Microsoft’s cloud computing efforts are beginning to bear fruit. Last week, the company announced that the business unit that includes both its Windows Azure cloud platform and the Office 365

It’s no secret that enterprise application development teams are increasingly using agile development methodologies. But which tools are they using? InfoWorld compiled a list of seven tools that many agile

A new survey conducted by vendor Softchoice finds that 55 percent of 7,199 p surveyed say they run software as a service (SaaS) applications on a corporate device. Among organizations

A new report from 451 Research predicts that the OpenStack cloud platform will generate $600 million in revenue this year and more than $1 billion in 2015. OpenStack is an

In its financial reports, Amazon doesn’t break out the sales from its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services; instead, it lumps revenues into the “other sales” category, making it difficult

Microsoft has recently announced some upgrades and enhancements to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform. They include the official release of the enterprise-ready Windows Azure Backup Service, as well as

Last week, security vendor Kaspersky released an update for its password safe software. Unfortunately, the update caused a serious problem for Windows 7 users, rendering the software inoperable and in

The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), an industry group comprising companies that issue and manage security certificates, wants to encourage the practice of code signing. The idea is that application

Many enterprises are currently working on migrating apps from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing environments. But InfoWorld‘s David Linthicum warns that it’s important to get the migration process right.

A new report from Cisco says that global cloud computing traffic will surge from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017—that’s a 4.5-fold increase, or a compound annual

A new Forrester Research study commissioned by EffectiveUI paints a gloomy picture of enterprise application development. Only 39 percent of business decision makers said their internal development groups can deliver

DevOps tool vendor DBMaestro has released DBmaestro Teamwork V 3.7 with Oracle SQL Developer Extension. The update allows developers and DBAs to view and manage a database’s change history in

As companies are transitioning to software defined networking (SDN) in their data centers, they are seeking new kinds of workers, say recruiting firms. Specifically, they need people with a wider

A new report from Good Technology suggests that Apple is dominating enterprise mobility. Among Good’s enterprise customers, 72 percent of the devices activated in the most recent quarter were iOS

The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Hadoop 2.0 is now generally available. The update to the open source big data platform adds features like YARN, High Availability for Apache

Avaya has made a host of new product announcements related to unified communications (UC). Most notable from an enterprise application development perspective is the Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which makes

As part of a recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, analysts from the research team outlined strategic technology steps that enterprises should plan to take for 2014. Several of them relate to enterprise