TechRepublic has released the results of a new survey about enterprise use of software as a service (SaaS). The overwhelming majority of those surveyed said they were happy with their
The CloudBees platform as a service (PaaS) has announced new capabilities that make its cloud development platform even more flexible. Developers who use the CloudBees PaaS for development work can
SpringSource has released version 1.0 of Spring for Apache Hadoop. It integrates the Spring Java application development framework with Hadoop, the popular open source tool for big data processing and
Cloud Sherpas has released Ferris, a new open source Python framework that aims to make it easier to create custom applications for Google App Engine. “What Ferris does is it
The market researchers at IDC are predicting that the hosted private cloud (HPC) services industry will be worth more than $24 billion by 2016 — a compound annual growth rate
VersionOne has released the results of a new survey which questioned 4,048 software developers about agile software development. They found that 83 percent of those surveyed planned to use agile
Until now, Apache Hadoop has been a Linux-only affair. However, Hortonworks has released a beta version of Hadoop that runs on Windows, and they’ve released the code for the Windows
Platform as a service provider (PaaS) Engine Yard has announced that it is updating its architecture to allow more flexibility. It plans to enable users to choose among various cloud
Big data tool vendor Concurrent has released a new open source tool called Lingual that makes it easier for developers familiar with SQL to build applications based on Hadoop. “Concurrent