Digital twins will aid developers in 2023
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 by Richard Harris
Dr. William Bain is the founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, which develops software products to provide operational intelligence for live systems using scalable, in-memory computing. Bill earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University. Over a 40-year career focused on parallel computing, he has contributed to advancements at Bell Labs Research, Intel, a...
Persistent memory makes its way into business applications
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 by Richard Harris
In 2021, more businesses will focus on rapidly accelerating and scaling out applications to meet the challenges of digital transformation.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove many businesses, especially those in food delivery, eCommerce, logistics, and remote access and collaboration services, to dramatically scale-out and upgrade infrastructure to maintain high app...
Scaling applications for COVID-19 spikes
Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Nikita Ivanov
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shelter-in-place and lockdown orders that are dramatically changing both business and consumer behavior. Online activity is soaring, and many businesses, such as those in food delivery, ecommerce and remote access and collaboration services, are experiencing exploding demand for their services. Many of these businesses have struggled to ...
Developers playing nice with the platform approach to making apps
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 by Chaitanya Gupta
Kumar manages travel and logistics for a large banking company. He handles the mammoth task of arranging transport for employees who work beyond regular hours, and this takes up considerable time and effort, with back-and-forth messaging and calls. His problem is compounded by the fact that many employees are restricted from carrying personal computing devices (such as ...
How event automation is helping equip marketers to convert
Friday, August 11, 2017 by Richard Harris
A new survey from Certain, a provider of enterprise event automation, reveals that despite technology advances, many marketers still struggle to capitalize on leads generated following in-person events. Events continue to be rated the number one most effective B2B marketing tactic because of their high returns. However, data from Certain’s survey (pulled from over 150 m...
How inmemory computing is driving digital transformation technologies
Monday, August 7, 2017 by Nikita Ivanov
It increasingly seems that every business wants to become a data-driven software company. The success of Airbnb, Alibaba, Netflix and many others has CEOs, CIOs, and CDOs jumping on the digital transformation bandwagon and imagining all the possible ways they can leverage their intellectual property and unique data to deliver a service instead of just shipping products....
Hazelcast teams with Azul to deliver SLA assurance for javabased businesses
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Azul Systems (Azul) has announced that it has partnered with Hazelcast to ensure explicit Service Level Agreement (SLA) assurance for Java-based in-memory computing applications. By combining Zing plus Hazelcast Enterprise, Java-based businesses are now able to deliver consistent in-memory application performance without the risk of performance-robbing Java runtime arti...
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...
SAP HANA express edition and key benefits developers should know about
Saturday, October 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SAP, a large independent software developer, has released it's latest edition of HANA, an in-memory computing PaaS, called HANA express edition. SAP HANA can be used as an on-premise appliance, or for building and deploying to the cloud. A great tool for any real-time application development or analytics projects. The SAP HANA express edition gives developers all of th...
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...
Microsoft Azure Marketplace Gets InMemory Computing Image From Hazelcast
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast has released the open source version of Hazelcast 3.6.3 as an image in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to allow Microsoft Azure customers to run and provision Hazelcast for in-memory computing. Hazelcast provides an in-memory data layer that scales elastically with demand. Cloud developers can drop Hazelcast into their applic...
Hazelcast Releases Updates to Its Open Source InMemory Computing Platform
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast has released the latest version of its Hazelcast open source in-memory data grid which the company says is 30% faster than previous versions and is the first fully modularized version of Hazelcast. The Hazelcast operational in-memory computing platform helps companies manage their data and distribute processing using in-memory storage and parallel execution fo...
SAP Announces New IoT Functionality for its HANA Cloud Platform
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SAP has announced new IoT functionality for its HANA Cloud Platform and SAP HANA Vora software. SAP is supporting OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure and Cloud Foundry as the open source framework for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. The new IoT offerings from SAP include:The IoT foundation bundle for SAP HANAProvides a set of capabilities for IoT data management including sm...
Hazelcast 3.6 Provides Open Source Support for InMemory Computing
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast, a provider of in-memory data grids and large-scale enterprise caching, has released Hazelcast 3.6 - an operational in-memory computing solution - which offers a platform for serving mobile devices with server-side applications.Among the updates to Hazelcast 3.6 are new cloud management and container deployment options to set-up, configure and manage cloud or ...
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...
A Review of Database Technologies and Frameworks for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Marcin Warpechowski
Mobile app developers are continuously feeling the pressure to bring apps to market and update them faster and faster. This demand will only continue in 2015 and beyond. Many mobile app developers need a hard-working database behind the scenes for processing real-time data like transactions, inventory or users. This article offers insight on how mobile developers can im...
Operational Intelligence and Monetizing the Internet of Things
Monday, August 18, 2014 by David Brinker
The Internet of Things (IoT) has moved from clever idea to the cusp of realization. Billions of machine sensors, accessories and devices such as mobile phones, are poised to be networked for the IoT – with 26 billion installed units by 2020, according to Gartner. The conversation surrounding the IoT has progressed from devices to storage and now to the technologies that...
SAP Tech Conference to be Held in October
Friday, August 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
On October 20–24, 2014 the Venetian| Palazzo Congress Center in Las Vegas will be the site of SAP TechEd && d-code, part of a global series of SAP tech conferences for developers, engineers, and technologists. A $100 discount off registration is available through September 26.The SAP TechEd && d-code conference focuses on learning, live coding and collab...
