AppSec 2023 predictions from Oxeye Security
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Oxeye, the provider of award-winning cloud-native application security, announced five predictions expected to shape enterprise security spending in 2023. The predictions follow industry-wide research which shows the industry is shifting away from legacy software infrastructure and standardizing on cloud-native applications resulting in the need for new and more ef...
Mitigating API attacks in 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Richard Harris
Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity, is also a board member. Nathanael has over 20 years of management and architecture experience across identity, security, microservices, and IT domains. Prior to founding Cloudentity, he founded OrchIS.io and helped build numerous technology startups leveraging his experience at Sun, Oracle, Imperva, Washington Mutual...
wasmCloud platform updates
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
WebAssembly pioneer Cosmonic has announced the 0.50 release of wasmCloud. The distributed application framework and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project was created for building universally portable cloud-native applications with WebAssembly that can plug into multi-cloud, multi-edge, and now far-edge environments directly inside the browser.
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Vendia Share launched for developers
Thursday, February 11, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Vendia announced a $15.5M Series A funding round and launched Vendia Share™ with a free tier for developers. The Series A round, which comes only six months after its initial $5.1M seed round, was led by Canvas Ventures with participation from BMW i Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, and Vendia’s seed stage investors.
Data silos are pervasive within companies, ...
Opsera launches continuous orchestration approach to devops
Thursday, October 15, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Opsera launched a new approach for software delivery that combines choice of any CI/CD tools with no-code automation across the DevOps lifecycle. By orchestrating tools, pipelines and insights through a single platform, Opsera speeds time to deployment, helps optimize resources and provides a holistic cross-functional perspective with KPIs that better correlate technica...
Ray 1.0 announced from Anyscale
Thursday, October 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anyscale announced Ray 1.0, the latest version of the Ray open source project. Ray 1.0, which provides a universal serverless compute API and an expanded ecosystem of libraries, was shared with attendees at the first annual Ray Summit, along with the announcement of the private beta of Anyscale’s managed Ray platform.
With Ray 1.0, developers can build scalable...
Edge Native Working Group launches from the Eclipse Foundation
Thursday, December 12, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the launch of the Edge Native Working Group, a vendor-neutral and code-first industry collaboration that will drive the evolution and broad adoption of open source software for edge computing. With edge computing code from the foundation already deployed in production environments, the Edge Native Working Group is focused on the near...
Volterra emerges from Stealth
Friday, November 22, 2019 by Austin Harris
Volterra announced it has launched from two years of stealth operations with over $50 million in funding to date. Investors include top-tier venture capital firms Khosla Ventures, Mayfield and M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), as well as a growing set of strategic investors/partners including Itochu Technology Ventures and Samsung NEXT. Volterra’s launch come...
Ballerina cloud native programming language launches
Friday, September 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The growth of digital services, mobile apps, and connected devices are creating an explosion of endpoints, from APIs to events, data streams, microservices, serverless apps, and other digital assets. Developers today need a more modern and agile approach to connect to these endpoints than a traditional centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) can offer. Ballerina 1.0, n...
AI for cybersecurity
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
As organizations struggle to deal with the growing sophistication of hackers and the influx in data breaches, it's becoming clear that AI could be a critical tool for automatically defending applications from cyber attacks - but there are challenges to overcome. Ivan Novikov, the CEO of AI security company Wallarm, offers some insight below on how AI can be utilized...
Ethereum smart contracts can now be tested using Dispatch protocol
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 by Richard Harris
Dispatch Labs released its updated developer test network, Testnet 2.0, for companies and developers looking to preview and try smart contracts and blockchain platforms on its new Delegated Asynchronous Proof of Stake (DAPoS) protocol. The new DAPoS protocol looks to be for Dispatch the foundation for distributed apps (dApps) across an array of enterprise industrie...
MongoDB World 2018 and everything you need to know
Monday, July 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
At MongoDB World 2018, MongoDB made several major product announcements that the company says is "expanding on their presence in the database market." Nearly every company is focused on using software for a competitive advantage. The company says that with their latest enhancements database platform, "it enables a competitive advantage for thousands of cu...
All aboard the Blockchain train!
Thursday, March 29, 2018 by Richard Harris
I hear the word Blockchain at least once a day now when just 6 months ago it was once a week. There is no doubt Blockchain is here to stay and it’s gearing up to be the top adopted technology in recent years. But just like web developers that were left in the dust when native mobile development came to town, many developers, in general, are having a hard time grasping t...
DNS security and why mobile app developers should care
Monday, February 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
DNSSEC is a DNS security extension specification for securing information provided by DNS. DNS has been a part of the global internet since the 1980s, but its authentication mechanisms are fairly weak. As a result, DNS is vulnerable to a form of attack called cache poisoning. Cache poisoning is a man-in-the-middle attack that implants false DNS information to redirect e...
Wireline is seeking applications for its developer fund
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 by Austin Harris
Wireline is now opening applications for its open source developer fund. The fund will be investing in developers crafting applications to power the next generation of the cloud. It is the first time that funds from a token sale will be used to support open source software development.With global IT spend approaching US$1.5 trillion, there is huge potential for open sou...
Datadog APM released
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Austin Harris
Datadog has announced the general availability of Datadog APM (Application Performance Monitoring). This new feature extends the company’s existing infrastructure monitoring platform to now enable development and operations (DevOps) teams to quickly troubleshoot issues in complex, distributed applications that run across hybrid clouds and employ microservices, container...
Why you should ditch traditional business software analysis
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Competition between software companies is a fierce battle waged not with weapons, but with scalable, intuitive, and efficient solutions that can most effect their customer’s lives. The importance of a well coordinated and strategic approach to how you choose to execute your solution is perhaps one of the most fundamental necessities required to succeed in markets.That’s...
What happens to security when your apps go to the cloud
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
When Marc Andreessen wrote, “software is eating the world,” he meant that every business is literally turning into software. The problem is that every line of code you write makes you easier to attack. Historically, we dealt with security by putting up walls and scanning. But the complexity of modern software environments has made these approaches ineffective ...
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...
Apcera Announces Support of New Open Source NATS Streaming Solution
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apcera has announced that it is providing support for the new NATS Streaming solution, a performant, secure and simple open source messaging platform. NATS Streaming offers features that enable support for new classes of applications such as IoT and big data analytics. The platform is tightly coupled but loosely integrated with NATS, providing enterprise grade features ...
DigitalOcean New SSDBased Solution Helps Developers Add Disk Space to Cloud Servers
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
DigitalOcean has announced that it has released Block Storage, a highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that will allow developers to attach extra disk space to DigitalOcean Droplets (cloud servers). It provides developers with the ability to scale production workloads, add disk space, and build distributed applications without changing droplet size.Block Stor...
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 ...
DockerCon 2016 Will Be Held In Seattle Washington June 1921
Monday, March 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
DockerCon 2016 is a Docker sponsored conference providing a community and industry event for makers and operators of distributed apps built with containers. The event takes place in Seattle, Washington June 19-21, 2016.The two-and-a-half-day conference provides presentations by practitioners, hands-on labs and opportunities to share experiences with Docker ecosystem in...
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...
Docker Creates New Partner Network for Managing Log Data
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker has created a new Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP) program for in recording and managing log data for Dockerized applications. The new program provides a curated resource of companies who demonstrate viable integration with the Docker platform and provide a comprehensive view of Dockerized distributed applications. This initiative highlights specific compa...
New Puppet Enterprise Platform Offers Distributed Application Orchestration
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
Puppet Enterprise is releasing a new platform, Puppet Application Orchestration, which will be available later this year. It offers a new application orchestration solution to help companies deliver, install, configure and maintain distributed applications. It offers a simplified application orchestration process which offers customers the opportunity to model dist...
HTML5Devconf in San Francisco Dives Into Web Technologies in October
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
HTML5Devconf will be once again be in San Francisco with this year’s conference held on October 19 – 20 and training sessions held on October 21 – 23.The event is one of the largest gatherings of technical software developers, designers and decision makers focused on Internet software technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js and other cross platform web, mob...
Docker Releases New Docker Trusted Registry
Monday, June 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker has announced the general availability of new commercial solutions for Dockerized distributed applications offering new support services, certified Docker Engines and management tools. The new offering is available for on-premises or cloud-based configurations and is available directly from Docker as well as through Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft, with s...
Microsoft Announces a Number of Intelligent Cloud Services
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
At its Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced a number of Intelligent cloud services. Following is a highlight of these new services:In preview this summer, Microsoft Azure Stack brings the Azure user experience and both infrastructure and platform-as-a-service capabilities into customers’ datacenters. With Azure Stack IT teams can blend enterprise applications with mod...
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...
Hey JavaScript and HTML5 developers! The HTML5Devconf Is Rapidly Approaching!
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
There is still time to get in on the cross platform fun and register for the HTML5Devconf which will be held in downtown San Francisco on October 20 & 21 at Moscone Center.The conference features technical software developers, designers and decision makers focused on Internet software technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, node.js and other cross platform web,...
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...
Docker Announces Docker Version 1.0 and New Docker Hub Cloud Service
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker is an open platform for developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be assembled from components and helps to eliminate the friction between development, QA, and...
