At TechEd 2014, Microsoft made a couple of big announcements related to its Visual Studio integrated development environment. First, a preview version of Visual Studio now supports Apache Cordova, an
IDC has published the results of a new survey which asked U.S. enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to rank cloud computing vendors based on their quality of service. IBM
Enterprise application development teams are increasingly turning to gamification to increase end user engagement. In fact, researchers at Gartner say 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will use gamification as
ReadWrite has published an interview with Eric Bowman, the vice president of architecture for Gilt.com, an e-commerce site that specializes in flash sales. Because the site experiences huge spikes in
PHP tool vendor Zend has announced the release of Apigility 1.0. The open source tool helps companies create their own APIs by encouraging certain development practices. “We took the opinionated
HP has announced plans to invest $1 billion over two years into research and development related to the OpenStack cloud computing platform. It’s calling this new effort “Helion,” and it
Enterprises have rushed to embrace devops, a philosophy that promises to break down barriers between development and operations, promote collaboration and improve quality. But something of a backlash against devops
At EMC World, the EMC announced a new Hybrid Cloud package. It aims to makes it easier for enterprises to set up a private cloud computing environment and also use
Microsoft has announced that it purchased GreenButton, a New Zealand-based company that specializes in cloud-based high performance computing. Microsoft previously made a $1 million investment in the smaller firm. GreenButton’s