Secure software development insights from The Linux Foundation
Monday, February 5, 2024 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation published a new report, Maintainer Perspectives on Open Source Software Security, based on a survey of OSS maintainers and core contributors, to understand perspectives on OSS security and the uptake and adoption of security best practices by maintainers, core contributors, end users, and other members of the OSS ecosystem.
Maintainer Perspective...
Oxeye discovers vulnerability in HashiCorp Vault Project
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Oxeye announced the discovery of a new vulnerability in the HashiCorp Vault Project that has now been patched. HashiCorp Vault is a popular identity-based secret and encryption management system used to control access to API encryption keys, passwords, and certificates. The vulnerability was automatically discovered and reported by the Oxeye Platform during a deployment...
Kubernetes for the enterprise as Canonical sees it
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 by Richard Harris
Nearly five years ago, throngs of people in cities across America started roaming streets, parks, and other places to hunt down creatures on their cell phones. The launch of Pokémon GO on July 5, 2016, created a craze, peaking at 45 million daily users and smashing previous estimates of player traffic.
Behind the scenes, a new open-source technology played a p...
Overwolf review: How successful gaming apps are being built
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 by Andre Liverod
I am an in-game creator. This may be a career title you haven’t heard before, but in-game creators and mod authors are a fast-growing community of passionate gamers who build products and services around video games like apps and mods.
In-game apps are basically extensions for games that provide tools that allow players to access rich data, stats, and analytics...
Kubernetes advantages and challenges
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
In this exclusive Q&A with ADM, Sirish talks about how the pandemic accelerated the progression from cloud-enabled to cloud-native, he explains how 75 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, plus how Platform9 is the outperforming leader in the hosted Kubernetes space among the giants.
ADM: From a developer’...
Freedom and Growth plans for Kubernetes from Platform9 lands
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Platform9 announced the availability of new Freedom and Growth plans for their Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) Service. Users can sign up online for free with the Freedom plan and instantly deploy Kubernetes clusters of up to 20 nodes (800 vCPU’s). The Growth plan starts under $500/month, including an option for month-to-month payments, and provides 99.9% SLA a...
Single Page Application security help
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Single-page applications, or SPAs, are web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with the app. Their origins are unclear but the concept was discussed as early as 2003 according to the archives on Wiki. SPAs use AJAX and HTML5 to create fluid and responsive Web apps, without constant page reloads - that literally means,...
Windows 10 security hygiene is a priority for many says new report
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Adaptiva announced the results of its 2018 Enterprise Endpoint Security Survey. The survey showed that security is galvanizing around the move to Windows 10, the operating system that the majority of companies surveyed now run in their organizations. In the survey, over half of respondents indicated that security hygiene is a priority, listing security configuration man...
AI social network Hibe launches using Oracle Cloud
Friday, August 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Oracle announced Virtual Artifacts has launched its mobile application network, Hibe, with Oracle Cloud. The company has developed Hibe as a new social network for mobile applications that lets consumers communicate with each other from their social platform of choice. To prepare for rapid growth, Virtual Artifacts invested in Oracle Cloud, including Oracle Autonomous D...
Mobile website or mobile app, the changing tides
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Programming with native mobile languages has been the keystone way of producing a rock-solid mobile app since the beginning of the mobile app stores, and there’s good reason. After-all, programming as close to the hardware layer as possible is usually your safest bet, and using the language the manufacture fully supports will get that job done with less headaches.But in...
New serverless CMS solution wants to take on Wordpress
Thursday, February 22, 2018 by Richard Harris
Scrivito has announced general availability of their serverless CMS solution, built with ReactJS. Built for digital agencies and medium- to large-sized businesses, the Scrivito looks to help web editors and developers to build, edit and manage all of their different projects.The Web CMS status quo is comprised of aging, unsecure, difficult-to-use and maintenance-heavy o...
Oracle weighs in on chatbots for enterprise developers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
From self-service to instant payments, the chatbot industry has seen great things from the latest advents in the field of AI. That's why we sat down with Oracle to learn more about how with all these new changes in the messaging industry enterprise can see the value that can be attained by adoption.We recently had a conversation with Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, A...
Let the machines do the work
Friday, November 10, 2017 by Patrick McClory
Automation is everywhere. According to research from Gartner, by 2019 “75 percent of enterprises will have more than six diverse automation technologies within their IT management portfolios.” Just three years ago, that number was fewer than 20 percent. To some, the growing trend of automation signals an industry shift away from throwing bodies at problems and toward le...
Is your app ready for Black Friday
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Tony Branson
With the increasing use of mobile devices for online shopping, a major share of every wallet is now going to online retailers. The convenience of shopping anytime; anywhere perfectly suits the busy, on-the-go generation that is giving eCommerce businesses a big boost. Despite this reality, more than 70% of SMBs do not have their websites ready for a sudden rise in traff...
A discussion with Oracle on chatbots
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
With recent advancements in machine learning and the convergence of compute power and big data bringing artificial intelligence into the mainstream, intelligent bots will transform every facet of every industry and dramatically improve the customer experience. We recently had a discussion with Mr. Suhas Uliyar from Oracle to chat about how Oracle is using this transform...
Software developers are easy targets for hackers study finds
Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Netsparker Ltd., a company in the web applications security industry, has released survey results showing that most software developers make themselves easy targets for hackers, even when they are behind a corporate firewall. The primary reason is not that their web server software is out of date, however. Instead, it is largely the result of developers running vulnerab...
The case for developer platforms as seen by Oracle
Friday, July 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Developers' lives are getting more challenging than ever. In the past, CIOs would give them the environment they had to work in, and operations was never part of their daily worries. But with the advent of cloud computing and broad adoption of DevOps methodologies, developers are now responsible for thinking about their environment, orchestrating containers, monitoring ...
MongoDB Atlas is now available on top cloud platforms
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
MongoDB has announced that MongoDB Atlas, its cloud database as a service, is now available to users on the top three public cloud platforms. Atlas has extended its availability beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, delivering on its vision of running MongoDB anywhere. The addition of support for Azure and GCP...
DevSecOps will help security and developers play nice
Thursday, June 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Veracode, a security software company acquired by CA Technologies, has announced the results of a study examining the relationships between application developers and security teams.The study, conducted in conjunction with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), shows that despite the pervasive belief that security and development teams have conflicting priorities, initiatives...
HPE containerizes their ITOps management software
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software launched new containerized versions of its HPE IT Operations Management (ITOM) offerings. These suites - Hybrid Cloud Management, Data Center Automation, Operations Bridge, and IT Service Management Automation - help enterprise IT customers manage their private and public cloud infrastructure, and deliver new services at scale in resp...
Think Your Mobile App is Hack Proof Think Again
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Sam Rehman
In today’s mobile app economy, time to market and quality are critical to stay competitive. Developers race against the clock to create amazing apps, and considerable time is spent to test it again and again; agile and automation plays a big part into this. The goal is a release that is user friendly and resilient as defect-free as possible, offering a product that deep...
ERPScan Releases New SaaS Security Platform for SAP Environments
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
ERPScan has released a new SaaS solution to protect SAP environments from customization issues. The new solution combines the ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite engine and new technologies developed ERPScan. ERPScan's SAP Code Security SaaS provides the ability to upload a program code from their SAP Systems into ERPScan's cloud platform. Users receive a list of ide...
Using the Right Agile Tool for the Job
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Mark Noneman
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!" Huh? I don’t know; it’s something my father always said. I think he meant that if you don’t have the right tool for the job, you’ll use the tool you have. And if it’s the wrong tool, the job will suffer. Agile frameworks are tools of a sort. You might say that Scrum is like a wrench - requirin...
Michele Casey of Oracle Chats About Oracle Linux
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Michele Casey, Oracle Linux Senior director of Product Management, reached out to provide insight into Oracle Linux and the platform’s place in the evolution of containers for next-generation application development.ADM: To set the stage, what are some notable container use cases where people are pursuing Oracle Linux as a solution?Casey: Oracle Linux supports abroad po...
Orasi Software Announces New Delphix Service Program
Monday, June 20, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi Software has created a new comprehensive Delphix service program for enterprise software teams engaged with SAP. Consulting and assistance is available for organization-wide deployment and adoption of Delphix data virtualization software as well as for user training and platform migration, including SAP HANA and SAP ASE migration.With the new program Orasi will he...
Intel Offers Additional Performance for MultiThreaded Python Programs
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In its beta release of Intel Distribution for Python, Intel is introducing what they call “something new and unusual for the Python world.” The new functionality is an experimental module which unlocks additional performance for multi-threaded Python programs by enabling threading composability between two or more thread-enabled libraries.The Intel Distributio...
Delphix 5.0 Release Offers Fully Integrated Data Masking
Thursday, April 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Delphix had announced technology enhancements to it data operations platform designed to accelerate and simplify secure application development in the data center and in the cloud. Delphix 5.0 introduces a new data-masking capability, Selective Data Distribution, support for IBM DB2 and expanded support for Oracle E-Business Suite. The Delphix platform is offered a...
New Security Report Reveals Increased Threat for Mobile Applications
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
According to a new cyber security report, mobile applications increasingly have become top security threats plaguing enterprises over the past year. The details are outlined in the recently published Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cyber Risk Report 2016.As the company points out in the report, traditional network perimeters are disappearing allowing attack surfaces to...
Security Risks for iOS Apps That Use Alternate Solutions for Hot Patching
Thursday, February 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Nothing comes free. There is always a give and take with anything and the iOS app store is no exception. With such an inherently closed ecosystem the benefits for users include the relative assurance that, from a security standpoint, iOS apps are safe to use.This is a benefit for iOS app publishers as well as their apps profit from the halo affect this perception provid...
One in Four Android Apps Have High Risk Security Flaws
Friday, February 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Mobile developers continue to battle security issues with their apps according to a new report by NowSecure. The annual report, 2016 NowSecure Mobile Security Report, provides insight into the current state of mobile security. According to the report a quarter of Android apps have at least one high risk security flaw, 35 percent of communications sent by mobile dev...
Kernel Patching 101: How to Make Repairs Without System Downtime
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Vojtech Pavlik
Today, we increasingly rely on computers to control critical activities like stock trading, flight control or nuclear power plant management. These services must not fail or have outages, they must be “always on.” Redundant systems composed of components of independent origin are being used to prevent systemic errors that cause larger outages while hot-swappable compone...
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 ...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
Microsoft Launches Azure HDInsight on Linux
Friday, February 20, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released the first Microsoft Azure managed service, HDInsight, to be available on Linux. Azure HDInsight is Microsoft’s Hadoop-as-a-service offering built on top of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and architected for the Azure cloud. With this announcement, users will have a choice to select either Windows or Linux when deploying HDInsight from th...
Why Saas and Continuous Delivery Is a Match Made in Heaven for Mobile Apps
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 by Steven G. Harris
In recent years, application usage has evolved and grown tremendously. Unlike core IT systems (ERP, HR, etc.) that are under the close scrutiny of corporate IT, Software as a Service (SaaS) and now mobile applications come with very different requirements. What’s valuable and efficient today might not be what’s valued tomorrow: SaaS and mobile applications have to const...
