CenturyLink today announced the availability of Runner, a hybrid cloud IT-management platform. Runner puts management and provisioning tools based on Ansible in the hands of IT organizations, and can be used with both internal clouds and public ones. Runner is built around Ansible, the provisioning software purchased by Red Hat last fall. Using Ansible with … continue reading
Today Dropbox showcased a new technology preview called Project Infinite. The goal of this project is to reimagine how people find, access and collaborate with large amounts of data, according to a Dropbox blog post. Most users work on devices with limited storage capacity, said the company, and when people work in teams, getting secure … continue reading
Red Hat has announced the availability of a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux developer subscription yesterday, which is part of the Red Hat Developer Program. It is offered as a self-supported, development-only subscription. It provides developers with a stable development platform for building enterprise applications across cloud, physical, virtual and container infrastructures. With this subscription, … continue reading
The R programming language is getting some attention this week. The R Consortium has announced funding for seven community projects as well as the formation of two technical working groups designed to advance the language. “The R Consortium is proud to support initiatives that will positively impact many R users, including community events, training, packages … continue reading
Red Hat commissioned a new mobile survey that focused on line-of-business (LOB) decision-makers that almost half see mobility as a means to automate existing business processes. Only 26% of them cited pursuing mobile objectives as changing the way they do business. On the other hand, IT decision-makers view mobile apps as more transformative for the … continue reading
Google Cloud Debugger lets developers inspect the state of an application at any code location without stopping or slowing it down. It now has an enhanced UI, expanded language support, and debugging from more places, according to the Google Cloud Platform blog. This can be viewed in the application state without adding logging statements, and … continue reading
The JBoss team at Red Hat is hoping you’re ready for a new Java platform. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform version 7 entered beta yesterday, making it available to users for free. This new version includes Java-focused updates while adding the WildFly Application Server 10 to the bundle for the first time. WildFly has been … continue reading
Over the past couple of years, mobile has become a big part of companies’ business strategies, and according to a recent report, it’s starting to pay off. Red Hat has released its mobile maturity survey, which revealed that 74% of IT decision-makers who are using key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure their mobile app success … continue reading
The growth of container usage has created new challenges for DevOps teams, which is why Black Duck Software announced today that it will be adding container-scanning capabilities to its Hub software. This addition will help DevOps teams map open-source security vulnerabilities for applications. It will also allow them to map Linux distributions and other software … continue reading
Back in October, Red Hat acquired AnsibleWorks, making it the first major software company to buy out one of the four burgeoning players in the provisioning market. Today, Ansible released the first fruits of that acquisition in Ansible 2.0. Chief among the changes in 2.0, said James Cammarata, head of the Ansible open-source project, was … continue reading
JRebel for Android, a productivity tool that enables developers to see their code and resource changes instantly, is now ready to be used. The version 1.0 release includes support for debugger integration, Android Studio 1.0 and later (including 2.0 preview builds), both Android emulators and devices, and incremental install. More information is available here. Red … continue reading
Red Hat wants to give DevOps teams more control and options in its latest release of Ansible Tower 2.4: the open-source automation tool designed to help DevOps manage and track their infrastructure. This is the first release of Ansible Tower since Red Hat acquired Ansible in October. “Adopted by Fortune 100 companies and government organizations … continue reading
