Progeny Systems deploys Xamarin-based mobile device management project on the high seas
Department of Defense contractors live by a different set of rules than the private sector when it comes to developing projects that are charged with the nation’s safety. At this year’s Mobile World Congress Americas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partnered with several contractors who are developing new defense and security solutions built on … continue reading
DHS, United Technologies use machine learning and AI to develop API-based security solutions
Application security threats continue to increase in sophistication and number as the technologies that enable them do. There’s been a 12 percent increase in banking trojans. A 23 percent increase in spyware. A 22 percent increase in botnets and other crypto mining malicious apps. While there are tools and technologies available to developers and IT … continue reading
Eclipse Foundation and CNCF working to create new Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group
The Eclipse Foundation has announced that it will be collaborating with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to create a new Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group to address the increasing demand for Kubernetes in IoT cloud and edge environments. IDC predicts that worldwide spending on IoT will reach $1.2 trillion by 2022, with IoT at … continue reading
The Linux Foundation to unite network automation and cloud-native communities
The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaboration between the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the LF Networking community at the Open Networking Summit in Europe today. As part of the collaboration, the foundation will help with the migration of Virtual Network Functions (VFN) to Cloud-native Functions (CNFs). According to the foundation, networks need to … continue reading
Microsoft Ignite themes: Security, AI and data, IoT and edge computing
Microsoft kicked off its Ignite conference this morning with a boatload of announcement primarily around three themes: IT security, AI and data, and IoT and edge computing. With cyberattacks continuing to harm organizations around the world, Microsoft announced Secure Score, a report card to assess their current state of security as well as make recommendations … continue reading
premium The challenges of developing and maintaining software in critical infrastructure
Over the past decade, enterprise software investments have increased significantly, and don’t show any signs of slowing down. Gartner Group recently predicted 9.5 percent growth in enterprise software spending in 2018, with another 8.4 percent growth in 2019, totaling $421 billion. Driven by the fast pace of improvement in what software can do, it is … continue reading
Cortex becomes CNCF project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has accepted Cortex as a CNCF Sandbox project. Cortex is an open-source Prometheus as a Service monitoring solution. “Cortex is an open-source tool that provides horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus metrics when used as a remote write destination, and a horizontally scalable, Prometheus-compatible query API,” the company … continue reading
Micro Focus launches new solutions for virtual and hybrid environments
Software and IT company Micro Focus announced the launch of Data Protector Express and Data Protector Premium today. Both are new forms of its enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solution targeted at virtualized and hybrid cloud environments respectively. Data Protector Express features socket-based pricing, the company says, tailored towards virtual environments. The company highlighted the … continue reading
DevOps World | Jenkins World: The building blocks of cloud-native application development
Cloud-native applications are on the rise. In fact, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation recently released a report that found the use of cloud-native technologies in production increased more than 200 percent in the last couple of months. However, Justin Graham, senior manager of market strategy and ecosystem development for AWS, finds that the more a … continue reading
Linkerd 2.0 from CNCF enters general availability, now a “service sidecar”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has launched version 2.0 of Linkerd, which provides service discovery, routing, failure handling, and visibility for applications. This release introduces a more incremental scale and features “improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use,” the company said in the announcement. The company explained that the project has been reconfigured … continue reading
premium Why it’s time to finally ditch the Big Four in ITOM
In July 2018, Broadcom announced its plan to acquire CA Technologies for nearly $19 billion. While analysts have furiously debated the merits of a chip manufacturer buying an enterprise software company, the CA acquisition heralds a momentous shift in the $25 billion IT operations management (ITOM) software market. For more than two decades, four technology … continue reading
Cloudian joins the iROD Consortium
Enterprise data storage company Cloudian has joined the iRODS Consortium, a foundation that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS), bringing their combined solution to Cloudian users. “Increasing data management efficiency is central to our customers’ objectives as they strive to manage more complex storage environments without increasing management workload,” said … continue reading
Ampere announces availability of eMAG for hyperscale cloud computing
Ampere, which is developing an Arm-based server platform for the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing, today announced availability of its first generation Armv8-A 64-bit processors for data centers. Already selected by Lenovo and several ODMs, the Ampere eMAG processors deliver excellent total cost of ownership (TCO) value, high-performance compute, high memory capacity, and rich … continue reading
OMG issues two RFPs for SysML v2
The Object Management Group is creating an opportunity for interested parties to contribute to the future of the SysML specification. It has issued two new RFPs for the SysML v2 standard: SysML v2 API and Services RFP and SysML v2 RFP. According to the company, the RFPs are the result of a 1 1/2-year effort … continue reading
