Illumio has announced new partnerships with Docker and Mesosphere to provide its adaptive security tooling to container users. The Illumio Adaptive Security Platform brings security controls and monitoring into the development process, to be managed as part of the software development life cycle. Alan Cohen, chief commercial officer of Illumio, said that his company’s platform … continue reading
Talend today released version 6 of its eponymous data integration platform. The new version includes new native support for Apache Spark and Spark Streaming. This version also includes support for continuous delivery of integration and analysis applications. Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend, said, “Fast analytics absolutely requires fast data integration, so we are very happy … continue reading
Mirantis has released a new version of its OpenStack distribution. Version 7.0 includes bug fixes, new Hadoop and Spark support, and integrations with Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. For existing Mirantis users, the upgrade path to version 7.0 comes with rollback capabilities. That should allow users to implement this new version easily, helping them to utilize … continue reading
When you hire the head of a popular new framework, you usually take some time to sit them down, design a product, and allow him or her to build it. SmartBear, however, seems to have magically produced a new product hot on the heels of its hiring of Tony Tam, the creator of Swagger. The … continue reading
Version 2.6 of Git has been released. This new edition includes many new capabilities, functions and bug fixes. It also lays the foundation for major changes to the platform, and completely rewrites the “git pull” function in C. Future versions of Git are destined to allow multiple types of “back ends,” and in preparation for … continue reading
MapR Technologies today announced the availability of a developer preview of its new native JSON support inside Hadoop. This addition gives users access to a document store that can be linked directly into Hadoop. The new JSON support is included in MapR-DB, a NoSQL data store. Anil Gadre, senior vice president of product management at … continue reading
Tony Tam has definitely got Swagger—as in the API framework that he created. Swagger 2.0 was released earlier this year, and its popularity is helping to smooth out the frustratingly fragmented world of APIs. Today, he joined SmartBear, where he will head up API-related work within the company. Tam originally developed Swagger while working, of … continue reading
For years, developers have had a Vagrant on their desktop, helping them quickly go from code to build to running application. Today, however, Vagrant gives way as Otto, its follow-up applications, arrives on the scene. Hosted at Ottoproject.io, Otto is built to ease the definition and deployment of multi-tier applications. The tool joins a retinue … continue reading
Netflix and Oculus announced yesterday that they had been collaborating to build a VR movie-watching application. The app, written by 3D programming legend John Carmack, includes a virtual living room and takes into account the viewing angle such a device requires. At Oculus Connect, a developer event hosted by Oculus, Carmack, the company’s CTO and … continue reading
Man-in-the-middle attacks are nothing new. But when that man-in-the-middle attack includes cookie injections, things get messy. Security researcher Xiaofeng Zheng published a PDF describing the methods used to make such an attack work in August. In the PDF, Zheng detailed the lack of security around cookies. “The same-origin policy is a corner stone of Web … continue reading
Tamr today announced the opening of a public beta program for Tamr Catalog, a metadata cataloging service for enterprise data stores. The new software offering is designed to provide an alternative to master data management by keeping an inventory of all the enterprise data sources, not just the large corporately backed ones. Tamr is focused … continue reading
Two years ago, Google released the Zopfli compression algorithm, which saw large-scale interest. Yesterday, the company followed it up that with a new open-source compression algorithm known as Brotli. Zopfli was quickly adopted by developers building PNG optimizers or other Web-useful items, like font compression. The goal for Brotli is to enable even more use … continue reading
