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ManageEngine OpManager in April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights main customer choice as an IT infrastructure monitoring tool

ManageEngine, a division of IT management at Zoho Corporation, announced that in April 2019 it was named the choice of Gartner Peer Insights clients for IT infrastructure monitoring tools. ManageEngine’s OpManager solution received 127 reviews with an average rating of 4.4 out of 5.

Gartner follows strict evaluation procedures to ensure that its estimates are fair. IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools (ITIM) were evaluated in four categories: contracting, integration and deployment, maintenance and support, and product capabilities.

“The choice of ITIM customers from Gartner Peer Insights in April 2019 is a significant achievement for us,” said Mathanan Venkatachalam, director of product management at ManageEngine. “We constantly strive for excellence and manufacture our products with precision to meet the requirements of the corporate world. This recognition of Gartner is particularly useful because it is based solely on our customer ratings, so we would like to thank our customers for acknowledging our efforts with high marks and positive reviews”.

OpManager is network monitoring software. ManageEngine OpManager offers professional tracking and performance monitoring and troubleshooting features for critical IT resources such as routers, switches, firewalls, VoIP call routes, physical and virtual servers, domain controllers, and other IT infrastructure equipment. ManageEngine OpManager combines an easy-to-use interface that allows you to quickly install a product and implement organizational monitoring policies online and across multiple devices.

You can learn more about ManningEngine OpManager solution on site AXOFT.

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Google called JetBrains Kotlin the main programming language for Android developers

Google at the conference for developers I/O 2019 announced that now the Kotlin programming language from the company JetBrains will be a priority for developing applications for the Android operating system. All new API and Jetpack libraries will be published first on Kotlin, and only then in other languages.

“Android development will increasingly focus on Kotlin. Many new Jetpack APIs and components will be offered first for Kotlin. If you are starting a new project, you should write it on Kotlin. Code written in Kotlin often means much less code for you to write, to test, or maintain. In collaboration with the Jetbrains and the Kotlin Foundation, we continue to invest in tools, documents, training and events to make Kotlin even easier to learn and use,” says a Google blog.

Less code to write

Back at the I/O 2017 conference, Google announced for the first time support for Kotlin in its IDE, Android Studio. This was a surprise, considering that Java has long remained the preferred language for developing Android applications. Only a few announcements at the conference that year received more applause. Over the past two years, Kotlin’s popularity has only increased.

According to Google, more than 50% of professional Android developers use this language to develop their applications, and in the latest survey of Stack Overflow developers, it is considered the fourth most popular programming language in the world.

“We are announcing that the next big step we are taking is that Kotlin will be our main goal,” said Chet Haase, engineer of the Android UI Toolkit at Google.

“We understand that not everyone still uses Kotlin, but we believe that you should try,” Haase continues. – You may have good reasons to continue to use the programming languages ​​C ++ and Java, and this is perfectly normal. They are not going anywhere. ”

Recall the programming language Kotlin developed by JetBrains. JetBrains is an international company that makes development tools for Java, Kotlin, C #, C ++, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript. The company was founded in 2000. The main office of the company is located in Prague.

For questions about the acquisition of JetBrains solutions, you can contact the sales and development department of AXOFT Ukraine by phone +38 044 201 03 03 or by e-mail: sales@axoft.ua

Microsoft bought the developer of the leading operating system for IoT

Microsoft acquired Express Logic, a company known as the developer of the specialized ThreadX operating system for managing small and low-power electronic devices.

The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but it is reasonable to assume that the price offered for Express Logic was high, given the important place occupied by the software technologies of this small enterprise in the ecosystem of connected devices.

ThreadX software can be found literally everywhere: it controls the operation of smart electric lamps and production process control systems. This OS was installed even in the Deep Impact spacecraft launched by NASA in 2005 to study comets.

OS ThreadX development Express Logic has more than 6.2 billion installations. Thus, according to VDC Research, it is one of the most popular RTOS in the world.

Microsoft writes that the Internet of Things sensors are being introduced into almost everything, from industrial equipment to consumer devices, and increasingly, these devices are connected to the cloud. According to Gartner, by 2020 the number of connected devices will exceed 20 billion.
In April 2018, Microsoft announced that it would invest $ 5 billion in the Internet of Things and intellectual peripherals over the next four years. Funds are invested in products such as Azure Sphere, Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Maps and Azure IoT Central. For development in this area, Microsoft has established partnerships with DJI, SAP, PTC, Qualcomm and Carnegie Mellon University.

Where can Express Logic solutions be used?

Microsoft notes that the market has developed a demand for technology to support environments with limited resources that require security, and this is due to the popularity of ThreadX. Express Logic solutions are used by manufacturers of various products, from low-capacity sensors, such as light bulbs and temperature sensors, to air conditioners, medical and network devices. Microsoft claims that Express Logic solutions help bring these products to market faster.

Express Logic systems are also suitable for devices with high limitations, for example, battery-powered and having less than 64 KB of flash memory. Every year, 9 billion microcontroller-based devices are manufactured and deployed in the world — Microsoft is going to promote Express Logic systems in this market.

How will Microsoft use the product?

Through the acquisition of Express Logic, Microsoft expects to gain access to billions of new connected terminals, as well as increase the number of devices that can easily connect to Azure. ThreadX should complement the Azure Sphere – Microsoft’s mainstream security offer for microcontrollers. Azure Sphere is an OS for Linux kernel-based Internet of things applications.

Ultimately, ThreadX should be one of the real-time data processing options on Azure Sphere devices. In addition, devices based on ThreadX will be able to connect to the Azure IoT Edge service, if the solution of the Internet of Things requires boundary computing capabilities. Azure IoT Edge is an Azure Artificial Intelligence and Analytics service on IoT devices.

Microsoft promotes the Azure Sphere as a solution for the most secure client connections to the cloud, but the Azure Sphere does not work on devices with limited capabilities. In these cases, Microsoft will recommend using ThreadX RTOS, and not any other RTOS, since the Express Logic solution has additional certificates, in addition, it can be connected to Azure IoT Hub out of the box.

For questions about the acquisition of Microsoft Windows IoT solutions, you can contact the sales and development department of AXOFT Ukraine by phone +38 044 201 03 03 or by e-mail: sales@axoft.ua

American company SolarWinds has bought an Israeli startup Samanage

SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Samanage.

Over the past 7 years, Samanage has created a strong, respected customer-oriented product that fits in well with SolarWinds’s mission and commitment to the community of technology professionals.

SolarWinds plans to add Samanage products to its IT operations portfolio starting in the second quarter of 2019. The SaaS-based offer will complement the local products that the company offers today to meet the needs of IT organizations in enterprises of all sizes – from small and medium businesses to large enterprises.

The cost of a startup Samanage was $ 350 million. Samanage is the first Israeli company acquired by SolarWinds. The American firm is expected to build its first technical development center in Israel based on Samanage.

As for the company Samanage, it was founded in 2007 and its CEO is Doron Gordon. The startup by that time attracted as much as $ 69 million in investments. The company’s main investors are Salesforce, Morgan Stanley’s, Gemini, Vintage and Marker investment funds. The company employs 200 people.

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT infrastructure management software. SolarWinds products provide organizations around the world, regardless of the type, size, or complexity of their IT infrastructure, with the ability to monitor and control the performance of their IT environments, whether locally, in the cloud, or in hybrid models.

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Trend Micro has published a study showing the threats of production networks

Trend Micro Incorporated has announced a new study that demonstrates the threats facing production networks that are still using outdated technology, including risks to intellectual property and production processes.

The report “Ensuring the security of intelligent factories: threats to production environments in the era of Industry 4.0” describes the security aspects of a new era for manufacturing based on IoT and connections worldwide. Manufacturers are investing heavily in the convergence of traditional operating technology (OT) with IT networks in 2019, adding new technologies to environments that are still vulnerable to problems for more than 10 years, such as Conficker (a computer worm).

“Industry 4.0 offers unprecedented opportunities to increase productivity, improve process efficiency and implement on-demand production, but also significantly changes the risk model of threats to these sites,” said Steve Kuen, executive vice president of network protection and hybrid cloud security for Trend Micro. . “As shown in this study, the convergence of IT and OT can unwittingly have a serious impact on production lines and lead to the loss of IP and competitive advantage. Trend Micro will continue to support the industry by providing innovative solutions based on artificial intelligence to protect important business data and processes throughout the connected world. “

The report highlights the unique triple threat faced by manufacturing, including the risks associated with IT, OT and IP. Previously isolated operating networks connected to the IT network to increase efficiency, but this causes unsafe proprietary protocols and potentially outdated OT equipment, which is often not corrected often enough because of its criticality. There is a sharp discrepancy between the significant operations performed by these devices and the fact that they have been working for years with known vulnerabilities.

According to Gartner, “the networks and assets of OT, as well as their security implications, have not been discovered and managed for many years. As a result, existing OT networks are not segmented using a set of production protocols, unidentified assets, legacy systems and devices. These industrial components have many unprotected communication channels with corporate / IT networks and use different vendor architectures and security standards. ”

In addition to supporting legacy infrastructure with known flaws, these systems detect new vulnerabilities more often than ever before. Zero-day vulnerabilities acquired in man-machine interfaces (HMI) of industrial control systems increased by more than 200 percent in 2018 compared with the previous year.

Thus, manufacturers are subject to both targeted and conventional malware, including attacks on cryptocurrency, which can damage key production processes, consuming computational power and causing network latency. Extortionists are also a serious threat to manufacturers if an attack affects production.

To help mitigate the impact of Industry 4.0 threats, Trend Micro recommends that manufacturers be aware of the basics of cybersecurity, such as restricting user access and disabling directory listings, and identifying and prioritizing key assets for protection.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated, the global leader in cybersecurity solutions, helps make the world safer for sharing digital information. Innovative solutions for consumers, businesses and governments provide layered security for data centers, cloud workloads, networks and endpoints. With more than 6,000 employees in 50 countries and with the world’s most advanced research and exploration for global threats, Trend Micro enables organizations to protect their connected world.

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MathWorks announced a new version of Matlab and Simulink

MathWorks introduced new products and important enhancements for artificial intelligence (AI), signal processing and static analysis, as well as new features and bug fixes for all product families.

“One of the key problems in the transition of AI from the announcement to production is that organizations hire “experts” of AI and try to teach them expert knowledge in the field of engineering. With the R2019a, MathWorks allows engineers to quickly and efficiently expand their AI skills, whether developing controllers and decision-making systems using reinforcement learning, learning deep learning models on Nvidia DGX and cloud platforms, or applying deep learning to three-dimensional data,” said David Rich, director of marketing at Matlab.

Artificial Intelligence

R2019a introduces learning tools to further enhance Matlab’s workflow for artificial intelligence. The new toolkit facilitates the type of machine learning that teaches the “agent” through repeated interactions through trial and error with the environment to solve control and decision-making problems. This toolkit confirms the company’s commitment to artificial intelligence based on the introduction of the R2018b Deep Learning Toolbox last fall, which was expanded with support for the NVIDIA GPU cloud computing, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, as well as compatibility with support for the ONNX exchange format. Further support for AI in R2019a includes significant improvements in Computer Vision Toolbox, Data Acquisition Toolbox and Image Acquisition Toolbox.

Signal processing

R2019a offers several new signal processing and communications products to support wireless and electronic devices, including:

Mixed-Signal Blockset is an add-on to Simulink that provides fast model building, quick modeling, and a deep understanding of the models of designing systems with mixed signals using special analysis and visualization tools.

SerDes Toolbox is an add-on to Simulink, which offers the SerDes Designer application for quickly designing, analyzing and modeling wired communication transmitters and receivers.

The SoC Blockset is an add-on to Simulink that allows you to model and explore FPGA, ASIC and SoC architectures, collaborative modeling of algorithms and hardware platforms, as well as performance monitoring and bottleneck detection.

Static analysis

R2019a has also made remarkable progress in the Polyspace static analysis product line. This includes new products that support the use of these products across the enterprise to design and develop software critical to security and business:

Polyspace Bug Finder Access and Polyspace Code Prover Access are new Polyspace products that allow teams of up to several hundred participants to work together. The new products provide a web browser interface for the results of the static analysis of the Polyspace code and the quality indicators stored in the central repository.

Polyspace Bug Finder Server and Polyspace Code Prover Server are new Polyspace products that allow the static analysis mechanism to work on a server class computer with build automation tools. New products automate and integrate Polyspace into software development processes to automatically assign defects, send notifications and upload results to Polyspace Access products.

You can buy Matlab and Simulink R2019a, products from MathWorks are available for sale.

About MathWorks

MathWorks is a leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of engineers and scientists, is a software environment for the development of algorithms, data analysis, visualization and numerical calculations. Simulink is a flowchart environment for modeling and model-based design for multi-domain dynamic and embedded engineering systems.

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JetBrains released a series of updates for their IDE products

The Czech IT company JetBrains has released an update 2019.1 for its development environments IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, CLion and GoLand.

IntellilJ IDEA 2019.1 looks for switch blocks that can be simplified in Java 12, and automatically convert them as needed. The return trip is possible.

Another new feature is the Recent Locations pop-up window, which shows an overview of all recently visited areas of code in chronological order. Developers can search for code snippets in a window, using either the body of the code, the file name, or bread crumbs.

There are also some innovations for users in the cloud. The IDE now allows you to debug a Docker container created from a Dockerfile or Docker Compose. Anyone who works with the Kubernetes container orchestration can now download custom resource definitions from external sources. However, this is currently possible only for local files. At a simpler level, the IDE now has the ability to debug Java applications that run inside Docker containers created from Dockerfile or using Docker compose.

New databases are supported: Greenplum, Vertica and Apache Hive. Other additions include support for Java 12 switch expressions. The Kotlin plugin has been updated to v1.3.21

The environment of JetBrains C and C ++ Clion has also changed. Now it supports the ClangFormat tool if the proprietary formatter JetBrains does not do this for you. JetBrains also said it uses Clang to provide improved and more detailed error messages. Now Clion “keeps to the naming scheme you provide” and will use it in autocomplete, generate, and refactor code. Name conventions can also be used in the editor.

Like its Java colleague at JetBrains, Clion has also updated the themes, and users can now create their own individual styles.

In addition, JetBrains also released a second preview of access to TeamCity 2019.1, its CI / CD platform. The latest update supports GitLab merge requests, which can now be created automatically and filtered by author and target branch.

It also adds “improved scalability options” using the “Run Assemblies” node presented last year, exiting all sessions if a user password is hacked and YouTrack is constantly authenticating the token.

More details about all the updates can be found in the blog JetBrains

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