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Mesosphere Partners with Big Data Vendors

Mesosphere, the company behind the open source Apache Mesos-based DC/OS distributed operating system, has announced that it has new partnerships with big data vendors Confluent, DataStax and Lightbend. It will

Research: AWS Still Dominates Cloud Computing Market

A new report from Synergy Research Group finds that the “Big Four”?Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google?dominate the cloud computing market. Number one AWS has nearly three times

Docker 1.12 Offers Full Mac and Windows Versions

Docker has released an update of its open source containerization software. The most significant new features in Docker 1.12 are the first full desktop versions for Mac and Windows; previously

Report: Private Equity Firms Considering HPE Buyout

Citing unnamed “people familiar with the matter,” Reuters is reporting that private equity firms are considering buying some of HPE’s enterprise software assets, including Autonomy and Vertica, for $6 billion

AWS Reports Record-Breaking Revenue of $2.9 Billion

Amazon has posted its financial reports for the second fiscal quarter of 2016, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing unit posted record-breaking revenues of $2.9 billion. That compares

Go, Big Data Languages Becoming More Popular, Says IEEE

The technology industry group IEEE has released its annual ranking of programming languages. “The 2016 Top Programming Languages” report analyzes twelve different metrics, and unlike many other programming language popularity

.NET Core 1.0 and Cross-Platform Development

Microsoft recently announced the release of .NET Core 1.0, a truly cross-platform runtime and development environment. It is a significant milestone in Microsoft’s commitment to fully open and platform-agnostic computing.

Apache Spark 2.0 Debuts

The Apache Software Foundation has released the 2.0 version of Spark 2.0, the open source, real-time big data processing engine. According to the Spark website, “The major updates are API

Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Xamarin

In Text Rendering with Xamarin, I drilled down into the countless ways and options that Xamarin provides you to display text on the screen of multiple mobile devices. In this

Anomaly Detection Series

Hi, I am reaching out on behalf of Tetiana Gladkikh??,??Taras Hnot??and??Volodymyr Solskyy of SoftServe. With your focus on explaining how to manage big data and to help improve businesses ability to maneuver, we were wondering if you would be interested in a unique 3 part series they created on anomaly detection. With the rise of cyberattacks at an all-time, high??network security is becoming an integral part of companies day-to-day operations. Those perpetrating the??attacks are just as sophisticated and skilled as those trying to thwart them, so how can we solve for that?????One possible solution to this problem is the development of systems that identify unusual user network behavior, based on analysis of network activity logs.??In this 3 part??series they will examine:??    1. ???What an Anomaly detection method for analyzing network activity logs would look like.   2. Take an in-depth look into informational security risk identification by detecting deviations from the typical network activities.??   3. Examine how the 3 suggested solutions work when combined??   This series dives deeply into anomaly detection and has been written by a??software security engineer, a data scientist and an AI/Artificial Neural Network expert. All who have??collaborated??together to present 3 possible solutions along with the??examination of??all aspects of??those solutions from their own disciplines creating a complete and??thorough??picture. Let me know if this piques your interest, and let???s discuss further.????I hope to hear from you soon!????Sincerely,??Natalia DiomovaContent Manager, SoftServe [email protected]

NodeSource Unveils NSolid Node.js Platform

NodeSource has launched a beta version of NSolid, its enterprise Node.js platform that runs on Linux containers managed by Kubernetes. NSolid includes a command-line interface that allows DevOps teams to

Backup and Restore Using Amazon S3 API

In terms of data security, it is a good practice to backup your server’s files to an external location. At a rate of $3 per 100 GB of storage, Amazon

Kudu Now a Top-Level Apache Project

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

Linux Kernel 4.7 Released

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

Getting All Stored Procedures Inside a Database

There are essentially two ways to get a list of all Stored Procedures inside your database. Option 1: SELECT *FROM YOUR_DATABASE_NAME.information_schema.routinesWHERE routine_type = ‘PROCEDURE’ORDER BY Specific_name This option checks the

Bitbucket Pipelines Adds Mercurial Support

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

Smartwatch Sales Plummet 32%

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

Code Optimization: If-Less Programming

I have often encountered code littered with lots of nested if and else statements. I consider it a serious code smell. Deeply nested code, especially if the nesting is due to conditionals,

Google Cloud Platform Adds More AI APIs

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.

Microsoft Doubles its Cloud Computing Business

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

PIVOTing Data in SQL

You can use the PIVOT SQL command to transpose Row data into Column data. This means that you can take a set of rows and make fields out of them!

IBM Cloud Computing Revenue Climbs 30%

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

Blueprint Storyteller Helps Agile Teams Create User Stories

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