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IBM Launches Mainframe Skills Council with SHARE and Other Key Organizations to Support New Generations of Mainframe Talent

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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In addition to IBM, the council includes organizations spanning IBM clients, IBM partners, academia, user groups, non-profits, and open communities that will collaborate to implement mainframe skills development solutions.

Key Points: 
  • In addition to IBM, the council includes organizations spanning IBM clients, IBM partners, academia, user groups, non-profits, and open communities that will collaborate to implement mainframe skills development solutions.
  • The Mainframe Skills Council brings together organizations to share experiences and collaboratively implement solutions to build a strong global workforce for the mainframe platform.
  • New today, IBM is introducing the IBM Z Mainframe Skills Depot , a comprehensive platform for accessing mainframe skills training.
  • To connect mainframe talent to employers, IBM sponsors IBM Z Virtual Career Fairs around the world to bring together IBM clients, partners, and badged mainframe talent.

IBM Launches Mainframe Skills Council with SHARE and Other Key Organizations to Support New Generations of Mainframe Talent

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Cloud, Northern Illinois University, RedMonk, AI, M&T Bank, IBM, Growth, Learning, University, COBOL, SHARE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Apprenticeship, Albany State University, DNB ASA, Organization, Workforce, Environment, Education, Student, Video game

In addition to IBM, the council includes organizations spanning IBM clients, IBM partners, academia, user groups, non-profits, and open communities that will collaborate to implement mainframe skills development solutions.

Key Points: 
  • In addition to IBM, the council includes organizations spanning IBM clients, IBM partners, academia, user groups, non-profits, and open communities that will collaborate to implement mainframe skills development solutions.
  • The Mainframe Skills Council brings together organizations to share experiences and collaboratively implement solutions to build a strong global workforce for the mainframe platform.
  • New today, IBM is introducing the IBM Z Mainframe Skills Depot , a comprehensive platform for accessing mainframe skills training.
  • To connect mainframe talent to employers, IBM sponsors IBM Z Virtual Career Fairs around the world to bring together IBM clients, partners, and badged mainframe talent.

GitLab Continues AI Momentum with Enhanced AI-Powered DevSecOps Workflows

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- All Remote - GitLab Inc. , ​​the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, today announced updates to GitLab Duo, the company’s suite of AI capabilities, including the beta of GitLab Duo Chat available in the GitLab 16.6 November product release, and the general availability of GitLab Duo Code Suggestions in the GitLab 16.7 December product release.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- All Remote - GitLab Inc. , ​​the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, today announced updates to GitLab Duo, the company’s suite of AI capabilities, including the beta of GitLab Duo Chat available in the GitLab 16.6 November product release, and the general availability of GitLab Duo Code Suggestions in the GitLab 16.7 December product release.
  • Duo Chat beta joins Code Suggestions as one of the two primary interfaces into GitLab’s AI-powered suite within its DevSecOps platform.
  • According to the GitLab State of AI in Software Development report, developers spend only 25% of their time writing code.
  • “The introduction of GitLab Duo Chat furthers our momentum and focus to bring AI beyond just code creation,” said David DeSanto, chief product officer, GitLab.

Cloudflare Launches the Most Complete Platform to Deploy Fast, Secure, Compliant AI Inference at Scale

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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Cloudflare’s developer platform will provide the best end-to-end experience for developers building AI applications, enabling fast and affordable inference without the need to manage infrastructure.

Key Points: 
  • Cloudflare’s developer platform will provide the best end-to-end experience for developers building AI applications, enabling fast and affordable inference without the need to manage infrastructure.
  • However, they face challenges like rapidly ballooning and opaque costs to deploy AI and ensuring customer data remains private and in compliance with regulations.
  • “Cloudflare has all the infrastructure developers need to build scalable AI-powered applications, and can now provide AI inference as close to the user as possible.
  • Today, Cloudflare is introducing AI Gateway to make AI applications more reliable, observable, and scalable.

Oracle Releases Java 21 and Extends Support Roadmap

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle CloudWorld -- Oracle today announced the availability of Java 21, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform. Java 21 (Oracle JDK 21) delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including platform enhancements that will help developers increase productivity and drive innovation and growth across their organizations. Oracle is showcasing the latest capabilities in Java 21 at Oracle CloudWorld, which takes place this week (September 18-21) in Las Vegas, NV and online at oracle.com/cloudworld. 

Key Points: 
  • Oracle will offer long term support for Java 21 for at least eight years.
  • Based on customer feedback and use in the Java ecosystem, Oracle has also announced that long term support for Java 11 has been extended through at least January 2032, providing at least eight more years of support and updates from Oracle.
  • The Java 21 release is the result of extensive collaboration between Oracle engineers and other members of the worldwide Java developer community via OpenJDK and the Java Community Process (JCP).
  • For more details on the features in Java 21, please read the Java 21 technical blog post .

InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Clustered to Deliver Time Series Analytics for On-Premises and Private Cloud Deployments

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
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InfluxData , creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB Clustered , its self-managed time series database for on-premises or private cloud deployments.

Key Points: 
  • InfluxData , creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB Clustered , its self-managed time series database for on-premises or private cloud deployments.
  • With the release of InfluxDB Clustered, InfluxData completes its commercial product line developed on InfluxDB 3.0 , its rebuilt database engine optimized for real-time analytics with higher performance, unlimited cardinality, and SQL support.
  • InfluxDB Clustered is the evolution of InfluxDB Enterprise, InfluxData’s long-standing enterprise software product for on-premises and private cloud environments.
  • Together, InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated and InfluxDB Clustered give enterprises multiple options in how they manage and scale time series workloads, whether in the cloud, in their own environment, or in combination for hybrid environments.

Fauna Adds Groundbreaking New Database Language and Seamless Developer Experience to Enterprise Proven, Document-Relational Database

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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The new database language and developer experience unleashes the power of Fauna’s industry-leading distributed, document-relational database.

Key Points: 
  • The new database language and developer experience unleashes the power of Fauna’s industry-leading distributed, document-relational database.
  • Our API delivery model removes the burden of database operations,” said Eric Berg, CEO of Fauna.
  • Fauna also announced new and upcoming features to enhance its integrated developer experience across the DevOps Lifecycle, starting with a new declarative schema language.
  • Visit Fauna’s website to learn more about Fauna, the new version of FQL, and the seamless new developer experience.

Redis 7.2 Sets New Standard for Developers to Harness the Power of Real-Time Data

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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Redis Enterprise now achieves superior search performance by blending sharding for seamless data expansion with efficient vertical scaling.

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  • Redis Enterprise now achieves superior search performance by blending sharding for seamless data expansion with efficient vertical scaling.
  • Additionally, the latest version of the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP3) is now supported across source-available, Redis Enterprise cloud and software products for the first time.
  • With Auto Tiering, operators can keep heavily used data in memory and move less frequently needed data to SSD.
  • Redis Data Integration (RDI) transforms any dataset into real-time accessibility by seamlessly and incrementally bringing data from multiple sources to Redis.

Upbound Launches New Global Partner Program to Support Expanding Crossplane Control Plane Ecosystem

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Thursday, July 20, 2023
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Upbound, creators of the popular open source project Crossplane, today announced the Upbound Partner Program to enable a rapidly growing ecosystem around cloud-native control planes.

Key Points: 
  • Upbound, creators of the popular open source project Crossplane, today announced the Upbound Partner Program to enable a rapidly growing ecosystem around cloud-native control planes.
  • The new program enables partners with resources, technical expertise and support capabilities to deliver Crossplane-based development platforms built on Upbound.
  • In joining the program, partners are empowered to build Crossplane providers for the Upbound Marketplace , free and available for any user to find and install in their own Crossplane control planes.
  • New Upbound Partner Providers expand the ecosystem of supported providers, authored and maintained by the partner and verified by Upbound as compatible with its products and services.

MongoDB Launches Four New Capabilities for Developers to Reduce the Operational Overhead of Building Applications

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Thursday, June 22, 2023
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today at its developer conference MongoDB.local NYC announced new capabilities for the world's most popular NoSQL database for building modern applications faster and with less heavy lifting. The new tools announced today empower developers to do their best work—including additional programming language support for using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to deploy MongoDB Atlas on AWS and building server-side applications with Kotlin, streamlined capabilities for MongoDB Atlas Kubernetes Operator, and the general availability of the the PyMongoArrow library for more efficient data analysis using Python. Together, these new capabilities expand MongoDB's mission to meet developers where they are by integrating the tools they love in a single developer data platform to make it faster and easier to build applications. To learn more about building with MongoDB, visit mongodb.com.

Key Points: 
  • For example, developers who prefer provisioning MongoDB Atlas clusters with IaC on AWS or building server-side applications want to use their programming language of choice.
  • However, developers want a simpler way to install and set up the MongoDB Atlas Kubernetes Operator to reduce friction and manage applications more quickly.
  • Using the MongoDB Atlas CLI, developers can now install the MongoDB Atlas Kubernetes Operator and generate security credentials for quick and easy setup to reduce operational overhead.
  • "Developers choose MongoDB Atlas because it's the best place to quickly build applications that can make the most out of their data.