How DevOps will change in 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
DevOps will become much more security-aware. We’ll see greater attention paid to the newly expanded surface area created in the practice of DevOps and how to proactively protect against vulnerabilities in DevOps.
How DevOps will change in 2021 and the Impact from it
First, IT Ops and DevOps teams will need to reorient their processes to one that unifies...
MemSQL scalable database now available through red hat marketplace
Thursday, September 10, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
MemSQL announced that the MemSQL scalable SQL database is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments – public and private, cloud and on premises. Through the marketplace, customers can take ...
One Identity Safeguard now supports Microsoft SQL Server
Friday, May 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
One Identity announced that its One Identity Safeguard solution now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019 database environments. Microsoft was positioned as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems*. With One Identity Safeguard, organizations can for the first time securely manage, monitor, record and audit...
Machine data and SQL database release from Crate.io
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Crate.io announced $11 million in series A funding, along with the commercially-available Crate Machine Data Platform and version 3.0 of the open source CrateDB. The new funding was led by Zetta Venture Partners and Deutsche Invest Equity with participation from Mike Chalfen, Momenta Partners and Charlie Songhurst. Existing investors Draper Esprit, Vito Ventures and Sol...
Edge computing has a need for speed
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Edge computing is projected to grow at a cumulative annual growth rate of 46% over the next four years to over $6 billion by 2022.1 With this growth has come a readjustment in planning strategy on the part of CIOs and other IT managers. “For nearly a decade now, large, computer-intensive enterprises have been looking at IT investment in terms of moving virtually all app...
GE Digital unveils new industrial software solutions
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
GE has unveiled expansions to its suite of edge-to-cloud technologies and industrial applications, designed to help its customers build a complete asset strategy. These additions to the GE Digital portfolio complement software applications that drive industrial productivity and extend these benefits through Predix, the application development platform for the Industrial...
Talend releases selfservice data preparation tool
Thursday, October 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Talend has unveiled a new version of Talend Integration Cloud (TIC), the company’s scalable and secure integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) solution, which leverages the power of the cloud to enable widespread use of data for decision making. The new release includes a cloud-based version of Talend Data Preparation, which delivers data-as-a-service, 24x7, to a vari...
Kinetica and NVIDIA launch business intel platform
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced a new solution combining the power of NVIDIA DGX Station and Kineticas GPU-accelerated database to speed up Tableau queries, providing users the ability to make faster data-driven decisions. Available immediately from NVIDIA and Kinetica business partner InterWorks, the new solution allows customers of Tableau to modernize their underlying datab...
ScaleArc now supports Microsoft Azure SQL database
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
ScaleArc has announced that it has integrated its ScaleArc for SQL Server software with Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Customers of Microsoft Azure Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) software can now benefit from the seamless scale out, faster application performance, and high availability features of the ScaleArc software. With this enhancement, customers can now take advant...
Realm receives investment for their mobile platform
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Realm has announced a strategic investment from Ericsson Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. In addition to the investment, Realm and Ericsson will work together to develop new types of cloud services to improve mobile applications and the network experience.The Realm Mobile Platform empowers organizations and developers to build mobile apps that offer...
TigerGraph nabs $31M in Series A funding
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
TigerGraph has made announcements including its emergence from stealth, securing of $31M in Series A funding, general availability of TigerGraph, and availability of both its Cloud Service and GraphStudio. Their Native Parallel Graph Technology (NPG) powers real-time deep link analytics for enterprises with complex and colossal amounts of data. Formerly known as GraphSQ...
Is your app ready for Black Friday
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Tony Branson
With the increasing use of mobile devices for online shopping, a major share of every wallet is now going to online retailers. The convenience of shopping anytime; anywhere perfectly suits the busy, on-the-go generation that is giving eCommerce businesses a big boost. Despite this reality, more than 70% of SMBs do not have their websites ready for a sudden rise in traff...
How inmemory computing is driving digital transformation technologies
Monday, August 7, 2017 by Nikita Ivanov
It increasingly seems that every business wants to become a data-driven software company. The success of Airbnb, Alibaba, Netflix and many others has CEOs, CIOs, and CDOs jumping on the digital transformation bandwagon and imagining all the possible ways they can leverage their intellectual property and unique data to deliver a service instead of just shipping products....
Improve app resiliency by enhancing the data tier
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses run on apps, and apps run on data. Modern databases offer the potential for much greater application uptime and performance. The fundamental attribute of modern databases is the ability to scale out capacity - organizations can leverage multiple copies of the same data so they can serve more customers demanding access to that data. Modern databases also bring...
New release of Aqua security platform includes secrets management
Friday, February 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Aqua Security, a platform provider for securing containerized applications, has announced the release of version 2.0 of its Container Security Platform (CSP). A major requirement for securing containerized applications is ensuring that containers can only communicate within their permitted network segment, limiting the “blast radius” in case of an attack. The challenge ...
Free developer release of elastic SQL database
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud applications for standard business operations, developers of new cloud applications have struggled to find a database built for a cloud-centric environment - typically having to sacrifice resilience in favor of cost or SQL capabilities. NuoDB, the SQL database company for cloud applications, has unveiled a more robust Community ...
Kinetica launches Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced the availability of Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs, two new software and services offerings designed to help customers quickly ingest, explore and visualize streaming data sets, including for Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, by leveraging the power of GPUs.Kinetica is an in-memory, GPU-accelerated database that has bee...
VoltDB Adds Geospatial Support to Its Operational InMemory SQL Database
Saturday, January 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
VoltDB has released VoltDB v6.0, the latest version of its operational in-memory SQL database for fast data ingest/export. Now offering geospatial support, Version 6.0 adds to VoltDB’s in-memory parallel database architecture that scales transactions and analytics linearly while maintaining data consistency and high availability. VoltDB Version 6.0 provides a trans...
VoltDB's SQL Solution Combines Streaming Analytics with Transaction Processing
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
VoltDB offers an in-memory SQL database solution that combines streaming analytics with transaction processing in a single, horizontal scale-out platform. Companies use VoltDB to build applications that process streaming data the instant it arrives to make immediate, per-event, context-aware decisions providing the ability to receive real-time in-transaction analytics.V...
Spice Machines' Hadoop RDBMS Scales RealTime Applications
Saturday, October 31, 2015 by Richard Harris
Splice Machine has released version 1.5 of its Hadoop RDBMS, adding multiple features that allow companies to replace their traditional RDBMSs, such as Oracle & MySQL, to power real-time applications, run operational data lakes and accelerate their ETL pipelines.Splice Machine’s Hadoop RDBMS is designed to scale real-time applications using commodity hardware withou...
HP Updates Vertica and Introduces Haven Startup Accelerator
Monday, August 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
HP has unveiled a number of new products, services, and programs designed to help organizations leverage data and analytics to build new products and experiences.These include a new release of HP Vertica, which will feature data streaming and advanced log file text search to power high-speed analytics on Internet of Things (IoT) data. Also announced is new support for a...
Top 5 Tips for RESTful APIs and Closing the Loop on OAuth2.0
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
Many of the devices and gadgets that comprise the Internet of Things require that end users sync data to cloud services via a 1st party app. End user data is then exposed to developers over a RESTful API from the hardware vendor cloud services. It is up to each vendor to implement the OAuth2 protocol and define their own RESTful API for their service and as such there i...
HashiCorp Launches Vault Security Platform for Cloud Environments
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
HashiCorp has launched Vault, a new tool for securely managing secrets and encrypting data in-transit. From storing credentials and API keys to encrypting passwords for user signups, Vault is being offered as a new solution for security in cloud environments.Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secret...
Highlights from Day One of Microsoft Build Developers Conference
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
As you can imagine it was all about Windows 10 at the Microsoft Build Developers Conference. Ambitious in its size and scope of information, Microsoft is saying that it plans to have billion active Windows 10 devices by 2018.Highlights of the Windows 10 announcements include:- New Universal Windows Platform Bridge toolkits which enable developers to bring existing .NET,...
Embarcadero Technologies RAD Studio XE7 for Cross Platform Development
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7, a solution to build connected apps for Windows, Android, iOS, OS X, gadgets, and wearables. The new XE7 version of RAD Studio enables Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to extend existing Windows applications and build apps that connect desktop and mobile devices with gadgets, cloud services, and ent...
Microsoft Announces Availability of Azure Resource Manager Tools Preview
Friday, August 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has made publically available the Azure Resource Manager Tools Preview for Visual Studio.At Build 2014 Microsoft announced the new Azure Portal and Azure Resource Manager. The Azure Resource Manager enables the ability to create reusable deployment templates that declaratively describe the resources that make up an application (for example a website and a SQL ...
Develop Apps for Any Device and Any Platform With AppMethod's New Platform
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero has introduced its latest release of Appmethod which allows developers to use C++ to create apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. This release of Appmethod now includes a "Free Forever" subscription plan that C++ developers can use to create Android apps to be published on any public app store (e.g., Amazon App Store and Google Play). ...
DreamFactory Launches Updated MBaaS Services Platform for Mobile Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory has introduced DreamFactory 1.5, a MBaaS platform that allows developers to connect mobile apps with back-end services.The platform focuses on two areas. First, it lets developers securely connect mobile users with existing enterprise databases and control record-level data visibility. Second, it offers new scripting functionality to customize the...
Sencha Space – Solving BYOD with Cross Platform Management to Build and Deploy Secure Mobile HTML5 Apps
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Nicholas Harlow
With more and more enterprises adopting BYOD policies, the challenge for IT departments has become how to manage personal and professional applications on the same device, making sure company information is secure without infringing upon personal privacy. The importance of this issue will only grow as mobility becomes an even greater fixture in the enterprise.At Sencha,...
Espresso Logic Launches New Support to Create RESTful APIs from Stored Procedures to Build Mobile Apps
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Espresso Logic has announced new features that enable developers to quickly create secure RESTful APIs for stored procedures. Using the new functionality, developers can create mobile applications that leverage a company’s investment in stored procedures. The Espresso Designer service exposes stored procedures as REST/JSON resources while the support...
DreamFactory Announces Support for MongoDB to Facilitate Enterprise Mobility
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Big data and small devices? It’s a problem that IT managers continue to struggle with. Many companies are offering services to combat big data challenges and DreamFactory Software has upgraded its services to include comprehensive support for the industry's most popular NoSQL database, MongoDB which can now be accessed from the open-source DreamFactory Services Platform...
List of Completely Free Programming Books
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers and programmers alike need resources, and if you are looking for a free way to dive into programming, I've got the source for you. Head on over to stackoverflow and check out this growing list of books online or offline that you can use to either get started with or sharpen your app development mastery.
Everything from C# essentials...
Major Updates for Azure Mobile Backend Development
Monday, July 1, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released some great updates to Windows Azure that make it significantly easier to develop mobile applications that use the cloud. These new capabilities include:Mobile Services: Custom API supportMobile Services: Git Source Control supportMobile Services: Node.js NPM Module supportMobile Services: A .NET API via NuGetMobile Services and Web Sites: Free 20M...
