The information management platform OpenText is in talks to acquire the enterprise software company Micro Focus. Both companies’ boards have reached an agreement on what the terms of the acquisition would be. OpenText’s CEO Mark J Barrenechea commented that this acquisition will position the company as one of the biggest software and cloud companies in … continue reading
NGINX, the company behind the popular web server of the same name, announced several updates at its NGINX Sprint event, which is a free event designed for open-source developers looking to build the next generation of applications. It also reflected on its progress over the past 18 years and shared its vision for the future, … continue reading
Web development company Netlify has announced a new Next.js Runtime. Next.js is a web development framework for React-based applications developed by Vercel. According to Netlify, some of the largest Next.js projects are making use of its runtime. These include DocuSign, TripActions, and Twilio. This is evidence that Netlify is trusted as the platform for building … continue reading
Value stream management and data-driven insights have been hot topics these past few years, and interest will continue to grow. Late last year, Gartner put out a prediction that by 2023, 70% of organizations will be using value stream management in some capacity. In order to do value stream successfully, however, companies need to understand … continue reading
The data connectivity company CData has announced the 2022 release of its drivers and connectivity solutions, and the update comes packed with features. First, it announced the addition of several new data sources, including AlloyDB, Azure Active Directory, Monday.com, Neo4j, Oracle ERP, Oracle HCM, Oracle Service Cloud, Outreach, Pipedrive, Reckon Accounts Hosted, Salesloft, and Zoho … continue reading
Aqua Security has updated its open-source project Trivy to include cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities. Trivy is a code scanning tool that looks through container images, file systems, and Git repositories for security vulnerabilities. Now, the tool can be used with AWS, and Aqua Security said that support for other cloud providers is upcoming. … continue reading
The technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) has announced Parts 1 and 2 of its Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) have been made International Standards Organization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) standards. UAF is a framework that developers use to represent enterprise architectures, allowing specific areas to be focused on while still having visibility into the big … continue reading
Companies find many benefits from using Kubernetes to manage their containers, but might find that one challenge is managing resources and costs. In order to solve this problem, workload optimization company Granulate has released a new free solution, gMaestro, which companies can use to gain visibility into their Kubernetes clusters and avoid over-provisioning resources. According … continue reading
Swedish-Ukrainian software company Sigma Software Group has teamed up with Tech Nation to host a hackathon called Hack for Peace throughout Europe aimed at building tech solutions for solving issues related to war and promoting peace throughout the region. “Across our networks, we have seen tech leaders supporting individuals affected by this tragedy, and striving … continue reading
Veracode has announced that it updated its Continuous Software Security Platform with enhancements like extended integrations for software composition analysis (SCA), an API for creating software bill of materials (SBOMs), and new improved language and framework support for static analysis. “Modern applications are mostly assembled, not written from scratch,” said Brian Roche, chief product officer … continue reading
Checkov, the open-source tool for finding infrastructure misconfigurations, has been updated with new CI/CD configuration policies. These policies can be applied across popular CI/CD frameworks like GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, BitBucket Pipelines, CircleCI, and Argo. Checkov has a developer-first approach to supply chain security, so it embeds these CI/CD policies directly into existing DevOps workflows … continue reading
Only a small portion of SAP users have finished making the transition to SAP S/4HANA, which is a version of SAP based on the HANA database, introduced in 2015. According to LeanIX, SAP S/4HANA redefines ERP systems and is the most notable SAP update since 1992 with the introduction of SAP R/3. Twelve percent of … continue reading
