At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is announcing its new Internet of Things Cloud service. ?We are watching the increasing volume of data coming off of connected devices, and we are
Google has released a beta version of Bazel, the tool it uses internally to automate software builds and testing, under an open-source license. Bazel is similar to Ant and Maven,
IBM has purchased StrongLoop, a company that sold API development tools and employed many of the top contributors to Node.js. IBM plans to integrate StrongLoop’s technology into its software offerings
Salesforce has announced App Cloud, a new offering that it says is the next generation of its Salesforce 1 Platform. App Cloud includes the Heroku Enterprise cloud development platform, the
Cloudera has launched a new One Platform Initiative which aims to improve Spark and turn it into the primary execution engine for Hadoop. Cloudera has long championed Spark, but some
DevOps framework maker Chef has announced that it has raised an additional $40 million in funding, bringing its total to more than $100 million. Key investors included DFJ Growth, Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft has confirmed reports that it will purchase Adallom, a cloud computing security vendor headquartered in Israel. Industry watchers peg the value of the deal between $250 million and $320
Although Oracle has not confirmed the reports, people posting to Twitter and Reddit claim that Oracle has eliminated the positions of its entire staff of Java evangelists. One Tweet said,
BlackBerry has purchased mobility management software vendor Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Once a leading smartphone vendor, BlackBerry is now concentrating on enterprise mobility software after seeing its