This past year was notable for the number of critical security vulnerabilities that researchers discovered in widely used software. Several of these recently discovered bugs created major headaches for enterprise
Oracle has confirmed that it recently acquired StackEngine, a startup focused on containerization and DevOps. It said that StackEngine employees will be joining Oracle’s public cloud computing team. In addition,
Oracle has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) related to concerns about the security of Java. Oracle had told Java users that their computers would be “safe
Microsoft has expanded its big data analytics portfolio by acquiring a Palo Alto-based analytics startup called Metanautix. The firm makes technology that allows enterprises to create pools of data from
NetEnrich has released the results of a wide-ranging survey of IT executives at organizations with $400 million or more in revenue. Key findings related to enterprise application development included the
The Linux Foundation is spearheading a new open source project called Hyperledger which aims to bring blockchain technology to the enterprise. Blockchain is the distributed record-keeping technology used by Bitcoin
Apple and IBM have released another wave of MobileFirst for iOS apps. That brings the total in the portfolio to more than 100 apps for 14 different industries and 65
CloudFoundry has launched a certification program aimed at ensuring portability across various vendors with platform as a service (PaaS) offerings based on CloudFoundry code. Already, several cloud computing vendors, including
A new Bitglass study of data from more than 120,000 organizations has found that cloud computing adoption climbed 71 percent between 2014 and 2015. Interestingly, cloud adoption grew twice as