This week, Microsoft announced three major updates to its Azure cloud computing service. First and most notably, its HD Insight big data service now includes Apache Storm for real-time streaming
During its Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com launched Lightning, an update for its Salesforce1 cloud development platform. Lightning aims to put mobile development within the reach of business users as well as
Xamarin and IBM are partnering together to make it easier for enterprise mobile development teams to use tools from both companies. Xamarin offers tools that allow developers to write C#
Apache Mahout is an open source project from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) with the primary goal of creating a machine learning algorithm. Introduced by a group of developers from
Application producers gain seamless path to monetize their customers??? migration to the cloudMaidenhead, UK October 16, 2014 Flexera Software, the leading provider of next-generation software licensing, compliance and installation solutions
In one of the previous blog posts, I introduced DocumentDB?-?Microsoft’s debut into the world of NoSQL databases. You learned how it is different for being a JSON document only database.
Leading Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has launched the InClusive?? solutions range, enabling companies to obtain a complete Oracle Cloud Application with no upfront costs.With an Oracle Cloud application for
OXFORD, UK ??? October 14, 2014 ??? Sophos today announced additions to its range of SG Series firewall/UTM appliances, WiFi access points, and the availability of Sophos iView, a new
During its Evolve conference, Xamarin unveiled several new cross-platform mobile development tools. They included the following: Xamarin Insights?gathers real-time data that can help determine why apps crash Xamarin Profiler?simplifies the
MatchWare???s highly-anticipated MindView 5 Business Mac boasts a powerful new feature set that helps project managers and other users maximize productivity, accuracy and quality, while reducing time, cost and risk.Tampa,
The ongoing Xamarin Evolve conference is generating a lot of enthusiasm amongst cross-platform developers across the globe. Xamarin has so far showcased an Android player, a simulator with hardware acceleration
Big data analytics vendor Teradata has announced that it is working with Cloudera on a new cloud computing service called Teradata Cloud for Hadoop. “Teradata Cloud makes it easier to
G.E. probably isn’t the first company most people think of when it comes to big data software, but the company just announced that revenue from its Internet of Things (IoT)
IBM has released eight new APIs for its Watson machine-learning platform. Developers can access the APIs through IBM’s Bluemix cloud computing service. The eight available APIs include the following: Language
Amazon Web Services and Splunk have announced a new plan to make Splunk’s big data analytics capabilities available through Amazon’s cloud computing services. More specifically, Hunk, Splunk’s analytics tool for
IT industry analyst behemoth Gartner is having their Symposium shindig this week in Orlando, where they made such predictions as ?one in three jobs will be taken by software or
The last few years have produced many new specifications and interaction patterns focused specifically on the Internet of Things (IoT) and its countless siblings such as the Internet of Everything,
Microsoft has released a fourth community technology preview (CTP) for the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, currently codenamed 14. The third CTP came out about a month ago.
Red Hat has launched a new JBoss Developer Program, which offers a free subscription to JBoss products. It allows enterprise application development teams to use JBoss middleware at no charge
Free up IBM i storage resources by removing performance data; automate performance reporting; extrapolate performance trends to support capacity planningPETERBOROUGH, NH ??? October 8, 2014 ??? SoftLanding?? Systems, a division
October 8, 2014 ??? Research shows 87% of business applications are web-based yet only 2% of firms use web technology for document scanning [1]. To address this, Kodak Alaris announced
In the latest version of the Tiobe Index, Google’s Dart became one of the twenty most popular programming languages for the first time. The language, designed as an alternative to
New Capability; a First for the Touchless Gesturing Market Unveiled at CEATEC JapanSan Francisco, CA and CEATEC, Japan ??? October 7, 2014 ??? Elliptic Labs, the leader in ultrasonic touchless
After The Wall Street Journal reported that HP planned to break itself into two separate companies, the company has confirmed the rumors. By the end of its 2015 fiscal year,
Different cloud computing vendors price their wares in a dizzying array of different ways, making it very difficult to compare prices. To make that task a little easier, RBC Capital
Back in the 90s, there was a surge on viruses written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that spread through infected Microsoft Word documents. That trend tapered off in 2001,
Microsoft has begun sharing information about its next operating system, Windows 10, but so far it has remained fairly quiet about application development tooling to support the OS. Based on
Enterprise-ready apps leverage mobile devices to power multichannel retail strategiesSan Francisco, 01 October, 2014 Scandit (www.scandit.com), developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning solution for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices,
On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a preview of the latest version of its Windows operating system. The update, which had been codenamed “Threshold,” will be released as “Windows 10.” The name
Days after Amazon and Rackspace rebooted their cloud computing servers, IBM has notified customers that its SoftLayer cloud services will also undergo a restart. The reason for the reboot is