At Big Data TechCon in Chicago this week, attendees were treated to a glimpse of the future of Hadoop and large-scale data processing. With new solutions such as Apache Apex and Snowflake, enterprise options were shown to be expanding fast. Keynote speaker Owen O’Malley, cofounder of Hortonworks and a 10-year veteran of the Hadoop project, …
Microsoft has announced a new standalone installer for downloading C++ tools without installing the Visual Studio IDE in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC. “This new installer is meant to streamline the delivery of the C++ build tools in your build environments and Continuous Integration systems,” wrote Marian Luparu, senior program manager for Visual C++ …
Docker 1.9 arrived yesterday afternoon, bringing with it a host of changes to make the container platform more robust and capable of handling clusters of applications. This release is the first to include the final versions of multi-host networking and the clustering tool known as Swarm. Solomon Hykes, CTO and chief architect at Docker, said, …
While there have been books, documentaries and biopics made to celebrate the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs, one company is using animation to depict how he revolutionized technology. QuartSoft, an IT outsourcing company, has created an animated biography of his life. “Steve Jobs once said, ‘One way to remember who you are or want …
Microsoft and Red Hat have announced a new partnership to bring more choices and flexibility to hybrid cloud computing. According to Microsoft, the move comes as the cloud becomes mainstream, and the questions are shifting from why users shoulder care about cloud computing to how they embrace it in a fast and cost-effective way. “Businesses …
Oct. 21, 1985. That was the year young Marty McFly hopped into a DeLorean equipped for time travel to save his future family on the same date 30 years later. That date—Oct. 21, 2015—was a couple of weeks ago. McFly encountered such things videogames played without controllers, drones and biometric identification (all of which we …
Common methodologies and development practices seemed to be foreign concepts to the U.S. government, which could simply throw more and more money at software problems that never appeared to get solved. But recent ventures lead us to believe that the government might finally be ready to shake off the dust and join the 21st century. …
MongoDB hit version 3.2 today, bringing with it greater integrations to enterprise analytics tools, new storage engines, and a new performance-monitoring tool. Kelly Stirman, vice president of strategy at MongoDB, said that this release was heavily focused on giving enterprise users the features they need to build mission-critical applications on top of MongoDB. (Related: How …
Google is responding to reports that the company has plans to bring its PC operating system, Chrome OS, to Android, and its answer is clear: Chrome OS is not going anywhere. “Over the last few days, there’s been some confusion about the future of Chrome OS and Chromebooks based on speculation that Chrome OS will …
Chef is aiming at building out an entire life-cycle-management platform for provisioned systems. Today, the company announced the general availability of Chef Delivery, as well as a new product called Chef Compliance, which includes the fruits of its acquisition of VulcanoSec, a German software security firm. Chef Delivery has been available to select users since …
JetBrains has announced simultaneous updates for all of its desktop tools, along with a new subscription-based licensing model for those products. Updates include: ReSharper Ultimate 10: With a new incremental build tool, the Postfix Templates plug-in, enhanced code style management, improved Stack Trace Explorer, NUnit 3.0 beta 5 support, Google Protocol Buffers support, and new …
A new narrative-driven VR experience for the Oculus Rift allows users to embody an office worker in the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center during the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. But a lot of negativity surrounds the big question: Who would want to live or relive 9/11? Students at a French …
DJI is giving developers a new tool for developing drone applications. The company announced the DJI Manifold, a high-performance embedded computer designed to fly. Manifold takes advantage of DJI’s Onboard SDK and provides a user-friendly system. “With the Manifold, we are entering a new era of smarter, faster and more powerful aerial platforms,” said Michael …
Microsoft wants everyone to get on board with Windows 10, and to do so it is allowing users to build universal Windows apps without any code. The company announced the Windows App Studio Windows 10 Store Support release with a number of features to build apps without programming. “You’ve been thinking about building an app …
People use Graphical User Interfaces, or GUIs, to interact with their applications, but software uses APIs to talk to the application or its services. Applications today almost certainly expose APIs to the outside world—especially if they are in “the cloud” and the subsystems they use internally communicate with each other via APIs. As a tester …
RECORDED WEBINAR: You deployed your app with the Bluemix PaaS and it’s gaining some serious traction, so it’s time to make some tweaks. Did you design your application in a way that it can scale in the cloud? Were you even thinking about the cloud when you built the app? If not, chances are your …
Many types of web applications are running on the Internet today. There are also as many ways to manage and maintain the infrastructure that powers those applications. IBM Bluemix delivers quick and easy cloud capabilities to deploy and maintain your web application, with minimal hassle and overhead. As you follow along with two lab-style scenarios, …
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DevOps is a strategy for developing what is becoming a universally recognized process for managing continuous delivery, but it is not that process. In this eBook, thought leaders and practitioners weigh in on the culture, process and tools that lead to the deployment of quality software at high velocity. Contents: DevOps is a Strategy Change …
With a rapidly expanding device matrix, achieving full coverage of the mobile device market is neither practical nor necessary. Instead, businesses must choose devices based on priorities, relevance and strategic objectives for a given project. With that in mind, this report offers device selection for three levels of mobile market coverage—30%, 50% and 80%. Our …
