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By Liz McMillan  Widespread fragmentation is stalling the growth of the IIoT and making it difficult for partners to work together. The number of software platforms, apps, hardware and connectivity standards is creating paralysis among businesses that are afraid of being locked into a solution.
EdgeX... Dec. 24, 2017 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,491 | By Stackify Blog  One problem that all developers and companies struggle with is trying to decide if they should "build it" or "buy it". Software developers love to build things. That is what we do! Their natural reaction tends to lean towards building things. We are also always up for a new challenge.
... Dec. 16, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,611 | By Vaibhaw Pandey  MongoDB, an open-source document store and most popular NoSQL database on the market today, offers a variety of advanced features to administer security over your MongoDB deployments. In this tutorial post, we’re going to show you how to set up role-based access control (RBAC) to manag... Dec. 15, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,418 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Evatronix will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Evatronix SA offers comprehensive solutions in the design and implementation ... Dec. 10, 2017 07:45 AM EST Reads: 4,344 | By Liz McMillan  The 22nd International Cloud Expo | 1st DXWorld Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, to be held June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY, brings together Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps... Nov. 28, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,189 | By Pat Romanski  Widespread fragmentation is stalling the growth of the IIoT and making it difficult for partners to work together. The number of software platforms, apps, hardware and connectivity standards is creating paralysis among businesses that are afraid of being locked into a solution.
EdgeX... Oct. 22, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,704 | By Wesley Coelho; Rainer Ersch  Most large organizations require dozens and sometimes hundreds of specialized software tools to manage the lifecycle of the physical products or software applications they create. It isn’t hard to imagine the monumental waste these organizations incur in attempting to manually coordina... Sep. 15, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,833 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a fu... Sep. 14, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,742 | By Elizabeth White  In his opening keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Michael Maximilien, Research Scientist, Architect, and Engineer at IBM, discussed the full potential of the cloud and social data requires artificial intelligence. By mixing Cloud Foundry and the rich set of Watson services, IBM's Bluemix is t... Sep. 10, 2017 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,403 | By Pat Romanski  The goal of Continuous Testing is to shift testing left to find defects earlier and release software faster. This can be achieved by integrating a set of open source functional and performance testing tools in the early stages of your software delivery lifecycle. There is one process t... Aug. 27, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,244 | By Derek Weeks  As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is, the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and remains in silos with no links to business goals. Enter Dev... Aug. 21, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,381 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that SourceForge has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SourceForge is the largest, most trusted destination for Op... Jul. 16, 2017 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,906 | By Patrick Hubbard  In the hybrid IT era, complexity is the name of the game. In fact, according to the recent SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2017, IT professionals report the number one challenge of hybrid IT is increased infrastructure complexity. Accelerating complexity is just one challenge in how hybrid... Jul. 13, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,492 | By Elizabeth White  It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engag... Jul. 9, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,769 | By Sumith Kumar Puri  Preparing for an interview? Want to just revisit Java SE 7 features? Trying to recollect or revise a Java SE programming construct? Let me take you back in time to what was introduced first in Java SE 7? Join me for this tutorial series on Java as we all eagerly await the official rele... May. 7, 2017 05:12 PM EDT Reads: 2,266 | By Elizabeth White  The goal of Continuous Testing is to shift testing left to find defects earlier and release software faster. This can be achieved by integrating a set of open source functional and performance testing tools in the early stages of your software delivery lifecycle.
There is one process ... Apr. 30, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,475 | By Si Chen  Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has been talking a lot about the blockchain recently, so I decided to learn more about it. I read the Marketing the Blockchain e-book, watched The Grand Vision of a Crypto-Tech Economy video and the video keynote of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne at th... Jan. 14, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 5,035 | By Flint Brenton  What is inner source? I spoke about it during my webinar on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but here's a review.
At its most fundamental level, inner source is about replicating successful work practices of the open-source world to commercial software projects.
There are numerous examples of open s... Nov. 24, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,688 | By Janakiram MSV  In the era of microservices and cloud-native applications, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is going through a major transformation. The combination of containers and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) is enabling rapid deployment of software like never before. And thou... Sep. 14, 2016 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,697 | By Janakiram MSV  The speed at which data is generated, consumed, processed, and analyzed is increasing at an unbelievably rapid pace. Social media, the Internet of Things, ad tech, and gaming verticals are struggling to deal with the disproportionate size of data sets. These industries demand data proc... Aug. 8, 2016 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,494 | By Elizabeth White  Struggling to keep up with increasing application demand? Learn how Platform as a Service (PaaS) can streamline application development processes and make resource management easy. May. 4, 2016 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,696 | By Pat Romanski  Internap Corporation has expanded its OpenStack-based bare-metal Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, AgileSERVER 2.0, to its data centers in Amsterdam, Dallas and Santa Clara, Calif. Launched in 2015 out of Internap’s New York Metro data center in Secaucus, N.J., AgileSERVER 2.0 is n... May. 3, 2016 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,774 | By Dana Gardner  A BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the value and direction of The Open Group IT4IT initiative, a new reference architecture for managing IT as a business.
IT4IT was a hot topic at The Open Group San Francisco 2016 conference in January, and the enterprise architect and... May. 1, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,287 | By Dana Gardner  A BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the illustrious 20-year history of the UNIX operating system environment as an industry-wide and global standard success story.
It's not often that you reach a multi-decade anniversary in information technology, especially where the t... Apr. 21, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,885 | By Victoria Livschitz  DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley was a terrific event for us. The Qubell booth was crowded on all three days. We ran demos every 30 minutes with folks lining up to get a seat and usually standing around. It was great to meet and talk to over 500 people! My keynote was we... Mar. 27, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 23,896 | By Liz McMillan  Hortonworks has announced that it is generating strong business momentum in Canada with significant customer wins, increased partnerships and growth in Hortonworks’ presence in Canada. A number of leading Canadian organizations, including Royal Bank of Canada Inc., TELUS Corporation an... Mar. 23, 2016 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 2,691 | By Don MacVittie  Many years ago, I wrote a blog that aimed to help organizations evaluate open source projects in terms of enterprise suitability. That blog was lost when the employer took the publication off-line, and my Google-fu has been unable to recover a copy (if you happen to have it, ping me, I... Mar. 18, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,111 | By Lacey Thoms  Researchers at Binghamton University recently became the first to create an open source graphics processor unit (GPU). The GPU they created, called Nyami, is appropriate for general purposes as well as graphics-specific work.
Nyami is significant in the research, computing and open ... Mar. 13, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,561 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Noah Harlan, Founder of Two Bulls and President of AllSeen Alliance, will discuss why open source frameworks are vital for the future of IoT.
Noah Harlan is President of AllSeen Alliance and a Founder of Two Bulls, a leading mobile software development c... Mar. 7, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 8,989 | By William Schmarzo  Those of us who have been in IT since the early 90’s are all guilty of training our internal business partners to ask us for things that they don’t really want. We have trained them to ask us for reports. It started with the best of intentions – giving the business users information fr... Mar. 4, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,544 | By SmartBear Blog  In 1999, a man named Eric S. Raymond published a book called, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
In this book, he introduced a pithy phrase, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow," that he named Linus' Law after Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Raymond was calling out a dichotomy th... Mar. 3, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,809 | By Lacey Thoms  Recently, Forbes contributing writer and enterprise software, application development, and data management expert Adrian Bridgwater discussed how important it is to understand what freedom really means in the open source world. In open source, the word “free” refers to the liberty that... Mar. 2, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,022 | By Jnan Dash  I attended a HIVE-sponsored Meetup yesterday evening titled, “Rocking the database world with RocksDB”. Since I had never heard of RocksDB, I was curious to learn how it is rocking the database world.
Facebook built this key value store storage layer originally to use for MySQL (ins... Feb. 14, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,709 | By Elizabeth White  @DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the le... Feb. 6, 2016 01:15 PM EST Reads: 7,714 | By SmartBear Blog  Since launching SwaggerHub in 2015, we've received a ton of great feedback from users about how we can improve the platform to help teams collaborate on and coordinate more effectively across the workflow of the API cycle.
To kick off 2016, we are excited to announce a few significant... Feb. 4, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,172 | By Yakov Fain  Most of the Java developers I know don’t like JavaScript. Initially. They would give you different reasons why, but the real one is simple: too much to learn to make it work. For many Java developers creating the front end of a Web application in JavaScript is a chore to write and a bu... Feb. 3, 2016 09:45 PM EST Reads: 6,714 | By Jnan Dash  Open source software – software freely shared with the world at large – is an old idea, dating back to the 1980s when Richard Stillman started preaching the gospel calling it free software. Then Linus Torvalds started working on Linux in the early 1990s. Today, Linux runs our lives. Th... Jan. 16, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,490 | By Pat Romanski  Manufacturing has widely adopted standardized and automated processes to create designs, build them, and maintain them through their life cycle. However, many modern manufacturing systems go beyond mechanized workflows to introduce empowered workers, flexible collaboration, and rapid i... Jan. 8, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 7,825 | By Liz McMillan  OpenLegacy announced that Andy Monshaw has been appointed as chairman of the board, effective immediately.
“We are thrilled that Andy has agreed to take on this leadership role,” said Romi Stein, OpenLegacy’s co-founder and CEO. “It is a great validation that he sees the vast busines... Jan. 7, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,406 | By Kevin Jackson  One cloud does not fit all organizations.
That's true whether it is a public or private cloud. A hybrid cloud option allows your business to create a custom solution that fits your organizational needs.
However, there are always questions with new solutions. We reached out to indust... Dec. 18, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,615 |
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