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Microsoft has taken the public preview label off its Azure IoT Hub, meaning that the cloud computing service is now ready for production use by enterprises. The IoT Hub provides
Microsoft has confirmed that it has purchased SwiftKey for around $250 million. SwiftKey is a British startup that is best known for its predictive typing app. The company also makes
A queue is a data structure that works on a First – In – First – Out (FIFO) basis. So, you would typically use a queue when you need items
According to an analysis of the latest figures from Net Market Share, StatCounter Global Stats, and the United States Government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP), Windows 10 has overtaken Windows 8/8.1
Microsoft has announced that it has been conducting an experiment that involved putting a cloud computing data center underwater. Project Natick, as the effort is called, sank a 10-foot by
Microsoft has released a new Visual Studio Code extension that supports Apache Cordova, a popular cross-platform open source mobile development framework. The extension is called Tools for Apache Cordova, or
According to IDC, the average enterprise adopted 5.8 mobile apps for each of its users in 2015. That’s an increase over the 3.5 apps per worker in 2013 and 2014,
Robin Systems has released the results of a new survey which found strong interest in containerization technology. Of the 200 IT decision makers surveyed, 78.5 expressed interest in running stateful
Amazon has released its fourth quarter earnings report, including the figures for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing unit. The cloud titan generated $2.4 billion in revenue for the
The @WalmartLabs team was founded by Walmart eCommerce to provide a sustainable rate of innovation, given the competition. The team adopted a DevOps culture and migrated the ecommerce platform to
Remote work is becoming more and more prevalent. Social forces and technology advances are both responsible. Some software companies are completely distributed and don’t even have a physical office. This
Oracle has announced that the Java browser plugin will be deprecated in Java 9, and it will be missing entirely from future versions of Java. The Java browser plug-in has
Salesforce has released Heroku Enterprise, a new cloud development platform that will allow Salesforce customers to build and deploy apps on Salesforce’s App Cloud. In the past, the company’s Heroku
It is a common advise to learn from other people successes and mistakes. Go through testimonies, post-mortem analyses, books and articles and they all say the same. But, in the
Walmart Labs has released an open source cloud development and application lifecycle management platform it calls OneOps. Walmart acquired the OneOps technology in 2013 and promised to open source it
Google has announced that enterprises using Red Hat’s OpenShift Dedicated container technology will soon be able to build and host applications on Google’s cloud computing service. Google’s Kubernetes container orchestration
Market research firm Gartner is forecasting that the public cloud computing market will be worth $204 billion in 2016, a 16.5 percent increase over last year. That means cloud spending
451 Research has released the results of a new survey which found that 70 percent of IT professionals surveyed expect their organizations to increase their cloud storage spending next year.
R?is the most widely used programming language in the world of data science and heavily used for statistical modelling and predictive analytics. The popularity of R is driving many commercial
Atlassian is rolling out some improvements to its Bitbucket hosting platform that are designed to make it more competitive with GitHub. Specifically, the platform is getting smart mirroring, support for
Enterprise software vendor SAP has reported that for 2015 it saw a 103 percent increase in new cloud computing bookings. The firm’s cloud and software revenue grew 20 percent for
Agile methodologies have been used successfully in many big companies, but it is often a challenge. There are many reasons: lack of project sponsorship, prolonged user validation, existing policies, legacy
A new report from Forrester Research forecasts that 100 percent of large enterprises will eventually adopt Hadoop for their big data processing needs. However, the firm’s analysts say that businesses
For the fourth quarter of 2015, IBM has announced that it brought in $22.1 billion in revenue (a 9 percent decrease year-over-year) and $4.5 billion in net income (a 19
Tickets for the Microsoft Build Conference went on sale today and sold out in just one minute?a new record. Last year, it took twenty minutes to sell out the event.
Deloitte has released its Technology, Media & Telecommunications 2016 report, which predicts that this is the year that cognitive computing will become mainstream. It forecasts that 80 of the world’s
Market research firm Gartner has published its worldwide IT spending forecast for 2016. It predicts that IT spending will climb just 0.6 percent to $3.54 trillion for the year. However,
A large but little-known company called company called Axway has acquired development tool vendor Appcelerator, which is best known for its Titanium mobile development platform. The companies did not disclose
Microsoft is revealing a few more details about its HoloLens augmented reality (AR) device. At an event in Tel Aviv, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Bruce Harris said that the HoloLens will
A new survey from Red Hat finds that 74 percent of IT decision-makers who are using key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure their mobile development success are achieving a position
