Apache’s NoSQL key-value store, Cassandra, reached version 3.0 today, with dozens of bug fixes and performance improvements. Chief among the changes is the improvement of data consistency operations, as well as savings when it comes to space used by the data store. Among the changes in this release are the new materialized views and user-defined … continue reading
Schoology announced today a US$32 million round of financing, led by JMI Equity, as well as from FirstMark Capital, Great Road Holdings, and Intel Capital. Schoology has a total of $57 million for funding. It started in 2009 as an education technology company that matches collaboration with learning. The company said it has more than … continue reading
Boards are increasingly concerned about code. This is primarily because code plays an ever more important role in company performance. Great code enables companies to better engage customers, make smarter decisions, and disrupt markets—or at least keep pace with disruptive competitors—while avoiding security and compliance risks. So boards have to worry about it. Code is … continue reading
Today Altova (http://www.altova.com) announced new features in the 2.0 release of MobileTogether, its paradigm shifting mobile development framework for multi-platform, data- centric apps. What’s revolutionary about MobileTogether? Using your in-house developers with no mobile development experience necessary, you can create sophisticated, native apps for all platforms in record time: anywhere from a couple days to … continue reading
Kodak Alaris today announced the creation of AI Foundry, a business dedicated to helping organizations process and learn from structured and unstructured data through the use of proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The launch of AI Foundry marks the next phase in Kodak Alaris’ evolution as a leading provider of information management solutions, building on … continue reading
When Engine Yard acquired Deis in April, it was a clear sign that the company had an interest in containers. Deis offered a container-based PaaS, and today the company released a package-management system for Kubernetes, known as Helm. Kubernetes has recently become a popular target for developers and vendors alike looking for a way to … continue reading
Google is releasing and open-sourcing TensorFlow, a machine-learning system. According to the company, the new system is greatly improved from Google’s previous machine-learning systems, and makes it easier to integrate in new products and research. “It’s a highly scalable machine-learning system—it can run on a single smartphone or across thousands of computers in datacenters,” wrote … continue reading
There are approximately 11 million developers in the world, creating all manner of software for all manner of businesses. Much of this software would benefit from data intelligence to gain efficiencies and greater revenue. However, there are approximately 100,000 data scientists in the world, and they are expensive. This is the problem Evan Prodromou faced … continue reading
Facebook wants to be more than just a social media platform. The company has been dabbling in virtual reality, software development, open-source software, Internet access, and more recently artificial intelligence. “Many people think of Facebook as just the big blue app, or even as the website, but in recent years we’ve been building a family … continue reading
Lookout, a mobile security company, has detected more than 20,000 samples of a trojanized adware pretending to be top apps like Candy Crush, Facebook, Google Now, NYTimes, Okta, Twitter, WhatsApp and more, according to its blog. Auto-rooting adware is a malware that roots the device automatically after the user installs it, embedding itself as a … continue reading
SUSE today announced the general availability of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, the latest version of its self-managing, self-healing, distributed software-based storage solution for enterprise customers. SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 is the first and only Ceph-based solution with heterogeneous operating system support, giving customers the ability to deploy software-defined storage with less cost. SUSE is also … continue reading
APIs form the glue of most modern applications, and SmartBear wants to make sure that glue continues to stick. The company has announced the Open API Initiative (OAI), a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project designed to advance and govern the Swagger specification. “Swagger is considered one of the most popular frameworks for building APIs,” said Jim … continue reading
