Puppet today made major changes at the corporate level while also releasing the latest enterprise version of its software. Puppet Enterprise 2016.1 brings the Puppet Orchestration tool up to an enterprise-grade level of maturity, and adds visualization capabilities. For administrators, the underlying graph structure of the Puppet database allows for some interesting monitoring opportunities. With … continue reading
The White House and the federal government will begin to make a major commitment to open-source software this summer. While the government has long used open-source software and tools, a new proposal out of the White House last weekend suggests that governmentally written or commissioned software should be released under free and open-source licenses. The … continue reading
Microsoft kicked off day two of its Build Conference by talking about new features for the Microsoft Azure Cloud service. The company has invested billions of dollars to build out data centers for Azure around the world, and along with those Azure features, it announced the open-sourcing and free availability of recently acquired cross-platform tools … continue reading
Codenvy, the browser-based IDE and workspace server, reached general availability today. The update comes shortly after a major update to the workspace server project, Eclipse Che, upon which Codenvy is based. “Codenvy is the first enterprise offering based on Eclipse Che that empowers anyone, anywhere to contribute to any project without having to install software,” … continue reading
Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today in San Francisco. But prior to the opening of Build, Canonical and Microsoft announced that Ubuntu Linux would soon be coming to Windows. The companies are working to allow Windows to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This does not mean virtualization, but rather running a full Linux on … continue reading
Strata and Hadoop World day two kicked off with more Big Data-related announcements. Chief among them was Platfora’s 5.2 update, which brings native Tableau integrations into this data analytics platform. Platfora 5.2 also brings the benefits of its “lenses” to other BI tools. Lens is the Platfora query language, and in this release, external BI … continue reading
SQL is the prime building block of the modern enterprise. All those exciting applications, nifty mobile apps and massive back-end projects are, essentially, useless without the data behind them. That data may not be so important at runtime if the application is just saving logs or form information, but at the end of the day, … continue reading
The Strata and Hadoop World Conference in San Jose kicked off this morning with tutorial sessions covering all manner of Apache projects and Big Data challenges. While the attendees learned about techniques, the vendors were busy announcing and detailing their latest and greatest Big Data software products. Security was a popular topic as Hadoop implementations … continue reading
Software is everywhere, eating industries, changing lives and connecting people. But some of the subtler ways in which software is eating the world are not entirely obvious at first glance. Who knew that Twitter was so important to revolutionaries until the Arab Spring, for example? Sure, we all know that software makes our bank accounts … continue reading
At this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the contrasts against the world of enterprise software were apparent. Instead of Continuous Integration or distributed development in the cloud, discussions focused more on topics such as monetization through ads, VR gear and diversity. The games industry paints an interesting contrast with the business world of … continue reading
After much chatter and speculation from fans, today Google posted an analysis describing AlphaGo’s victory victory and what was learned in South Korea. The AlphaGo AI project by Google’s DeepMind defeated Go champion Lee Sedol four games out of five. Demis Hassabis, CEO and cofounder of DeepMind, wrote that AlphaGo is capable of making value … continue reading
As Google prepares to release Android N later this year, developers and users are beginning to dig through the changes proposed for this new version of the mobile operating system. Some of the changes in N include the inclusion of an always-on VPN, the addition of direct boot mode, and the merging of two compiler … continue reading
