Analysts from IHS are forecasting that enterprises will spend $235 billion on cloud computing by 2017. That’s a 35 percent increase over the $174 billion they believe will be spent
Among the many announcements it made at the Build developers conference, Microsoft said that it will launch a new Microsoft Azure Preview Portal. The new portal unites its Visual Studio
According to a new survey from RightScale Research, nearly all businesses—94 percent—are using some form of cloud computing. And 89 percent said they are using at least one public cloud
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced that it is updating Windows 8.1 with several new features aimed at enterprises. First of all, the company is making it easier to
Hortonworks has announced Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1, the latest version of its Hadoop distribution. The update includes a number of noteworthy changes, including a Hive interactive query capability called
At this week’s Cloud Connect Summit, a panel of experts from Microsoft, Red Hat, Blue Box and HP discussed cloud computing and the nature of platform as a service (PaaS)
Last week, Google and Amazon announced price cuts for their cloud computing services. Now Microsoft is following suit and dropping the fees for Azure. Microsoft’s prices for compute services are
A pair of new studies are calling attention to the need for better testing of mobile apps. Testing vendor Keynote released a report which found that testing is still not
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could affect software patents for years, or decades, to come. At issue is whether a company called