Databases comprise one of the largest and most foundational segments of the IT landscape—in some cases, comprising over 50 percent of the cost of the total application stack. The size and prominence of this segment continues to expand unfettered. Recent estimates from Gartner peg the database market at $36.4 billion, having grown 8.6 percent in … continue reading
TestPlant has announced the latest release of its AI-powered test automation solution. Eggplant AI 2.0 is designed to predict when issues in software are most likely to occur and utilize gathered data to help teams identify and resolve such issues. The solution is also designed to intelligently navigate through apps to reduce the time needed … continue reading
Microsoft has announced plans to use blockchain technology to help users own and control their digital identities. The company is working on developing solutions that define the state of a decentralized identifier (DID), provides a server that resolves DIDs around blockchains, and specifications that define a document format for encoding DIDs. “Each of us needs … continue reading
As companies grow, they find themselves faced with an increased need to manage risk, said Mark Hurd, the CEO of Oracle in his keynote speech at Oracle CloudWorld 2018. According to Hurd, technology innovation and consumer adoption are increasing faster than IT can keep up. He also claimed that 80 percent of the IT budget … continue reading
Pivotal and VMware have announced the general availability of its Kubernetes-based container service Pivotal Container Service (PKS). The two companies along with Google Cloud announced it would be collaborating on PKS at a VMware conference in August. The initial version was released late last year. “As you evaluate your enterprise software portfolio, you’re going to … continue reading
XebiaLabs today announced it has secured more than $100 million in a series B round of funding. The company plans to use this new growth investment to enter in a new era of enterprise DevOps. “This past year was our strongest to date, and today’s investment will perfectly position us to lead a new era … continue reading
Apache CloudStack 4.11 is now available. CloudStack is an enterprise cloud orchestration platform designed for creating private, public and hybrid cloud environments. The latest update features a new Host HA framework, new certificate authority framework, integration with Prometheus, and Layer 2 networking capabilities. “This release has been driven by the people operating CloudStack clouds,” said … continue reading
GitHub is identifying key open-source project trends to be on the lookout this year based on its contributor, visitor and star activity data. The company took the top 100 projects with the largest increase in contributors, identified the top 100 projects with the most visitors, and took into account the top 100 projects with the … continue reading
“The future of coding is no coding at all.” It was a bold proclamation for Chris Wanstrath, CEO of GitHub, to make at the company’s recent Universe Conference considering he heads one of the most important companies for developers. But I can’t help but think Chris is on to something — technology is transforming development … continue reading
Apple has filed a copyright takedown request with GitHub to force the company to remove leaked source code information. It was reported earlier this week by Motherboard that the company’s core iPhone OS source code was published on GitHub, making it a lot easier for hackers and security researchers to find defects in iOS and … continue reading
ESLint wants to help clean up your JavaScript code. ESLint is a pluggable linting solution for JavaScript and JSX. Code linting is a type of static analysis designed to identify and report on problematic problems. “JavaScript, being a dynamic and loosely-typed language, is especially prone to developer error. Without the benefit of a compilation process, … continue reading
UShareSoft has released UForge AppCenter 3.8, its release automation platform for hybrid IT. The latest release is designed to enable customers to model, build, and deploy applications from a single console as well as simplify app delivery. UForge AppCenter 3.8 features a ‘quick launch’ functionality that enables users to instantly deploy applications to the cloud. … continue reading
Once organizations and their development teams have mastered agile and DevOps, the next step is to look at what software architecture is the best fit for DevOps. DevOps introduces automation into operations with continuous delivery. However, the benefits of rapid change in production can only be realized if it is possible to make these changes … continue reading
The January 2018 release of Visual Studio Code has arrived. New features include Explorer multi-selection, improved Settings search, errors and warnings in Explorer, and Git submodule support. A full list of features can be found on the release page. Preview features that are not ready to be released yet includes support for language packs and … continue reading
