Migrating an enterprise application to the cloud can be tremendously challenging, but Cloud Technology Partners says its new PaaSLane service can reduce the costs involved by 25 percent. PaaSlane evaluates

At a developer conference, Facebook unveiled its homegrown query engine called Presto. According to Facebook’s Martin Traverso, more than 850 Facebook employees use the tool every day to analyze 320

Java may not be as dominant as it once was, but that doesn’t mean you should discount it, says RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady. At the Jax Conf Java conference, O’Grady

Bring your own device (BYOD) policies at some companies prevent users from installing some mobile apps and require them to install others. Fiberlink recently published a report on the top

If you need a NoSQL database for your Web or mobile development project, IBM and 10Gen hope to encourage you to use MongoDB. The two firms are working together on

Sometimes, Web developers want to use a newer version of Ruby of Python than what is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In order to meet the needs of

In can be difficult to make money on enterprise mobile apps because developers don’t have the same in-app purchase and advertising opportunities that make many consumer apps profitable. But cloud

Many developers see a lot of advantages to agile software development methodologies, but end users might be tougher to convince. Esther Schindler writes in ITworld that their objections usually fall

In order to make it easier to use its App Engine cloud computing service, Google has unveiled a new “Mobile Backend Starter.” It includes everything mobile development firms need to

In the past, Microsoft has taken two years between each update of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), but it is rushing out Visual Studio 2013 less than one

IBM is adding some devops capabilities into its SmartCloud cloud computing platform and its MobileFirst mobile development software. SmartCloud is getting new log analysis tools for its cloud analytics, application

At the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, Sarah Mei from Pivotal Labs addressed a common phenomenon on enterprise application development teams—really good developers who unexpectedly write really lousy code. According to Mei,

How quickly should software developers respond with a patch or mitigation advice when a security researcher informs them of a zero-day vulnerability? In 2010, Google said 60 days was soon

Microsoft has now revealed a few more details about the next version of Windows, version 8.1, codenamed Windows Blue. For users, the big news is that Microsoft is bringing back

With more and more enterprises launching big data projects, workers with Hadoop skills are in high demand. That raises the question, if developers want to apply for Hadoop-related jobs, what

Enterprise applications have a reputation for being ugly and somewhat difficult to use. But HP wants to change that perception. “Historically, most enterprise application developers start with a set of

Development tool vendor Zend has released the results of its annual survey of PHP developers. Not surprisingly, mobile development and cloud computing are on the minds of most developers this

It’s no secret that many enterprise application development projects run behind schedule and over-budget. In a lengthy article, Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield argue that the problem isn’t the fault

9to5Mac has a lengthy article with information from unnamed sources about the new look for iOS 7. They say the design will be “black, white, and flat all over.” In

Cloud computing provider Joyent is determined to catch up to industry leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). With that goal in mind, the company has introduced thirteen new server instance types

InfoWorld has put together a list of “7 must-try mobile dev tools.” This isn’t a group of editor picks—instead a group of developers weighed in with their favorites. They include

Enterprise application development tool vendor Appcelerator has rolled out a new offering it calls “the only enterprise SaaS platform built from the ground up for mobile.” The Appcelerator platform includes