MapR announced the release of MapR 5.0, along with new auto-provisioning templates for data lake deployment, interactive SQL data exploration, and operational analytics at Hadoop Summit. Version 5.0 of the MapR Hadoop distribution adds a new Views feature for the newly released Apache Drill 1.1 for agile data governance, and granular access controls for better … continue reading
Rancher Labs, a startup developing Docker infrastructure software, today announced $10M in Series A funding from Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. With the rapid adoption of container technology, the company’s open source software has grown in popularity by allowing organizations to run containers in production, across any cloud. The funding will be allocated to furthering … continue reading
Plumbr, the only Java performance monitoring solution with automated root cause detection, today released a new feature that detects slow database operations. When end-user sessions of an IT system (e.g. e-commerce site, online banking or self serve) are stalled by inefficient database connections, Plumbr now automatically detects the errors in source code. This eliminates the … continue reading
Recently NIST joined the FIDO Alliance under its newly-created government membership class. The FIDO Alliance was formed in July of 2012 and aims to bring easy-to-use, privacy-enhancing authentication devices to the consumer mass market. FIDO-based credentials are designed to provide an anonymous key without any publicly available serial number or central authority. The FIDO 1.0 specifications … continue reading
Pivotal, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, today announced that it has acquired Quickstep Technologies, LLC. Quickstep – led by a team of developers from the University of Wisconsin – has developed a next-generation relational data processing engine that will form the next-generation of query processing in Pivotal’s Big Data Suite. The acquisition is … continue reading
DJI is giving developers a new platform to research and test their drone applications and technology. The company announced a new quadcopter designed specifically for developers to take their hardware and software solutions to the sky. The DJI Matrice 100 (M100) provides developers everything they need to fly, without having to tune or program the … continue reading
Comedian Bill Hader kicked off today’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in an opening video of him preparing for the conference. While he wasn’t able to give us the musical number, dancing apps or high-flying trapeze acts he planned for, he did leave with one note: “Whoever walks out there better have something pretty incredible … continue reading
Apache Solr 5.2.0, the open-source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project, is now available. The latest version comes with full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, database integration, rich document handling, geospatial search, and dynamic clustering. Other major features include: A restore API Improved JSON facet API New “facet.range.method” parameter Rules-based replica assignment An … continue reading
Only on “Silicon Valley” would an intellectual property case hinge on lawyers figuring out that when Richard is talking about his “girlfriend” in e-mails, he’s referring to his laptop. In a conveniently timed twist, Richard—who’s always maintained he never worked on Pied Piper at Hooli—realizes that for a three-day period while his “girlfriend” was in … continue reading
Appery, LLC, makers of Appery.io, the first low-code platform for the rapid development and deployment of cross device mobile applications, today announced that it has acquired major assets of Verivo Software, including revenue contracts, source code, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property to create a best-in-class enterprise mobility platform. Enterprises worldwide are experiencing unprecedented demand … continue reading
Logi Analytics and Progress have partnered up to deliver a new analytics solution. Progress OpenEdge Analytics360 is designed to help users gain insight into their operational data. “Due to increased amounts of data stored in systems of records, our OpenEdge platform customers have analytics and business intelligence as their top priority in 2015 and beyond,” … continue reading
Perforce Software and Methodics, Inc. today announced the integration of the Perforce Helix source code management (SCM) and collaboration platform with Methodics’ ProjectIC IP Lifecycle Management software. The partnership helps companies scale their systems to handle high levels of automation and ensures that teams using Methodics are working with the latest version of any asset. … continue reading
