In the past, many enterprises were very loyal to their technology vendors, but analysts say that’s changing. A new Gartner report found that 70 percent of CIOs expect to switch
For its third fiscal quarter, which ended on Feb. 28, Oracle reportedsales and profits that failed to meet analyst expectations. However, CEO Larry Ellison and other executives said that they
Microsoft made two database-related product announcements on Tuesday. First, it said that SQL Server 2014, its relational database, has been released to manufacturing, with the official public release scheduled for
HP has updated its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite. The company designed ALM 12 to provide agile development teams with the ability to release applications very quickly. “We’re providing customers
Allen Holub has in interesting blog post on Dr. Dobb’s in which he argues that agile organizations should ideally be organized as holacracies. A holacracy is an organization made up
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that AppStream is now available to any developer who wants to use it. The service had been in a limited preview since it was
Perfecto Mobile, which provides app testing tools and services, has published a new report that details how enterprises test their mobile apps. Interestingly, while more than 80 percent of consumer
The latest version of the Dice Report from online job board Dice.com analyzes the perks that employers use to try to attract applicants for software engineering, cloud computing, big data
It’s no secret that one of the biggest IT trends of the last few years has been big data. It’s more than just a buzzword—the volume, variety and velocity of