Nutanix, a vendor of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, has released a new developer environment that allows developers to try and test IoT and AI apps in the cloud. Starting May 7, developers can sign up for a free 10-day trial of this experience. The developer environment is built under Nutanix’s Xi IoT Platform and gives developers […]
Blameless Launches DevOps Platform Based on SRE Principles
Blameless has emerged from stealth to launch a platform for managing DevOps based on the site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices defined by Google. Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, the Blameless platform provides across-the-board visibility into the complex network of application programming interfaces (APIs) and applications distributed across an organization, said […]
Why Banks Must Ditch the ‘Build vs. Buy’ Mentality and Embrace a Platform Approach
The past decade has seen digital transformation change nearly every aspect of our lives, and banking has proven no exception. Indeed, proprietary data from Avoka shows that in mid-2017, mobile overtook desktop as the most popular channel for applying for new deposit accounts at one top 10 U.S. bank. Banks have accordingly ramped up their […]
Redefining Product Value in the Continuous Economy
The internet is now more than 20 years old. It’s older than my kids, which is a scary thought. It’s older than Kendall Jenner. It’s older than Uber, Grey’s Anatomy and the iPhone. And so now, after more than two decades of software and e-commerce, it’s high time we take stock of where consumers really […]
DevOps and PaaS: ‘Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today’
Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today. – Dewey Finn, School of Rock The term Platform as a Service (PaaS) has become overloaded to define any ‘platform’ that provides ‘services’ to its users. The term PaaS is formally defined by NIST as: “The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the […]