Five technology trends to look for in 2023 according to Jitterbit
Friday, January 13, 2023 by Richard Harris
Sometimes the pace of work can get so fast that it can be hard for business leaders to slow down long enough to really scrutinize the technologies and tools that are shuttling their business along. Yet it's crucial to understand the latest technology trends because those technologies are precisely the engines that have the power to help organizations keep up the pac...
Evolution of Infrastructure as a Service
Thursday, February 20, 2020 by Richard Harris
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has changed the world. In the past, a company had to invest time and resources into building and operating its own servers. So much effort went into maintaining infrastructure, that little time remained for focusing on the company mission. IaaS changed all that. Today, a provider like AWS will build the server farm. A software company ...
NoSQL DBaaS, Couchbase Cloud arrives
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 by Richard Harris
Couchbase introduced Couchbase Cloud, a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). Couchbase Cloud enables enterprises to host their data within their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for greater control and ownership, and pay for only what they use. Customers can now experience best-in-class performance and availability from the most powerful NoSQL database technology...
New intelligence suite aims to help tackle problems with growing IT
Friday, July 12, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Snow Software announced a new suite of offerings to better empower customers to address their growing IT operations, cloud shift and digital transformation challenges. This new set of offerings is aligned to strategic business outcomes, providing customers with product choices that will better meet their unique needs now and in the future.
“The market has evolv...
Pulse Secure expands to support hybrid IT with secure access
Monday, April 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pulse Secure has announced new cloud and virtual appliances to protect access and support applications in hybrid IT environments. Enterprises are quickly moving to deploy hybrid IT, leveraging the cloud to introduce new user services and gain disaster recovery resiliency, as well as continuing to use the data center when they must have total control of the application. ...
Netskope unifies enterprise cloud and web security
Thursday, April 5, 2018 by Austin Harris
Netskope has announced the general availability of Netskope for Web, an expansion of the Netskope Cloud Security platform that enables safe web use for enterprise organizations. Powered by the same cloud-native architecture and patented Cloud XD technology of the award-winning and market-leading Netskope cloud access security broker (CASB), Netskope for Web uniquely und...
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...
Larry Ellison from Oracle unviels new cloud changes
Thursday, September 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
At a live event, Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison announced new programs that lower costs by delivering increased automation and flexibility, and enable customers to get more value from their existing Oracle software investments. The new Oracle Cloud programs include Bring Your Own License to PaaS and Universal Credits.“We are completely tran...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
All you ever wanted to know about The Cisco Business Cloud Advisor
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
It’s no secret - business cloud utilization is exploding today. In fact, Gartner recently predicted that by 2020, a corporate “No-Cloud” policy will be as rare as a “No-Internet” policy is today. A new Cisco-sponsored global cloud adoption study just released found further thought-provoking trends in cloud adoption. The research, spanning more than 6,100 organ...
Key findings of the Apache Spark market research study
Friday, November 11, 2016 by Austin Harris
In order to better understand Apache Spark’s growing role in big data, Taneja Group conducted a major market research project, surveying approximately 7,000 people. The sample was made up of technical and managerial job roles from around the world directly involved in big data. The survey, which received an overwhelming response, explored experiences with and ...
The developer shortage is real and it's going to hit the cloud market real soon
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Global research (across 8 geographies and with nearly 900 respondents) made something crystal clear - the developer shortage is real and it’s going to hit the cloud market really hard, really soon. And the drain is coming from a surprising place -Global 2000 businesses not traditionally known as IT companies. A majority of companies (64 percent) see the g...
Here's what happened at VisionMobile's Future Developer Summit
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 by Austin Harris
VisionMobile hosted a first of its kind, Future Developer Summit, on October 4, 2016 in Santa Clara. The event was organized in association with Catchy Agency and was hosted by Intel at their Executive Briefing Center. The Future Developer Summit is an exclusive, invite-only Director-level event where developer relations leaders gather to network, exchange program...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
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...
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...
Red Hat Releases New Integrated Hybrid Cloud Stack
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 to support efforts for development and operations teams to leverage the scale of cloud computing. With the new platform releases, Red Hat now offers an integrated hybrid cloud stack with a container application platform (OpenShift by Red Hat), scalable infrastruct...
Flexera Software Introduces New Cloud Infrastructure Optimization Platform
Friday, April 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Flexera Software has launched FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure, a solution addressing the management of cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The platform gives organizations centralized visibility into their cloud services use providing the ability to track, manage and optimize cloud services usage.The initial release of FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastruc...
Oracle's Cloud Services Now Offers On Premises Datacenter Offering
Monday, March 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Oracle has launched the Oracle Cloud at Customer, which allows companies to access Oracle’s cloud services in their datacenter and offers a stack that is 100 percent compatible with the Oracle Cloud but available on-premises. Companies can use the platform for disaster recovery, elastic bursting, dev/test, lift-and-shift workload migration, and a single API and scr...
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 ...
Cloud Security Alliance Forms New Software Defined Perimeter for Infrastructure as a Service Initiative
Friday, March 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is forming a new Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) initiative. With the new program, the Alliance plans to demonstrate how an SDP can better protect IaaS services for enterprise usage, and deliver protection of on-premises and IaaS resources. The alliance’s rationale is that through understandi...
Shippable Announces New Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Shippable has announced a new continuous delivery which offers end-to-end deployment pipelines that help eliminate the need to create custom automation and integrations. It also gives developers flexibility and choice of development tools and deployment options, and provides an application delivery path with support for n-tier applications as well as cloud-native techno...
VMware Launches New Functionality to Hybrid Cloud Management Platform
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has updated its hybrid cloud management platform with the introduction of VMware vRealize Suite 7 offering new releases of VMware vRealize Operations, VMware vRealize Log Insight, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7. The suite's new product updates also offer new pricing and packaging enhancements.The VMware vRealize Suite ...
CodeLathe's FileCloud Adds Microsoft Azure File Storage as Storage Option
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
CodeLathe’s FileCloud has added support for Microsoft Azure File Storage as a backend file storage option. The FileCloud platform allows businesses and managed service providers to host their own end-to-end file sync, share and mobile access solution with the ability to deploy the high available, redundant and scalable FileCloud on Azure Cloud infrastructure.Azure File ...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
HiveIO Launches IaaS Software Defined Compute Solution
Thursday, November 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Hive-IO has launched its software-defined compute solution available as a complete infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering for large enterprise and SMB customers.Hive-IO provides a unified architecture on a bare metal install that can remove up to 30% of existing hardware requirements and eliminate vendor layer complexity. For cloud-enablement it offers a lightweigh...
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 ...
Bomgar Platform Updates Secures Cloud Users Against Cyberattacks
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Bomgar has released the latest version of its Privileged Access Management solution, which provides security professionals with the ability to control, monitor, and manage access to critical systems by privileged users and third-party vendors. Bomgar’s approach allows companies to enable controlled system access and defend against cyberattacks without requiring com...
DreamFactory REST API Platform Now Available on Verizon Cloud
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory’s REST API platform is being combined with Verizon’s cloud services to deliver a cloud-first development environment to help developer's prototype, deploy and scale applications for mobile, web, and IoT. The new DreamFactory-Verizon Partner Solutions portal provides a way for developers to access RESTful API services hosted on IaaS, plus the portal fac...
Oracle Releases 24 New Cloud Services
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform offerings with more than 24 new cloud services for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.The Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications, extend existing ...
Red Hat Releases Three Different Studies on Mobile Development, Digital Leadership and OpenStack Adoption
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has recently published three different studies focusing on: mobile development trends, OpenStack enterprise adoption, and digital leadership.Mobile Trends SurveyA new mobile trends survey by Red Hat shows that - while mobile plays a role for 73 percent of organizations - nearly half of the respondents identify security (45 percent) and back-end integration(43 pe...
New Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications Offers Open Source Integrated IaaS and PaaS Solution
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced Cloud Suite for Applications, an accelerated way to develop, deploy, and manage applications at scale using open source technologies. The new cloud offering helps enterprises reduce silos and enable more efficient OpenStack cloud deployments. Through the platform, Red Hat is offering IaaS, PaaS and management in an open environment, supported by Re...
Dell Services Now Support Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Dell Digital Business Services portfolio will now include cloud-application services that leverage Pivotal Cloud Foundry, a centrally-managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for public and private cloud. Dell’s professional services portfolio includes cloud migration, application development, integration and managed services.The new Dell option provides a single point ...
SOA is Not a Mobile Backend
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Bill Appleton
The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...
Prerequisites for a Successful Enterprise Continuous Delivery Implementation
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Cyrille Le Clerc
Continuous Delivery as a methodology and tool to meet the ever-increasing demand to deliver better software faster is fast gaining the attention of businesses today. Continuous Delivery, with its emphasis on keeping software in a release-ready state at all times, is a natural evolution from continuous integration and agile software development practices. However, ...
