Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. today announced the availability of Piston CloudOS 4.0, an operating system for the modern data center that transforms clusters of commodity servers into a single unified environment. Used to deploy OpenStack in minutes, CloudOS 4.0 now allows customers and partners to also deploy Hadoop and Spark on bare metal, with forthcoming … continue reading
It all comes down to this. After three weeks and 30 other software development technologies, methodologies and platforms going down, it’s #3 APIs vs. #4 Service Virtualization for the championship. APIs ended the cinderella run of #8 NoSQL in a close game, while Service Virtualization buried C# in a landslide victory to reach the championship … continue reading
Git is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. The distributed version control system, created by Linus Torvalds, debuted in April 2005, and since then it has been providing teams of all sizes with easier code reviews, flexible workflows and cost-effective local branching, according to Eric Wittman, general manager of developer tools at Atlassian. “Git provides a lot … continue reading
At BZ Media’s Wearables TechCon in March, we saw many interesting devices, technologies and software platforms for quantifying the self, telling time, and doing all manner of otherworldly duties all from the wrist of the user. Then Apple joined the party, announcing its eponymous Watch while attendees at the show gossiped over the future. Everyone … continue reading
Android offers more active users, exciting features and platform opportunities today than ever before, but app developers have never been more lost. Within the existing smartphone and tablet market, the OS landscape is fragmented between every Android version from Gingerbread to Lollipop, which currently holds little more than 3% of the pie. Now Google is … continue reading
Google recently released a report that provides insight into the Android’s security, revealing that it was able to cut the overall rate of potentially harmful application installs by 50% in 2014. “That’s why we built Android the way we did—with multiple layers of security in the platform itself and in the services Google provides,” wrote … continue reading
As Microsoft starts to bring more products and tools to open source, the company has announced that Windows may be headed in the same direction. According to Wired, Mark Russinovich, an engineer at Microsoft, announced at ChefCon that the company might someday give Windows away for free. “It’s definitely possible,” Russinovich said, according to Wired. … continue reading
Hodor hodor hodor, hodor hodor hodor hodor. Hodor hodor GitHub hodor hodor: HODOR. Yes, the language repository was posted on April Fool’s Day by mobile application development company Hummingbird Technologies. Yes, the language’s structure and “simplified” syntax consist entirely of the word “Hodor” in tandem with various symbols and punctuations. Yet despite all that, within … continue reading
While mobility has permeated the enterprise, we are just beginning to fully tap its potential to drive business value, both externally with customers and other stakeholders, as well as internally for employee engagement and productivity. Despite business-level industry dialogue about the strategic importance of going mobile, many enterprise developers struggle to deliver mobile apps fast … continue reading
Microsoft is re-launching its Accessibility Developer Hub for developers to learn more about making software that’s accessible to all. “The re-launched Accessibility Developer Hub is a one-stop shop for developers to find documentation about Accessibility across Microsoft platforms and products,” wrote Daniel Hubbell, technical evangelist for the Accessibility Business Unit at Microsoft, in a blog … continue reading
IBM today announced the availability of IBM Verse, an innovative new social messaging solution that incorporates built-in analytics to give people a new way to connect, communicate and find the right people and information fast. A direct result of IBM’s $100 million investment in design innovation, IBM Verse integrates email, calendars, file sharing, instant messaging, … continue reading
Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the leading open source cloud native application platform, today announced that Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, has joined the organization. By joining, Mirantis is committing to supporting Cloud Foundry and partnering with distribution vendors in its ecosystem instead of building its own Cloud Foundry distribution. “As the pure-play OpenStack company, … continue reading
