Intuit, the company that makes the QuickBase low-code development platform, has released a new report on the impact of “citizen developers” in the enterprise. Intuit defines citizen developers as “empowered
The SQL Elastic Database Pool?allows you to run SQL databases with a private pool of resources dedicated for that purpose. Azure SQL database capabilities have been significantly enhanced recently to
Ahead of its AzureCon event, Microsoft has announced several improvements to Azure’s big data capabilities. Most notably, the company launched Azure Data Lake Store, an expansion of Azure Data Lake.
Application life cycle management (ALM) is the process of creating application software and includes many different aspects???such as gathering requirements, architecture and detailed design, implementation, testing, change management, maintenance, integration,
Databricks has released its 2015 Spark Survey, which reveals increasing interest in the open source real-time processing technology. According to the report, Apache Spark has experience 283 percent growth among
Innovation in programming language design has been very visible over the last two decades. Java was the catalyst. It introduced many novel concepts such as garbage collection, the Java Virtual
In a conference call to announce quarterly earnings, BlackBerry confirmed rumors that it plans to release a new smartphone called the Priv that will feature a slide-out keyboard and will
The developers of the KVM hypervisor have launched a new NoSQL database called ScyllaDB that boasts some impressive performance numbers. ScyllaDB is fully compatible with the open source Apache Cassandra
Google has launched a beta trial of a new service designed to help organizations better manage Spark and Hadoop clusters running in its cloud computing environment. Called Cloud Dataproc, the
Backblaze, a cloud backup vendor, is getting into the infrastructure as a service cloud storage business, and it is setting its prices extremely low in a direct challenge to Amazon,
Webhooks?is a popular pattern that has been available for a while now and has already been exposed by some popular service providers such as DropBox, GitHub, PayPal and MailChimp, amongst
Earlier this month, JetBrains announced that it would begin offering its development tools on a subscription basis instead of under a perpetual license. Pushback from customers was immediate and vociferous,
Web companies that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing service experienced downtime over the weekend when a problem with the AWS DynamoDB database resulted in outages. Affected services included Tinder, IMDb
DBArtisan 2016??, Rapid SQL?? 2016, plus new advanced add-on capabilities for SQL performance management are now availableMaidenhead, U.K. – September 22, 2015 – Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software
IBM has released a new tool that gives enterprises visibility into the third-party apps their employees use and boosts organizations access control and data security capabilities for those apps. Called
Although it was once an avowed enemy of open source software in general and Linux in particular, Microsoft has developed its own version of Linux. Called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS),
What Is Agile? Agile programming, or agile software development, is a group of software development methods which have become very popular and widely used recently. Its basic idea is to
This new end-to-end collection brings together charting, reporting, grids, UI controls, debugging, analytics, and IoT components and tools in a single productivity solutionMaidenhead, U.K. ??? September 18, 2015 ??? Embarcadero
A new technology industry lobbying group called fwd.us wants the government to allow more highly skilled workers from foreign countries into the United States. Created by Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates,
Hadoop solutions provider AtScale has released the results of a new survey which found that 76 percent of enterprises either already use Hadoop or plan to do so. Most (69
InfoWorld has announced this year’s winners of its annual Best of Open Source Software, or BOSSIE, Awards. The list of application development tools winning the award has a lot of
IBM has launched a new cloud computing service for automakers that it is calling Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive. It will gather data from vehicle sensors so that it
One of the never ending flame wars involves the use of programmer editors vs. integrated development environments (IDEs). Most developers have a proclivity for one over the other. A small
At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is announcing its new Internet of Things Cloud service. ?We are watching the increasing volume of data coming off of connected devices, and we are
Collaboration with Open Source Vendor, SwiftStack, Helps Customers Leverage Low-Cost, Highly Scalable Object Storage with Avere’s High Performance File-System Capabilities PITTSBURGH, PA – September 14, 2015 – Avere Systems, a
Google has released a beta version of Bazel, the tool it uses internally to automate software builds and testing, under an open-source license. Bazel is similar to Ant and Maven,
Machine learning is that mysterious field where the computer can supposedly learn on its own and doesn’t need us lowly software engineers crafting algorithms and data structures and instructing it
IBM has purchased StrongLoop, a company that sold API development tools and employed many of the top contributors to Node.js. IBM plans to integrate StrongLoop’s technology into its software offerings
Salesforce has announced App Cloud, a new offering that it says is the next generation of its Salesforce 1 Platform. App Cloud includes the Heroku Enterprise cloud development platform, the
Cloudera has launched a new One Platform Initiative which aims to improve Spark and turn it into the primary execution engine for Hadoop. Cloudera has long championed Spark, but some