DevOps World Backup Day
Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
On Friday, March 31, we celebrate World Backup Day. The date is not accidental - it has been assumed that on April Fools’ Day, no one wants to discover that potential data loss wasn't a simple hoax.
World Backup Day - best practices and pledge for DevOps
On this day, cybersecurity specialists from around the world will come together to urge everyone to m...
DIY data storage platform Koor launches
Friday, November 10, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Koor Technologies, a monitoring, management, and automation provider that makes it easy to operate large-scale data stores, officially launched as a company.
Its platform, Koor Data Control Center, now in beta, helps medium-size and large organizations that struggle with storing and managing data by themselves in a simple, cost-effective way. To lead the buildout of ...
How people respond to ransomware attacks
Monday, April 10, 2023 by David Carvalho
Ransomware attackers extorted $456.8 million from victims in 2022, 40% down from the $765.6 million in the previous year. However, before we clink glasses to celebrate victory, there are some significant caveats to consider. The recent hack of Euler Finance where $135 million in staked Ether tokens (stETH), was drained from the protocol, is a case in point. How organiza...
StorONE launches backup storage
Friday, November 19, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The latest ransomware variants perform what is known as sleeper attacks, which avoid discovery by slowly infecting data. By the time an organization realizes it is dealing with a ransomware attack, a high percentage of data is encrypted. Modern backup storage needs to not only provide immutability of backup data it must do so, without impacting performance for pote...
Beta support for Kubernetes announced by Druva Inc.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Druva, Inc. announced beta support for Kubernetes workloads which delivers complete application protection that is accessible by all teams, including the central IT team and DevOps. Offered through Druva Cloud Platform, users can quickly recover, migrate, or clone Kubernetes workloads, alongside existing data center, and cloud workloads from a unified interface. Combini...
ArangoDB add new features to their scalable multi-model graph database
Thursday, August 27, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
ArangoDB announced the GA release of ArangoDB 3.7. ArangoDB 3.7 introduces new graph and search features that improve the database's capability to work with highly-connected data at any scale -- furthering the company’s goal of providing the most flexible database on the market.
Key features in ArangoDB 3.7 include improvements for distributed scale-out gra...
Yellowbrick Data launches Cloud Data Warehouses and DR services
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Yellowbrick Data, a provider in enterprise data warehousing, has announced the Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and the Yellowbrick Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) service. The Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse has been operating in enterprise production environments since early 2019, and both new products leverage the power of the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, the...
Build applications at speed with Cohesity Agile Dev
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Cohesity has announced the launch of Cohesity Agile Dev and Test, a new solution that addresses key bottlenecks organizations face in building applications at speed. It moves away from the request-fulfill model where developers request access to production-grade data and wait sometimes weeks for IT operations teams to provide the data needed to build...
MariaDB enterprise server helps you sleep at night
Thursday, June 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
MariaDB Corporation announced the release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4, code-named “Restful Nights” for the peace of mind it brings enterprise customers. Databases are the backbone of critical business services used every day. A database failure can result in sleepless nights for everyone involved. The new MariaDB Enterprise Server includes added f...
MongoDB launches new version of core at MongoDB World 2019
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
MongoDB, Inc. announced the latest version of its core database at MongoDB World this year, MongoDB 4.2. Key features such as distributed transactions, field level encryption and an updated Kubernetes Operator raise MongoDB’s established reputation for supporting a wide variety of use cases for thousands of customers, which range from innovative cloud-native start...
Acronis gives developers early access to new cyber platform
Monday, April 29, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Acronis announced the opening of its core platforms, enabling broad, third-party developer access to the Acronis Cyber Platform to encourage expanded functionality and application integrations while expanding their opportunities in Acronis’ large ecosystem.
The Acronis Cyber Platform, which is the foundation of the company’s existing services, features a ...
Best gifts for programmers, developers, and nerds 2018
Friday, December 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Why is it so hard to buy something for techie people? It’s probably because they seem to just “get” whatever they want at the moment the need arises. Programmers, developers, and designers can be some of the worst about it too, because a lot of what we need to have just to do out jobs, falls in the category of a gift to ourselves too. Yeah - I rea...
AI test automation capabilities released for Eggplant suite
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Eggplant announced the latest enhancements to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. The advancements support Eggplant’s mission "to use AI, machine learning, and analytics to optimize the digital experience, allowing teams to keep up with the pace of DevOps, and improve time to market and customer satisfaction."The latest product releases will enable Eggplant...
Music in apps: A chat with the CEO of feed.fm
Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
Music licensing is a pain. We know it's there for a very good reason, but let's be honest... It can be a serious barrier to the perfect experience that app developers hope to convey. Finding the right music can be a big part of that, but nobody wants to settle for the generic royalty free music.That's why we talked to Jeff Yasuda, CEO and Founder of feed.fm, to learn ab...
The top print enabled apps for business
Thursday, December 7, 2017 by Brent Richtsmeier
Every year, we make our mobile devices a little bit better than before, bringing them to a point where we can’t imagine existing without X, Y and Z new features - imagine buying a smartphone without a camera or a tablet without long battery life.As mobile devices improve, users need apps that can keep pace, bringing the full functionality of a desktop or laptop to the t...
Oracle weighs in on chatbots for enterprise developers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
From self-service to instant payments, the chatbot industry has seen great things from the latest advents in the field of AI. That's why we sat down with Oracle to learn more about how with all these new changes in the messaging industry enterprise can see the value that can be attained by adoption.We recently had a conversation with Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, A...
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...
A discussion with Oracle on chatbots
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
With recent advancements in machine learning and the convergence of compute power and big data bringing artificial intelligence into the mainstream, intelligent bots will transform every facet of every industry and dramatically improve the customer experience. We recently had a discussion with Mr. Suhas Uliyar from Oracle to chat about how Oracle is using this transform...
MongoDB Atlas is now available on top cloud platforms
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
MongoDB has announced that MongoDB Atlas, its cloud database as a service, is now available to users on the top three public cloud platforms. Atlas has extended its availability beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, delivering on its vision of running MongoDB anywhere. The addition of support for Azure and GCP...
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...
Disaster Recovery Planning Actually Starts with Planning to Fail
Monday, September 12, 2016 by Eric Sigler
For disaster recovery done right, failure is not only an option – it’s mandatory.Why? A scan of recent news headlines gives us the answer. In just the last month, we’ve seen one of the earliest major airlines to adopt technology brought to its knees by a power issue that cascaded through its systems resulting in thousands of flights being canceled. In our modern, digita...
Hazelcast Releases Updates to Its Open Source InMemory Computing Platform
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast has released the latest version of its Hazelcast open source in-memory data grid which the company says is 30% faster than previous versions and is the first fully modularized version of Hazelcast. The Hazelcast operational in-memory computing platform helps companies manage their data and distribute processing using in-memory storage and parallel execution fo...
Insights into the Growing DatabaseasaService Industry
Monday, July 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
To learn more about how the growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) industry is impacting the application development community, we recently spoke with Will Shulman, CEO of mLab (formerly MongoLab), which provides a fully managed cloud database service headquartered in San Francisco. ADM: What do you see as the most important considerations for app developers when ch...
Facebook Is Shuttering the Parse App Development Platform
Monday, February 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook’s Parse development platform will be fully retired after a year-long period ending on January 28, 2017, according to an announcement on the Parse blog. The company is providing a migration tool to take data from Parse apps and move it to another MongoDB database platform. Parse is also open sourcing the Parse server.Here is a portion of the Parse announcement, ...
Mendix Offers New UI Framework With Updated aPaaS
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mendix has released the latest version of its application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS). This new Mendix Digital Experience (DX) release includes new UI framework with pre-crafted templates; OData support; enhancements to company’s online developer community; and an expanded Free Edition with production capability.Mendix has simplified its User Experience (UX) design of...
Why Application Performance Testing Fails
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 by Steve Antonoff
Much has been written about the complexity of application performance testing. The breadth and scope required to effectively test application architecture and transaction flow can make it a daunting effort, especially with service-oriented architectures where hundreds or even thousands of third-party services and components are added to the mix. Nevertheless, while...
Built.io Updates Platform to Include JavaScript SDK for Web Developers
Monday, July 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Built.io has updated its Contentstack content management system (CMS) which includes the release of a JavaScript SDK, allowing access to Contentstack's APIs and the creation of embedded applications; enhanced data import and export; and support for webhooks, enabling real-time integration with third party systems and applications.With the update developers can download ...
Google Announces New Mobile Ad Formats and Tools
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google has announced that over the coming months it will launch several mobile display ad formats and tools across the Google Display Network, the AdMob Network and DoubleClick to facilitate the ability to serve ads across screens.The new display ad formats are designed specifically for mobile environments and include the following:Mobile Lightbox engagement ads use exi...
Apple Releases iOS 8 Beta 3 Just now!
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
On the heels of a coming announcement from Apple regarding a new iPhone line-up and the official release of iOS 8, they just released Beta 3 into the wild. I've been using Beta 2 for a few weeks with some trouble, and it looks like the latest version of the OS will address many of the bugs we've all been experiencing. Bugs such as projects not building when u...
Nuxeo Releases Open Source Implementation of the Box API for Web and Mobile App Development
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Nuxeo has announced the addition of a new open source project, the Box API for the Nuxeo Platform. In an effort to extend a growing ecosystem of cloud and hybrid cloud development, Nuxeo has developed an open source implementation of the Box API which supports the building of apps that can connect to and browse both the Box platform and the Nuxeo Platform.Building ...
