Open source services from Rafay Systems
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
Rafay Systems announced its plans to open-source its Zero-Trust Access and GitOps services. Developers will be able to take advantage of and contribute to, these battle-tested services that significantly reduce the complexities associated with securing access to and automating the ongoing operations of Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications. These two service...
Improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Technology integration allows customers to securely leverage existing keys, secrets, tokens, and certificates into declarative CI/CD pipelines and ease the management of HashiCorp Vault infrastructure and security practices.
Opsera and HashiCorp partner with plans on improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform ...
Virtual desktops will gain popularity in 2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Desktops-as-a-service, or virtual cloud desktops, will gain popularity in 2021. These are offerings like Amazon Workspace, Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop, Google Chromebook. The offerings enable the entire environment of workstations to be delivered as a service — a display that connects to personal computing in the cloud. It reduces the in-house infrastructure...
Governance of storage will be a major focus in 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
In hybrid- and multi-cloud environments, global visibility, and governance of storage will be a major focus moving forward.
Governance of storage will be a major focus in 2021
Organizations must determine how to effectively provision and administer storage capacity in different locations, whether the location is a data center or the cloud.
With those capabiliti...
Speeding up SaaS deployments with Platform.sh
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Organizations spend an inordinate amount of time and resources developing and maintaining infrastructure, which distracts from what should be their core focus: providing customers with valuable and engaging applications and digital experiences. Platform.sh allows companies to direct their attention towards accomplishing this primary goal by relieving them of the burden ...
Zero latency apps gets closer to reality thanks to Redis Labs
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
Complex technologies like a self-driving car take in huge amounts of data from its environment, processing it and make appropriate decisions on how to respond within a few milliseconds. This is the kind of zero latency future Redis Labs is enabling, and they announced at Redis Day London, the latest release of Redis Enterprise with two key functionalities: Red...
OpenShift Online lets developers deploy and scale public cloudnative apps
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Red Hat, Inc. has introduced the next generation of Red Hat OpenShift Online, their open source, container-native, multi-tenant cloud platform. Based on the same Linux container- and Kubernetes-based foundation as the OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Online gives developers the ability to quickly and easily build, deploy and scale cloud-native applications in a p...
Get a free intro to Apache Hadoop course
Friday, March 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is available for registration. The course, LFS103x - Introduction to Apache Hadoop, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts I...
Docker for the Enterprise launched with a Certification Program
Friday, March 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Docker has announced their Enterprise Edition (EE), a new commercial platform for enterprise development and IT ops teams that build, run, and operate business-critical applications in production at scale across the software supply chain. Comprised of a container runtime, with integrated and multi-tenant orchestration, security and management in addition to an ecosystem...
What you need to know about customizing Software as a Service
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Stacy Simmons
It’s a given for web and mobile application development that performance testing is critical to application success. Yet, for organizations wishing to customize third-party (3P) software as a service (SaaS) rather than running it out of the box as written, performance testing can be problematic. For some types of performance testing, it is nearly impossible due to limit...
How do we simplify eastwest security The imperative path is upon us
Monday, December 5, 2016 by Keshav Kamble
Ahhh, the endless saga of streamlining hazards around application security: let’s talk about the East-West component of the conundrum. But first, it’s important to clarify the variances of ‘East-West’ vs. ‘North-South’ traffic in a typical data center environment. By definition: North-South traffic is the communication that occurs between server applications deploy...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: The way forward in government mobility
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Edris Amiryar
Advances in technology are rapid and can be hard to keep up with, especially for large organizations. The federal government relies heavily on IT to accomplish its tasks and there is increasing demand for access to information from any location, in any geography, meaning that for federal agencies, improved mobility and mobile data security are imperative for m...
MultiTenant vs. Single Tenant: Choosing the right DBaaS Data Store from the start
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Michael Russo
The Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) model is an attractive option for rapid deployment of managed database assets in the cloud. If you’re thinking of using a DBaaS to power your cloud-based application’s database, you’ll want to understand the pros and cons of multi-tenant versus single-tenant datastores for housing your data. Both approaches have merit and by understandi...
There has never been a better time to be a Salesforce developer
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Trailhead is Salesforce's interactive learning environment for all app creators, enabling them to master in-demand Salesforce skills through free hands-on training.We spoke with Sarah Franklin, senior vice president of developer relations and general manager of Trailhead at Salesforce, about a report released on the size of and job opportunities in the Salesforce ecosys...
Hybrid Cloud Strategy New With VMware CrossCloud Architecture
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has announced a new aspect of its hybrid cloud strategy with the new VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture which provides the ability to run, manage, connect, and secure applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment.In support of the company's cloud strategy, VMware also announced the following:- VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified...
Built.io Makes MBaaS Customizable With 3.0 Update
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Built.io Backend 3.0 is the latest update to Built.io’s award winning mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) product. With this announcement, Built.io Backend becomes the industry’s most flexible enterprise backend for application development, says Matthew Baier, COO.Typical MBaaS requires the application developer to deploy a separate application server for their business...
The ApplicationDriven Computing and Storage Platform Movement
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently had a visit with Sushil Kumar, CMO of Robin Systems, about the application-driven compute and storage platform movement within the application-defined data center era.ADM: What challenges are data centers, private clouds, and enterprise application users and administrators faced with today?Kumar: In modern data centers & private clouds, enterprise applic...
Chatting With Salesforce About Their New App Cloud Mobile
Saturday, June 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
We spoke with Seema Kumar, the Vice President of App Cloud Product Marketing at Salesforce, about the recent announcement of the Salesforce App Cloud Mobile, bringing under one roof its platform services which include Force, Heroku and Salesforce1. ADM: What is App Cloud Mobile? Kumar: App Cloud Mobile brings together the platform services that our community o...
SnapLogic Announces New Partner Program for Connecting Cloud and OnPremise Applications
Thursday, June 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SnapLogic offers a unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and has announced a new partner program, SnapLogic Partner Connect. The program is intended to provide a global ecosystem of technology, services and reseller partners that help companies in their efforts associated big data technologies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications ...
IBM Spectrum Computing Offers High Performance Data Analytics with SoftwareDefined Infrastructure Technology
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
IBM has released IBM Spectrum Computing, a new intelligent resource and workload management software which offers workload and resource management capabilities for high-performance research, design and simulation applications. IBM Spectrum Computing is designed to make it easier for organizations to extract full value from data to accelerate performance-intensive a...
F5 Networks Introduces New Security Functionality to DevOps Software
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
F5 Networks has launched new software-based solutions that give companies the opportunity to take advantage of the benefits provided by traditional data center, cloud, and hybrid architectures.The new products include:BIG-IP 12.1 software: Offers application services with enhanced public cloud integration and security policies for on-premises and hybrid cloud environmen...
Cloud Native Computing Foundation to Support Open Source Prometheus Platform
Friday, May 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it is adding a second platform to its cloud native technologies initiative. The group’s first hosted project was Kubernetes and now it is adding the Prometheus platform, which offers an open source time series and metrics tool inspired by Google’s internal monitoring tools (Borgmon).The Cloud Native Computing Foundatio...
Caringo Updates Swarm Software Defined Object Storage Platform
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Caringo today released updates to its Swarm software-defined object storage platform. Swarm 8.1 offers new functionality including the addition of hierarchical data protection policies, historical metrics and usage metering.Swarm is unified storage software for data protection, management, organization and search at scale. It is enabled by pure object storage, designed ...
Automation's Role with DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Friday, April 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic, to discusses how application release automation can help simplify the DevOps journey to help enterprises of all shapes, sizes and ages scale in order to adopt digital transformation initiatives
ADM: Who is Automic? What does the company do?
DeLaughter: Automic is the largest pure-play auto...
BlueData Updates Platform to Deploy Big Data Infrastructure and Applications
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released updates to its BlueData EPIC software platform provides enterprise-class security and quality of service (QoS) for multi-tenant Big Data deployments. With the release BlueData continues to add support for new applications and frameworks to provide a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) environment on-premises.BlueData’s EPIC platform provides the ability ...
NTT Com Releases New Hybrid Cloud Update Blending Traditional and CloudNative ICT
Friday, March 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has released enhancements to its Enterprise Cloud solution which is now available in Japan, and will be rolled out in the UK, Singapore, US, Australia, Hong Kong and Germany this year. The platform now offers functionality for both traditional and cloud- native communication and communications technology (ICT), as well as network...
BlueData Facilitates RealTime Data Pipelines with Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlueData has launched a new Real-time Pipeline Accelerator solution for building real-time data pipelines with Spark Streaming, Kafka and Cassandra. The new platform provides the ability to develop and test applications for analyzing “Fast Data,” facilitating real-time or near real-time data that requires instant awareness, faster decision-making, and immediate action.B...
ContainerX Releases New Integration with VMware's vSphere
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
ContainerX has released a new beta integration with VMware’s vSphere into its container platform that is IT managed, with developer self-service using standard Docker CLI.ContainerX offers a solution for multi-tenant container management, including orchestration, compute, network and storage management. ContainerX’s Elastic Container Clusters and Container Pools provide...
How Apache Kafka is Fundamentally Changing the Streaming of Big Data
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
LinkedIn, Netflix and Uber are just a few companies who are utilizing Apache Kafka, which facilitates realtime data streams and provides an open source messaging system. We recently visited with Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO at Confluent, which he founded with other members of the team that built Kafka at LinkedIn. Jay is the original author of several of open sour...
CodeLathe's FileCloud Adds Microsoft Azure File Storage as Storage Option
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
CodeLathe’s FileCloud has added support for Microsoft Azure File Storage as a backend file storage option. The FileCloud platform allows businesses and managed service providers to host their own end-to-end file sync, share and mobile access solution with the ability to deploy the high available, redundant and scalable FileCloud on Azure Cloud infrastructure.Azure File ...
MuleSoft Extends Anypoint Connectivity Platform for SOA, SaaS and APIs
Monday, December 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
MuleSoft has announced the latest release of its Anypoint Platform integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs which provides the ability for companies to connect applications, data, and devices, both on-premises and in the cloud with an API-led approach. With Anypoint companies can deploy their integrations in a hybrid environment, connecting to both SaaS applications...
Confluent's Platform Receives Updated Apache Kafka 0.9 Core
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
Confluent has released an update to its open source Confluent Platform 2.0 which is based on an updated Apache Kafka 0.9 core. The release offers new functionality to enable secure multi-tenant operations, simplify development and maintenance of applications that produce or consume data in Kafka, and provide high-throughput, scalable data integration with a wide array o...
Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli Discusses New Passport SSO User Management Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli to talk about his company’s new Passport single sign on (SSO) user management solution that goes beyond standard single sign-on to support messaging in the user’s localized language, built-in analytics, and the ability to discipline/reward users (e.g. mute, ban, suspend, reward) based on activity.Brian is the found...
A Discussion on Container Security with Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein
Thursday, December 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein to talk about his company’s Twistlock Container Security Suite and the recent announcement of its relationship with Google through the Twistlock for Google Cloud Platform integration with Google Container Engine and Container Registry.Twistlock came out of stealth earlier this year and on November 10 the company annou...
Ruxit Releases Ruxit Managed OnPremise Monitoring Solution
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
In response to requests by companies who aren’t permitted to use cloud-based solutions due to their organizational security policies, Ruxit has released Ruxit Managed, an on-premise web monitoring, application performance monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring solution that provides end-to-end performance metrics for web applications.With a goal of offering more than...
