On the second day of its Build 2013 developer conference, Microsoft announced a new partnership with platform as a service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard. Now, those who use Engine Yard’s
Google has launched a new cloud computing service for developers that it calls the Cloud Playground. The idea is to give developers a place where they can experiment with their
At its Build 2013 event in San Francisco, Microsoft took the wraps off updated versions of two of its most important tools: Visual Studio and .NET. Microsoft had previously announced
Most cloud computing providers separate their storage and computing offerings, but Joyent is launching a new service called Manta that combines object storage and processing capabilities. The company says the
It may not be as common as it once was for developers to write applications in COBOL, but despite being created in 1959, the language is far from dead. In
Xamarin has released a new .Net Mobility Scanner which it hopes will show enterprises that much of their existing C# code could run on iOS and Android if companies used
In the past, enterprises have been slow to move sensitive applications to public cloud computing services, but a report in NetworkWorld says that may be starting to change. The article
“As the cloud grows in importance, Netflix is positioned to lead mainstream enterprises to adopt it in droves,” says ReadWrite‘s Matt Asay. Of course, Netflix isn’t primarily a software development
On June 12, Oracle announced the availability of Java EE 7, and the same day, CloudBees announced that its platform as a service (PaaS) would be the first to support