NodeSource is preconfiguring its NSolid enterprise-level Node.js technology to work with the Kubernetes container management system for better security and easier deployment of applications on the server-side JavaScript platform. Now in beta, the NSolid-Kubernetes combination accommodates on-premise and cloud deployments of NSolid. It features the NSolid monitoring interface and Docker images for running Node.js applications…
Microsoft is working on a new offering called Dynamics 365 that will combine its current ERP and CRM cloud services into a single bundle and include applications purpose-built for specific business functions. Due to be available this fall, Dynamics 365 will feature apps for functions including financials, field service, sales, operations, marketing, project service automation,…
After major criticism within the Hadoop community regarding its nature and aims, Open Data Platform — an initiative to create a reference-standard Hadoop distribution — announced Monday it will now be hosted at the Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project. The goal with this new organizational structure is to ameliorate the perception that the ODP…
Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest investment in long-haul undersea fiber optic cabling. Dubbed the “Faster Cable System,” it is the highest-capacity undersea cable built to date, providing 60-Tbps (terabits per second) bandwidth between the United States and Japan. It is about 10 million times faster than an average cable modem, Google noted. Google is…
Microsoft last week announced it would open its Windows Holographic platform to partner firms looking to develop products for the Hololens ecosystem. Microsoft already is already working with a range of partners — including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and others — to build a hardware ecosystem that can support mixed-reality environments, company officials said at Computex.…
