A new Evans Data Survey finds that 19.3 percent of software developers are women. That’s more than double the number of female programmers from fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly, many

On Tuesday, news broke of a major security flaw in OpenSSL, the technology that much of the Internet uses to encrypt data transfers. OpenSSL released a patch for the vulnerability,

Red Hat has announced that it now supports Google App Engine under its “bring your own subscription” plan. Red Hat allows organizations that already pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The IBM mainframe turns 50 years old this month, and as part of the celebration, IBM is introducing the IBM Enterprise Cloud System, which brings cloud computing to the mainframe

Analysts from IHS are forecasting that enterprises will spend $235 billion on cloud computing by 2017. That’s a 35 percent increase over the $174 billion they believe will be spent

Among the many announcements it made at the Build developers conference, Microsoft said that it will launch a new Microsoft Azure Preview Portal. The new portal unites its Visual Studio

According to a new survey from RightScale Research, nearly all businesses—94 percent—are using some form of cloud computing. And 89 percent said they are using at least one public cloud

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced that it is updating Windows 8.1 with several new features aimed at enterprises. First of all, the company is making it easier to

Hortonworks has announced Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1, the latest version of its Hadoop distribution. The update includes a number of noteworthy changes, including a Hive interactive query capability called

At this week’s Cloud Connect Summit, a panel of experts from Microsoft, Red Hat, Blue Box and HP discussed cloud computing and the nature of platform as a service (PaaS)

A pair of new studies are calling attention to the need for better testing of mobile apps. Testing vendor Keynote released a report which found that testing is still not

Last week, Google and Amazon announced price cuts for their cloud computing services. Now Microsoft is following suit and dropping the fees for Azure. Microsoft’s prices for compute services are

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could affect software patents for years, or decades, to come. At issue is whether a company called

A new study from the Linux Foundation finds that it’s becoming more common for developers from different organizations to work together. According to the “Collaborative Development Trends Report,” 80 percent

Intel and Cloudera have announced plans to work together on a new Hadoop-based big data platform. As part of the agreement, Intel will stop working on its own Hadoop project

Within 24 hours after Google announced a price cut for its cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) followed suit. Fees for its EC2 IaaS will drop 10 percent to

Organizations in China can now use the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service. In a statement, Microsoft’s Takeshi Numoto announced, “I am pleased to share that Microsoft Azure, operated by 21Vianet,

Adobe this week announced PhoneGap Enterprise, a new version of its popular open source, cross-platform mobile development platform. PhoneGap allows developers to build apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and

At the Google Cloud Platform Live event, Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure at Google, announced that the company will reduce its fees for cloud computing services by

Citing information from “tipsters,” ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft plans to rename its Windows Azure cloud computing service ‘Microsoft Azure.’ She writes that an official announcement will

Cloud computing vendor Box has filed paperwork with the SEC announcing its plans to raise up to $250 million by becoming a publicly traded company. That’s an ambitious goal for