Enterprise software solutions power critical business functions on which every major organization relies. Solutions should be efficient and elegant, to allow employees to rapidly complete their work and keep the
Macro 4???s mainframe performance and fault analysis solutions will support IBM z/OS 2.1 at launch Global software and solutions company Macro 4 has today announced that its mainframe performance and
A new survey of developers conducted by Evans Data shines the spotlight on the difficulties inherent in securing big data. Of those surveyed, 39 percent suspect that the U.S. government
Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor Engine Yard used the Oracle OpenWorld event as an opportunity to announce support for two Oracle technologies. First, Engine Yard now supports cloud development
Remember the fascinating story of the Mechanical Turk? This chess-playing automaton was a sensation in the courts of eighteenth century Europe. Who ever heard of a machine that could play
Samsung is going after enterprise customers with a new app store it calls the “Samsung Solutions Exchange.” While many companies offer lists of apps for businesses, this store will focus
At the OpenWorld conference this week, Oracle announced a dramatic expansion of its cloud computing offerings. It is adding ten new services, many of which seem positioned to challenge offerings
Retailers Beat Competitors??? Prices With Cogenta???s Big Data Powered ???Retail Insight??? ApplicationLeading retail intelligence technology group Cogenta (www.cogenta.com) has launched Retail Insight, an innovative Cloud-based pricing intelligence application which enables
AppSense Unveils Next Generation Enterprise File Sync & Share with DataNow EnterpriseIndustry???s First Enterprise-Class Solution Gives Consumer-like File Access and Sync to End-Users Across All Devices with No New Storage
The mobile development industry has created a wide range of apps related to health and medicine without knowing whether or how those apps would be regulated. Now the Food and
You have to admit, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has had a really hard time lately. Edward Snowden’s revelations of the heretofore top secret PRISM program keep on
When enterprises adopt agile software development methodologies, that change is often imposed from the top down. Developers have no choice or buy-in to the transition process, and they often don’t
A1, a member of Telekom Austria Group and Coriant Successfully Complete Industry???s First Field Trial Using Space Division Multiplexing and Showcase First 400G in AustriaStrategic technology collaboration between Coriant and
Security vendor RSA has sent out a message to customers warning developers not to use one of its encryption algorithms. “To ensure a high level of assurance in their application,
In this lengthy article, InfoQ asked a panel of cloud computing experts for advice on transitioning to cloud development. Here are a couple of key takeaways. Developer evangelist Adron Hall
In my role at ZapThink I get to speak with people at all levels of many organizations, from the most technical of developers to the most senior executives in the
A new report from market research firm Gartner forecasts 102 mobile app downloads for 2013, an increase from 64 billion in 2012. It says revenues will exceed $26 billion, up
If you’ve been searching for a software strategy that can help you deliver new features to your customers or staff with greater speed and efficiency then continuous delivery is it.
New Context Services, a freshly minted division of Neo Innovation, has forged an alliance with Guardtime to focus where data integrity intersects with telematics and the connected car, autonomous car,
Apiary, the API design platform company, announced yesterday it has secured $1.63 million in seed funding led by Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco with engineering
A new survey from Gartner finds that Apple iPad owners use their devices more often than people who own other brands of tablets. In fact, 80 percent of iPad owners
DevOps is catching on more than ever among more agile IT groups and now, based on survey data from CA Technologies, it is apparent that DevOps is indeed not only
LinkedIn has released Samza, a big data tool for real-time data processing, under an open source license. LinkedIn’s Chris Riccomini explained, “Samza helps you build applications that process feeds of
Splunk, known for its IT monitoring and analytics tools, has announced the acquisition of BugSense, a mobile analytics company. In the past, Splunk hasn’t targeted the mobile space. However, company
Enterprises application development teams often shy away from “cutting edge” programming techniques. Large organizations often look for very stable solutions—after all, no one wants to slide from leading edge to
The Linux Foundation has released its annual Linux Development Report, which chronicles who is making the most contributions to the open source operating system. As in other recent years, most
Developing software requires planning for change, continuously observing the results, immediate feedback, and incrementally course correcting based on the results. Startups are commonly plagued by the following problems: ???Lack of
Red Hat has released two new software packages that will likely be of interest to many enterprise application development teams—Software Collections 1.0 and Developer Toolset 1.0. In the interest of
Oracle has made Java SE Update 40 available for download from its website. Although this was a relatively minor update, the new version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) does
This week, Microsoft unveiled a release candidate for Visual Studio 2013, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), and it announced that the tool will hit release to