While the overall unemployment rate is fairly high, unemployment for developers continues to be very low, and enterprise application development teams are finding it difficult to hire really good employees.
IBM says it will spend $1.2 billion to build fifteen new data centers that will support its cloud computing businesses. The new facilities will be spread across the U.S., China,
According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, 91 percent of 2013 cyberattacks exploited a weakness in Java. “I was surprised to see that the Java [Indicator of Compromise] number
My good buddy Joe McKendrick at Forbes Magazine recently penned a thought-provoking piece: Cloud Providers May Not Be Ready For Big Data Onslaught, Users Fear. He?s right, of course ?
In an interesting post at Slate.com, programmer Philip Guo says that being Asian and male has helped him in his career and that he’s seen the opposite to be true
A new report from Evans Data finds rising popularity for Android within the mobile development industry. Google’s mobile OS is now the most commonly targeted platform for tablet apps with
In an interview with InfoQ Régis Medina explained why he thinks it’s a good idea for enterprise development teams to apply both Lean and Agile principles in their daily work.
It’s been possible run Hadoop on Google Cloud Storage for quite some time, but now Google is releasing a new connector that it says will make the task easier. The
Overview Today’s emphasis on responsive web design (RWD) brings many benefits, but can also gloss over important differences in how people actually use different types of devices. Are there lessons
FlexNet Connect 2014 Helps Reduce Hacker Risk and Uncover New Revenue Streams for Internet-Connected DevicesNew communications, device management and update capabilities enable Internet of Things by facilitating new product/service offerings
According to an Oracle posting to the Java mailing list, the company will ship Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 on March 18 even if it’s still a little buggy. Between
One of the primary enablers of Public Cloud Providers? dramatic economies of scale is their fanatical devotion to homogeneity at the hardware level. Walk into one of their data centers
Overview I have been doing a lot of work on Azure lately. Most recently, in a high volume message processing application that we are building for one of our customers,
According to Paul Thurrott, the biggest announcement Microsoft will make at the BUILD developer conference in April will be its vision for the next version of Windows. Currently codenamed Threshold,
Market researchers at IDC are forecasting greater enterprise interest in application life-cycle management (ALM) tools during 2014. The firm says high-profile software failures at Nasdaq, Amazon.com, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines
In preliminary guidance for investors, SAP reported that sales of its HANA cloud computing software were up 69 percent in 2013. While that may seem impressive, it failed to meet
Introduction Apache Solr is a widely used open source search platform that internally uses Apache Lucene based indexing. Solr is very popular and provides a database to store indexed data
The data in the enterprise change all the time, right? Virtually every user interface interaction, API call, or event changes some data somewhere. Code, however, is static. It never changes
An IDG Connect survey commissioned by Unisys recently found that 50 percent of C-level executives preferred private clouds to public or hybrid cloud computing environments. By comparison, 26 percent preferred
In a recent blog post, Facebook’s Durham Goode and Siddharth Agarwal explained how they modified the Mercurial version control system to meet their company’s needs. At issue was the vast
Leicester, UK – 9th January, 2014 -10ZiG Technology, the only Thin and Zero Client Vendor to offer true versatility at no extra cost, is excited to announce its integration of
Its Salesforce1 platform is still very young, but Salesforce.com says the mobile platform is already showing great promise. In the first month after Salesforce1 launched, the cloud computing company saw
Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the
Microsoft has announced two upcoming developer events. First, it will co-host a social-focused hackathon with Facebook January 17-18. “A number of our engineers along with Facebook’s engineers will be there
I have often seen IT organizations within large enterprises struggle trying to figure out the right AD FS implementation. They almost certainly understand that AD FS is the right tool
Like much of our society, programming is driven by trends. As new technologies create better precision, efficiency and ease of use, older technologies fall by the wayside. InfoWorld has put
I?m pleased to announce that I?ve taken a position as Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb. More good news: I?m also going to continue to blog for DevX. It wouldn?t be fair,
Runnable, the three-month-old code discovery service that aims to be the “YouTube of code,” has announced two major new features. First, Runnable has added support for two of the most
It’s clear that hackathons have benefits for the enterprises that sponsor them—companies get new ideas, test their APIs, generate buzz and get a look at talent they might want to
Enterprise software saw some big changes over the past year. InfoWorld has put together a list of seven of the most important: In-memory databases going mainstream. HCM (human capital management)