The Apache Software Foundation has promoted Kudu to a top-level project. Originally developed by Cloudera, Kudu is a columnar storage manager for Hadoop that was designed for fast processing of
Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 4.7, the fourth update for the open source operating system this year. Key new features in the release include the LoadPin Linux Security Module
Atlassian has released the 4.8 version of its Bitbucket tool, and the biggest change is that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports Mercurial as well as Git. That’s an interesting move, because
According to the market analysts at IDC, sales of smartwatches fell 32 percent in the second quarter, dropping from 5.1 million last year to 3.5 million this year. The decline
Google Cloud Platform has unveiled beta releases for two new machine learning APIs. The Natural Language API offers sentiment analysis, entity recognition and syntax analysis in English, Japanese and Spanish.
The good news from Microsoft’s most recent earnings report was that its revenue from its Azure cloud computing division doubled year-over-year. On the other hand, the company’s phone revenue declined
IBM has released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2016. Overall, the company had $20.2 billion in revenue, a 2.6 percent year-over-year decrease. However, company executives pointed out
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released Prometheus 1.0, an open source tool for monitoring cloud computing and containerized IT environments. The new tool is part of the CNCF’s
Blueprint has released a new agile software development tool called Storyteller. It can auto-generate user stories and acceptance criteria, both of which help agile teams understand project requirements. ?Poor-quality user