Cloud computing skills will be in high demand for 2023
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Drew Firment from Pluralsight and asked him all about their predictions for 2023, including what are the most in-demand cloud computing skills, what your business needs to do to adopt the cloud and reach cloud maturity, the upcoming trends in cloud computing that will become a larger part of the landscape in 2023, whether the cloud s...
Dynatrace expands AWS visibility and contextual problem analysis
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Dynatrace has announced the extension of the platform’s cloud visibility and contextual data ingestion from Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Amazon CloudWatch (CloudWatch) and AWS CloudTrail (CloudTrail). The addition of AWS metrics and events from the two services enriches the high-fidelity data that Dynatrace processes, further enhancing contextual problem identif...
Former Cisco GM joins Voxbone CaaS
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Voxbone's mission has been bolstered by the addition of a new board member, Dr. Jens Meggers. Voxbone powers many enterprise cloud communications platforms with on-demand voice and messaging services via API. Meggers’ experience will be indispensable as Voxbone pushes further into the complex realm of enterprise infrastructures.
As former senior vice ...
What some experts are saying about GDPR
Friday, May 18, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The GDPR bill is causing an uproar in the industry as the compliance date comes ever nearer. Yet few can say they actually know much about the bill that will come into place on May 25th.GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is an expansion upon the EU’s previous Data Protection Act of 1998, extending the boundary of its territorial mandate from whatever juris...
Multicloud app network platform update launched by MuleSoft
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Making a multi-cloud app just got a little easier thanks to MuleSoft's latest release of their Anypoint Platform. It features new capabilities that aim to give developers the ability to easily deploy, secure and monitor composite applications across cloud environments. Anypoint Platform unlocks the power of API-led connectivity, allowing organizations to connect apps, d...
CEO Roundtable participants announced for Telecom Exchange NYC 2018
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA), founder and host of the C-Level networking event series, the Telecom Exchange (TEX), announced its CEO Roundtable participants and topics for its 2018 TEX NYC event, taking place June 19-20 in Hoboken, NJ. The event will feature four CEO Roundtables, providing a major platform for tech, telecom and content thought leaders to deliber...
Netskope unifies enterprise cloud and web security
Thursday, April 5, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Netskope has announced the general availability of Netskope for Web, an expansion of the Netskope Cloud Security platform that enables safe web use for enterprise organizations. Powered by the same cloud-native architecture and patented Cloud XD technology of the award-winning and market-leading Netskope cloud access security broker (CASB), Netskope for Web uniquely und...
AWS expands VMware Cloud on AWS
Thursday, November 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
At AWS re:Invent 2017, VMware and Amazon Web Services(AWS) announced VMware Cloud on AWS is expanding availability from the U.S. West (Oregon) region to also include the AWS U.S. East (N. Virginia) region, and includes additional VMware capabilities and support for more AWS services, making it even easier for customers to move, run, and protect mission-critical applicat...
Edgemesh extends CDN with Google
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
Edgemesh has announced that it has joined Google Cloud Technology Partner program and added six new edge locations for its web acceleration platform. Powered by the Google Cloud Platform, the new locations provide additional capacity in São Paulo, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney, and new regional capacity in Mumbai, and enable Edgemesh to operate its Supernode ca...
Puppet partners with Amazon Web Services for agile cloud migration
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Puppet announced a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which includes the launch of AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, a new, fully-managed Puppet Master. This new solution empowers customers with a complete automation strategy for operating at scale, while providing them with the agility and flexibility of the cloud.In order to successfully operate and s...
The case for developer platforms as seen by Oracle
Friday, July 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Developers' lives are getting more challenging than ever. In the past, CIOs would give them the environment they had to work in, and operations was never part of their daily worries. But with the advent of cloud computing and broad adoption of DevOps methodologies, developers are now responsible for thinking about their environment, orchestrating containers, monitoring ...
Developers using Scribe get more tools to code faster
Thursday, July 6, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Scribe Software announced the general availability of the Developer Success Portal, designed to help developers do more with Scribe Online, its integration platform as a service (iPaaS). With the release, it offers a comprehensive resource that enables application and integration developers at enterprises, systems integrators, and SaaS providers to build applications th...
IBM proves commitment to Java and Scala communities
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM is announcing a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, a creator of the Reactive Application Development Platform, to help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise. The resulting joint solutions will be designed to provide a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers to easily build and dep...
The cloud needs a makeover survey says
Monday, July 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Fugue, Inc., has released the results of its 2017 State of Cloud Infrastructure Operations Survey. The survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to expectations because of compliance and security concerns, unexpected downstream costs, and the glut of cloud mana...
PacketZoom expands its offerings to SEA
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Slow app speeds are a major problem for Southeast Asia, where a recent Digitimes report found that 3G/4G mobile broadband Internet access was expected to reach just 60% in Southeast Asia in 2017, compared to 81% for the United States and more than 90% for countries such as Japan and South Korea. PacketZoom’s own Mobile Observatory report also found a high number of netw...
New Talend Summer 2017 update boasts new offerings
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
Talend, a cloud and big data integration solutions provider, unveiled a new version of its Data Fabric platform that is optimized to manage cloud and multi-cloud enterprise IT environments. Talend Summer ’17 helps manage information across many popular cloud platforms, enabling customers to integrate, cleanse and analyze data to gain a competitive edge.As businesses con...
wrnch debuts latest AR tech at Augmented World Expo 2017
Friday, June 2, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Computer vision start up, wrnch, uses deep learning to turn your smartphone into a motion capture device and find people in the pixels.Motion capture is the process of digitizing human form and movement. Professional motion capture systems have revolutionized movies, video games, VR, sports analytics and clinical medicine. Up until now, motion capture was expensive, lim...
New enterprise cloud platform analyzes unstructured data
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
A new version of ABBYY FlexiCapture has been released. The scalable and universal enterprise capture platform enables organizations to automatically classify, extract, validate and direct business critical data from incoming customer communications and operational processes - such as customer requests, queries and transactions. Utilizing a range of automated machine lea...
Software's breakout moment is here says Battery's Neeraj Agrawal
Friday, May 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Software - particularly cloud-based technology, is now creating roughly $1.4 trillion in economic value in the U.S. and is poised to grow even more, particularly as non-tech companies transform themselves into software businesses, according to a new report released today by global investment firm Battery Ventures. The figure represents nearly eight percent of U.S. GDP.T...
IBM POWER and Nutanix Software bringing new workloads to hyperconverged deployments
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
In the technology landscape, processing real-time information is necessary but not sufficient. Being able to react in real-time used to give enterprises a competitive advantage, but this approach no longer guarantees happy customers. The value has now migrated to the ability to rapidly gather large amounts of data, quickly crunch and predict what’s likely to happen next...
IBM and Cisco announced expanded solutions for VersaStack
Thursday, March 9, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Cisco and IBM announced new solutions for VersaStack, converged infrastructure jointly developed by the two companies. VersaStack helps organizations reduce complexity and automate processes to accelerate the delivery of applications. The additional technologies incorporated in the announcement today extend VersaStack to include hybrid cloud capabilities and also take a...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
The new SaaS solution for secure mobile enterprise access
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
SaberLogic has released Bezlio, a new SaaS product that makes it easy for companies to provide data from sources like ERP and accounting systems to any PC or device, including mobile devices like smartphones (iPhone and Android) and tablets.They have spent the last 14 years providing custom software development and integration work around ERP applications for manufactur...
SIS launches their latest Cloud Management Platform
Friday, December 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
SIS, a U.S. provider of managed cloud services that was founded in 1982, has announced the launch of its new cloud management platform, CMP, a platform for enterprise clients. CMP is built on VMware vCloud Director and OnApp's cloud management, provisioning and billing solution for VMware vCloud Air Network, a global ecosystem of VMware service providers. These sol...
IBM Bluemix Runtime Makes Swift Ready for Enterprise
Thursday, September 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced the IBM Bluemix Runtime for Swift, a production-ready Swift runtime on the IBM Cloud for public, dedicated and local deployments. With this release, IBM has made Swift ready for enterprise development.
What's New:
- Enterprises can now build next generation apps in Swift on both client and server-side on the IBM Cloud....
Gridstore and DCHQ Merge to Offer New HyperConverged InfrastructureasaService
Friday, July 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Gridstore and DCHQ have merged to launch a new company named HyperGrid. The new company will market a HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (HCIaaS), a solution that bridges the needs of traditional and cloud-native developers with IT Operations, delivering an AWS-like environment for DevOps.HyperGrid combines compute, all-flash storage, and networking into a singl...
New Skytap Driver for Docker Machine Offers Native Functionality
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Skytap has announced the new Skytap Driver for Docker Machine which extends the native functionality of Docker Machine to Skytap Cloud. With this new feature, companies can modernize traditional on-premises application architectures to container architectures within Skytap Cloud, without impacting any currently in-use environments.The new Skytap Driver enables applicati...
Cloud Hosting Provider iland Announces New API and SDKs
Monday, April 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Cloud hosting provider iland has announced its new cloud API, providing companies with the ability to access cloud data, deploy workloads, and integrate the iland cloud into their own management tools. Along with the Restful API release, the company is releasing Python, Java and Golang software development kits (SDKs).The iland Enterprise Cloud Services-Advanced Securit...
Talend Integration Cloud Integrates Workloads in AWS Environments
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Talend has released the latest version of its Talend Integration Cloud, an Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solution designed to help companies manage on-premises, cloud and hybrid integration workloads in AWS environments. The new release allows companies to execute big data and data integration projects running on AWS Redshift or AWS Elastic Map Reduce (...
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...
Built.io Adds New Updates to its Flow Enterprise Application Integration Platform
Saturday, February 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Built.io has introduced new functionality for its Built.io Flow Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) which creates workflows and automates business processes for connected sensors, devices, systems and applications across mobile, web and IoT.Built.io now has over 400 integrations to Built.io Flow’s library, enabling drag-and-drop automation for services ranging fro...
Pivotal Integrates Cloud Foundry With Cisco's Metapod as a Managed Private Cloud Solution
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Pivotal and Cisco have joined forces to provide Pivotal Cloud Foundry in conjunction with Cisco's Metapod, offering a new option for enterprise cloud application development. Together the integration of Cisco Metapod and Pivotal Cloud Foundry offers a managed private cloud solution with a cloud native developer experience.Cisco Metapod is an OpenStack-based, on-premises...
Oracle Releases 24 New Cloud Services
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform offerings with more than 24 new cloud services for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.The Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications, extend existing ...
Acision Releases New APIs and SDKs for Its Forge Cloud Messaging Platform
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Acision has announced several enhancements to be available in its newest release of the forge by Acision platform, which provides a suite of APIs and SDKs for enterprise cloud-based messaging, voice and video.Included is a new self-service developer portal providing access to the forge SDK, APIs and A2P messaging services. After signing up for an account, enterprise dev...
App Dev Trends Conference at Mandalay Bay Las Vegas in December – Count Me In!
Monday, September 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
I don’t know what you’re doing the first of December but I’ll be at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas covering the new App Dev Trends conference on December 8-11, 2014.The event is being hosted by 1105 Media which conducts a number of conferences including the Visual Studio Live!; Live! 360; and TechMentor events. 1105 Media is also the publisher of Appl...
