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...
Kinetica Launches Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced the immediate availability of Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs, two new software and services offerings designed to help customers quickly ingest, explore and visualize streaming data sets, including for Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, by leveraging the power of GPUs. Kinetica is an in-memory, GPU-accelerated database t...
Kinetica launches Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced the availability of Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs, two new software and services offerings designed to help customers quickly ingest, explore and visualize streaming data sets, including for Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, by leveraging the power of GPUs.Kinetica is an in-memory, GPU-accelerated database that has bee...
LISA 2016 Conference Will Provide 6 Days of System Administrator Training
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
If you’re a system administrator, you’ll want to make plans now to go to Boston in early December to take in the LISA 2016 conference (Large Installation System Administration Conference). The event is hosted by USENIX, an association that brings together technical information and events for engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians to explore the mo...
Tickets On Sale Now For GitHub Universe September 1415
Saturday, August 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
GitHub Universe is the flagship user conference for the GitHub community. The event will be held in San Francisco on September 14 -15, and is intended for developers, operations and system administrators, technical leads, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. The event features two keynotes, six featured speakers, and twenty-four breakout sessions that dive deep into tec...
Open Source Ansible Community Will Converge at AnsibleFest in San Francisco on July 28
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
The popular open source automation platform Ansible will be the focus of AnsibleFest in San Francisco on Thursday, July 28, 2016. The event offers a day-long conference bringing together hundreds of Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best-practices, case studies and Ansible news.AnsibleFest is for anyone who is wants to learn more or shar...
The Impact of BYOD on Developers
Friday, July 1, 2016 by Mitch Black
From Security Research Labs breaking into a phone within seconds on 60 Minutes earlier this year to the Apple/FBI debacle, it’s increasingly clear that enterprises have varying levels of device security protocols in place. Surprisingly, the responsibility of ensuring vital data remains secure, especially as BYOD policies and a mobile-first workforce become the norm...
MarkLogic 9 NoSQL Database Released in Preview
Friday, May 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
MarkLogic has released MarkLogic 9 in preview, offering updates to the NoSQL database for integrating data from silos. MarkLogic is optimized for structured and unstructured data providing the ability allowing to store, manage, query and search across JSON, XML, RDF, geospatial data, text, and large binaries.New features in MarkLogic 9 include:Data Integration: MarkLogi...
Twistlock Releases New Security Platform for Container Environments
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twistlock has announced the release of Twistlock Runtime, a set of automated capabilities that defend against active threats targeting container environments. The platform is designed specifically to detect and stop sophisticated runtime attacks – including APTs and zero-day exploits – against containerized applications. Twistlock Runtime is a component within the ...
Automic Released New Microsoft Azure Cloud DevOps Solution
Friday, February 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Automic has introduced a new Microsoft Azure Action Pack plug-in that integrates with Automic Release Automation and Service Orchestration products. Available from the Automic Marketplace, this new integration allows companies to use Automic to control Azure resources and applications from within their central automation platform.The Microsoft Azure Action Pack allows I...
A New Guide to Understanding, Analyzing, and Troubleshooting System Logs
Thursday, October 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Loggly has created a new web based resource guide which explores a range of logging topics such as open-source log management tools and logging in multiple languages. Dubbed the “Ultimate Guide for Logging,” the resource provides individual guides for Apache, Java, Linux, Node, Systemd, and Windows.The guide was created to help developers and system administrators learn...
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...
Red Hat Satellite is Updated for Container Management, Security and Provisioning
Friday, August 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite 6.1, Red Hat’s systems management solution for managing Red Hat infrastructure. New additions to the platform bring upgraded security enhancements, enhanced discovery and container management capabilities across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Container ManagementTo support new cont...
Agile Innovation: Crossing the Wetware Chasm for Business Transformation
Friday, June 12, 2015 by Alex Robbio
“ The modern era’s less rigid development methodologies - Behavior Driven Development, Scrum and Kanban complemented by “Hackathon” team-blending campaigns - are proven to accelerate agile innovation, trusted collaboration and business transformation.”Modern-era IT jargon has coined the term “wetware” to describe the collective human capital - the programmers, developer...
StackIQ Has New Open Source Linux Server Provisioning Tool
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
StackIQ is now offering an open source version of Stacki (short for “Stack Installer”), a Linux server provisioning tool. StackIQ initiated the open source project with the goal of providing systems administrators with a tool to install Linux at high speed. Stacki is a streamlined version of the base installer from StackIQ’s flagship product StackIQ Boss.Stacki comes wi...
Velocity Conference Offers Insights for Web App Developers
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Want to move past the daily grind of worrying about how to keep pages loading quickly, scaling infrastructure, and site reliability? O'Reilly Media’s Velocity conference series will do just that as it gives web ops and performance professionals insight into the latest trends in web operations, end-to-end optimization, IT as a business driver, ubiquitous delivery fo...
It’s in the Data: What Mobile App Developers Can Learn from Global App Download Patterns
Monday, October 13, 2014 by Elad Natanson
The Net Neutrality debate is heating up in the US with the tech industry heavyweights backing net neutrality and 3.7 million comments being submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on this controversial proposal – by far the most-commented issue in the agency’s history. At stake is whether broadband service providers will be able to charge more for faster...
AirPatrol ZoneDefense 5 Allows Automatic Changes for Mobile Device Security Based on Location
Thursday, August 14, 2014 by Richard Harris
AirPatrol is offering a new add-in for its ZoneDefense 5 mobile device security platform that will allow organizations using the Enterprise Mobility Management suite from VMware’s AirWatch to automatically switch security policies of smartphones and tablets based on the device’s owner and location. ZoneDefense 5 allows systems administrators to create “ho...
DreamFactory Announces Support for MongoDB to Facilitate Enterprise Mobility
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Big data and small devices? It’s a problem that IT managers continue to struggle with. Many companies are offering services to combat big data challenges and DreamFactory Software has upgraded its services to include comprehensive support for the industry's most popular NoSQL database, MongoDB which can now be accessed from the open-source DreamFactory Services Platform...