HP continues to layoff thousands of employees as it prepares to split the company into HP Inc. and HP Enterprise. According to the company, it plans to reach US$2 billion of gross annualized cost reductions for its Enterprise Services business. In order to achieve that, HP Enterprise expects to lay off 25,000 to 30,000 people. … continue reading
MariaDB Corporation, a recognized leader in open source database solutions for high availability, scalability and performance, today announced the release of MariaDB 10.1 RC, a project supervised by the MariaDB Foundation, which delivers easy-to-deploy, native database encryption without sacrificing performance and cost. By upgrading to MariaDB 10.1, MySQL and MariaDB users can fully encrypt their … continue reading
When Apache Hadoop burst onto the scene, it changed the game not only for batch processing and data storage, but also for analytics. Tableau was one of the first visual analytics companies to support Hadoop, and now it’s feeling a similar tug from Apache Spark and the streaming revolution. Dustin Smith, product marketing manager at … continue reading
A new artificial intelligence system is using new methods to tackle chess. About 20 years ago, IBM’s Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer was used to beat reigning world champion Garry Kasparov. At the time, IBM’s supercomputer was using brute force to play against its human opponents. Today, the MIT Technology Review reported that Matthew Lai, a … continue reading
Let’s Encrypt has announced its first-ever certificate. Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority, made up of tech companies, organizations and researchers, whose goal is to make HTTPS the default protocol for the Web. “Today we mark an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web: the first-ever certificate issued by Let’s … continue reading
Gurock today announced the release of TestRail 5.0, a new version of their web-based test management tool. The new version introduces an all-new JIRA integration for both JIRA Cloud and JIRA Server to directly view and track linked TestRail test results, test cases and reports inside JIRA. TestRail 5.0 also introduces new live defect reports, … continue reading
Flexera Software, the leading provider of next-generation software licensing, compliance, security and installation solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today the acquisition of Secunia, a leading provider of Software Vulnerability Management solutions that protect organizations against cybersecurity risks. “As cybersecurity threats continue to grow, leading companies will not only proactively manage these threats but … continue reading
Steve Yegge recently posted a piece where he took to task his own predictions from 2004. I thought it would be fun to take a gander at some of the predictions pundits have made about programming over the years, and see just how wrong or right they were. If you’ve spent any time at all … continue reading
The Object Management Group will approve as standards new measures to evaluate the quality characteristics of software created by the Consortium for IT Software Quality. The CISQ Quality Characteristic Measures cover the areas of reliability, security, performance efficiency and maintainability, as well as for automating function point measurements, according to Bill Curtis, executive director of … continue reading
Facebook is letting Android developers take advantage of its JavaScript framework for native development. The company has announced it is releasing React Native for Android. “React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React,” the company wrote on its GitHub page. “The … continue reading
Intel wants to help protect connected cars from hackers. The company has established the Automotive Security Review Board (ASRB) to help mitigate cybersecurity risks and promote best practices. “We can, and must, raise the bar against cyber attacks in automobiles,” said Chris Young, general manager of Intel Security. “With the help of the ASRB, Intel … continue reading
XebiaLabs today announced that XL Deploy, its enterprise application release automation software, is available as a supported deployment option from AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS CopePipeline allows users to build, test, and deploy their code every time there is a code change. With this new integration, AWS CodePipeline … continue reading
