Topic: covid 19
Industry Watch: COVID-19 has exposed lack of planning
Over the years, we’ve written a lot about disaster planning and recovery, the need for backing up systems and business continuity. While many large organizations have their data in redundant locations — either their own data centers or cloud-provided regions around the world, smaller organizations have looked at disaster recovery in the same way they … continue reading
COVID-19 pandemic response puts mainframes back in spotlight
Many governments and business-oriented services are running on mainframes, and the spike in mainframe activity due to the pandemic has prompted organizations to seek out COBOL skills and expedite new approaches to working with the systems and architecture. Over 30.3 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance due to the COVID-19 throughout the six weeks of … continue reading
Open Mainframe Project aims to fill COBOL skills gap
The Open Mainframe Project is looking to fill a technology skills gap by providing COBOL resources to the public sector. According to the project, more than 10 million people in the United States have filed for unemployment due to the COVID-19 crisis, and there is an emergent need for COBOL programmers. “This pandemic underscores the … continue reading
SD Times news digest: HCL Domino Volt, Google and Apple on COVID-19 technology, and Airbrake raises $11 million
HCL Technologies announced the general availability of HCL Domino Volt, a low-code capability built on the HCL Domino platform. According to the company, technical developers “can build apps up to 70% faster and efficiently extend them with integrations, customized CSS, JavaScript, and REST APIs.” “With this release, we are empowering the business users closest to … continue reading
Industry Watch: Home is… where I always am!
The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to change our routines. Perhaps the biggest of these changes is the fact that now, many of us are working from home for the first time. In the software industry, remote work — or telework, as it’s sometimes called — is fairly common. But in magazine … continue reading
White House announces call to action for the tech community to contribute to COVID-19 dataset
The White House is issuing a call to action for AI experts to develop new text and data mining techniques to analyze the newly released COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). The dataset is the most extensive machine-readable Coronavirus literature collection available was created with input from researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CHIME
The COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics (CHIME) is a tool that provides up-to-date projections of what additional resources will be required in certain hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak. It shows informed estimates of how many patients will need hospitalization, ICU beds, and mechanical ventilation over the coming days and weeks will be crucial inputs … continue reading
SD Times Blog: What is our future?
A recent Zoom meeting saw Catchpoint founder and CEO Mehdi Daoudi sitting in the garage of his Los Angeles home, far from his New York City offices, explaining to me that’s where he and his early team built their first server on the way to building out a very successful monitoring enterprise. He was in … continue reading
Developers take on COVID-19 with open-source projects, hackathons
In the past few weeks the coronavirus pandemic has taken hold in the United States, and the disease will continue to have a massive impact around the world for the foreseeable future. But even in the midst of panic and uncertainty, communities are coming together to do what they can. People are 3D printing face … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Google cancels I/O 2020, Intel opens oneAPI DevCloud, and GraphQL Mesh
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Google announced that it is completely cancelling its I/O Developers Event that was set to happen May 12 – 14th. “Please know that we remain committed to sharing ongoing Android updates with you through our developer blogs and community forums,” Google wrote in a tweet. Intel opens oneAPI DevCloud for … continue reading
UPDATE: Fear of COVID-19 has tech conferences retreating to online events
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many technology conferences have decided to turn their events into virtual events. Here is a list of upcoming software conferences and where they will take place: Game Developer Conference Previously scheduled for March 16 to March 20, 2020 in San Francisco. The Game Developers Conference has been postponed. … continue reading
