On February 18-19, Google Compute Engine went down for two hours and forty minutes. The company said that the problem, which began around 11 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, resulted
Google has announced that it will release MapReduce for C, or MR4C, under an open source license. Originally developed by Skybox Imaging, which Google purchased in 2014, the MR4C framework
RightScale has released the results of a new survey that asked enterprises about their use of public cloud computing services. Exactly half of surveyed enterprises with more than 1,000 employees
HP has released Distributed R, a new set of tools for running programs written in R on more than one server at a time. Open source R is one of
Cloud computing provider Pivotal has announced a new Big Data Suite, which it says is the “world’s first open-sourced enterprise-class suite of big data products.” The cloud-based suite includes Pivotal
Sony has begun selling a preview version of its SmartEyeglass to interested developers and enterprises, and it has also made an SDK available for those who want to create apps
Microsoft has released a Windows 10 Technical Preview that can run on some Lumia smartphones. “This is the earliest publicly available preview we’ve ever done for Windows on phones,” blogged
A new report from Dimensional Research sponsored by Sauce Labs finds that agile software development methodologies make a big impact on an organization’s testing practices. Nearly all of the developers
Apple has made it possible for iOS apps to get a lot more complicated. It has increased the maximum size limit for apps in the App Store from 2GB to