How DevOps will change in 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
DevOps will become much more security-aware. We’ll see greater attention paid to the newly expanded surface area created in the practice of DevOps and how to proactively protect against vulnerabilities in DevOps.
How DevOps will change in 2021 and the Impact from it
First, IT Ops and DevOps teams will need to reorient their processes to one that unifies...
RPA security challenges in 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
What many security professionals have failed to realize is that the user identities created for RPA technologies to connect to a company network in order to execute a task are just as vulnerable as their human counterparts. 2021 will be the birth of digital identities for the digital workforce.
RPA security challenges in 2021
Throughout 2021, identity and security...
Low code tool adoption to increase in 2021 Infragistics predicts
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Richard Harris
Driven in part by COVID-19, the continued rapid pace of digital transformation across enterprises is creating enormous innovation opportunities while at the same time significantly increasing demand on IT to deliver new mobile application experiences.
Development teams were already seeing overloaded backlogs in 2020 and we predict that in 2021 more organizations will...
CircleCI rolls out a comprehensive insights dashboard
Thursday, October 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI announced the rollout of a comprehensive Insights dashboard.
CircleCI’s Insights dashboard, powered by DevOps data derived from nearly 2 million jobs and 100,000 projects per day, helps engineering teams make better, more informed decisions that allow them to efficiently deliver software to their users with confidence.
“We help our customers a...
Silicon Labs collides with Amazon to create Amazon Sidewalk
Monday, September 21, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Silicon Labs announces a collaboration with Amazon to support Amazon Sidewalk, a shared network created by neighbors who share a small portion of Wi-Fi bandwidth to help their devices work better at home and beyond the front door.
Silicon Labs’ wireless solutions for Amazon Sidewalk will enable developers to create IoT products with encrypted cloud communicatio...
Advanced cloud engineer bootcamp available from The Linux Foundation
Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Building on the popularity of its beginner Cloud Engineer Bootcamp launched last month, The Linux Foundation announced the availability of an Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp program, designed to help experienced IT professionals move into cloud engineering roles in as little as six months. Additionally, the foundation has announced a new training course, LFS243 - Servi...
Developer survey report from HackerEarth
Monday, May 4, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
HackerEarth released its first-ever developer survey report titled “Behind the Code: HackerEarth Developer Survey 2020.” The report gives employers and recruiters a look into the minds and motivations of today’s most hard-to-recruit and highly coveted talent and provides developers with insights on upskilling and career development.
The survey resul...
One Identity Safeguard now supports Microsoft SQL Server
Friday, May 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
One Identity announced that its One Identity Safeguard solution now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019 database environments. Microsoft was positioned as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems*. With One Identity Safeguard, organizations can for the first time securely manage, monitor, record and audit...
Infragistics upgrades embedded data analytics software
Monday, April 6, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Infragistics is excited to announce a major upgrade to its embedded data analytics software, Reveal. In addition to its fast, easy integration into any platform or deployment option, Reveal’s newest features address the latest trends in data analytics: predictive and advanced analytics, machine learning, R and Python scripting, big data connectors, and much more. ...
Understanding cloudnative
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
IT has changed dramatically and the server administrator that used to stage, monitor, support, and maintain physical servers has changed too. It's a different day for software, and cloud-native adoption is growing at a fast pace. We recently caught up with Mark Palmer, senior vice president, and general manager, data and analytics for TIBCO, about their analytics so...
The 10 most indemand job tech skills in 2019 so far
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 by Richard Harris
Indeed (job search website), analyzed job postings from the last three months to find out which tech skills are in most demand by employers right now.
Methodology: Indeed analyzed data on its job site to identify the most common tech skills by calculating the percentage of job postings that contain the skills over the last three months in the US.
The list is ranke...
VMworld 2018 developer highlights
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
VMworld 2018 has launched from the dock, debuting a ton of new cloud technology that ranges from multi-cloud operations to relational database services. To celebrate the company’s 20th year anniversary, Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, and Ray O’Farrell, VMware CTO acquaint the audience with what superpowers it takes to make it in the world of technology.
The d...
The most loved and hated programming languages
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has released the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey results. With more than 100,000 responses from coders in 184 countries and dependent territories, it is the most extensive survey of the programmer workforce to date.The 2018 survey offers vital insights for businesses looking to understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers - shedding ...
Actian says to be outperforming Amazon Redshift
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Actian has announced that Actian Vector analytics database running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) outperforms Amazon Redshift "by as much as 12x" in an industry benchmark conducted by McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) Global Services. In a separate MCG benchmark report, Actian Vector performs "up to nearly 10x faster" than Microsoft SQL Server.In February 2018, MCG conducte...
Realm extends commitment for Microsoft .Net mobile platform
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Realm has announced Realm .NET, a comprehensive initiative to make it easier for Microsoft developers to build real-time, responsive mobile apps. Making Realm increasingly compatible with the modern Microsoft stack, Realm .NET extends the company’s mobile data platform to the .NET developer ecosystem and Universal Windows Platform, extending Realm’s long-standing suppor...
Solving the challenges of database DevOps
Monday, October 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
As companies look to the promises of DevOps to improve their applications' quality and delivery, obstacles still exist with relational databases that hinder adoption of this collaborative process. In this interview, Perry Krug, Principal Architect of Strategic Accounts at Couchbase, shares insight into why relational database management systems impede database DevOps, a...
Pythonpowered machine learning with Anaconda and MS partnership
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Anaconda, Inc. has announced it is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time. Microsoft and Anaconda will partner to deliver Anaconda for Microsoft, a subset of the Anaconda distribution available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Anaconda, Inc. will also offer a range of suppor...
ScaleArc now supports Microsoft Azure SQL database
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
ScaleArc has announced that it has integrated its ScaleArc for SQL Server software with Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Customers of Microsoft Azure Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) software can now benefit from the seamless scale out, faster application performance, and high availability features of the ScaleArc software. With this enhancement, customers can now take advant...
The small business market should be the developers next focus
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Small businesses are more often than not behind the curve when it comes to technology, but how will that change in the future as? That's the question that many enterprise are searching for the answer to.Alex Barnett recently returned to Intuit to head up their Developer Group and he could not be more inspired by the role developers are playing in small business success....
Lowcode app development considerations
Friday, September 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Love them or hate them, low-code platforms have made some notable impacts in the enterprise mobile app software development industry. The simple ease of use and low costs of such platforms at the expense of some creative freedoms has proven to be a revolutionary practice.That's why we sat down and had a chat with the experts to learn more on how low-code fares in the pr...
DH2i launches DxEnterprise v17 for databases and Docker containers
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DH2i has announced the release of DxEnterprise v17, a unified Windows and Linux Smart Availability solution for databases and stateful Docker containers. The latest generation of DH2i's software that enables workload and data portability and high availability, DxEnterprise v17, features built-in DR-readiness while ensuring near-zero planned and unplanned downtime-all wh...
Windocks delivers Docker implementation and database cloning
Monday, April 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Windocks 2.0 Beta has now been released, featuring SQL Server containers with integrated database cloning and Web console. The company also announced a partnering program to enable third party clone integration with SQL Server containers.“SQL Server DBAs and developers are asking for simpler, affordable, container-native database cloning. Current solutions involve too m...
Improve app resiliency by enhancing the data tier
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses run on apps, and apps run on data. Modern databases offer the potential for much greater application uptime and performance. The fundamental attribute of modern databases is the ability to scale out capacity - organizations can leverage multiple copies of the same data so they can serve more customers demanding access to that data. Modern databases also bring...
DH2i expands to the Asia Pacific Market
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DH2i Company has announced the expansion of its DxAdvantage Partner Program into the Asia Pacific (APAC) market. Key to the expansion is the addition of Korea Cyber Tech Inc. and ApON Innovative Solutions to the DH2i DxAdvantage Partner Program. This strategic partnership enables them to be providers of DxEnterprise software. According to Gartner's recently publish...
The new SaaS solution for secure mobile enterprise access
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
SaberLogic has released Bezlio, a new SaaS product that makes it easy for companies to provide data from sources like ERP and accounting systems to any PC or device, including mobile devices like smartphones (iPhone and Android) and tablets.They have spent the last 14 years providing custom software development and integration work around ERP applications for manufactur...
Docker predicts much opportunity for anyone with CaaS expertise in 2017
Monday, December 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Rising confidence in container security, to the point that developers consider containers more secure than alternative technologies, will drive an increase in the use of CaaS, displacing legacy PaaS approaches to application development and deployment. This requirement for integrated security at every phase of the software supply chain will rise to the surface in the up...
Connect() 2016 Announcements from Microsoft
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft’s developer event Connect() 2016 just kicked off in New York, and Microsoft shared announcements that demonstrate its vision of enabling the future of development for any developer, building any application, on any platform.Highlights of the new partnerships and updated developer tools, services and offerings from Visual Studio and SQL Server announced during,...
Striim collaborates with Google Cloud platform to help enterprises move data
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
Striim, a streaming analytics platform, is pleased to announce their collaboration with Google Cloud Platform, and integration between the Striim platform and Google BigQuery, Google’s analytics data warehouse. This integration helps companies seeking to move toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure to easily move large volumes of enterprise data to Google Cloud Platform.&n...
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...
Connect Apps, Data, and Devices Anywhere With the New Azure Logic App Service
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released into general availability Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft’s Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) that provides hybrid application connectivity to connect traditional on-premises systems and cloud-native applications. Logic Apps makes it possible to complete projects faster and iterate more efficiently by offering a set of out-of-the-box conn...
Devart's dbForge Code Completion Platform Now Supports SQL Server 2016
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Devart has released dbForge SQL Complete v5.5 with support for SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server Management Studio 2016. The release offers new features and enhancements for database specialists who design, develop, and maintain databases and data storage systems.Devart’s dbForge SQL Complete provides a wide range of code completion features that relieve developers from re...
Hazelcast and Heimdall Data Launch New SQL Optimization Solution
Friday, July 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Hazelcast and Heimdall Data have introduced a new integrated solution that addresses on-premise or cloud application uptime and scalability caused by deficient application-to-database interaction. The new solution combines Heimdall Data and Hazelcast’s In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) to provide a SQL load balancing solution that focuses on application-to-database challenges....
Dataguise DgSecure 6.0 Release Offers Sensitive Data Monitoring
Saturday, July 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Dataguise has released Dataguise DgSecure 6.0, a monitoring solution for all data source types which allows users to detect, protect, and access sensitive data. DgSecure provides the ability to discover, count, and report on sensitive data assets in real time wherever they live or move across data repositories, on premises and in the cloud. It’s a highly scalable a...
Red Hat's Release of Ansible 2.1 Supports Network Automation
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Ansible 2.1, the latest version of the company’s agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible provides developers with the ability to deploy IT applications and environments by automating routine activities such as network configuration, cloud deployments, and creation of development environments. Ansible ...
DH2i Releases New Container Platform for Microsoft SQL Server
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
DH2i Company has launched a new Containers as a Service (CaaS) solution for Microsoft SQL Server. The new offering enables SQL Server users to plug-into DH2i's DxEnterprise container management software in the cloud. DH2i is utilizing Rackspace to back its CaaS solution. The release of DH2i's CaaS for Microsoft SQL Server enables users to deploy Windows Server appl...
