A new Forrester Research report finds that while most software as a service (SaaS) companies already have high valuations, those with specialized offerings for various vertical markets soar even higher.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile software development both help companies become more flexible and better align business and IT. As a result, many have noted that SOA and Agile
HPCC, the LexisNexis alternative to Hadoop for big data processing, has tuned its Thor Data Refinery Cluster to run on Amazon Web Services. That means that developers who would like
The consumerization of IT and the growth of bring-your-own-device policies is changing the way employees work. Today’s employees are much more likely to be mobile, and they need access to
Staffing firm Robert Half Technology has released its list of “Seven Promising Jobs” for 2012, and mobile application developer tops the lists. The firm predicts that mobile developers will earn
Sometimes it seems that the development industry changes at a glacial pace, but programming is currently in the midst of some big transitions. Peter Wayner says that these could be
Next week’s Usenix LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference will highlight devops as one of the most important trends in enterprise IT. “LISA is always on the cutting edge of
Salesforce.com’s Heroku division is adding something new to its lineup of cloud development offerings: a database as a service based on the open source PostgreSQL database. Heroku Postgres uses the
VMware’s Cloud Foundry is taking the wraps off a new Ruby-based application that simplifies cloud data migration. Known as “Caldecott,” the application gives developers tools to analyze, manipulate or port