One of the primary enablers of Public Cloud Providers? dramatic economies of scale is their fanatical devotion to homogeneity at the hardware level. Walk into one of their data centers
Overview I have been doing a lot of work on Azure lately. Most recently, in a high volume message processing application that we are building for one of our customers,
According to Paul Thurrott, the biggest announcement Microsoft will make at the BUILD developer conference in April will be its vision for the next version of Windows. Currently codenamed Threshold,
Market researchers at IDC are forecasting greater enterprise interest in application life-cycle management (ALM) tools during 2014. The firm says high-profile software failures at Nasdaq, Amazon.com, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines
In preliminary guidance for investors, SAP reported that sales of its HANA cloud computing software were up 69 percent in 2013. While that may seem impressive, it failed to meet
Introduction Apache Solr is a widely used open source search platform that internally uses Apache Lucene based indexing. Solr is very popular and provides a database to store indexed data
The data in the enterprise change all the time, right? Virtually every user interface interaction, API call, or event changes some data somewhere. Code, however, is static. It never changes
An IDG Connect survey commissioned by Unisys recently found that 50 percent of C-level executives preferred private clouds to public or hybrid cloud computing environments. By comparison, 26 percent preferred
In a recent blog post, Facebook’s Durham Goode and Siddharth Agarwal explained how they modified the Mercurial version control system to meet their company’s needs. At issue was the vast
Leicester, UK – 9th January, 2014 -10ZiG Technology, the only Thin and Zero Client Vendor to offer true versatility at no extra cost, is excited to announce its integration of
Its Salesforce1 platform is still very young, but Salesforce.com says the mobile platform is already showing great promise. In the first month after Salesforce1 launched, the cloud computing company saw
Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the
Microsoft has announced two upcoming developer events. First, it will co-host a social-focused hackathon with Facebook January 17-18. “A number of our engineers along with Facebook’s engineers will be there
I have often seen IT organizations within large enterprises struggle trying to figure out the right AD FS implementation. They almost certainly understand that AD FS is the right tool
Like much of our society, programming is driven by trends. As new technologies create better precision, efficiency and ease of use, older technologies fall by the wayside. InfoWorld has put
I?m pleased to announce that I?ve taken a position as Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb. More good news: I?m also going to continue to blog for DevX. It wouldn?t be fair,
Runnable, the three-month-old code discovery service that aims to be the “YouTube of code,” has announced two major new features. First, Runnable has added support for two of the most
It’s clear that hackathons have benefits for the enterprises that sponsor them—companies get new ideas, test their APIs, generate buzz and get a look at talent they might want to
Enterprise software saw some big changes over the past year. InfoWorld has put together a list of seven of the most important: In-memory databases going mainstream. HCM (human capital management)
All of the major cloud computing platforms are eager to attract enterprise developers, and Google Compute Engine is no exception. In its latest move in the cloud wars, Google is
The whole idea of a Private Cloud is that it?s supposed to be, well, private. As in, nobody else?s business. You want a Private Cloud? Own your own data center.
Research firms and vendors predict that internal app stores and cloud computing will be very important trends in enterprise application development over the coming year. For example, AppDirect says most
In a lengthy article, eWeek’s Darryl K. Taft examines the role that the Windows Azure cloud computing service plays in Microsoft’s attempts to court developers. For example, the company has
Introduction PhoneGap is a great platform for building mobile applications. If you know HTML, JavaScript and CSS, you can build native applications for just about every mobile platform there is.
Twitter has announced that it is releasing CocoaSPDY, a SPDY framework for OS X and iOS, under an open source license. SPDY is an alternative to HTTP that improves Web
These days, business analysts and other users without programming skills are clamoring for the ability to create apps. To meet their needs, Microsoft has just released a beta version of
A new survey by Apigee details the ways mobile devices and apps are changing people’s lives. The report, titled “2013 Digital Impact Survey,” is chock full of interesting statistics, including
On the same day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM have both put out announcements related to cloud computing services for China. In a blog post, AWS said that it
It’s one thing to let employees bring their phone to work and use it to access company information, but it’s quite another to force them to submit to remote wipes
A new report from VisionMobile suggests that the mobile development industry should be paying more attention to the enterprise market. The firm believes the market for enterprise apps will be