Last spring, Google.org announced Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, which was a contest for nonprofits building technology for people with disabilities. Today, more than 1,000 organizations in more than 88 countries have shared their ideas, and Google has released the list of winners that will receive US$20 million in grants. The organizations that Google is supporting … continue reading
For years, securing your website meant paying a certificate authority for the privilege. But last summer, the Let’s Encrypt Project kicked off, led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It sought to provide a free source of SSL certificates, and as of yesterday, that goal has been met. In the time since Let’s Encrypt began its … continue reading
For most business websites and applications, reliability is something that’s handled a bit by the developers, a bit by Q/A, and a bit by operations. At Google, however, reliability is a way of life—at least, it is for the company’s site reliability engineers (SREs). SREs are a unique bunch, and Google released a good deal … continue reading
The 2016 survey from OpenStack’s community and users was released this week. The purpose of this survey is to provide a glimpse at cloud deployments, use cases, and user attitudes to help guide future development in the technology of OpenStack. The survey represents responses from 1,111 organizations. Key findings included the continuing trend of cloud maturity. … continue reading
Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, today released the latest version of Nexus Repository, adding free support for seven of the most popular software component types. Additionally, Sonatype announced that Nexus Repository has now surpassed 100,000 active installations, including a majority of the Fortune 100, and continues to experience massive growth in usage. … continue reading
NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company offering enterprise-grade solutions for Node.js development and operations, today announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures, with participation from early investors Crosslink Capital and Resolute.vc. The additional financing will allow NodeSource to accelerate its development of products and services for Fortune 500 companies and other … continue reading
NGINX, Inc., the engine delivering sites and applications for the modern web, today announced the availability of NGINX Plus Release 9 (R9), the latest release of its application delivery platform. Today’s updates provide significant new features for NGINX’s innovative community of users, including the ability to dynamically install rich extensions to NGINX Plus, the inclusion … continue reading
Apache Storm hit a milestone release today. The Apache Software Foundation announced version 1.0 of the open-source distributed real-time computation framework for processing large streams of data with a new native streaming windows API. “Window-based computations are common among use cases in stream processing, where the unbounded stream of data is split into finite sets … continue reading
DataStax today moved into a new database market with the announcement that it will be releasing the DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Graph datastore later this year. The new database is built on the foundations of Apache Cassandra and the Apache TinkerPop Project. DSE Graph is a distributed graph database, meaning it can be hosted in multiple … continue reading
Lucidworks, a search and analytics software company, today released Lucidworks View, an extension to its flagship product Fusion. It allows companies to create custom search-driven applications that use Apache Solr and Apache Spark. Companies that build a recommendation-driven e-commerce site, or a searchable customer service portal, can use Lucidworks View to give their customers access … continue reading
DH2i Company, recently named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in the “Cool Vendors in Servers and Virtualization, 20151” report, today announced the industry’s first Containers as a Service (CaaS) solution for Microsoft SQL Server. The new CaaS offering enables SQL Server customers to plug-into DH2i’s award-winning DxEnterprise container management software in the cloud, in a simple, … continue reading
Hortonworks, Inc., a leading innovator of open and connected data platforms, today announced several key updates to Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). HDP allows customers to accumulate, analyze and act on information derived from data, and is 100% open source. The following advancements to the platform will be highlighted at Hadoop Summit Europe, April 13th-14th in … continue reading
