IBM has announced it is bringing its cyberthreat analytics to the cloud in order to provide organizations with a way to prioritize threats and fight cyber attacks. The new cloud services include IBM security intelligence and intelligent log management. With security intelligence, organizations can gain insight into security-related events from more than 500 supported data … continue reading
Today the OpenID Foundation introduced OpenID Connect Certification – a program that enables organizations to certify that their OpenID Connect implementations conform to specified profiles of the OpenID Connect standard. The certification program is a tool to ensure that implementations by different parties will successfully interoperate. OpenID Connect is a secure, mobile-ready, privacy-enhancing open identity … continue reading
Alcatel-Lucent has today launched Rapport, a software-based, open platform that gives large enterprises and service providers a new, and much more flexible way to deliver communications and collaboration services. With Rapport, the communications network becomes a platform for innovation, enabling the creation of new ‘contextual communications’, where fundamental services such as voice, chat, video conferencing … continue reading
Software developers still reeling from the constant security failures throughout the open-source stack in 2014 can take at least some comfort from the proceedings at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. Most of the solutions, talks and products discussed at the show are not focused on the developer-induced security flaws that caused such a … continue reading
WANdisco today announced the availability of WANdisco Fusion, a tool that can distribute data across multiple Hadoop clusters, keeping them up to date and in sync. Fusion uses active replication to bring updated information from one Hadoop cluster to another, regardless of the distances between them. Randy DeFauw, director of product marketing at WANdisco, said … continue reading
Red Hat is looking to improve upon Docker’s software-delivery mechanism with the Atomic command feature of its Atomic Host operating system for Linux containers. Last month, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7) Atomic Host, a version of the enterprise operating system expressly designed to run containers. The “Atomic command” feature defines entry … continue reading
Where is Microsoft headed? Microsoft has spread its wings with other big companies such as Apple, teaming up to share their products on a wider scale. As a result, the level of competition perceived to exist between Microsoft and companies such as Apple may be coming to an end. Since the hiring of Satya Nadella … continue reading
Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company and SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today announced a partnership that combines both companies’ capabilities to optimize the performance of enterprise mobile apps across the mobile application development lifecycle. Through this partnership, Kony and SOASTA will work together to integrate their technologies and combine their expertise to … continue reading
ActiveState today announced a new partnership and technology integration with Mirantis, enabling developers to deploy applications to the cloud in minutes. With the arrival of this joint solution from Mirantis and ActiveState, enterprises now have easier access to the best-in-cloud technologies of Cloud Foundry and OpenStack, delivered in a robust, feature-packed turnkey hybrid cloud solution. … continue reading
Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 10 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF Studio 10 adds a number of new features including PDF Optimization, Overlay Comparison, Conversion to HTML5 and Touch Mode. The new Optimizer function provides many options … continue reading
Microsoft has announced Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud platform for developers and ISVs to build scalable cloud services. According to a blog post from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, Azure Service Fabric has been in production for more than five years and underlies Microsoft services like Skype for Business, DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and … continue reading
VMware has announced two new open-source projects to help enterprise developers create, deploy and manage cloud-native applications. The projects include Project Lightwave and Project Photon. Project Lightwave is an identity- and access-management project that will add a new layer of container security to cloud-native apps. Project Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system designed for … continue reading
