The new ARCX box is the solution that gives users in the military/aerospace industries the mission computer they truly want, proffers industrial I/O specialist Acromag. ARCX box is Acromag's new, small-form-factor mission computer with Intel Multi-Core CPU that is also rugged, customizable and conduction-cooled. Targeted applications include vetronics, C4ISR, payload management, and command and control. The computer's unique expandable features include PMC, XMC, mini PCIe, mSATA module slots, optional front I/O panel and secondary connectors, and it was engineered rugged with Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) to address space requirements of vehicle electronics. Compatible with industry standards, manufactured to IP67 standards and shock-and-vibration tested to MIL-STD-810G, the ARCX box computers are available either as single or double PMC/XMC slot versions.
The new v5.1 release of MetaEdit+ from MetaCase adds a wide range of new features to the company's flagship domain-specific modeling and code generation tool. MetaEdit+ 5.1 is aimed at expert developers who seek to generate efficient, complete code directly from domain-specific models. MetaCase notes the advantages of MetaEdit+, which gives language engineers the means to create graphical domain-specific languages and code generators in a few hours. The new MetaEdit+ offers collaboration for both language creation and use: multiple team members can define domain-specific modeling languages together and share them instantly to the whole team. As a result, domain-specific languages created by different language engineers can be integrated, tested and shared easily. MetaCase further notes the advantages of collaboration in language development, for which MetaEdit+ 5.1 offers “unparalleled support”, for improving both the quality and acceptance of domain-specific languages. Versions of MetaEdit+ are available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Though the claim about its new ActiveStor 16 appears counterintuitive, Panasas says it's real. The company promises that the ActiveStor 16 hybrid scale-out NAS appliance delivers an industry first: performance that increases with scale alongside enterprise-grade reliability that improves at scale. With help from the company's most advanced storage operating system release to date, PanFS 6.0, ActiveStor eliminates the fundamental compromises between performance, capacity and reliability that storage users previously have come to accept, states the company. The means to reach the increased performance results from the ActiveStor 16 appliance's 50% increase in storage density and from PanFS 6.0's delivery of RAID 6+ triple-parity data protection for a 150x increase in reliability over dual-parity products.
More than six years have passed since the last major release of SUSE Linux Enterprise, but the company says that it is worth the wait. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 platform release, with its array of operating systems and extensions, is now available. The most notable innovations are to be found in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for x86_64, IBM Power Systems and IBM System z. A feature sampling includes full system rollback, live-kernel patching ability, software modules, integration of both BTRFS and XFS filesystems, more advanced Linux containers technology and the Docker framework as an integral part of the OS. Also noteworthy is the updated customer portal, the SUSE Customer Center, which features a new dashboard that simplifies subscriptions, access to patches and updates and communication with SUSE customer support. Finally, SUSE integration with Microsoft now will be easier as well thanks to a new Virtual Machine driver pack for Windows servers. The upshot of the these and many other additions, says SUSE, is that the new platform helps enterprises stay agile, reclaim budget and easily leverage future open-source innovation, helping them compete more effectively.
The publisher Pragmatic Programmers compares programming languages to spoken languages. Both can make you smarter and give you new tools and abstractions to address problems that come your way. They add that if you make the commitment to read books like Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future, you will experience profound change in how you perform. And how you perform over time will require “radical improvement”, because the industry is changing in profound ways—that is, from object-oriented to functional languages. The publisher says that with this book, it aims higher than simply a “Hello, World” treatment, instead taking readers on a step-by-step journey through the most important paradigms of our time. This profound journey occurs through exploration of the Lua, Factor, Elixir, Elm, Julia, MiniKanren and Idris languages.
If you are anything like the geek writing this blurb, you see books like Charles Platt's Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Volume 2, and you feel an insatiable instinct to browse. This second book of a three-volume set covers signal processing, including LEDs, LCDs, audio, thyristors, digital logic and amplification. Photographs, schematics and diagrams are included. Readers will learn what each component does, how it works, why it's useful and what variants exist. No matter how much readers know about electronics, says publisher Maker Media, they'll find fascinating details they've never come across before. The Encyclopedia is targeted at teachers, hobbyists, engineers and students of all ages and abilities who seek reliable, fact-checked information right at their fingertips.
Administering your thin-client or PC environment is the job of the upgraded Thinlabs Device Manager 4.0, a solution for Linux and Windows embedded systems. TDM 4.0 features an intuitive graphical interface powerful enough to manage both PCs and thin clients over a LAN, large multi-site WAN or isolated devices behind a NAT firewall router. Advances vis-à-vis the previous edition include remote script deployment and execution, automatic provisioning of new or existing devices using profiles and silent software distribution. TDM 4.0 is included with all Thinlabs integrated thin clients and thin-client computers or is also available on a per-site or per-seat license model with non-Thinlabs products.
What is slick about Zentyal Server 4.0 is that it integrates both Samba and OpenChange technologies, enabling native support for mixed IT environments that include Linux, Windows and Mac OS clients, as well as mobile devices with ActiveSync. Therefore, Zentyal Server 4.0 is able to offer full native Microsoft Outlook compatibility without plugins or connectors. Zentyal says that the Small Business Server can be set up in less than 30 minutes and is both easy to use and affordable. Complementary to the version 4 release's mail and mail-related directory features, other improvements also have been added, such as a restructured and improved L2TP module, free configuration backup in the cloud via the Zentyal Server UI and quality-assurance processes that improve the stability of product releases.
