The state of Massachusetts is teaming up with Harvard, MIT, UMass Amherst, Boston University and Northeastern University to create a cloud computing infrastructure marketplace. Called the “Massachusetts Open Cloud,” the
Nowhere is the poor architect?s quest for respect more difficult than on Agile development teams. Even when Agilists admit the need for architecture, they begrudgingly call for the bare minimum
P4Search Makes It Easy to Mine Hundreds of Terabytes of Enterprise IPKey Points:P4Search enables content-based search across all files stored in Perforce-from intricate code files, to Microsoft Office docs, to
The Microsoft Open Technologies team announced the support for Cordova tools in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 during Tech-Ed US. If you have been building cross platform apps using Apache
A new report from researchers at Frost & Sullivan finds that enterprise tablet adoption is increasing. According to the firm, 47 percent of companies supply tablets to their workers, but
Sometimes random thoughts in the blogosphere coalesce into a strange synergy of ideas. When this happens, my natural impulse, of course, is to blog once more. In this case, no
Perhaps the most successful part of Representational State Transfer (REST) to date has been the simplification of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). We no longer need a language-specific protocol that depends
The market for third-party hosted cloud computing environments will grow significantly in the coming years and reach $69 billion by 2018, says a new report from Technology Business Research (TBR).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its most inexpensive EC2 cloud computing instance ever. The new T2 instances cost just $0.013 per hour, or $9.50 per month,
IBM has made two notable announcements related to the IBM Cloud Marketplace. First, its BlueMix cloud development platform is now generally available. The platform as a service (PaaS) runs on
In the first two parts of this tutorial (Part 1, Part 2), you learned how to create a web camera stream on your PC, accept it on the remote location
Currently, Windows 8 and 8.1 allow users to switch between two different interfaces: the traditional desktop interface for keyboard/mouse input and the modern “Metro” interface for touch input. ZDNet’s Mary
Oracle has released an updated version of Mobile Suite, its collection of mobile development tools for enterprises. The update centers around Mobile Application Framework (MAF), which aims to simplify cross-platform
At Intellyx we break down business agility into three core business drivers: responsiveness, resilience, and innovativeness. This perspective on business agility, however, is not universal. In fact, most people separate
Gartner has revised its predictions for 2014 worldwide IT spending down slightly. Instead of increasing by 3.2 percent, IT spending is now likely to climb 2.1 percent over 2013 levels,
In line with the Cloud First strategy, the Microsoft Azure team is aggressively working towards creating a Connected Systems and Devices platform using the Azure Service Bus, called the Microsoft
Paul Rubens at CIO has put together a list of 10 coding practices that he thinks cause most code problems. Here’s his list of ten things application development teams should
Apple frequently offers its developers an early look at upcoming versions of iOS, and now, for the first time ever, Google is doing the same thing with Android. Mobile development
UK tech consortium delivers HyperCat ??? a new way for machines to work together27th June 2014: A consortium of more than 40 UK-based technology companies funded by the UK???s innovation
I read with interest JP Morgenthal?s recent post on how SaaS represents the commoditization of application functionality for enterprises. He points out that based upon a recent GigaOm research report,
Eclipse, the popular open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Java and other programming languages, releases a host of updates and related projects every year as part of a “train.”
During the first day of this year’s I/O Developer Conference, most of the emphasis was on Android and mobile development. However, the company also made several cloud development announcements. First,
Some large companies, such as Facebook, insist on locating all of their developers in one location. In Facebook’s case, that’s in Silicon Valley. Studies show that co-located teams are more
In a survey of 100 enterprise executives, application management and security vendor Apperian found that 70 percent plan to deploy mobile apps to one thousand employees or more, and 33
Can you imagine this scenario? You?re monkeying with your app of choice, say from Apple or Microsoft or perhaps from any of the throngs of vendors pouring new apps in
IBM has announced that it is working with Toyota to build an application development platform for in-vehicle apps. The project is part of Toyota’s T-Connect initiative, which is trying to
Ultra Secure IT services provider expands capabilities by partnering with leading object storage provider24 JUNE 2014: Ultra Secure IT services provider, The Bunker today launches its Ultra Secure Object Storage
With mobile services in the fray, an ecosystem of publishers are constantly giving rise to data and business processes that are being licensed to consumers. This has resulted in significant
Rackspace has launched a new cloud computing service that it calls OnMetal. Based on OpenStack technology, it will allow enterprises to deploy a cloud environment on single-tenant physical servers at
It is increasingly difficult to get developers’ attention and keep it, simply because there are so many technologies, products and vendors out there competing to get developers on board —