in 2008. It currently focuses on providing HCI products, including both datacenter and edge platforms running custom software.
XenData Releases X1 Archive Appliance
December 10th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, XenData Released their new archive appliance, the X1. The X1 appliance will initially have three models to support archiving file-based applications to different mediums. XenData was founded in 2001 and focus on public cloud and on-premises data storage systems. The XenData X1 is a surprisingly compact device. It is just a little too large to fit in the palm of your hand, but it can comfortably be carried with just one hand.
McAfee Releases New Enterprise MVISION Solution
December 10th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, McAfee released McAfee MVISION Cloud for Container. McAfee’s all capitalized MVISION line includes several solutions, the new Cloud For Container solution is focused on identifying vulnerabilities in container applications during development. McAfee has gone through several changes since it was founded in 1987 by John McAfee. Intel purchased the company in 2011 and renamed it to Intel Security Group three years later in 2014.
Diamanti Announces Kubernetes Platform with GPU Support
December 9th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Diamanti announced their first enterprise platform with GPU support for running containerized workloads under Kubernetes. The new platform is targeted at the artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI\ML) markets. Diamanti was founded in the early 2010s and provides open-source Kubernetes platforms. Despite having already been shipped to early access customers, Diamanti has told us surprisingly little about their new platform.
Pivot3 Offers Video Storage Appliance Through Lenovo
December 3rd, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Pivot3 announced that it is providing its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) surveillance platform through Lenovo Datacenter Group’s (DCG) ON DEMAND program. The platform combines Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with Pivot3’s software to create an appliance targeted at video and camera management at the edge. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first HCI platform in 2008.
Druva Announces Additional Data Protection For AWS
December 3rd, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Druva announced plans to upgrade their software with improved data protection for Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise workloads. The company plans to release the upgrades in the first quarter of next year. Druva was founded in 2008 and provides data protection and management through a software as a service (SaaS) model.
Diamanti Announces Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes Platform
November 19th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, at KubeCon, Diamanti announced the upcoming launch of Diamanti Spektra. Spektra will be a hybrid cloud Kubernetes control plane focused on application and data persistence spanning public and private clouds. Diamanti was founded in the early 2010s and provides open-source Kubernetes platforms.
Dell EMC Server Announcements from SC19
November 19th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, at Supercomputing 2019, Dell made a slew of announcements. The company released two new Dell EMC Ready Solutions, announced a Ready Solutions for AI validated design due next month and announced new GPU and FPGA options for its PowerEdge Servers that are slated for sometime early next year. Dell Technologies is expanding its portfolio of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Storage with two new, turnkey solutions. The first solution is for ThinkParQ's BeeGFS.
TrilioVault Achieves Red Hat’s Container Certification
November 18th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Trilio announced that their TrilioVault data protection software has achieved Red Hat’s Container Certification. Trilio is in the process of adding support for Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes, and has reached the technical preview stage. In this case, technical preview means that Trilio will be offering demos and briefings as requested. TrilioVault is a cloud-centric backup and recovery tool. Trilio was founded in 2013 and provides data protection software.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announces Container Platform
November 18th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced HPE Container Platform. HPE Container Platform is a Kubernetes-based container platform and is expected to be available sometime early next year. HPE appears to be attempting to provide a package suitable for all enterprise environments and any conceivable use case with their HPE Container Platform.
HPE Collaborates With National Renewable Energy Laboratory
November 18th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that they would be collaborating with the U.S.A. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on software to improve the energy and water efficiency of data centers. This collaboration is part of the U.S.A. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) ongoing efforts to reduce the amount of energy, and water used by data centers.
StackRox Releases Version 3 Of Kubernetes Security
November 13th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, StackRox released version 3.0 of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. The new version includes improved tools to identify vulnerabilities and support for additional ecosystems. StackRox is a small company (less than fifty employees) founded in 2014 and their just updated Kubernetes security platform is their primary product. StackRox dashboards highlight security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes and the contents of the containers.
Datrium Announces Disaster Recovery as a Service for On Premise vSphere
November 13th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Datrium announced DRaas Connect. DRaaS Connect extends Datrium's existing disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solution to allow recovering from on-premise vSphere physical infrastructure on-premises and across Amazon Web Service (AWS) availability zones. The company just released their DraaS with VMware cloud on AWS last August.
Microsoft Announces Masculine Cortana
November 4th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Microsoft announced that they would be adding a masculine voice to their Cortana digital aid for the first time ever. Microsoft also announced several other enhancements for Microsoft 365, but let's be honest, what everyone is excited about is that they'll finally have the option of changing the voice of Microsoft's answer to Alexa and Siri to sound more masculine.
Microsoft Announces Robotic Process Automation for Power Platform
November 4th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced a slew of new features and updates to the company’s Power Platform. The new features include the addition of Robotic process automation (RPA) added to Power Automate (previously named Microsoft Flow) and an even lower code approach to creating automated processes called Power Virtual Agents.
Nasuni Announces Google Cloud Storage Support & More
November 3rd, 2019 by Michael Rink Nasuni announced that it plans to update its platform at least one more time before the end of the year. They just released a set of upgrades at the end of September, so this is an impressively fast update tempo. The new update will include support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS), improved cloud migration tools, and new analytic tools. Nasuni was founded in 2009 and is primarily a file services platform (software and appliances) for the cloud.
NetApp Eats Its Own Dog Food
October 29th, 2019 by Michael Rink Recently, NetApp revealed that it uses its own services and appliances as part of its development process, something that is sometimes referred to as "eating your own dog food." Their story of how they use their tools internally makes an interesting case study for anyone considering adopting NetApp. This past year they have been a dynamo of new releases and updates.
Veritas Announces Edge Data Protection Appliance Flex 5150
October 23rd, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Veritas unveiled their soon to be released Flex 5150 edge data protection appliance. The Flex 5150 will be Veritas’s first appliance designed for the edge that includes their NetBackup software. Veritas Technologies was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, briefly merged with Symantec in 2004 before being spun off and sold to its current owner, The Carlyle Group.
Cisco Releases Data Center Management App
October 21st, 2019 by Michael Rink Cisco released a mobile app version of its Cisco Intersight software. Cisco Intersight is a Software as a service infrastructure (SaaS) management program. Cisco was founded in 1984 and provides a wide range of networking, telecommunications, and data center hardware. Astute readers may have noticed that today's image is sideways.
SwiftStack and InfiniteIO Release Integrated Solution
October 17th, 2019 by Michael Rink SwiftStack and InfiniteIO announced and released an integrated solution that combines InfiniteIO’s hybrid cloud tiering and metadata acceleration with SwiftStack’s software to optimize capacity resources and increase performance. Swiftstack was founded in 2011 and sells on-premise storage and software. InfiniteIO was founded just a year later in 2012 and provides cloud data management software. Up to 80% of all data is stored and never accessed again.
Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine Goes Live
October 17th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today Canonical released Ubuntu 19.10, "Eoan Ermine." The new version is coming out right on schedule and primarily makes it easier to work on artificial intelligence and other machine learning (AI/ML) tasks and improved Kubernetes support. 19.10 has been in beta for some time now and the stable release is coming out right on schedule. Canonical was founded in 2004 specifically to support Ubuntu and other open-source software projects.
Openstack Adds More AI & ML Support With Train
October 16th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today the OpenStack Foundation released their 20th version since their initial release in 2010. Continuing their tradition of short but colorful, alphabetical names, the new release is named Train (as in always on time). The past two releases were Stein and Rocky respectively. Some of the highlights of Train, in addition to more Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) support, are improved resource management and enhanced security.
Mellanox Releases 200Gb/s Network Cards
October 15th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today Mellanox released ConnectX-6 Dx cards that are capable of 200Gb/s over NVMe/TCP. Mellanox was founded in 1999 and provides data center network solutions. NVIDIA is in the process of buying Mellanox for $6.9 billion by the end of the calendar year. The ConnectX-6 Dx is the latest in Mellanox’s multi-decade line of network cards.
Reply to Liang Sun and Yi Feng’s Letter to the Editor re: Malte W. Vetterlein, Jakob Klemm, Philipp Gild, et al. Improving Estimates of Perioperative Morbidity After Radical Cystectomy Using the European Association of Urology Quality Criteria for Standar
Publication History Published online: October 10, 2019Accepted: September 25, 2019;
Samsung Develops 24GB High Bandwidth Memory | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews
October 9th, 2019 by Michael Rink Samsung announced that is has developed the industry's first high bandwidth memory chip manufactured using 12-layer 3D-TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology. High bandwidth memory (HBM) is used in lots of computer components used in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications like high-end graphics cards, FPGAs, CPUs, and networking devices. Previously, the best anyone could do was 8-layer.
Backblaze Releases Cloud Backup 7.0 | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews
October 8th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Backblaze released Backblaze Cloud Backup 7.0 The newest version of Backblaze’s cloud backup software includes additional version history options, better security including improved, Single Sign-on (SSO) support, and added support for Catalina. Backblaze will be slowly rolling out automatic updates to their customers over the coming weeks, but you can also trigger a manual update to get the new features immediately.
Dynatrace Announces Business Analytics Software
October 8th, 2019 by Michael Rink Today, Dynatrace announced its plans for a new business analytics tool named Digital Business Analytics. The new software will build on Dynatrace’s existing application performance management and digital experience monitoring modules to generate AI-derived answers to market questions. Dynatrace’s main product is a cloud-centric software monitoring and analysis platform and is available in a free 15-day trial.
Cisco Releases Two CDIP Validated Designs Using Cloudera
September 30th, 2019 by Michael Rink Last Friday Cisco released two, nearly identical, new Cisco Validated Designs implementing Cisco Data intelligence Platform (CDIP). One of the designs runs Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 6.2, and the other runs Hortonworks (recently purchased by Cloudera) Data Platform 3.1. Getting customers to be interested in the new systems is probably going to be an uphill battle for Cisco because Cloudera is moving to merge Hortonworks and their own software together.
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