A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Anthony Griffin named chief architect of Hazelcast He has extensive experience building systems for financial institutions, such as Danske Bank, Nomura, HSBC, and others. Throughout his 25+ year … continue reading
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN), the cloud for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups, has acquired Paperspace, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure as a service for highly scalable applications leveraging graphics processing units (GPUs). The acquisition and integration of Paperspace’s advanced technology into the DigitalOcean platform will extend DigitalOcean’s offerings, enabling customers to … continue reading
DigitalOcean, the cloud computing company, today announced the release of its serverless product, DigitalOcean Functions. This offering is intended to bring users a fast, scalable, and cost-effective compute solution that allows them to build quickly, scale automatically, and save costs by removing the need to pay for idle resources. According to the company, Functions are … continue reading
Today the developer security company Snyk introduced new product innovations, DigitalOcean and HashiCorp partnerships, and launched Snyk Learn as part of SnykCon 2021. Snyk Code, which offers a dev-first approach to static application security testing tooling just received support for C#, Ruby, PHP and Go added to Java, Javascript, and Python. Also, Snyk Open Source … continue reading
After 20 years, the open-source community is stronger than ever. However, a recent report found developers wish they had more time and know-how to contribute to open-source projects. According the report, respondents don’t quite know where to begin and start to question their skills and time. Additionally, developers say they are either too intimidated to … continue reading
Continuous integration is becoming more popular than continuous delivery in large-scale organizations. A recent report by DigitalOcean found 45 percent of respondents reported using CD compared to 58 percent who reported using CI. Forty-three percent of respondents who reported they were not using a CI or CD process stated they planned to use CI/CD, while … continue reading
Despite the benefits artificial intelligence brings to the lifecycle, not a lot of developers are taking advantage of it. A newly released report from DigitalOcean found only 17 percent of respondents worked with artificial intelligence or machine learning in 2017. However, 73 percent of those not using AI, plan to at least learn more about … continue reading
Synopsys releases BSIMM8 Electronic design automation company Synopsys has released the latest version of their software security maturity model, BSIMM8, which includes data collected from 109 firms and describes the work of nearly 5,000 software security professionals. Findings of the survey show a clear trend of improvement, with companies seeing an average score increase between … continue reading
DigitalOcean’s network engineer Jeremy Stretch was on a mission to find a provider-grade IP address management solution. The search was unsuccessful, so Stretch and his team set out to build the cloud company’s most popular open source project, NetBox. NetBox was first announced in June 2016, and it is targeted toward network engineers, data center … continue reading
DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, today launched Cloud Firewalls, a free service that secures Droplets (cloud servers) by reducing the surface area of a potential attack. Developers can deploy the service in seconds without installing or configuring any software, and define what ports are visible on their Droplets to minimize risk. Along with DigitalOcean’s free … continue reading
New York – DigitalOcean, the simple cloud infrastructure provider built for developers, today announced the close of a $83 million Series B funding round led by Access Industries, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz. Since launching in 2012, DigitalOcean has become the world’s second largest cloud infrastructure provider for developers building websites and applications. The company … continue reading
Samsung may or may not be in talks to buy BlackBerry. According to a Reuters report, Samsung recently approached BlackBerry with a buyout offer of as much as US$7.5 billion. The report stated that executives met last week to discuss the proposed deal. BlackBerry announced a security partnership with Samsung this past November, but for … continue reading
