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Enterprise monitoring needs over the years have been addressed by Microsoft Systems Centre Operations Manager to a large extent. The problem however is that SCOM produces a lot of noise
Several blogs and websites have recently noted that Microsoft’s Windows Store has been completely overrun by fake apps and scams. Whenever users search for well-known apps like iTunes, Firefox, Adobe
A new report from IBM finds that large organizations are looking beyond their enterprise application development teams to get the skills they need. In fact, up to 80 percent are
Many CSS styles are repeated over and over while working on the design of a web site. It can become annoying, right? But, there is a solution. You can write
In my latest Cortex newsletter I referred to “tone deaf” corporations who have flexible technology like corporate social media in place, but lack the organizational flexibility to use it properly.
Pivotal has launched Pivotal CF Mobile Services, which is a new part of Pivotal CF, its enterprise platform as a service (PaaS). “Mobile apps have created new demands on IT,
According to Dice.com, more employers are offering developers bonuses and other special perks in order to attract and retain talent. Around 90 percent of the organizations surveyed by Dice offered
Microsoft has announced the release of a new extension for its Visual Studio IDE called Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio. The tool combines the power of the IDE’s sample
No. 1-selling software for running Windows applications on a Mac becomes an even easier choice for millions of consumers and IT professionals worldwide with this most powerful version of the
A trio of new reports is highlighting the problems enterprises face when developing mobile apps. According to an Apigee Institute report titled “Lessons from the App Masters: How Some IT
On Monday, August 18, Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service experienced an outage in several different worldwide regions. The problem began just before 2 in the afternoon eastern time with a
On Thursday, many developers experienced problems when they tried to log in to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online service. The IDE experienced several hours of downtime beginning around 9:30 a.m. ET.
Text Analytics is a powerful mechanism used to extract structured data from unstructured or semi structured text. This is done by creating rules. These rules are used by the extraction
While cloud computing can offer enterprises a greater degree of flexibility and, in some cases, lower costs, moving to the cloud doesn’t necessarily result in greater uptime. In fact, cloud
In its M2M Adoption Barometer Survey, Vodafone reported that worldwide machine-to-machine (M2M) deployments increased 80 percent in the last year. M2M is another term for Internet of Things (IoT). In
In Visual Studio 2013, the team unified the performance and diagnostics experience (memory profiling, etc.) under one umbrella and named it Performance and Diagnostics Hub. Available under the Debug menu,
Zend has announced that its PHP application development platform, including Zend Server 7, is now available on Amazon’s cloud computing service through the AWS Marketplace. The company says the new
A while ago, we compiled and published a list of existing CMIS clients and libraries. Today, we thought it would be nice to update that resource.If you are developing an
The way we interact with the world has changed immensely over the last 10 years. The transition has largely consisted of moving to digital connections ? from paper forms, dumb
According to Good Technology’s Mobility Index Report for the second quarter of 2014, enterprise activations of Android devices are up, but iOS still leads by a wide margin. During the
Market research firm Forrester has released a new report titled “New Development Platforms Emerge for Customer-Facing Applications,” which documents the trend toward “low-code” development. The company uses the term “low-code”
Two stories on the Internet of Things (IoT) caught my eye this week. First, IDC’s prediction that the IoT market will balloon from US$1.9 trillion in 2013 to $7.1 trillion
HP has announced a new addition to its Helion cloud computing platform: Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Lean. As you might guess from the name, Lean is a lower-powered,
Microsoft has announced that it will stop supporting the most popular version of its Web browser. With 21.56 percent of the browser market, Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 has more users
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Agile Architecture drum I?ve been beating for the last few years is how multifaceted the topic is. Sometimes the focus is on
Development project failures and the subsequent accompanying re-work are well-known issues in our industry. It’s come to the point where many have given up on trying to remediate the situation.
Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet says that her sources confirm a couple of new rumors about the next version of Windows, codenamed Threshold. First, the release is likely to include
Back in the day when software came in shrink-wrapped boxes, many companies bought more than they needed in order to make sure they had enough licenses for all their employees.
Peter Bright at Ars Technica has a lengthy article on Microsoft’s adoption of agile software development methodologies, and it’s well worth a read. Microsoft development teams had long been mired
Microsoft Azure Service Bus Event Hubs provide a topic based publish/subscribe messaging platform that allows for high throughput and low latency message processing. A preview version has been recently released
