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IBM Buys Node.js Firm StrongLoop

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 Rolls Out App Cloud

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

DevOps Tool Vendor Chef Raises $40 Million

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

Create Real Time Charts and Maps with Project EON

PubNub is a global data stream network, providing real-time communication for IoT, mobile and web. It has a wide series of solutions for most common use cases in event and data

Did Oracle Lay Off All Its Java Evangelists?

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,

Microsoft Buys Cloud Security Vendor Adallom

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

The Pros and Cons of Pair Programming

Pair programming is one of the most controversial agile practices and is also the least commonly used in the field, as far as I can tell. I think there are

BlackBerry Buys Good Technology for $425 Million

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

Microsoft Azure Adds GS-Series VMs, R Support

Microsoft Azure has announced two new additions to its cloud computing services. First, it is now offering GS-series virtual machines (VMs) which combine its high-powered G-Series VMs with premium storage.

Why Cross-browser Testing Is Necessary

“You can’t load the website? Try another browser!” This is the most common advice we receive when unable to load a website on the default browser. To prevent Internet Explorer

Dell Announces Hybrid Cloud Computing Tools

At the VMworld 2015 event this week, Dell unveiled a number of updates and additions to its hybrid cloud computing portfolio. It announced Active System Manager 8.1.1., which now integrates

Microsoft Releases Office UI Fabric on GitHub

Microsoft has launched a new set of development tools called Office UI Fabric, which will make it easier to create add-ins for Microsoft Office. Office add-ins are written in HTML

Cisco, Apple Announce Enterprise Mobile Partnership

Cisco and Apple have announced that they are working together on a new strategic initiative aimed at enterprise mobile. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will optimize its networking

Exploring the .NET Execution Engine (DNX)

The Microsoft .NET team has lately been putting forth a great deal of effort to increase the footprint of the .NET Framework in the world of building cross platform and

The Metrics Behind Successful SaaS Firms

TechCrunch has posted an interesting analysis of successful enterprise software as a service companies. They looked at 66 leading SaaS firms that either went public or were acquired with a

Getting Started with Redis

Redis is an in-memory key value store with benefits that is free and open source. It is implemented in C and it is lightning fast. Redis is mature (version 3.03

Agile and the Decision-Making Process

Decision-making is at the heart of any organized activity and, as such, there are significant associated risks and costs. The higher up you are on the totem pole the more

Google Will Now Let You Mail Data to Its Cloud

Google has officially launched a service called Offline Media Import/Export that will allows developers and others to send in physical media which Google will then upload to its cloud computing

Linux Container Hypervisor (LXD) RESTful API

The recently concluded ContainerCon?generated quite a lot of excitement around container technologies. The updates from the Linux Container (LXC) project were particularly interesting. Canonical, the company that is spearheading the

Survey Shows Little Agreement on Definition of DevOps

Delphix Corp. has published a new report titled “2015 Annual State of DevOps,” which finds that DevOps leaders and practitioners define DevOps in many different ways. “For some people, embracing

IBM Launches New Eclipse Tools for Bluemix

IBM has announced several updates and additions to its Bluemix platform as a service. First it updated IBM Eclipse Tools for Bluemix with support for the Mars train of updates

Micro Focus Brings COBOL to Visual Studio 2015

Micro Focus has released an updated version of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio, which makes it possible to edit and write code in the aging programming language with the latest

Getting the Best From Microservices and Databases

The Database in a Traditional Monolithic System The database in a traditional enterprise software environment is at the center of everything. It is typically a centralized, big, inflexible relational database