Developer salaries are rising again after several years of very little growth, according to the annual Dr. Dobb’s salary survey. For 2013, the average developer made $95,000, up from $90,000

This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two noteworthy new cloud-related offerings. First, the cloud computing platform unveiled G2 Instances, an Elastic Compute Cloud service that makes use of

Microsoft’s Windows Azure has launched a new pilot project aimed at making it easier for organizations to upload data to the cloud computing service. When companies have very large data

David Williams, vice president of technology at Coupa, believes the Ruby on Rails is a good fit for enterprise software. In an interview with eWeek, he explained, “For us, the

Engineers and programmers from multiple tech firms, including Google, Red Hat and Oracle, are among those working to solve the problems with the health insurance exchange website at Healthcare.gov. For

Amazon has released a developer preview of its AWS SDK for JavaScript. The tool makes it possible to write applications that can access Amazon’s cloud computing services without needing to

In September, Adobe revealed that hackers had breached its systems and compromised data on nearly 3 million customers. However, the company now says that the breach was much larger than

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