Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, today launched major enhancements to its cloud-based platform with the 2.0 release. The new features securely manage data access for large teams while streamlining Spark application development and deployment for today’s enterprises facing complex and fast-paced environments. This milestone comes six weeks after the company … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7, featuring a new deployment and management tool that simplifies installation, eases day-to-day management tasks, and establishes the underpinnings for orchestrated live system updates and upgrades for subsequent releases. Based on the … continue reading
A few years back, I did a blog entry called “The best music for coding.” It featured (mostly) my favorite music that did not include lyrics. It was a list of songs I liked rather than music that had any particular bent towards actual technology, programming or nerdery. Today, I present you with a list … continue reading
As awareness of the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, devices are becoming smarter and more embedded, resulting in difficult development environments. But as with any software, there is a demand for it to be delivered fast, and that goes for embedded devices—despite their complexity. “Software has become the primary driver of innovation and disruption,” said … continue reading
SoftFluent announced today that CodeFluent Entities and its graphical editor supports Visual Studio 2015, which includes many new features and updates such as tools for universal Windows app development, cross-platform mobile development for iOS, Android and Windows, including Xamarin, Apache Cordova, Unity and more. CodeFluent Entities allows developers to generate components such as scripts (e.g.,T-SQL, … continue reading
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a new “Do Not Track” policy setting for browsers. The EFF and the Internet coalition—consisting of AdBlock, DuckDuckGo, Medium and Mixpanel—are calling the policy a standard for browsers to protect users from sites that secretly record and follow Internet … continue reading
1010data, Inc. (“1010data”), provider of the only Big Data Discovery and data sharing platform that combines cloud-based analytics with access to disruptive datasets on a single platform, and Advance/Newhouse (an affiliate of Advance Publications, “Advance”), a privately held global and diversified media group, jointly announced today that Advance has acquired 1010data for $500 million. “Advance … continue reading
Accenture has acquired FusionX, a Washington, DC-based cyber security company that has a fundamentally differentiated approach to cyber attack simulation, threat modeling, cyber investigations and security risk advisory services. The acquisition will further strengthen Accenture’s Security practice and help clients accurately assess their ability to protect against, detect and, where necessary, respond to sophisticated and … continue reading
Black Duck Software, a global leader in providing solutions for securing and managing open source software, today announced the availability of Black Duck Hub 2.2, including new, extended open source security vulnerability intelligence, providing vulnerability data beyond what is offered in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). VulnDB, a new vulnerability data source embedded in Black … continue reading
CA Technologies today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Xceedium, Inc., a provider of privileged identity management solutions that protect on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT environments. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close within the quarter. Recent mega breaches and growing compliance and audit … continue reading
QASymphony announces the general availability of qMap, the industry’s first visual mapping solution for Agile testers of cloud, mobile, big data and IoT applications. In beta since April, qMap leverages data from QASymphony’s exploratory testing tool, qTest eXplorer, providing visual insight into features tested, by whom, bugs, testing time and defects related to critical functions of … continue reading
The current state of computer science teacher certification is very much in flux. Many states offer no CS certification courses for middle or high school teachers, and even fewer require teacher certifications before teaching CS classes. Tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and Oracle are corporate sponsors of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), which … continue reading
