Bugs. Once upon a time – and not so very long ago – that word had only one meaning: annoying little critters that crawl, sting, bite, and can generally make your life a misery.
But in today’s modern technological age, the word bug has a new meaning: flaws in software applications.
Though the word is the same, the two meanings are quite different. However, both terms represent a common theme: annoyances.
The GoDaddy customer breaches didn’t have to happen and don’t have to happen to you.
Cisco threat researchers recently reported a dramatic uptick in Angler Exploit Kit-based attacks connected to compromised GoDaddy domain registry accounts.
GoDaddy, which manages nearly a third of all global domain names used on the Internet, has issued media statements clarifying that it was not breached. It was its customers who allowed their login credentials to be stolen and used to create malicious subdomains, the company explained, accurately stating this is an industry problem for cloud-based service providers.
An explosive combination of technology trends will be where ‘microservices’ and the IoT Internet of Things intersect, a concept we can describe by comparing it with a previous theme, the ‘X Internet.’
The idea of using small self-contained application components has been popular since XML Web services began and a distributed computing future of smart fridges and kettles was imagined long back in the early Internet years.
Last month, fellow Forbes contributor Peter Cohan remarked on application intelligence vendor AppDynamics and their incredible run up to going public, probably later this year. He reported that “on February 17, AppDynamics reported that its bookings for the year ending January 2015 doubled to $150 million — adding 600 customers. The company also increased its employee base during the year from 365 to 600 people today,” according to AppDynamics CEO Jyoti Bansal.
Cohan also quoted Bansal’s comment on their Net Promoter score, a measure of how likely customers will recommend them: “AppDynamics recently increased its Net Promoter Score from 84 to 87 indicating an extraordinarily high likelihood to recommend the company; comparable enterprise software scores sit at 19.”
Such a remarkably favorable opinion on the part of its customers suggests that AppDynamics is doing something right – something that other vendors struggle to match. As AppDynamics is an Intellyx client, I had the opportunity to sit down with Bansal last week and ask him about the secrets to the company’s success.
If you’re not using the Internet of Things to engage your customers, you should be.
Earlier this week Jessica Groopman from Altimeter published a thought provoking white paper that recommends 5 consumer facing use cases for IoT. For each use case she highlights the value proposition for both the brand and the customer, describes a few key methods for engagement, and closes with some real life examples. While you can download it for free (registration is required), here’s my outline of the 5 most compelling uses cases from the report.
Pomeroy, a Global IT managed services provider, improves quality for their applications testing, development and packaged applications customization by working with a partner, TurnKey Solutions, and HP.
This next edition of the HP Discover Discussion Series highlights how Pomeroy, a Global IT managed services provider, improves quality for their applications testing, development and packaged applications customization.
By working with a partner, TurnKey Solutions, and HP, Pomeroy improves their overall process for development and thereby achieves far better IT and business outcomes.
Guess what, Parallels Access fans? We’re on Product Hunt! Check it out—Sergey Kudryashov, CEO of Softorino, kindly included Parallels Access in his Product Hunt collection “Better Together”, which recommends products that make your Mac and iPhone work together even better. To be perfectly candid, we completely agree with his assessment. Thanks, Sergey! But that’s not […]
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If you haven’t heard the news already, let us share a recent (and very exciting) company update… Parallels Acquires 2X Software “Parallels mission is to provide the best technology and experience for businesses, employees and individuals to access and use any applications and files on any device, anywhere, anytime,” said Parallels President Jack Zubarev. “We […]
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Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick tech news recap of articles you may have missed from the week of 2/23/2015!
HP acquired Aruba Networks, Chef and Microsoft are teaming up to enhance Azure’s automation capabilities, Chinese company Alibaba opened a data center in Silicon Valley, and Google wants to be a wireless carrier. VMware announced the availability of EVO:Rail for the Indian Market. Apple topped Samsung in quarterly smartphone sales for the first time since 2011. Google Wallet will soon come pre-installed on Verizon, T-Mobile & ATt&T Android phones. Volvo is using cloud connected cars to help notify other drivers about road conditions, mobile fingerprint apps are on the rise, and voice biometrics could be a game-changer in authentication. Remember, if you want to keep up with the most important industry news throughout the week, follow GreenPages on Twitter!
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By Ben Stephenson, Emerging Media Specialist
Much of what is written about Continuous Delivery at present seems to revolve around technical challenges and technical choices: “Which is better: Puppet, Chef or Salt?”, “Should I use Jenkins, Go or XL Release?”, “How do I build a CD pipeline with containers?” etc. etc. If we’re looking at CD properly, though, this is the sideshow – an implementation detail at best. The real CD story is much bigger.
Don’t get me wrong: as a technical kind of person, I can get very enthusiastic about the tech: there are a lot of cool tools and frameworks out there and the tooling landscape is expanding rapidly. Working with evolving technology is a lot of fun, and there are plenty of challenges to be solved around supporting Continuous Delivery at scale…which is why we develop XL Release, XL Deploy and XL Test.