IBM today announced an expansion of its Internet of Things (IoT) platform – called IBM IoT Foundation – through an integration with ARM, providing out of the box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services. This fusion will allow huge quantities of data from devices such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring … continue reading
Service virtualization has gotten the short shrift over the course of its lengthy history. Whether you chart its inception in 2002 with the release of Parasoft’s Stub Server, or in 2007 when CA took up the banner and market around the term, the entire concept has yet to even take on the status of buzzword. … continue reading
SAP yesterday introduced HANA Vora: a new in-memory query engine for Apache Spark. This new engine allows analysis to be undertaken in a more interactive and iterative manner. The new engine will be available to customers later this month. Quentin Clark, CTO and member of the Global Managing Board of SAP, explained the goals of … continue reading
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, and Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that NexentaStor, the company’s flagship software-only platform, has been integrated with SanDisk’s all-flash InfiniFlash IF100 system. This all-flash joint solution provides data center customers with a pre-tested, full-featured, cost-effective, high-performance system for addressing today’s increasing Big Data challenges. … continue reading
The Internet of Things, by its very name, represents massive complexity hardware and chip needs, and software to drive it all. If you’re embarking on an IoT project but don’t know where to start, or need help with software architecture or writing software for a hardware device, here’s your opportunity to get answers. Send your … continue reading
Last year, Amazon Web Services chopped prices for the 42nd time since 2008. For many industry observers, the move sent a clear message to Amazon’s competitors that if they’re looking to scoop up some of the company’s market share, they’ll have to be willing to cut into their own profits by offering the lowest prices … continue reading
Google wants to make mobile sites more mobile friendly by removing distracting app install interstitials. According to the company, some interstitials hide a majority of the site’s content, and users get frustrated when they come across them. To address this, Google is updating its Mobile-Friendly Test to indicate which sites should avoid app install interstitials. … continue reading
Micro Focus announced today the general availability of Atlas™ 2.0, its latest business requirements and delivery platform. Agile Software delivery organizations are constantly inundated with changes and requests for next-generation products and services to increase employee productivity, deepen customer loyalty and yield greater competitive advantage in today’s digital economy. With Atlas, business analysts can more … continue reading
Today at HP Protect, the company’s annual enterprise security user conference, HP introduced new enterprise data security capabilities designed to support customers as they shift from traditional security methods to protecting interactions between users, applications and data. Delivered through the data-centric security offerings of HP Atalla and HP Security Voltage, these new capabilities address PCI … continue reading
XebiaLabs today announced the release of XL Deploy 5.1, making it the first deployment and application release automation (ARA) tool to offer dependency management for complex software applications. With the latest update, companies can use XL Deploy to keep track of all interdependencies between application components and make sure all required components are deployed, thereby … continue reading
Accenture and SOASTA, a leader in performance analytics, are forming an alliance to provide faster and more reliable digital performance management solutions to clients. In addition, Accenture has made a minority investment in SOASTA. Terms of Accenture’s investment were not disclosed. Combining Accenture’s global testing and performance engineering capabilities with SOASTA’s advanced performance management and … continue reading
Visual Studio Online continues to undergo changes as Microsoft moves to a quicker cloud release cycle. This article examines these changes and looks at the improvements that are helping to move organizations from on-premises Team Foundation Server implementations to using Visual Studio Online exclusively. In order to widen our perspective on Visual Studio Online, we … continue reading
