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 ...
Cloudnative applications get help from TIBCO updates
Friday, June 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
TIBCO Software Inc. announced new and enhanced capabilities for TIBCO Cloud Integration, TIBCO Cloud Mashery, and TIBCO Cloud Events offerings, harnessing the full power of the latest cloud-native and open source technologies. These capabilities directly address critical challenges faced by developers when working with cloud-native applications and enable orga...
Tidelift surpasses $1M to pay open source software maintainers
Friday, September 21, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Tidelift announced that it has surpassed one million dollars committed via its platform to pay open source software maintainers to provide professional assurances for their projects, as momentum behind this new approach to professional open source continues to build. Over 100 packages are already on the Tidelift platform, with maintainers getting paid to provide support...
Cloud Native SDK for Kubernetes has been launched by Pulumi
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pulumi Corporation announced the availability of its Cloud Native SDK for Kubernetes enabling a code-based approach to creating, deploying and managing applications across clouds including Microsoft AKS, Amazon EKS, and Google GKE, in addition to on-premises and hybrid environments. Pulumi also announced it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to accelerate ...
Java SE Subscription announced by Oracle
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Oracle announced Java SE Subscription, a new subscription model that covers all Java SE licensing and support needs. Java SE Subscription complements the company's continued free Java SE releases and stewardship of the OpenJDK ecosystem where Oracle now produces open source OpenJDK binaries, enabling developers and organizations that do not need commercial support o...
IBM first to certify Java EE 8 compatibility
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
With an estimated 15.6 million developers worldwide creating billions of apps for consumers and business, Java remains one of the most critical and vital programming languages in the world. Over its two decade plus lifetime, Java has grown to encompass all industry segments and given rise to a rich ecosystem of tools and frameworks.
Plus, Java remains a top programmi...
The future of Progressive Web Apps
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Back in 2012, Max Lynch, CEO and co-founder of Ionic, developed his company’s open source framework for cross-platform apps with the foresight that the web would be the future of how apps were built. Six years later, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are gaining traction as brands like Starbucks, Twitter and Pinterest have reported significant uptick in engagement upon replac...
Open source software turns 20
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
First let me say in full disclaimer that I love open source software and initiatives, and I come from the enterprise world as it where in 1998. The days where IT budgets were as fat as overfed guppy goldfish, and open source tech was barely used in production environments. Open source source software has always had the same set of challenges following closely behin...
The HTML5 killer you may not know about
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
For years HTML has been the universal language for website construction, and it has been impressively resilient in the face of competing languages thus far. It’s been known to have the best combination of speed, security, responsiveness and compatibility of all programming languages on the market. However, the world is expanding beyond the internet browser to mobile and...
The first Bluetooth Mesh solution from Silicon Labs lands
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
To help developers simplify the design of mesh-networked devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) and get to market faster, Silicon Labs introduced a comprehensive suite of software and hardware that supports the new Bluetooth mesh specification. The new Bluetooth mesh solution benefits from the company’s proven mesh networking expertise and includes development tools, ...
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...
LUA, NodeJS, Ruby, and Go get open source enterprise support from ActiveState
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
ActiveState, the open source languages company, has announced the upcoming release of ActiveRuby, ActiveNode, ActiveGo, and ActiveLua. These new releases will include free community versions for the open source community, plus pre-compiled, tested, professional distributions for enterprise users. Enterprise users will also benefit from commercial support, indemnificati...
Scality Releases S3 Server Open Source Version of Its S3 API
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Scality has announced the GA release of its S3 Server software, an open source version of its S3 API which provides object storage for AWS S3-based applications. Packaged as a Docker container to be deployed on a single server, the Scality S3 Server will enable developers to code to the S3 API locally and to extend the API should they need it. Applications develope...
Chef Releases New Open Source Application Automation Platform
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Chef has released a new open source project that introduces a unique approach for application automation. Applications packaged with Habitat have the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure making applications independent of underlying infrastructure. The platform provides the ability to run applications across increasingly diverse environments such as con...
NGINX Plus Application Delivery Platform Receives Updates
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
NGINX Plus Release 9 (R9) is the latest release of NGINX’s application delivery platform. New functionality includes the ability to dynamically install rich extensions to NGINX Plus, the inclusion of commercially-supported UDP load balancing, and new pricing and support options. Among the most significant new features is the ability to dynamically load rich extensi...
Real World Insight Into Docker's New Datacenter Platform
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
We visited with Sven Dummer, senior director of product marketing at Loggly, to discuss Docker’s recent announcement of the Docker Datacenter (DDC), an integrated, end-to-end platform for agile application development and management that companies can use to deploy an on-premises (on in a virtual private cloud) Containers-as-a Service (CaaS) solution (CaaS is ...
New Docker Datacenter Offers an End to End Platform for Agile Application Development
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker has released the new Docker Datacenter (DDC), an integrated, end-to-end platform for agile application development and management. Docker Datacenter addresses the requirements for companies that want to manage the application lifecycle of Dockerized applications from development through production.The platform includes the Docker Universal Control Plane (now gene...
New Payara Scales with JCache Offers Java Caching Solution
Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast and Payara have partnered to offer Payara Scales with JCache, a Hazelcast Enterprise add-on which provides Payara Support users with an open source Java caching solution which results in performance, resilience and scalability for large-scale e-commerce and Java EE application deployments. Payara Scales with JCache helps applications achieve predictable l...
Syncfusion Scales Cloud and Big Data Solutions Through Hadooponomics
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Syncfusion, Inc., is a developer solutions company that is helping scale big data solutions for their customers Frotcom and Rudolph Technologies using Hadoop and cloud-based offerings.The company has worked with two companies, Frotcom and Rudolph Technologies which both generate vast amounts of data for their customers. Frotcom is an intelligent GPS vehicle trackin...
