A new study from the Linux Foundation finds that it’s becoming more common for developers from different organizations to work together. According to the “Collaborative Development Trends Report,” 80 percent
Intel and Cloudera have announced plans to work together on a new Hadoop-based big data platform. As part of the agreement, Intel will stop working on its own Hadoop project
This week I attended the bpmNEXT Conference in California. Unlike virtually every other conference I?ve ever attended, this one attracted Business Process Management (BPM) vendors and analysts, but not customers
In modern application development, caching is one of the most important aspects to be considered during application design. The most common purpose of caching is to improve performance. A cache
Within 24 hours after Google announced a price cut for its cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) followed suit. Fees for its EC2 IaaS will drop 10 percent to
Organizations in China can now use the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service. In a statement, Microsoft’s Takeshi Numoto announced, “I am pleased to share that Microsoft Azure, operated by 21Vianet,
Adobe this week announced PhoneGap Enterprise, a new version of its popular open source, cross-platform mobile development platform. PhoneGap allows developers to build apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and
At the Google Cloud Platform Live event, Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure at Google, announced that the company will reduce its fees for cloud computing services by
Over one billion smartphones and nearly 220 million tablets shipped globally in 2013. Mobile app development for the consumer and business markets exploded?both the Google and Apple app stores surpassed
Citing information from “tipsters,” ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft plans to rename its Windows Azure cloud computing service ‘Microsoft Azure.’ She writes that an official announcement will
Cloud computing vendor Box has filed paperwork with the SEC announcing its plans to raise up to $250 million by becoming a publicly traded company. That’s an ambitious goal for
I always look forward to attending retrospective meetings in an agile setup. It is the time to reflect upon how the team fared and make amendments for the future. There
Enterprise apps have long had a reputation for being a little boring. While consumer apps are designed to be attractive and sexy, enterprise apps have focused on security and stability.
While it still has a long way to go to catch up with favorites like Java and C, there are several signs that Google’s Go language is becoming more popular
When you write a computer program, you?re providing instructions to one or more computers so that they can do whatever it is you?ve programmed them to do. In other words,
Red Hat already had a certification program for making sure apps run as intended on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL); now it is adding a service that will certify Linux
Continuity has released a big data management tool called Loom under an open source license. Loom provides an interface and API for deploying and maintaining scale-out clusters in cloud computing
In the past, many enterprises were very loyal to their technology vendors, but analysts say that’s changing. A new Gartner report found that 70 percent of CIOs expect to switch
Microsoft made two database-related product announcements on Tuesday. First, it said that SQL Server 2014, its relational database, has been released to manufacturing, with the official public release scheduled for
For its third fiscal quarter, which ended on Feb. 28, Oracle reportedsales and profits that failed to meet analyst expectations. However, CEO Larry Ellison and other executives said that they
In a recent article for ComputerWorld, Howard Baldwin took a well-deserved poke at leading consulting punditocracy for pushing ?Digital Transformation? on their customers. You must build a ?digital industrial economy?
HP has updated its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite. The company designed ALM 12 to provide agile development teams with the ability to release applications very quickly. “We’re providing customers
Introduction Hadoop Streaming is a generic API which allows writing Mappers and Reduces in any language. But the basic concept remains the same. Mappers and Reducers receive their input and
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that AppStream is now available to any developer who wants to use it. The service had been in a limited preview since it was
Allen Holub has in interesting blog post on Dr. Dobb’s in which he argues that agile organizations should ideally be organized as holacracies. A holacracy is an organization made up
In one of the previous blogs, I discussed building background services that can scale by tenant. There could however be scenarios where you want the system to scale by load
Perfecto Mobile, which provides app testing tools and services, has published a new report that details how enterprises test their mobile apps. Interestingly, while more than 80 percent of consumer
The latest version of the Dice Report from online job board Dice.com analyzes the perks that employers use to try to attract applicants for software engineering, cloud computing, big data
It’s no secret that one of the biggest IT trends of the last few years has been big data. It’s more than just a buzzword—the volume, variety and velocity of
All developers these days are familiar with the second statement in the Agile Manifesto: customer collaboration over contract negotiation. You?re on the same team as your customer or stakeholder, the