GlobalSCAPE, Inc., a pioneer and worldwide leader in the secure and reliable exchange of business information, announced today the immediate availability of EFT Insight, a new reporting platform to strengthen data governance and provide near real-time visibility into business critical data flows and exchanges. EFT Insight uses business and operational intelligence to ensure information exchanges … continue reading
Today we work with data that has grown up in diversity, scale and complexity — this applies to not only data scientists and academic researchers, but also the rest of us. Business analysts across a spectrum of industries are asked to include larger volumes of data in their work, now pervasive due to diminishing costs … continue reading
GitHub is giving administrators and developers new improvements for efficiency and flexibility in the latest release of Enterprise 2.10. GitHub Enterprise is an on-premises version of GitHub that provides businesses with a streamlined workflow, code collaboration, compliance capabilities, deployment and centralized permissions. The latest release features the new GitHub GraphQL API, which allows developers to … continue reading
Ask Cookie Monster what is the “Letter of the Day,” and he just might give you three: IBM. That’s because IBM and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the educational program Sesame Street, are working together to prove that it’s possible to enhance early childhood education experiences with a new cognitive vocabulary learning app. Built … continue reading
HyperGrid announced the next phase of HyperGrid to include HyperCloud, its on-premises pay as you use pricing model. It also announced the addition of new hybrid cloud decision intelligence features, which were added from the company’s recent acquisition of XOcur. “Delivering unified cloud services, quickly, simply and in a pay as you use model on premises … continue reading
As part of its rebranding effort to become a platform company, MapR is extending its Converged Data Platform to create a cloud-scale data store to manage files, objects and containers. The MapR-XD supports any data type from the edge to the data center and multiple cloud environments. “What we are hearing from our customers is … continue reading
Automation is an important technique used by high-performing IT organizations. Yet medium-performing groups do more manual work than low-performing groups, according to the 6th annual State of DevOps Report released today at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The middle performers were doing less automation of processes for change management, testing, deployment and change approval, … continue reading
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off today with new and improved features for developers. The conference opened up with a video of what would happen if suddenly all our applications disappeared and developers stopped developing them. The result lead to confusion, mayhem and disorder. “Keep making apps,” the video ended. “The world depends on … continue reading
Jean E. Sammet, a computer scientist widely known for developing the programming language Formula Manipulation Compiler (FORMAC), passed away late last month. Sammet was 89 years old. Throughout her life, Sammet developed FORMAC, served as the first Association for Computing Machinery (AMC) female president, helped design the COBOL programming language, and received a number of … continue reading
Artificial intelligence research has seen a lot progress over the years, moving from simply understanding images and speech to actually detecting emotions, driving cars, searching the web, and playing games. Because of these advancements, two AI experts decided to write an Artificial Intelligence and Games book, which will serve as the first comprehensive textbook on … continue reading
A new decentralized authentication protocol for websites and apps has been released. The SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0 is a password replacement that does not believe in giving third parties access to log into your account from anywhere. The solution aims to solve password reuse, usability, central authority, man-in-the-middle, and malware. “Classic passwords/2FA are poorly designed, … continue reading
LogiGear is making its test automation platform available for smaller development teams by offering a new “freemium” version of TestArchitect. According to CEO of LogiGear Hung Nguyen, the company was considering the software trends of today’s DevOps teams, and realized that not all small development teams have access to these tools, due to constraints like … continue reading