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Execs Prefer Private Clouds, Survey Finds

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

How Facebook Scaled Mercurial

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

Salesforce Reports Surging Interest in Salesforce1

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 Buys Enterprise Software Firm Parature

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

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Secure Your Network with AD Federation Services

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

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Evangelizing with Architecture

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,

Why Do Developers Attend Hackathons?

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

Google Compute Engine Touts Open Source Cred

All of the major cloud computing platforms are eager to attract enterprise developers, and Google Compute Engine is no exception. In its latest move in the cloud wars, Google is

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When is a Private Cloud not a Private Cloud?

The whole idea of a Private Cloud is that it?s supposed to be, well, private. As in, nobody else?s business. You want a Private Cloud? Own your own data center.

Enterprise App Stores to Become More Important in 2014

Research firms and vendors predict that internal app stores and cloud computing will be very important trends in enterprise application development over the coming year. For example, AppDirect says most

Survey: 40% Use Smartphones Mostly for Business

A new survey by Apigee details the ways mobile devices and apps are changing people’s lives. The report, titled “2013 Digital Impact Survey,” is chock full of interesting statistics, including

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Managing BYOD with the Cloud

It’s one thing to let employees bring their phone to work and use it to access company information, but it’s quite another to force them to submit to remote wipes

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Impending OpenStack Implosion: More Detail

I’m getting some pushback on my recent prediction that OpenStack will implode as a result of its inability to innovate sufficiently to keep up with the marketplace. I admit I’m

How to Process Your Data Using Apache Pig

Overview Apache Pig is a platform and a part of the Big Data eco-system. The platform is used to process a large volume of data sets in a parallel way.

Microsoft Updates Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2013 is less than a month old, but Microsoft has already announced the arrival of a release candidate for its successor, Visual Studio 2013.1. The update includes bug

Dell Partners with Red Hat on OpenStack

At its Dell World conference, Dell announced that next year it will begin selling enterprise systems equipped with Red Hat’s version of Open Stack. The offering is designed to aid