In a blog post, Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise Group, announced that its flagship database product, SQL Server, will soon run on Linux. That’s a
Microsoft has a new release candidate for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. The most noteworthy improvement in the release is better performance for C and C++. “Extracting floating point numbers
Google has released a new tutorial that shows enterprise application development teams how to build a recommendation engine using Google’s cloud computing and machine learning services. The example is for
A new survey from IBM finds that companies that have deployed hybrid clouds are using them to launch other cutting-edge initiatives in areas like the Internet of Things (IoT) and
Market research firm Gartner has released a new survey on Internet of Things (IoT) projects at enterprises. Among those surveyed, 29 percent have already deployed IoT technologies, and another 14
Oracle has released version 2.0.0 of its JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET). For the first time, the toolkit will be available under an open source license. It is also adding features
Microsoft has released a new preview build of SQL Server 2016 that makes it possible for enterprises to scale their on-premises databases into Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service without making
At its Partner Summit 2016, Cisco announced that it is buying cloud orchestration vendor CliQr for $260 million. CliQr’s flagship product is called CloudCenter, and it provides enterprises with a
The developers behind the open source Jenkins continuous integration tool have released an alpha preview of the 2.0 update of the project. That puts the project on track to release