Intelligence cloud lands from Azul
Monday, December 20, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Azul announced Azul Intelligence Cloud, a new family of products that apply cloud resources to analyze and optimize Java fleets and provide actionable intelligence. Intelligence Cloud’s first offering, Cloud Native Compiler, brings elasticity to Java JIT compilation, enhancing the performance of Java applications in any computing environment, including microservic...
Kinetica as a service is now available on Azure
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 by Austin Harris
Kinetica, the database for time and space, is now easily accessible as a service on Microsoft Azure, giving organizations real-time contextual analysis and location intelligence on massive data sets with reduced computing infrastructure and lower costs.
Organizations across industries rely on Kinetica's vectorized database to analyze data from sensors and ma...
Ubuntu Impish Indri lands from Canonical
Monday, October 25, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10, the environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices, and cloud.
"As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to innovate. From the biggest public clouds to the tiniest devices, from DGX ser...
VSM predictive analytics move to the forefront in 2021
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 by Richard Harris
Progressive delivery is a unified lifecycle for improving products, encapsulating planning changes, writing and deploying code, testing safely, and releasing and measuring impact. Next year, the pieces will finally come together to make progressive feature delivery not just a reality, but commonplace throughout the enterprise market. In 2021, we will see several rising ...
Instaclustr adds Kafka Connect to Managed Open Source Data Solutions
Monday, June 15, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Instaclustr announced the general availability of Instaclustr Managed Kafka Connect. This newest addition to the Instaclustr Managed Platform enables seamless data movement between Apache Kafka and other data systems at scale. Kafka Connect joins Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, and Elasticsearch as another fast, proven, resilient, and highly flexible open ...
Anomaly detection by Instaclustr processes 19 billion events per day
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Instaclustr announced it has successfully created an anomaly detection application capable of processing and vetting real-time events at a uniquely massive scale – 19 billion events per day – by leveraging open source Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka and Kubernetes container orchestration. Get the source code on github.
Anomaly detection is the identific...
Explaining graph databases to a developer
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Organizations are increasingly beginning to grasp onto the power of graph databases, which helps them unlock business value within connections, influences and relationship within their data. Graph databases enable new applications to adapt to changing business needs and existing applications to scale with the business.To learn more about how organizations can implement ...
Open Source as a Service platform launches
Friday, September 15, 2017 by Austin Harris
Instaclustr has announced the launch of its Open Source-as-a-Service platform. This comprehensive platform offers customers across industries - and from startups to the enterprise - fully hosted and securely managed Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Lucene, and Zeppelin. Each is delivered to customers in its 100% open source form, with no vendor or ...
Everything you need to know about DBaaS
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
With any business, there comes a constant string of decisions a start-up founder, CTO, or small business owner must make to assure that the technologies they manage are being utilized to their fullest potential. Managing such technologies may have been difficult in the past, but in today's cloud environments, which provide virtually limitless capabilities, the burden is...
Mapping the IoT sets the signals to work
Monday, May 15, 2017 by Josh Joyner
The Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices have created a buzz over the last few years. The reduced cost of sensors and a continued strengthening of the communications infrastructure have fueled the exponential growth of connected devices. The challenge has become less about what kinds of devices we can connect and more about what we can (and could) do with the data...
Boundless: The first complete supported open GIS platform
Friday, November 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Eighty percent of data in the world today includes a location component. However, because of the issues associated with proprietary GIS solutions, many organizations are unable to tap into this data and gain valuable insights. Boundless is the first open source GIS solution of its kind, delivering the ultimate open GIS ecosystem, comprised of a unique combination...
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....
Unravel Data Launches Performance Intelligence Platform
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Unravel Data, provider of a full-stack performance intelligence platform for optimizing Big Data operations (DataOps), has emerged from stealth, announcing the first-ever platform to accelerate Big Data applications, optimize resource usage, and provide operations intelligence, all from a single platform. Addressing the larger Big Data market, which analysts at IDC...
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...
BlueData EPIC Software Platform on AWS for Enterprise Is Here
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released the enterprise edition of its BlueData EPIC software platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public clouds in the coming months including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.BlueData facilitates the deployment of Big Data infrastructure and applications, leveraging embedded Docker container technology. The BlueData EPIC software platf...
Dataguise DgSecure 6.0 Release Offers Sensitive Data Monitoring
Saturday, July 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Dataguise has released Dataguise DgSecure 6.0, a monitoring solution for all data source types which allows users to detect, protect, and access sensitive data. DgSecure provides the ability to discover, count, and report on sensitive data assets in real time wherever they live or move across data repositories, on premises and in the cloud. It’s a highly scalable a...
Portworx Releases PXEnterprise Platform for ContainerDefined Storage in Production Environments
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Portworx has released the PX-Enterprise platform offering a purpose-built, enterprise-class storage container-defined storage for containers used in production environments. The company says that by using PX-Enterprise, companies can cut the cost of traditional storage arrays and virtual machines by up to 70 percent. Portworx reports early success with application ...
HPE Announces New Functionality to Helion Cloud Platform
Friday, June 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a number of updates to its HPE Helion Cloud platform which provides a multi-cloud management and cloud native application platform.Helion includes full-stack infrastructure automation to enable delivery of secure IT services and applications, and provides a common self-service storefront for IT and developers. It provides a...
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...
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 ...
Apache Big Data North America Conference Will Be Held May 912 in Vancouver
Monday, March 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Canada’s Vancouver, British Columbia will be the center of the Big Data universe on May 9-12 as the city hosts the Apache: Big Data North America conference bringing together people and technologies working in Big Data, ubiquitous computing and data engineering and science all gathering for education and collaboration.From Hadoop and Spark to Kafka and Bigtop, Apache pr...
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...
DevCenter 1.4 From DataStax Now Formally Supporting JSON
Thursday, July 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
DataStax specializes in offering Apache Cassandra in a database platform for IoT, web and mobile applications. The company has announced the general availability of DataStax DevCenter 1.4, a visual development tool for Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise which now provides formal support for JSON data management with visual developer capabilities that provides the ability...
CA Technologies Just Made IT Operations a Little Easier
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies has made updates to its DevOps portfolio to offer enhanced monitoring solutions for agile operations. This includes new capabilities in CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) and CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM). Quality of service metrics from CA UIM can also now be correlated and combined with CA APM performance metrics in a single...
Blazent Provides New Big Data Intelligence Platform
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Blazent has launched the Blazent Data Intelligence Platform, a big data platform that can access enterprise data from hundreds of disparate IT datastores into a single foundation of data. The platform helps solve the problem of siloed, incomplete and inaccurate data by leveraging a new big data engine and a 5-step data evolution process which begins with data atomi...
Mashape Releases Kong Open Source Management Layer for APIs
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mashape is launching Kong, an open source platform for managing microservices and APIs. Using NGINX as its proxy server, Kong enables developers to create plugins for authentication, rate limiting, transformations, and many other common utilities to expedite the creation of next-generation software in mobile, IoT, and the web.Kong is intended to be a replacement for leg...
Top App Developer Events for April and May
Saturday, April 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
When planning your event calendar there are two biggies that you’ll want to include on your list compliments of two of the biggest companies (and rivals) in tech today – Microsoft and Google. More about these events and others for April and May are included here. April- IoT Stream Conference: Defining the Stack for IoT: This event is located in Bently Reserve, San ...
Google Announces Beta Release of Google Cloud Trace and Monitoring
Saturday, January 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Last year Google announced Google Cloud Trace and Google Cloud Monitoring (through the acquisition and integration of Stackdriver) and now has released both in beta to anyone using the Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Trace Google Cloud Trace allows developers to diagnose performance issues in a production application by finding the traces for slow req...
IoT and Connected Wearables: What is the Real Opportunity for Developers
Thursday, January 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I’ve talked ad nauseam through a number of recent articles about how CES has effectively launched the year of IoT and connected technology. It’s not that I’m a broken record, it’s just the fact that a large number of the information sent to our editorial department has been IoT related in the last couple of weeks.A case in point is the Application Developers Alliance re...
Aerospike's Impressive New Google Benchmark
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google recently featured Aerospike in its new benchmark on its blog announcing the Aerospike In-Memory NoSQL database is now available with Click-to-Deploy on Google Compute Engine. Sunil Sayyaparaju, Director of Product & Technology at Aerospike blogged on Google about the company seeing Ivan Santa Maria Filho, Performance Engineering ...
Google IO Announcements Include New Developer Services to Build and Optimize
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among other things announced today at Google I/O , is the introduction of new services to help developers build and optimize data pipelines, create mobile applications, and debug, trace, and monitor their cloud applications in production. These include:Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and a...
