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
Eight days after Dell and EMC announced their merger plans, EMC and VMware announced plans for a cloud computing services joint venture that would be called Virtustream. However, VMware (which
Morgan Stanley’s chief financial analyst Katy Huberty is predicting that sales of the Apple iPhone could fall by 5.7 percent in 2016. She is forecasting sales of 218 million units,