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Infor Touts Enterprise Application Design Capabilities

If you’re looking for evidence that design is becoming more important to enterprise application development, take a look at enterprise software vendor Infor. The firm has recently taken several steps

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The Catch to Bezos?s Law of Cloud Pricing

The combined dramatic price drops from major public Cloud providers a few weeks ago has led to a pandemonium of punditry. One deep thinker after another has plumbed the pedestrian

Exploring Various Hadoop Installation Modes

Overview Apache Hadoop can be installed in different modes as per the requirement. These different modes are configured during installation and by default, Hadoop is installed in Standalone mode. The

Cloud Computing Shows Strong Growth

In an article for for ZDNet, Forrester analyst James Staten writes that cloud computing is entering a second stage characterized by “hypergrowth.” The firm predicts the market will be worth

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OpenBSD Forks OpenSSL

OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has announced plans to fix the code behind OpenSSL, the open source cryptography program exploited by the Heartbleed vulnerability. However, rather than simply update the

BMC Launches DevOps Software

BMC Software has released BMC Control-M Workload Change Manager, a collaboration console that supports the growing trend toward DevOps. According to the company, “Most enterprises today suffer from a major

Red Hat Hypes Virtual Containers

This week, Red Hat has been touting its new virtual container technology. Red Hat president of products and technologies Paul Cormier went so far as to call it “one of

Salesforce Debuts Developers Website

Salesforce.com has launched a new website called “Salesforce Developers” that makes it easier for people to find documentation and resources related to its cloud development services. According to the company,

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Build Node.js Apps Using Visual Studio 2013

There is some good news for Visual Studio enthusiasts looking to develop web applications using Node.js. The Visual Studio team (with help from the community contributors) recently released the support

Microsoft Azure Launches Internet of Things Service

Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service is offering a limited public preview for Intelligent Systems Service (ISS), a new service designed to support the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Microsoft,

Create an Apache Hadoop MapReduce Job Using Spring

Spring is a widely used framework in enterprise applications development and includes different components such as Spring ORM, Spring JDBC and more, to support various features. Spring for Apache Hadoop

Red Hat Launches OpenShift Marketplace

Red Hat has announced that its OpenShift platform as a service now has a Marketplace that will offer additional services from other vendors. Initially, it will include offerings from Blazemeter,

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Amazon’s Anti-Customer Rumblings

Amazon.com played an April Fool’s Day prank on me. My shaver head gave out April 1st, so I ordered a replacement on Amazon.com. I chose free shipping (without Amazon Prime,

Python Tools for Visual Studio Gets an Update

Microsoft has announced the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) 2.1 Beta. New features in the update include support for the Bottle and Flask frameworks, improved editing of

EU Privacy Watchdogs Approve Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has had plenty of disagreements with European regulators in the past, but today it has some good news: The organizations that oversee privacy protection laws in all 28 EU

Pivotal Launches Spring Boot 1.0

Earlier this month, Pivotal announced the 1.0 release of Spring Boot, a rapid application development framework for developing Spring-based Web applications. “Spring Boot brings a coding approach that you might

IBM Expands MobileFirst Program

IBM has announced that it will enhance its MobileFirst program for enterprises by adding a number of new services, including cloud-based mobile-as-a-service and application development services. The mobile development services

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Number of Female Developers Hits All-Time High

A new Evans Data Survey finds that 19.3 percent of software developers are women. That’s more than double the number of female programmers from fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly, many

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Developers Rush to Handle Heartbleed

On Tuesday, news broke of a major security flaw in OpenSSL, the technology that much of the Internet uses to encrypt data transfers. OpenSSL released a patch for the vulnerability,

Red Hat Adds Support for Google App Engine

Red Hat has announced that it now supports Google App Engine under its “bring your own subscription” plan. Red Hat allows organizations that already pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cloud Computing Comes to the Mainframe

The IBM mainframe turns 50 years old this month, and as part of the celebration, IBM is introducing the IBM Enterprise Cloud System, which brings cloud computing to the mainframe

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Thoughts on Thought Leadership

Now that I am Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb, people occasionally ask me what a Chief Evangelist does. My answer is that I provide thought leadership and marketing. To which my