Data Privacy Day 2020 is here
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 by Richard Harris
Data Privacy Day is here, and with the recent implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act, the timing could not be better to discuss the importance of taking steps to protect sensitive data while also keeping personal data private and secure.
Similar to GDPR, CCPA will have a profound impact on data privacy and protection, making this year’s Data Priv...
Migrating old Windows 2008 apps over to Docker just got easier
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Docker has announced the Windows Server Application Migration Program that lets customers quickly and easily migrate and modernize legacy Windows applications, while driving continuous innovation across any application.
With a large percentage of Windows Server applications still running on Windows Server 2003 or 2008, companies that postpone migrating leg...
Research suggests a diverse need for video communications PaaS
Friday, December 1, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Vidyo in collaboration with WebRTC ventures has released a report titled “The Rise of Embedded Video Communications: Trends in Video-Enabled Apps.” The report shows that communications platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) is a top choice for those who are planning embedded video projects, with 49% of respondents saying that they plan to use a communications PaaS to initiate an...
A realtime, open source commerce platform launched by Reaction Commerce
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Reaction Commerce has announced the general availability (GA) release of its breakthrough, real-time and completely open source commerce platform, designed to build, run and scale modern digital stores. Offering the simplicity that businesses expect, along with the reliability, customization and scalability that larger retailers and brands require, Reaction Commerce ena...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
GoDaddy is Now Offering Cloud Hosting Services
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
GoDaddy is now offering new open source cloud hosting services including its Cloud Servers solution and Bitnami-powered cloud applications. The new offerings are designed to help individual software developers, tech entrepreneurs and IT professionals quickly build, test and scale cloud solutions.GoDaddy Cloud Servers solution offers 54-second or less provisioning so tha...
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...
Why Companies Are Leveraging Hybrid Cloud for Apps
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Malcolm Ross, Vice President of Product at Appian recently spoke with us about the trend of deploying business applications in a hybrid cloud environment and the benefits of doing so. He has been directly involved in the implementation and development of enterprise software solutions for over 20 years, and has seen a lot of change in the industry over time.ADM: Wha...
New Whitewood Release Enhances Random Number Accessibility for Crypto Security
Thursday, March 3, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Whitewood has released netRandom, a new suite of products for creating high-quality, true random numbers that are accessed across the traditional datacenter, cloud, mobile and embedded systems.The new product addresses a potential weakness in today’s crypto-security systems by giving enterprise security teams, cloud/hosting providers and security product vendors the opp...
The Weather Channel Shows IBM How to IoT
Friday, November 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
Its all blue skies for the folks at the Weather Channel as IBM has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The Weather Channel is not part of the agreement, but the TV channel will license weather forecast da...
Working in the Cloud is a Team Sport
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
When you or your organization make the decision to put your application in the cloud, whether you know it or not, you just added new team members.In the spirit of Major League Baseball playoff season, I think an analogy about America’s favorite pastime might work well to illustrate. When a pitcher throws a perfect game, even if they strike out every batter, they didn’t ...
Secure Cloud is a Reality
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
The move to the cloud has become a quick first step when looking to improve application delivery, performance and costs, yet in the back of everyone’s mind is whether or not the cloud can be secure. When it comes to the cloud these days however, security shouldn’t be a concern as long as you spend the time designing the right architecture for your application and ...
New Version of CloudMaestro Application Delivery Controller Released
Monday, October 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
Lagrange Systems’ CloudMaestro, a cloud-based application delivery controller (ADC), has received a number of new upgrades which enhances the platform’s ability to scale out or in synchronously ahead of demand. CloudMaestro is an ADC architected for the cloud which can commission or decommission instances rapidly to serve new applications or sudden changes in user ...
How Cloud Helps Agility
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
Most software development groups, whether they are within large Fortune 500 enterprises or the small shop around the corner, are looking to become more agile. You’ll notice I said the word “more” as many are already following a large portion of the elements of agility and are much further along than they were just a few years ago, but the goal to improve is always...
The Hidden Economics of the Cloud
Thursday, August 20, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
There are certainly clear economic benefits of moving to the cloud, whether public or private environments. These include scalability, pay for only what you use, high availability, shared resources, near instant scalability, and much more.However, when thinking whether or not to put an application in “the cloud”, with a managed cloud provider, there seem to be 2 initial...
5 MustHaves When Deploying Apps in the Cloud
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
Congratulations, you’ve decided to move into the cloud. Now what? Things get easier from here right? Not so fast. Not every organization is “cloud fluent” and can seamlessly harness the technology themselves to propel their business forward with minimal effort. The fact of the matter is, the cloud is hard, the cloud is complex. Unfortunately, many cloud ...
New Canadian Cloud App Marketplace Launched by AURO
Sunday, April 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AURO recently launched their cloud application marketplace that includes a library of more than 50 leading open-source packages, in addition to most OS distributions ( including Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS and Windows) for developers to deploy on its Canadian Cloud Computing service. Each of these OS distributions can be deployed on AURO's Cloud Computing Platform wh...
Kii Launches Dedicated Platform Providing Backend Capabilities for Apps and Connected Devices
Monday, September 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kii, an end-to-end mobile backend provider, is launching a dedicated platform to provide backend capabilities for apps and connected devices through available through a company’s own datacenters or as a hosted cloud service with Kii. The platform will enable businesses to create and run mobile apps, while maintaining control over app deployment, delivery ...
AppFirst Launches Enterprise Mobile Development Platform
Saturday, September 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppFirst has launched an enterprise version of its development platform with the option to run on-premise, in the cloud or in hybrid scenarios. The company also has announced a partnership with Accretive to offer a predictive analytics offering to help enterprises expose, anticipate and intervene in IT risks across organizational silos.AppFirst’s Application Operations ...
Zend Server 7 Now Available on Amazon Web Services
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Zend Server 7 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now available, giving developers real time feedback on the quality of the code they’re writing.In bringing Zend Server 7 to AWS, Zend has created Developer Edition, which lets developers simulate a production environment at affordable pricing. On AWS, Developer Edition is available on four Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) ...
Amazon Web Services Announces the General Availability of Zocalo Document Storage and Sharing Service
Sunday, August 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Zocalo has been available in a limited preview since early July and now the Amazon Web Services team is making Zocalo generally available to all AWS customers. There's a 30-day free trial (200 GB of storage per user for up to 50 users), after that its $5 per user per month.As part of this move to general availability, Amazon is also announcing that AWS CloudTrail...
Saleforce Introduces Imbedded SOS button for Mobile Apps
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Salesforce has launched Salesforce1 Service Cloud SOS, a new service that provides the ability to put imbed an SOS button, similar to the Amazon Kindle Mayday button, directly inside any mobile app. Currently, for many mobile users who need assistance, they must exit an app or wait until they get to back to a desktop to find help. With Service Cloud SOS, compa...
Planning to Raise Capital The Strategy You Choose Today Will Change Your Company’s Future
Thursday, April 17, 2014 by BJ Lackland
Financing discussions for early stage software, technology and app companies typically focus on the sexiest and most elusive source offending - venture capital. But the truth is VC is not the only, nor the bestoption, for early stage businesses. There are emerging sources of capital that may make more sense for your business. At Lighter Capital we spen...
Gizmox Launches Visual WebGui Version 7 to Develop HTML5 Apps
Monday, December 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Gizmox has announced the availability of Visual WebGui Version 7 which includes a new mobile feature set, an assessment tool for analyzing legacy desktop apps, and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. Visual WebGui allows Visual Studio developers to create HTML5 apps using only C# and visual designers, with no need to learn new programming languages.
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