The secret to the performance advances in Innodisk's FlexiArray line of storage appliances is the company's novel FlexiRemap Technology, which deals with the challenges of I/O performance, data endurance and affordability. FlexiRemap, notes Innodisk, innovates in software and firmware, creating a new category of Flash-collaborating storage appliances (in contrast to Flash-aware or Flash-optimized) that deliver sustained high IOPS, even for random write operations. Innodisk's first storage appliances to leverage this technology, the new FlexiArray SE108 and HD224, are designed to provide cost-effective performance for high-performance computing, cloud computing and I/O bound server applications. Typical application areas include cloud computing, virtualization and HPC. The slim SE108 offers up to 2TB of storage in a 1U-rackmount package; the HD224 provides up to 8TB in a 2U-rackmount unit, with 8x 10GbE SFP+ interfaces. Both units offer redundant hot-swappable SSDs and power modules.
With most core enterprise systems in place, organizations of all sizes are looking to business process integration and automation to increase operational efficiency and competitiveness. The updated Magic xpi Integration Platform from Magic Software Enterprises is a cloud-ready integration platform that enables users to unlock data from enterprise systems like SugarCRM, Sage and SYSPRO. In the new release, the aforementioned three platforms now enjoy certified, prebuilt adapters for optimized integration, which complement existing adapters for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World, SAP, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SharePoint and Salesforce, and more. In addition, an In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) architecture is the new standard. IMDG offers cost-effective elastic scalability, built-in clustering and failover capabilities, which support enterprise needs for business continuity, faster processing and increasing transaction loads spurred by new mobile, cloud and big-data use cases.
“Usability” is the word that best captures the essence of the new version 6.0 release of AdaCore's GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) graphical IDE. This “major engineering effort” features a significantly revised and cleaner user interface that eases program navigation and editing. The revised look and feel, which exploits the latest Gtk+/GtkAda graphical toolkit, is supported by a new relational database at the heart of the GPS engine, making code navigation much more efficient. GPS 6.0 also brings improved performance and new functionality, including language support for SPARK 2014, syntax highlighting and tool tips for Ada 2012 and SPARK 2014 aspects, editor enhancements and a number of additions to the scripting API.
The new book Kali Linux Social Engineering by Rahul Singh exists to help you master the social engineering toolkit, or SET, found in the security-focused Kali Linux distribution. With Singh's book in hand, readers can learn how security can be breached using social-engineering attacks, as well as attain a very unique ability to perform a security audit based on social engineering attacks. Starting with attacks using Kali, this book describes in detail various Web site attack vectors and client side attacks that can be performed through SET. This book covers some of the most advanced techniques that currently are being utilized by attackers to get inside secured networks, covering phishing (credential harvester attack), Web jacking attack method, spear phishing attack vector, Metasploit browser exploit method, Mass mailer attack and more.
There's something to the “Seven in Seven Weeks” concept in the tech books from Pragmatic Bookshelf. The latest addition in this practical series is Jack Moffitt and Fred Daoud's Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks: Adventures in Better Web Apps. Whether you need a new tool or merely a dose of inspiration, this work explores your options and gives you sufficient exposure to each one, along with tips for creating better apps. The authors cover frameworks that leverage modern programming languages, employ unique architectures, live client-side instead of server-side or embrace type systems. Covered frameworks include Sinatra, CanJS, AngularJS, Ring, Webmachine, Yesod and Immutant. The breakneck evolution of Web apps demands innovative solutions, and this survey of frameworks and their unique perspectives is designed to inspire and promote new thinking for dealing with daily programming challenges.
OpenLogic's vision is to keep enterprise customers running on some of the world's best open-source packages. To convert this vision into reality, the firm intends to make available more than 50 new preconfigured stacks through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, including production-level support for JBoss, Apache HTTP, Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveMQ and the CentOS operating system. These are in addition to OpenLogic's existing offerings on AWS. Enterprise support will include both 12x5 business-hour support and 24x7 production-level support. Products will be offered for use at an hourly rate. OpenLogic adds that OLEX, its open-source scanning, governance and provisioning portal, allows organizations to embrace open source with confidence.
Stackinsider's approach to OpenStack is packaging it as a Deployment-as-a-Service (DaaS) cloud platform, which the company says is the first of its kind to be public and free. Designed to make OpenStack technology adoption significantly easier and faster than conventional approaches, the Stackinsider DaaS approach consolidates and streamlines key OpenStack distributions and real-world applications for a wide range of uses. DaaS has integrated all popular IaaS deployment toolchains including RDO, FUEL, Puppet, DevStack and Chef. Some popular applications like Moodle and SugarCRM also are provided for PaaS prototyping. This public DaaS cloud is available for download at Stackinsider's Web site.
For JetBrains, developing a new version of the PhpStorm IDE for PHP means more than keeping on top of the latest changes in Web languages. It is also about supporting and integrating modern tools and popular frameworks, not to mention removing obstacles on the road to productive Web development. Of course, the new PhpStorm 7 supports the latest PHP 5.5 with improved PHP syntax coloring, new refactorings, code inspections and quick-fixes. Support also has been added for various front-end Web technologies, such as different JavaScript templates, Web Components and modern stylesheets. Built-in tools for Vagrant, SSH console and local terminal and Google App Engine for PHP have been added too. Finally, support has been enhanced for various frameworks, including Drupal, Symfony2 and others.
