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Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer
Network World's Maria Korolov discusses advancements in quantum error correction with Classiq's Dr. Erik Garcell. These innovations address one of the biggest hurdles - the fragility of qubits - and are paving the way for faster, more efficient quantum computing solutions, potentially revolutionizing sectors like finance, where accuracy and reliability are paramount.
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Quantum Computing Innovations Pave the Way for Advanced Financial Portfolio Optimization, says Classiq CEO Nir Minerbi
Metaverse Post spoke with Classiq's CEO Nir Minerbi about the company's collaboration with Citi Innovation Lab. Together, Classiq and Citi aim to test the potential of quantum computing in finance and understand its impact on business problem solving, specifically portfolio optimization.
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Codefresh Blog: New CNCF Survey Highlights GitOps Adoption Trends – 91% of Respondents Are Already Onboard
The new CNCF data demonstrates that there’s consensus agreement that GitOps best practices are here to stay, and there’s a shared commitment to seeing software delivery done right. One way to look at it is that we’re well past the evangelization stage. DevOps teams know they need GitOps and they know why.
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Classiq Releases Suite of Quantum Applications
Mitch Lewis from the Futurum Group talked with Classiq to learn about the company's extensive suite of quantum applications, algorithms, functions, and tutorials on Classiq's GitHub repository. Classiq's platform eases the development process, allowing developers to focus on high-level functional models while Classiq handles the complex quantum circuit creation.
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Classiq Extends Quantum Computing Access with OQC Partnership, Unveils Quantum Apps on GitHub
Classiq and Oxford Quantum Circuits have partnered to streamline quantum computing from design to hardware execution. The collaboration, as detailed in this Metaverse Post interview with Classiq, enhances the quantum development process, making advanced quantum computing more accessible and efficient.
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Researchers Poised for Advances With NVIDIA CUDA Quantum
Classiq discusses its Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center research center to train life science experts in quantum application development as part of Nvidia's CUDA quantum community with Storage Review. This could lead to advancements in disease diagnosis and drug discovery.
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Codefresh Announces New Features Leveraging GitOps and Argo
Codefresh has innovated a way to manage applications across environments for DevOps teams leveraging GitOps and Argo CD at scale. The new Codefresh capabilities combine automation and advanced features that radically simplify the management and visibility of flows and promotions for seamless, efficient software delivery optimized for GitOps best practices.
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Codefresh releases new dashboard that provides more details on software development life cycle
As businesses and DevOps teams grow, Argo CD instances split, and microservices multiply, managing the lifecycle of each application across environments becomes complex and arduous. The new Codefresh capabilities instill clarity and GitOps governance across hundreds of applications deploying to thousands of locations – with a unified, intuitive single-screen experience.
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New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts
Contributions to open-source communities and size of user community was one of the factors in the recent Forrester Wave report. The report placed [GitLab and CloudBees] in its "leaders" category, with Harness, AWS, Microsoft, Atlassian and Codefresh in the "strong performers" category.
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Some Quantum Software Works Today. Down the Road, It Might Not.
Quantum computing's evolving hardware landscape poses challenges, but solutions are on the horizon. As mentioned in Isabelle Bousquette's WSJ article, Classiq stands out with its futureproof, scalable, hardware-agnostic approach, ensuring software's future relevance. Embracing this strategy is key for tomorrow's quantum success.
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How AI is Impacting DevOps
Dan Garfield of Codefresh discusses some unique aspects of DevOps that make it uniquely adaptable to AI augmentation. There’s a huge opportunity for teams to dramatically improve their software delivery processes by leveraging AI to help them generate the automation that they're going to be using.
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Why Your Company Should Invest in Hackathons
Dan Garfield of Codefresh discusses the core value that hackathons provide to your company: employee enrichment. Hackathons done right are worth every penny and ounce of energy your company invests in them.
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Practical Advice For Organizing A Successful Open-Source Technical Certification Program
There are some important elements that can not only make a workshop much more successful than the typical labs that we often see available in the open source community today, but also much more accessible.
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KubeCon: 14,000 More Engineers Have Their GitOps Basics Down
As GitOps grows in its ability to leverage DevOps practices via Infrastructure as Code, thousands of students get up to speed on GitOps fundamentals utilizing Codefresh’s GitOps for Argo CD certification course.
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Code-to-cloud: Codefresh democratises GitOps with Argo
Available in hosted, on-premises and hybrid deployment options for enterprise environments, Codefresh uses open source Argo in a code-to-cloud solution enabling visibility into CI/CD deployments. It provides an easy-to-use framework for implementing GitOps and a scalable solution for large teams targeting multi-cluster, multi-application deployments.
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Codefresh Launches Its Hosted GitOps Solution
A hosted GitOps platform removes that barrier for users who want to change the way they are deploying while letting them keep their integration pipelines in place. And that, is very much in line with the company’s focus on integrating with third-party services to help its users deliver their software to customers.
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What's the Difference Between the Enterprise and Consumer Metaverses
The “enterprise metaverse”—the metaverse for commercial, industrial infrastructure, and manufacturing applications—will be far removed from the social, gaming, and entertainment ecosystem that many of us regard today as the “consumer metaverse,” where entities like Fortnite and Roblox have staked an early claim.
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Codefresh Announces Hosted Version of GitOps Platform
Codefresh has announced that its CD platform will be made available as a fully-hosted solution for GitOps teams looking to achieve frictionless, GitOps based continuous software delivery. This new hosted offering works to provide Argo CD as a Service and introduces new DORA dashboards and CI tool integrations.
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How Digital Twins Can Help Speed Up Innovation In Automotive, Smart Cities, Defence & Manufacturing
In this special report, Auto Futures talks with leaders in the field, like Duality Robotics, to define digital twins, and learn how they can help speed up future innovation.
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Duality Robotics Blog: Digital Twin Simulation for Personalized Marketing
Leveraging advanced digital twin simulation technology, Duality Robotics provides retailers with a personalized marketing solution to capture and hold consumers’ attention for as long as it takes to convert a momentary online interaction into a purchase.
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How the metaverse will let you simulate everything
Through technologies including VR, AR, and AI, the metaverse that futurists envision is an extension of the real world — albeit without the physical trappings. Some experts predict that the industrial metaverse will require IoT sensors to collect data from real-world devices, enabling companies to accurately model them in the digital world.
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Codefresh Software Delivery Platform now generally available
Codefresh launched the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), which brings the Argo toolset, including Workflows, Events, CD, and Rollouts, into a single platform.
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Codefresh Launches the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform, the First and Only Enterprise Argo Platform for Deploying and Scaling Applications
Codefresh unveiled its flagship Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), powered by Argo. CSDP opens true DevOps potential.
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DARPA is Advancing UGV Simulation Platform
DARPA selects Duality Robotics to provide advanced environmental simulation technology to help bridge the gap from virtual to real-world environments through its Falcon platform for advanced digital twin simulation.
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Codefresh: All In on Argo CD GitOps Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
For its part, Codefresh as been a leading force driving the development of Argo CD, providing leadership for the Argo CD community as well as committer resources driving development of the product. Codefresh is now building out an enterprise version of Argo CD for organizations that require more advanced security and other enterprise-level capabilities.
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With Argo and GitOps Ascending, Continuous Software Delivery Demands a Major Open Source Commitment
The advent of microservices has afforded us tremendous agility in how we build and deploy cloud native software, and the open-source community’s focus on continuous improvement and innovation is manifesting in some really interesting ways.
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How GitOps Best Practices Could Take The Ransom Out Of Ransomware
IT owners can think about GitOps as standardizing best practices for operations for the industry at large. The GitOps Working Group distilled the best ideas of DevOps into a set of clear guidelines and principles for exactly how these kinds of situations can be avoided. If you run infrastructure, you need to understand a variety of principles to get started with GitOps, which are described in this article.
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Reimagining Cloud-Native Storage For Modern Apps On Kubernetes
The evolution to cloud native naturally entails an evolution to container-based environments. To maintain consistent application performance, you need to maintain a consistent storage response and most modern applications deployed in Kubernetes recommend flash as the storage medium. But where to deploy it?
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Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.1 expanding scale out disaggregated storage capabilities for private hybrid and edge deployments
Lightbits Labs announced advancements to its cloud-native storage solution, enabling customers to confidently scale their private, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments.
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Lightbits Expand Scale Out Disaggregated Storage Capabilities for Private, Hybrid, and Edge Deployments
Lightbits Labs announced advancements to its cloud-native storage solution, enabling customers to confidently scale their private, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments. Lightbits, recently backed by Intel Capital, has extended its solution’s capabilities with the delivery of LightOS™ 2.1.
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Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks launch the GitOps Working Group
As the GitOps trend continues to take hold of the software development community, a group of technology companies are banding together to provide developers with the necessary skills.
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Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs
Intel Corp. and Israeli startup Lightbit Labs today announced an agreement to speed up development of disaggregated storage solutions for data center operators. This strategic partnership includes technical co-engineering, go-to-market collaboration and an Intel Capital investment in Lightbits Labs.
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Meet GitOps, the key to launching effective software releases in the cloud-native era
The automation story behind DevOps centers on CI/CD, the continuous integration and continuous deployment that results in working code ready for production. Deployment isn’t the end of the process, however. Releasing code is the missing step — putting new software in front of customers and end-users while ensuring it meets the ongoing objectives of the business.
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Codefresh Runner Fixes Kubernetes’ Performance Problem
Codefresh recently launched Codefresh Runner, a flexible solution that allows engineers to selectively run pipelines on their own Kubernetes clusters, including private clusters that are behind the company firewall. It sounds great because there is no management overhead but what exactly is Codefresh Runner?
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Some people never let BlackBerry go. Their reward? A 2021 comeback
It was nearly all over on August 31. BlackBerry owners had known it was coming for six months. TCL, which had been making Android phones under the BlackBerry name since 2017, was out, “no longer selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices”. Then, just 12 days before the deadline and the latest in a long line of blows to BB phone fans, in steps Texas tech company Onward Mobility with promises of a new 5G Android BlackBerry in 2021.
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Why the New BlackBerry 5G Could be a Striking Success
A new BlackBerry smartphone has just been announced and it promises things no previous BlackBerry has had, such as 5G connectivity. The new phone comes from a Texas-based company called OnwardMobility (no, I hadn’t heard of it either) which has reached agreements with BlackBerry and a subsidiary of Foxconn called FIH Mobile.
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The 5G BlackBerry could be 'the most American-made phone out there'
BlackBerry faithful were dealt a harsh blow earlier this year when TCL, the biggest company to build phones for the brand, said it would stop. That left enthusiasts clinging to their KEY2s, wondering about would-be replacements, and raising glasses to the good old days — at least until an upstart Texas outfit announced plans to pick up where TCL left off.
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CrackBerry Podcast: Onward BlackBerry!
Following the announcement from BlackBerry, OnwardMobility, and FIH Mobile that a new 5G BlackBerry would be arriving in the first half of 2021, you know we had to get the CrackBerry crew together to talk discuss it. With that in mind, we invited Peter Franklin, CEO at OnwardMobility to join us to talk about the announcement, their vision for BlackBerry, and plenty more.
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BlackBerry phones are coming back in 2021, packing 5G too
It turns out that the BlackBerry name is poised to come back to the smartphone space courtesy of little-known mobile security brand Onward Mobility. More specifically, the US brand’s website notes that “new Blackberry 5G phones” are coming next year.
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New BlackBerry With Keyboard Coming in 2021
A new company called OnwardMobility says it has made a deal with the BlackBerry software company to use its name and intellectual property to create a new keyboarded Android smartphone, coming to the US and Europe in 2021.
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NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering
Lightbits Labs added high availability to its software-defined block storage in version 2.0, giving it a "real enterprise" NVMe flash product with no single point of failure.
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Codefresh just raised $27 million to help developers release code faster for apps that run on the Google-born cloud computing project Kubernetes
Interview with Codefresh CEO Raziel Tabib and Shasta Ventures Partner Issac Roth about $27M funding round.
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The 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2020 Storage 100
Lightbits Labs named a one of the 40 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology.
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Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation
Key investment areas include performance-based object storage, cloud and new storage media. Recent investments include startups NVMe over Fabrics company Lightbits Labs, chipmaker Nuvia and all-flash specialist Vast Data.
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Investments in data storage vendors topped $2B in 2019
The Israel-based startup created the SuperSSD array for NVMe flash. The Lightbits software stack converts generic in-the-box TCP/IP into a switched Ethernet fabric, presenting all storage as a single giant SSD. Dell EMC led Lightbits' funding, with contributions from Cisco and Micron Technology.
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When Combining Competing Storage Architectures Drives True Digital Transformation
For the past decade, “digital transformation” has been a key business goal for many -- applying technology for improved efficiency, increased revenue and enhanced customer experiences. This goal is not easily achieved. Digital transformation requires rethinking storage infrastructure to manage and access all the additional data it brings.
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Codefresh 2020 Predictions: DevOps Trends for 2020
The DevOps community has a lot to look forward to in 2020, especially as Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools make great gains. CI/CD software is the backbone of the modern DevOps environment and bridges the gap between development and operations teams by automating build, test, and deployment of applications. At Codefresh, we predict the following eight DevOps trends will take root in 2020.
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Lightbits Brings Clustered Storage to On-Premises Data Centers
Lightbits Labs, a relatively new company focused on storage for cloud-scale data centers, has introduced what it says is the first NVMe/TCP clustered storage solution.
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6 data storage startups to watch in 2020
Venture capitalists showed less interest in funding storage hardware startups in 2019 than previous years. But while most of the investments for data storage startups in 2019 went to mature data protection vendors, a few newcomers picked up enough funding to get on the map.
Lightbits Labs enables native Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to serve as a switched fabric for shared NVMe flash across server racks.
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Codefresh to chuck 100 million reasons to develop open source at huddled dev masses
Kubecon 2019 CI/CD darling Codefresh took to the high seas of Kubecon to announce that it would be flinging $100m at the open-source ecosystem, as well as adding a free tier for its Kube-friendly pipeline tech.
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VMWorld 2019 News Bits
This week VMworld 2019 took place in San Francisco, California. While we covered the major announcements from the VMware and Dell Technologies, there were several other smaller announcements. These announcements come from vendors such as Apstra, Lightbits Labs, Cohesity, Rackspace, Supermicro, and Check Point.
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Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMWorld
Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let’s look at some of the products on show at VMworld in San Francisco this week.
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GitHub gets a CI/CD service
Microsoft’s GitHub today launched the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with full continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities built right into the service. General availability is planned for November 13. The company also today announced that it now has more than 40 million developers on its platform.
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10 Coolest Flash Storage and SSD Technologies of 2019 So Far
Lightbits Labs in April introduced SuperSSD, calling it the industry’s first scalable, Ethernet-attached SSD offering targeting the storage performance, capacity and reliability requirements for artificial intelligence and machine-learning training systems. SuperSSD was purpose-built for fast and massive parallel access to data. The technology virtualizes and manages a large pool of NVMe SSDs with a global flash translation layer (GFTL) for efficient storage utilization and wire-speed access to very large data sets across existing network and compute infrastructures.
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How to deliver software faster
Data from a new survey by Codefresh exposed the relentless pressure, with 32 percent reporting they were not using any CI/CD tools at all, and about 60 percent agreeing that their organizations are “not using the right amount of automation to enable individual developers to increase velocity, including DevOps, Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh recently answered some questions for us about the survey and the over-arching theme of code delivery.
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Network Growth And Enterprise Storage
This blog presents survey results indicating telco perceptions of the growth and use of 5G networks and particularly the growth of edge computing. We also talk about some recently announced solutions for enterprise storage, including the Seagate Exos platform and its integration with Cloudian Software. We also talk about Lightbits and NVMe over TCP and new SSDs from Toshiba that have been certified with Excelero’s NVMesh software defined block storage.
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Engineering Teams are struggling because they're missing the right automation
Data from a new survey by Codefresh exposes the relentless pressure, with 32 percent reporting they were not using any CI/CD tools at all, and about 60 percent agreeing that their organizations are "not using the right amount of automation to enable individual developers to increase velocity."
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Lightbits Labs soups up NVMe fabric with all-flash SuperSSD
One month after launching its disaggregated NVMe storage software, Lightbits Labs is jumping into the hardware game. The startup this week introduced SuperSSD, an NVMe-oF all-flash array targeted at AI and cloud applications. The 2U form factor hosts the Lightbits LightOS operating system and 24 NVMe SSDs.
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Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined 'disaggregated' server technology
Datacenters with servers directly attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) often suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute: Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of daily data transfer operations. Four-year-old startup Lightbits Labs claims it has the solution to the perennial underutilization problem, and it’s raising money to prove out its approach. The company today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding led by strategic partners Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron, SquarePeg Capital.
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NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. NVM-Express started out as an important interconnect inside of storage systems, but its extension across network fabrics is very likely going to have a more transformative effect on datacenters as it allows for storage to be disaggregated from compute, enabling the kind of disaggregation and composability that, thus far, only the biggest cloud builders and hyperscalers could afford to create for yourself.
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Let there be Lightbits: Hardware-software tag team touts block-level storage at SSD latencies
Israeli startup Lightbits Labs has launched storage software to run NVMe over TCP with optional hardware acceleration. The system is said to support scale-out shared external block access storage at latencies similar to direct-attached SSDs.
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Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage
Lightbits Labs capped more than three years of product development with introductory offerings that turn the mature Transmission Control Protocol into a switched fabric for shared NVMe flash storage. The startup launched three products for NVMe over fabrics: LightOS disaggregated storage software, the LightBox NVMe all-flash array and an optional LightField accelerator card to offload data services.
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Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m
Israeli data storage center company Lightbits Labs has raised $50 million in funding led by DellEMC and with the participation of Cisco, Micron, Square Peg Capital and Walden International. this is the company's third financing round after a seed round of several million dollars in 2016 and more than $10 million in 2017.
