Hollie Kay built her first website in 1999, despite discouragement from teachers over her taking up “computers” as a lifelong career path. She didn’t pay attention. While her schoolteachers dismissed her lack of following orders as “willful disobedience,” as she puts it, she was really using machines and websites as a way to cope with … continue reading
Mozilla is continuing its commitment to the Internet of Things. The company recently announced it would turn its focus from Firefox OS for smartphones to Firefox OS for connected devices, and it is now announcing four new experimental projects as part of that connected devices initiative. “We are focused on a gated innovation process that … continue reading
Hortonworks, one of the three major Hadoop vendors, announced yesterday that it has been collaborating with HP to improve Apache Spark. The work has already yielded faster sort and in-memory computation for the project, as well as improved performance and usage for scalability. Hortonworks also announced the inclusion of Apache Kafka and Storm in its … continue reading
The Docker Cloud was made available yesterday. It’s a new cloud service by Docker that expands on the features of Tutum, bringing a tight integration with the Docker Hub and also providing updates and fixes. Docker Cloud is where developers and IT ops meet to build, ship and run applications. With the Docker Cloud, developers … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, released a major upgrade for SwaggerHub, the place for development teams to collaborate and coordinate the entire lifecycle of an API. With reusable components, new SwaggerHub Domains allows API designers to simplify API design, support larger API design teams, centrally manage APIs better … continue reading
Appvance has closed a $5 million round of venture capital funding led by Javelin Venture Partners to continue its mission to reinvent enterprise software and application testing with the world’s first “DevOps-ready” software quality assurance solution. Appvance’s Unified Test Platform (UTP) helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of all their applications as much … continue reading
Apprenda, the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS), today announced it is incorporating Kubernetes, Google’s open-source orchestration system for Docker containers, for part of its architecture and is joining the highly committed Kubernetes community. During the next few product releases, Apprenda will incorporate Kubernetes into its current architecture. Specifically, Apprenda will extend its existing … continue reading
Cryptsoft today announced the release of its Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) and Cryptographic interface (PKCS#11) Client Software Development Kit (SDK) for C++ developers at the RSA Conference 2016. “Cryptsoft is continuing to meet market demand by expanding our industry leading range of KMIP and PKCS#11 software development kits in 2016,” said Greg Scott, CEO … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Eurotech, a leading provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, today announced a collaboration to simplify IoT integration and accelerate implementations of IoT projects. Red Hat and Eurotech have combined their complementary technologies with the intention of building an … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the only converged data platform, today announced the availability of the MapR Converged Data Platform in the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace. With CenturyLink’s new Blueprint for MapR, joint customers can quickly and easily deploy a cloud configuration leveraging Hadoop, Spark and other big data technologies for managing, analyzing and acting on … continue reading
If you haven’t heard of polyglot persistence before, simply put, it means using different database technologies to handle specific needs. The term was derived from something else you may have heard: polyglot programming, which expresses the idea that applications should be written in a mix of languages to take advantage of the fact that different … continue reading
ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory data grid software, today announced a new query capability called “computational query” that combines Microsoft’s LINQ query with the company’s data-parallel computing technology to offer more powerful and flexible query tools for grid-based applications. Now available with ScaleOut Software’s suite of in-memory data grid products, including ScaleOut StateServer® … continue reading
