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Puppet’s 2017 State of DevOps report finds software releases speeding up
The rate at which software gets deployed in organizations is speeding up quickly, as even the lowest-performing organizations are now fielding new applications at a rate of about once a week to once a month, up from once every month to six months a year ago. That’s according to information technology automation software provider Puppet ...
Databricks updates Apache Spark’s deep learning, streaming capabilities
Databricks Inc. today took some serious steps toward boosting the value proposition of the popular open-source Apache Spark big data processing engine, which is facing potent new competition. The San Francisco-based company announced updates that include new deep learning and structured streaming capabilities that add more versatility to the platform, as well as a new ...
Red Hat boosts versatility of Ceph Storage platform in new update
Red Hat Inc. has updated its Ceph Storage platform to expand the product’s versatility as an object storage platform, so it can be optimized to suit a range of workloads across deployments of any size. The company’s Ceph Storage product is an open-source, software-defined unified storage platform that decouples software from hardware. The company said it’s ...
Zuora launches cloud financial-operations platform to automate subscription billing
Subscription billing software provider Zuora Inc. is heading for the cloud with the launch of new platform called Zuora Central that automates enterprises’ financial operations and eases the burden on their existing information technology infrastructure. The platform is touted as a “completely new architecture” that aims to upend the traditional enterprise resource planning software market, ...
Balbix touts new security platform that predicts where data breaches are most likely to happen
Balbix Inc. comes out of stealth today as the latest in a long line of startups that are aiming to upend the traditional information technology security industry. Balbix is launching with what it claims is the industry’s first-ever “predictive breach-risk” platform that aims to shore up organizations’ network defenses. To do so, its platform leverages ...
Apache Hadoop’s first update in two years focuses on cloud and security
The first new update of the open-source big-data software Apache Hadoop in two years has just been released by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Hadoop 2.8, the popular software framework for scalable, distributed computing, boasts a number of improvements focused on cloud and security. “Apache Hadoop 2.8 maintains the project’s momentum in its stable release series,” said Chris ...
GitHub survey: Open-source software suffers poor docs, rude developers, few women
Open-source software may be sweeping across the tech industry, but it’s marked by poor documentation, rude developers and a striking lack of women. That’s according to GitHub, the popular web-based version control repository and Internet hosting service, which has just published the findings of its 2017 Open Source Survey. More than 5,500 community members from ...
SIOS iQ update enables predictive analytics in VMware environments
SIOS Technology Corp. is revamping its SIOS iQ analytics software for VMware Inc. environments in an update that delivers new data integration capabilities from sources such as Splunk Inc., Hadoop and Elasticsearch BV, plus the ability to identify and correct the root causes of application performance issues. In an interview with SiliconANGLE, SIOS Chief Executive ...
Open-source awless.io aims to become new user interface for Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s enormous infrastructure offerings have made life much easier for developers in so many ways, but it also brings new headaches when it comes to managing that infrastructure — one of them the difficulty of using AWS’s time-consuming graphical user interface for oft-repeated tasks. That’s why developers are touting a new open-source ...
For developers of customer-facing apps, it’s cloud-native or bust
So-called “cloud-native” architectures will become the new default environment for customer-facing applications within the next four years, according to a new study by Capgemini SE. The information technology consultancy interviewed more than 900 senior professionals in 11 countries for its comprehensive study, and found that around 15 percent of all new enterprise apps created today are cloud-native. ...