At Big Data TechCon in Chicago this week, attendees were treated to a glimpse of the future of Hadoop and large-scale data processing. With new solutions such as Apache Apex and Snowflake, enterprise options were shown to be expanding fast. Keynote speaker Owen O’Malley, cofounder of Hortonworks and a 10-year veteran of the Hadoop project, … continue reading
Docker 1.9 arrived yesterday afternoon, bringing with it a host of changes to make the container platform more robust and capable of handling clusters of applications. This release is the first to include the final versions of multi-host networking and the clustering tool known as Swarm. Solomon Hykes, CTO and chief architect at Docker, said, … continue reading
MongoDB hit version 3.2 today, bringing with it greater integrations to enterprise analytics tools, new storage engines, and a new performance-monitoring tool. Kelly Stirman, vice president of strategy at MongoDB, said that this release was heavily focused on giving enterprise users the features they need to build mission-critical applications on top of MongoDB. (Related: How … continue reading
Chef is aiming at building out an entire life-cycle-management platform for provisioned systems. Today, the company announced the general availability of Chef Delivery, as well as a new product called Chef Compliance, which includes the fruits of its acquisition of VulcanoSec, a German software security firm. Chef Delivery has been available to select users since … continue reading
Moving forward at a breakneck pace, Node.js reached version 5.0 today. The new version includes several changes, but is also the first release to include the fruits of a reworking of the Node Package Manager. Indeed, Node.js 5.0 comes shortly after the release of Node.js version 4.2.0, which was the most recent long-term support (LTS) … continue reading
Despite 20 years of Java history, this was the youngest JavaOne conference yet. That’s due to the high number of teenagers at the show, many of which were there with their high school programming classes. Suri Nair, IT operations manager for the Overhead Door, said, “It’s really exciting. I see a lot of millennial people … continue reading
The Internet of Things is all around us, and every day we’re soaking it in. It is giving the Internet senses for the first time, which will drive us to the future of business technology. Sensors are a huge part of the Internet of Things—and soon a big part of the Internet as a whole. … continue reading
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s executive chairman and CTO, said on Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld that the cloud, in general, was still in its infancy. To that end, he introduced several cloud product offerings, from Docker hosting to data hosting, to supply chain and more. There’s just one problem: Few people at the show seemed at all … continue reading
Twenty years on, Java is still rolling right along. The JavaOne keynote address, given Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, had a somewhat reverent tone, as it covered both the past and future of the platform. Georges Saab, vice president of development at Oracle, gave an extensive history of the platform at the start of his … continue reading
For some, the term DevOps is already old hat. The word encompasses many ideals that have been espoused in software development for years, coupled with new ones. Configuring infrastructure as code, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, self-serve architecture: All of these things have long been the draw of the DevOps movement. But at the DevOps Enterprise … continue reading
Rogue Wave Software has released the results of its Open Source Support survey. The report reaps the fruits of support data gleaned from more than 8,000 open-source software packages from all walks of life. Rod Cope, CTO of Rogue Wave, wrote in the introduction of the report about the changing landscape of software due to … continue reading
Docker today announced its acquisition of Tutum, a startup founded three months after Docker itself was released. Tutum offers a Docker container-management and hosting platform that can control cloud or on-premise solutions from a cloud-based management console. Borja Burgos, CEO of Tutum and now a Docker employee, said of the founding of his company, “We … continue reading
