Microsoft is boosting its efforts to make Azure more secure with the launch of Azure Security Lab, a set of dedicated cloud hosts for security researchers to test attacks against IaaS scenarios. In addition, the cloud giant is doubling the top bounty reward for Azure vulnerabilities to $40,000. “To make it easier for security researchers … continue reading
CircleCI announced new Windows support for its continuous integration and delivery platform. According to the company, this will enable developers to run jobs across multiple platforms on a single workflow with Windows. The support joins CircleCI’s other set of supported execution environments such as Linux, Docker and macOS. The Windows jobs are VM-based and provide … continue reading
The Azure development team at Microsoft is working to provide new features to win over more developers, through a heavy investment in tools for migrating legacy platforms to its cloud, pushing machine learning, quantum computing and other innovative features. Microsoft hopes its investments will pay off in growing its cloud market share, which currently sits … continue reading
A new open-source project wants to take analytics to the next level. BlazingSQL is a GPU-accelerated SQL engine built on the RAPIDS ecosystem. RAPIDS is an open-source suite of software libraries for executing end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPUs. According to the team, BlazingSQL was built to address the expense, complexity and … continue reading
When discussing roadmaps and strategies for cloud migration, Capital One is often cited as a pristine example of a large-scale company that successfully moved to the public cloud. “Capital One’s CEO will tell you they are a technology company that does banking,” said Ken Corless, a principal with Deloitte Consulting in its cloud practice. “Not … continue reading
Enterprise value stream management provider CollabNet VersionOne has announced new updates to VersionOne for Agile management, Continuum for DevOps and its VS Solution. According to the company, the new updates aim to expand its support for Agile at scale and Agile frameworks as well as simplify Agile planning and management. “High performing software organizations are … continue reading
The federal government is also realizing the importance of the cloud. Last year, the Office of Management and Budget announced a Cloud Smart Strategy proposal in order to help agencies migrate to the cloud safely and securely. At the end of June, the White House Office of Management and Budget’s final version of the plan … continue reading
The winds are shifting in the industry, and enterprises are clear for takeoff to the cloud. It’s no longer a question of should you move to the cloud. Nowadays, you need a good reason not to be in the cloud, according to Ken Corless, a principal with Deloitte Consulting in its cloud practice. In a … continue reading
As software development grows more complex — microservices, containers, APIs, — and demand for faster releases increases, testing as usual can be seen as a clumsy, out-of-place step in the delivery process. Organizations that have adopted Agile development and DevOps methodologies know that testing has to keep pace, and are finding that tools that don’t … continue reading
Remember the old adage: “Speed, Cost, Quality– pick any two?” This tradeoff is no longer an option. With digital transformation initiatives driving DevTest teams to scale Agile and adopt DevOps, all three vectors must be addressed. This requires a fundamental shift in how you approach testing. It’s not a matter of acquiring more or better … continue reading
Handling digital images, integrating them into applications, dealing with different form designs and easily setting OCR language during recognition, are just a few of the issues developers need great tools for. LEAD Technologies, Inc., founded in 1990, and headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has as its foundation product LEADTOOLS, which continues to be the market leader … continue reading
Broadcom wants to expand continuous testing throughout the enterprise with the launch of the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform. The platform includes GUI functional tests, API testing and monitoring, performance testing, ability to create mock services and the ability to create and manage test assets. In addition, it includes support for more than 20 open-source tools … continue reading
