A new tool from Amazon Web Services (AWS) will make it easier for developers to build server-side applications in JavaScript and run them on Amazon’s cloud computing services. The company
Everybody knows that hard drives go bad. Some give up the ghost sooner, while others beat the odds, but eventually the storage grim reaper comes for all of them. When
Enterprise application development tool vendor Atlassian has announced version 4.2 of its Stash enterprise code repository. Stash offers Git-based code management designed to meet the needs of enterprises that don’t
The development industry is notorious for favoring younger workers over older ones, but a new study conducted by North Carolina State University calls that bias into question. In a paper
Most developers tend to dismiss Pascal and its derivative Delphi as outdated legacy programming languages that few people use any more. But Embarcadero Technologies, which purchased Delphi in 2008, says
One of the highlights of Dell’s transformation from a low-cost PC provider to a purveyor of IT services and all things Cloud is their Boomi Cloud integration product. Originally billed
Whether you are looking to compute walkability scores to nearby schools or search for apartments by specific neighborhoods, Heroku says its embrace of geographical data via PostGIS 2.0 will help
Following in the footsteps of many other tech companies, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a new certification program. It will allow administrators, systems administrators and developers to demonstrate their
Today Heroku announced geospatial support for Heroku Postgres with PostGIS 2.0.Heroku Postgres is increasingly enabling rich use cases ??? adding services from key/value datatype in hstore, querying across postgres databases
According to Microsoft CFO Curt Anderson, the firm’s Azure cloud computing service has brought in $1 billion in revenue for the company in the past twelve months. That includes both
A new survey of 3,500 data architects and developers conducted by Sonatype highlights the difficulty of managing open source code used for enterprise application development. Among those surveyed, 57 percent
New research from Gartner shows that the market for enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) software is growing at a staggering rate. Worldwide CRM software revenue topped $18 billion last year,
Today Heroku announced geospatial support for Heroku Postgres with PostGIS 2.0.Heroku Postgres is increasingly enabling rich use cases ??? adding services from key/value datatype in hstore, querying across postgres databases
It’s my pleasure to be spending much of this week with hundreds of data-heads, learning about all things data at Dataversity’s Enterprise Data World (EDW) in San Diego. As my
https://addons.heroku.com/urbanairshipHeroku???s add-on marketplace allows developers to add more capabilities to their app development kits with a single click. At the end of 2012, the add-on marketplace had attracted more than
The AppFog platform as a service started out saying developers who used the service would be able to run their applications on nearly any cloud computing infrastructure, but not the
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a lengthy piece that describes how a startup called Gild is using big data analytics to help other companies find talented developers.
At the Demo Mobile 2013 event, Raw Engineering showcased its built.io tool that aims to make it possible for business users to develop their own mobile apps. “The life of
Tickets for Apple’s 2013 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) went on sale Thursday and sold out in less than two minutes. That beat last year’s record-setting sell-out in two hours. Although
Given the dramatic and appalling events over the last few weeks, you may not have noticed a story that has similarly dramatic and appalling implications: the hacking of two Associated
Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff created by EMC and VMware, says it plans to launch a new platform as a service offering in the fourth quarter of this year. Called
Microsoft’s Glenn Bock is leading a team that’s working on an interesting project that aims to turn C# into a scripting language. Called ScriptCS, the project allows developers to write
Apple has officially announced that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place June 10-14 in San Francisco’s Moscone West conference center. Tickets will go on sale at 10AM
CA Technologies has acquired a pair of smaller companies that make application development and deployment tools. The first company, Layer 7, makes API management and security products that complement CA’s
IBM has announced that it has purchased UrbanCode, which makes tools that facilitate DevOps practices, for an undisclosed sum. UrbanCode’s primary product is application release automation (ARA) software, which simplifies
Business Insider has put together a list of the ten most important companies in cloud computing. Not surprisingly, Amazon heads the list, but some of the names are less well
According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, the market for enterprise software reached $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent improvement over 2012. Several sub-categories within the market, including data
When I first heard the marketing for IBM’s PureSystems, I must admit I was amused. They’re calling these systems “expert systems,” but when they describe what they mean by an
According to Spotify’s Mattias Jansson, “Many parts of DevOps culture have pervaded Spotify from its early beginnings.” For example, “Backend developers deploy their code in production by themselves, with or
Market researchers say there are now more Android smartphones than iOS phones in the U.S. and worldwide, but many enterprises continue to launch iOS-only apps. For example, just this week,