Canonical and Joyent have announced a partnership enabling container-native Linux images to run directly on bare-metal Ubuntu using Joyent’s Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure. Triton, Joyent’s container stack announced back in March to extend Docker deployments directly on bare metal, was released with general availability earlier this week. Triton is compatible with all major Linux distributions, … continue reading
The future of JavaScript has arrived. The Ecma General Assembly has officially approved ECMAScript 6, the latest standard edition of JavaScript. The specification is the first major revision to the programming language in more than a decade and a half, adding a wide array of features such as classes and modules to enable for complex … continue reading
Microsoft is reorganizing its senior leadership team to be more aligned with its engineering goals, the company announced in an e-mail to its employees today. “To better align our capabilities and, ultimately, deliver better products and services our customers love at a more rapid pace, I have decided to organize our engineering effort into three … continue reading
Oculus recently announced that it has been working with Microsoft to bring developers a platform to develop the next generation of games, and now the company is giving some more insight into why it chose Microsoft. The main reason was Windows 10, the company’s latest operating system coming in July, CNET reported. According to CNET, … continue reading
Stimulsoft, an acclaimed developer of reporting and business intelligence solutions, announces the release of Stimulsoft Reports 2015.1. The update introduces an impressive amount of new features bringing desktop and mobile reporting to the whole new level. Among novelties version 2015.1 adds are JSON data sources, HTML5 report designer, MVC viewer, new options, shapes and functions. … continue reading
Let’s Encrypt, the initiative to encrypt HTTPS across the Web, has announced its launch schedule. The first certificate will be given out the week of July 27, with general availability coming the week of Sept. 14. “If we stay true to the schedule outlined above, we will have built an innovative [certificate authority], capable of … continue reading
Digital Performance software company Dynatrace, today announced that Keynote is becoming part of Dynatrace, creating the most advanced user experience and behavior monitoring business in the world. This strategic move strengthens Dynatrace’s market position as the premier digital performance management solution provider, offering a unique and comprehensive set of capabilities to companies building a digital … continue reading
Hazelcast, the leading provider of operational in-memory computing with over 8,000 company deployments, today announced the general availability of Hazelcast 3.5. With this new version, Hazelcast High-Density Memory Store is now available to the Hazelcast client as a near cache providing access to hundreds of gigabytes of in-memory data on a single application server. All … continue reading
dtSearch Corp., a leading supplier of general enterprise and developer text retrieval software for instantly searching terabytes of text in a broad variety of online and offline data formats, announces version 7.80 of its product line. All dtSearch products embed dtSearch’s proprietary document filters. The release expands these document filters to directly support a broader … continue reading
Databricks has announced the general availability of its cloud-hosted data platform, formerly known as Databricks Cloud. Less than a week after announcing the release of Apache Spark 1.4, Databricks debuted its cloud platform at Spark Summit, which has support for R-language notebooks; version-control and source-code change tracking from within Databricks; private notebook permissions management; and … continue reading
The Node.js Foundation announced a new open governance structure that was built from both Node.js and io.js communities’ input. The new structure will include a technical steering committee to direct technical decisions, oversee working group projects and manage contributions, as well as a board of directors that will guide business decisions. The technical steering committee … continue reading
Google is turning its security focus to Android with a newly announced security rewards program for researchers. Just last year the company gave out more than US$1.5 million to security researchers who found bugs in the company’s browser and products, but today the company is launching the Android Security Rewards program to point the effort … continue reading
