In this ever-evolving digital landscape, where our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, ensuring the security of our online presence has become more crucial than ever. From personal information to business data, cybercriminals are constantly on the prowl, ready to exploit any vulnerabilities they find. That's where cyber security steps in, acting as a digital shield to protect our valuable assets
In the realm of sports sponsorships, one might not immediately associate Information Technology (IT) with the world of sailing. However, Syone, a prominent Portuguese IT company, has not only ventured into these uncharted waters but has also been making waves by sponsoring the Syone Sailing Team. This partnership has been nothing short of remarkable, with the team consistently proving their mettle by clinching numerous prestigious titles over the years. In this article, we delve into why Syone chose to support this sailing team and how it has proven to be a winning strategy.
Fusion of Technology and Passion
At first glance, the synergy between IT services and competitive sailing might not be readily apparent. However, Syone's sponsorship of the Syone Sailing Team is a
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, software development teams face the dual challenge of delivering high-quality applications while ensuring robust security measures. This is where DevSecOps comes into play. By seamlessly integrating development, security, and operations, DevSecOps empowers organizations to build and deploy software with enhanced security, efficiency, and reliability. In this blog post, we'll delve into the key components of DevSecOps, explore essential practices, and provide insights into popular tools and techniques.
OPEN SOURCE LISBON IS BACK
Are you ready for the exciting news? Open Source Lisbon, produced since 2003 by Syone, the leader in open-source solutions in Portugal, is back and better than ever!
We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated return of this groundbreaking event. As experts in the industry, we understand the significance of Open Source Lisbon and its impact on the tech community. In this article, we will delve into the rich history, key features, and why Open Source Lisbon is the must-attend event of the year.
Introduction
Open Source Lisbon has emerged as a beacon of innovation and collaboration within the tech industry. For over two decades, this prestigious event has been at the forefront
Hello, my name is Hugo Oliveira, and I'm the Marketing Director at Syone, a leading IT services provider in Portugal. But before I became a marketer, I was a technology guy at heart and used to develop games for Apple IIe and ZX Spectrum when I was young. Today, I want to share with you some insights into the importance of using Red Hat OpenShift and how Syone can help your business leverage this powerful platform.
By Guest Author Patrícia Lino, Partner Technology Strategist @ Microsoft
By Guest Author: Pete Hanth, Senior Director - Technical Training Product Management @ Red Hat
By Guest Authors: Bill Zhang, Director Product Management, Data Warehousing @ Cloudera and Shaun Ahmadian.
We are excited to announce the general availability of Apache Iceberg in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Iceberg is a 100% open table format, developed through the Apache Software Foundation, and helps users avoid vendor lock-in. Today’s general availability announcement covers Iceberg running within key data services in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)—including Cloudera Data Warehousing (CDW), Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE), and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML). These tools empower analysts and data scientists to easily collaborate on the same data, with their choice of tools and analytic engines. There’s zero effort required by companies to get the benefits of Iceberg as part of CDP. No more lock-in, unnecessary data transformations, or data movement across tools and clouds just to extract insights out of the data.
By Guest Authors: Ethan Mahintorabi, Johan Euphrosine and Aaron Cunningham @ Google
By Guest Authors: Johan Euphrosine and Ethan Mahintorabi @ Google
By Guest Authors: Bill Zhang, Peter Ableda, Shaun Ahmadian and Manish Maheshwari
By Guest Authors: Shaun Ahmadian and Luiz Carrossoni Neto @ Cloudera
Apache Iceberg is a high-performance, open table format, born-in-the cloud that scales to petabytes independent of the underlying storage layer and the access engine layer.
By being a truly open table format, Apache Iceberg fits well within the vision of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). In fact, we recently announced the integration with our cloud ecosystem bringing the benefits of Iceberg to enterprises as they make their journey to the public cloud, and as they adopt more converged architectures like the Lakehouse.
Let’s highlight some of those benefits, and why choosing CDP and Iceberg can future proof your next generation data architecture.
By Guest Authors: Erwin Huizing and Grace Reed @ Google
We believe in the power of choice for Machine Learning development, and continue to invest resources to make it easy for ML practitioners to train, deploy, and orchestrate models from a single unified data and AI cloud platform. We’re excited to announce our role as a founding member of the newly formed PyTorch Foundation, which will better position Google Cloud to make meaningful contributions to the PyTorch community. As a member of the board, we will deepen our open source investment to deliver on the Foundation’s mission to drive adoption of AI tooling by building an ecosystem of open source projects with PyTorch. We strongly believe in choice and will continue to invest in frameworks such as JAX and Tensorflow and support integrations with other OSS Projects including Spark, Airflow, XGBoost, and others.
By Guest Author: Jared Pane, @ Elastic
As higher education institutions operate in a changed world, IT leaders in education continue to work through issues that came to the forefront during the pandemic.
Educational technology plays a big role, especially when it comes to equitable access to education. But IT leaders are also focusing on the back end, and leveraging analytics to inform their decision making as they restore, evolve, or transform digital ecosystems for increasingly blended learning environments.
Three areas where analytics from the existing digital ecosystem enable a better student experience are: online learning, cost management, and cyber and information security. Whether IT leaders tackle one or all three, they have the ability to make a lasting impact using the Elastic search and analytics platform.
Test automation is less and less, a topic unknown to all development team managers and their teams. However, it is still a very challenging topic, whether from a technological perspective or in defining how timely its implementation will be.
In an increasingly digital world with so many points of contact for the market, companies find themselves at a crossroads to manage their marketing budgets and have to find the most permeable channels to attract value contacts to be able to transform them into customers (Conversion Rate ).
More than 10 years ago, Marc Andreessen penned his famous quote “software is eating the world” in his article “Why Software Is Eating the World”.
By Guest Author: Markus Eisele, Developer Adoption Program Lead in EMEA @ Red Hat
Red Hat OpenShift it's the preferential choice when it comes to container-based applications. Recently, the company has announced the latest version: OpenShift 4.8, which puts Red Hat on top of innovation in the open-source industry.
It's time to step up your business, and Syone can help you!
By Guest Authors María Cruz, Program Manager @ Google Open Source
By Guest Authors Teresa Terasaki, Google Open Source Programs Office Guidelines (Introduction) and Juliana Good, Founder and Consulting Lead – Neighborhood Access
By Guest Authors Andrew Gerrand, Michael Goddard, Rob Pike and Nicky Ringland of the Google Open Source Insights Team
Hi everyone!
We, Syone, would like to share some news about this year's edition of Open Source Lisbon 2021, and we also would like to invite you to come to the event.
(Yes, the event will be virtual and free of charge )
You can already register here if you don't want to read the rest of the blogpost 😋
By Guest Author: Sheng Liang, President of Engineering & Innovation @ SUSE
In July, I announced SUSE's intent to acquire Rancher Labs, and now that the acquisition is final, today we embark on a new journey with SUSE. I couldn't be more excited about our future and what this means for our customers around the world.
Just as Rancher made computing everywhere a possibility for our customers, with SUSE, we will empower our customers to innovate everywhere. Together we will offer our customers possibilities that know no limitations from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. This is our purpose; this is our mission.
By Guest Author James Spiteri, Principal Product Marketing Manager @ Elastic
Security analytics is a search problem. Whether that means manually searching through security logs and events, scheduled queries to look for potentially malicious behaviour, or even modelling events to spot anomalous patterns in data - it all boils down to search.
Everyone is talking about containers and app modernisation, right? It’s not just because it’s a trend but is actually a big improvement for DevOps team on how to work and how to optimize their time and experience on a project.
So, in this article you’ll find out more about containers, containerisation, app modernisation, an example of a solution for your business and more.
Containers are self-contained apps that provide a standard way to package your application's code, configurations, and dependencies into a single object.
By Guest Author Ricardo Fiel, Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Cloud Native and DevOps @ Microsoft
By Guest Author Francisco Teixeira, Partner Technical Manager @ Microsoft
By Guest Author Grace Madlinger, Content Strategy Manager @ Github
By Guest Author Young Ngo, VP of Product @ Katalon
"Programming" requires a lot of "brainware".
The job is not only typing away then hoping for the best. It is not only navigating the web in search of answers for our troubles, (well StackOverflow does help... I know) but also all the thinking involved, the puzzle-solving both technological and human amongst other things that if we wanted to scrutinize, I could spend a few (actually a lot) paragraphs just on that.
It’s summer... The sun is up, the sky is blue, and the beach is waiting for you.
Now... we all know the old adage “All Roads lead to Rome”.
As a Systems Administrator, updating Java Keystores is something that I am in charge of from time to time and honestly... it always gives me a headache!!
To get over with this problem, I wrote this cheat sheet, so I never have to worry about it again! And now I’m sharing it with you 😁
By Guest Author Alexander Sander, EU Policy Manager @ FSFE
Currently we see a lot of hackathons to find tools that help tackle the crisis of pandemic COVID-19. More and more governments and administrations are hosting or funding such hackathons. To make sure that the results of these hackathons can be used globally and adapted locally - that the software can be used, studied, shared and improved everywhere - the FSFE asks to publish the outcomes under a Free Software licence.
Besides the severe implications on health and healthcare services, COVID-19 (Coronavirus) had a serious impact on business and the general economy. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared this pandemic, many companies have been struggling to adapt and assure business continuity. For that matter, we present you 5 solutions that can help you make a seamless transition to remote work in a secure way.
These solutions aim to ensure team productivity, remote and secure access to information and work environments, and even to make sure your online and e-commerce applications are running smoothly, meeting the usage spikes that we've been witnessing lately.
So, if your organization is facing significant challenges since this pandemic arose, this post is for you!
Let's make a bet?
I bet $250 that you are reading this at home.
Right?
Let me start by explaining what Application Modernization actually is. If you’re already familiar with the term, feel free to move forward. 😉
App modernization is a concept designed to create new business value by updating your legacy applications (or systems) with more modern features and capabilities. It combines the strength of old business applications with modern-day technologies and software architectures to build a robust platform.
For you to quickly get an idea of where we’re heading, here is the TL;DR version about microservices, some of its main benefits and why it’s a big thing:
With this in mind, let’s take a step back and discuss a bit about monolithic apps, the counterpart to microservices.
The traditional way of building enterprise applications, using a monolithic approach, is becoming problematic as applications get larger and more complex or when your business needs to make adaptations to its product/service in order to respond to demand.
As a company, we believe in empowering people to deliver excellence in everything they do! This means we also have the responsibility, as a company, of creating the moments in which we look beyond our daily tasks and, together, fulfil a role that we see as fundamental:
Syone acts on being responsible towards the community by taking daily actions that lead to stimulating cooperation and valuing difference, the pillars of a more inclusive society. It’s very important that our values reflect the ethical conduct by which we are guided, make decisions and act.
In every organisation, one of the most difficult things to manage is the approach made towards new techniques, methodologies and processes.
Soft Skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character or personality traits, attitudes, among others, that enable people to work well together, have a good performance, and achieve their goals by adding some extra "points" and complementing their hard skills.
Soft skills characterise how people interact with each other.
Soft skills include (among others)
| Adaptability | Creative thinking | Networking | Time management | Problem-solving |
| Attitude | Work ethic | Decision making | Motivation | Critical thinking |
| Communication | Teamwork | Positivity | Flexibility | Conflict resolution |
Hello! Before we get to the Machine Learning topic, we need to talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence.
Why?
AI is the top layer of this whole process, while Machine Learning is a subset of it, and Deep Learning is a subset of ML (we are going to cover Deep Learning in another blog post soon, don’t worry).
One of the big discussion points during the last few years was Gender Equality. Melinda Gates’ Equality Can’t Wait website state that “At the rate we’re going, it will take 208 years to achieve gender equality in the U.S.”. In Portugal, as far as we know, we don’t have those numbers, but our feeling is that it shouldn’t be that far…
By Guest Author Antoine Craske, Engineering Center Director @ La Redoute.
La Redoute was present at Open Source Lisbon 2019 for the 17th Edition, organized by Syone, last 4th of October. Open Source Lisbon is an event dedicated to the open source universe for business and developers, providing to attendees the opportunity to learn about open source ecosystem, solutions and case-studies. Last year, Benoit Dumont and Antoine Craske took the chance to present Cerberus application deeply linked to La Redoute website tests. On this edition, the conference followed the same organization having two tracks. One for the main conferences for general topics, and another one dedicated to the technical workshops. In addition, the event was available in live streaming.
By Guest Author Alexander Sander, EU Policy Manager @ FSFE and speaker @ Open Source Lisbon 2019
Digital services offered and used by our public administrations are the critical infrastructure of 21st century democratic states. In order to establish trustworthy systems, public bodies must ensure they have full control over the software and the computer systems at the core of our state digital infrastructure.
Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts us.
If you are curious about knowing the functionalities and benefits of using Kubernetes you got to the right article. So, come onboard and let’s dig in!
You can also check the audio version:
Modern applications are increasingly built using containers — such as microservices packaged with their dependencies and configurations. Kubernetes or k8s for short, is open-source software for deploying and managing those containers. With Kubernetes, you can build, deliver and scale containerized apps faster.
As Opensource.com notes, "Today, Kubernetes is a true open source community, with engineers works from Google, Red Hat, and many other companies actively contributing to the project."
This time, I brought a subject that was one of the main topics on the Azure Essentials Workshop that we did with Microsoft: cloud migration!
Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements to a cloud environment.
What companies usually do is to relocate most of its computing assets to the cloud, and some applications and services still remain on-premise. You probably heard about hybrid cloud too, in this option, you can go for both public and private cloud environments, that also includes on-premise computing assets.
By Guest Author Robert Duffner, Product/Alliance Marketing Leader @ Docker (Gold Sponsor for Open Source Lisbon 2019)
By Guest Author Jenny Fong, Sr. Director of Product Marketing @ Docker (Gold Sponsor for Open Source Lisbon 2019)
By Guest Author Jorge Ferrer, VP of Engineering @ Liferay (Platinum Sponsor for Open Source Lisbon 2019)
By Guest Author Joana Mateus, Sales Manager @ ThinkOpen (Exhibitor Sponsor for Open Source Lisbon 2019)
17th Edition - Open Source: Leading The Generation Shift
Nowadays, to join or to be part of the Digital Transformation Era is a crucial to any business strategy. And one of the most important steps you need to consider is how to explore the cloud correctly. With so many cloud solutions in the market, we decided to write this article to help you realize that cloud services are the wisest decision for your business.
With the right cloud solution (or solutions) you should be able to engage your customers, transform products, optimize your operations, empower your employees and save money.
So, let us show you some reasons why you should migrate to the cloud.
Enjoy the reading!
If there is a buzzword going through a greater moment than “open source” it would probably be “productivity”. If you’re not hacking your productivity, improving it or replicating the tips and secrets of at least 10 highly-productive people then you’re getting left behind (or you were really lucky on your LinkedIn feed)!
Happily, open source productivity tools can help you. While most big companies operating in these areas are either expensive or restrict, the open source alternatives provide great accessibility and power. Best of all, whether you’re a freelancer trying to get work done in your own time, a small business aiming to cut costs or an enterprise organisation wanting complete control, the same solutions can work on any cases.
Here we’ll run through a selection of some of the best open source productivity tools available today and how exactly they might be able to help you.
Considered as an amazing software, Open Source code has many reasons to be used. You might consider them to consuming, publishing, collaborating on, or supporting open source. There are several causes to choose Open Source. Mainly if your software needs to be updated. We are going to mention some reasons why you should choose this software.
OpenShift by Red Hat it’s an easy to use and affordable application, due to their lower costs in the market, for you to build, deploy and manage your apps in containers. Besides that, this technology goes with a lot of programming languages, like Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP and Phyton, creating a great environment for your team. And also helps your company run apps efficiently and scale services.
In order to build the “Operating System” of the country, building simpler and more efficient services for the citizens, the Public Administration and businesses, the Italian Government created Team Gigitale, the country’s Digital Transformation Team. Following this initiative, a project to develop a user-friendly app was born.
Open Source can be defined as a philosophy that promotes the free access and distribution of a program, product or software.
It could be called as a manipulated and modified technology that changes a piece of the original software to make the program or application work as the user wants.
Open source to most people might means free. A user sees a bug, they consult the community, a fix is offered, an update is made and the user keeps on using the software they downloaded for free in the first place. Yet Adobe brings in €6 billion a year and Canonical makes $100 million a year. Companies like Oracle have a firm commitment to open source projects and still have revenues exceeding $37 billion per year. So, if there is big money in open source software, where does it come from?
The 16th edition of Open Source Lisbon, the biggest and most important Open Source event in Portugal, will take place on the 27th of September 2018.
This upcoming edition will be hosted at Cidade do Futebol, and it will gather national and international IT experts that will present the potential of Open Source technologies on the development and success of corporate strategy, as well as its importance for technological innovation.
