As an avid tester, Kristel Kruustük found that many crowdsourcing test platforms didn’t incentivize testers to dig deep into products for the real issues. What’s worse is there was no teamwork or collaboration between other testers. Testers didn’t care about the products, it was all a competition, and they weren’t producing quality results. That’s why … continue reading
Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today launched Commvault HyperScaleAppliance and Commvault HyperScale Software, two powerful, cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings that provide customers with on-premises simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data. Flexible to fit a wide range of customer needs and environments, the solutions are available … continue reading
Creating a flawless application that pleases all customers is much more complicated than traditional software, said Antoine Aymer, a mobile technologist at HPE. This is because the concept of user experience (UX) goes beyond a clean user interface and design. Organizations need to address expectations of the user, like how usable is the application and … continue reading
Java developers should be more aware of the open source software components they put in their applications if they want to avoid a security breach. A new report release by Veracode, a CA Technologies company, revealed 88% of Java apps include at least one vulnerable component, and about 53.3% of Java apps rely on a … continue reading
Businesses are struggling to stay relevant as the pace of business continues to accelerate and disruptive innovation becomes norm. To compete more effectively, leading companies are pushing Agile practices out from development teams to IT and the organization at large. They’re also integrating internal systems in unprecedented ways to better leverage their software and information … continue reading
Many of today’s organizations jump into microservices without considering what success will require. Rather than assessing where they are, where they want to go and how best to get there, they’re hoping to make giant leaps directly from waterfall or Agile to microservices. If you’re one of the hopefuls who wants to teach elephants how … continue reading
Organizations rolling out the IoT usually aren’t prepared for the additional complexity. With the IoT, data volumes grow exponentially, infrastructure management gets more complicated and the security vulnerabilities increase disproportionately. Nevertheless, IT departments are expected to handle all these changes competently without proportional increases in budget or other resources. With Red Hat’s expert assistance, IT … continue reading
Docker announced new efforts to meet the growing demand of its Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA program) at its DockerCon Europe conference this week. The Docker MTA application allows IT groups to modernize their legacy applications without having to modify their source code. As part of the new efforts, the company announced it is expanding their … continue reading
AppDynamics, a Cisco company, is ensuring today’s digital enterprise includes everyone in the business with its next generation of Business iQ. Business iQ is the company’s real-time business performance monitoring engine. Today’s release adds new IoT and network visibility and new machine learning capabilities for CIOs to get involved and understand their enterprise’s place in … continue reading
Developers can get an inside look at the upcoming Python web framework Django 2.0 with the latest beta release. The Django team announced the release of Django 2.0 beta 1. The framework enables users to build web apps quickly with less code. New features are expected to include: Python compatibility, third-party library support for older … continue reading
Realm has announced version 2.0 of their real-time mobile platform, adding new features and promising an easier way to make real-time, responsive mobile apps. The Realm Platform features tools for developers to integrate messaging, collaboration, a real-time distributed database and their Object Server computing platform in their apps. With this new release — in addition … continue reading
Docker is no longer competing with Kubernetes for container orchestration. The company announced this week at DockerCon Europe that it will be integrating Kubernetes into the Docker platform. Kubernetes is an open source system for automated container deployment, scaling and management. As part of Docker’s update to the Docker platform, Kubernetes will now be offered … continue reading
