“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads,” Dr. Emmett Brown famously said in the hit movie “Back to the Future.” Doc was wrong about that, though. Today you still need roads, but perhaps what we don’t need are drivers. Today is Back to the Future Day, the day on which Marty McFly and Doc … continue reading
EMC and VMware have announced they are combining their cloud capabilities to form a new cloud services business. The business will be designed to provide on and off-premise cloud offerings under the Virtustream brand. Virtustream will be jointly owned by EMC and VMware. “Through Virtustream, we are addressing the changes in buying patterns and IT … continue reading
Idyllic Software (http://www.idyllic-software.com) , a provider of enterprise-grade software delivery services, and Simplicity Itself (http://www.simplicityitself.com), the leader for Microservices success, today announced GoMicro.Services. The new company is the first software firm dedicated exclusively to Microservices delivery, training and consulting services for organizations of all types. The firm will offer architecture, consultancy and end-to-end delivery of … continue reading
Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security and Cloud Integration Solutions, announced today that it is the first API Management platform to offer comprehensive support for the leading API description languages, including the ability to translate between them. The unique ability to translate between different API description languages makes API publication and consumption … continue reading
Docker today announced its acquisition of Tutum, a startup founded three months after Docker itself was released. Tutum offers a Docker container-management and hosting platform that can control cloud or on-premise solutions from a cloud-based management console. Borja Burgos, CEO of Tutum and now a Docker employee, said of the founding of his company, “We … continue reading
Oracle has announced the availability of its second major release of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux. The distribution is based on the Kilo release of the OpenStack platform, and is packaged as Docker containers. Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle, said that Oracle not only differentiates its OpenStack distribution … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop that integrates web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, today announced the availability of Apache Drill 1.2 in its Distribution as well as a new Data Exploration Quick Start Solution. Customers and partners can now more quickly leverage Drill to get fast business insights … continue reading
Devart is a recognized developer of database tools and data connectivity solutions announces a new update of dbForge Studio for SQL Server v5.0, a leading IDE for SQL Server development, management, data reporting and analysis. Version 5.0 introduces the brand new Source Control tool. The tool allows source-controlling SQL databases in the most popular source … continue reading
A group of tech companies are banding together to become Fight for the Future, an organization dedicated to giving everyone access to the Internet’s resources and fighting against CISA, a controversial cybersecurity bill. The coalition announced that Google has joined in the fight to stop the bill, which could reach the Senate as early as … continue reading
Security firm SourceDNA has revealed a number of iOS apps that are violating Apple’s App Store policy that use private APIs to obtain a user’s private data. The apps all had one thing in common: They used the Youmi advertising SDK from China. “We found 256 apps (est. total of 1 million downloads) that have … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Black Duck Software, a global leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, today announced a collaboration to establish a secure and trusted model for containerized application delivery by providing verification that application containers are free from known vulnerabilities and … continue reading
IT Operations people are too often the unsung heroes in an IT organization. They perform a phenomenal set of tasks that can easily be overshadowed by more glamorous developers. You know the ones: Always in the spotlight creating the apps that promise to make the business 1, 10 or 100 million dollars. IT Operations teams … continue reading
