March 3, 2014

eWeek recently conducted an interview with Simon Aspinall, chief of vertical markets, strategy and marketing at Virtustream. He identified ten market forces that are influencing enterprise cloud computing this year: Heightened security, compliance issues remain top concerns. Data protection techniques drive national clouds. Merger and acquisition activity continues to heat

A report from middleware vendor Typesafe finds that most developers are eagerly anticipating the March 16 release of Java 8 despite security concerns. Among those surveyed, 29 percent plan to start using Java 8 within six months, and 25 percent plan to do so within six months to a year.