It’s no secret that one of the biggest IT trends of the last few years has been big data. It’s more than just a buzzword—the volume, variety and velocity of

Microsoft Open Technologies has released a new Office 365 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android. Available under an open source license, the SDK lets mobile development firms create Android apps

Google has announced that it will conduct a Cloud Platform Developer Roadshow. It plans to hold events where it will demonstrate its cloud computing platform in 26 different cities around

Google has launched a new referral program designed to attract new customers to its cloud computing services. Existing Google Apps for Business customers can receive $15 every time they refer

A new survey from Capgemini finds that enterprises are struggling to organize and manage bloated inventories of legacy applications. Nearly half (48 percent) of the IT managers surveyed said their

At its Global Partner Summit, held this week, Google made it clear that it wants to support other developers who are building tools and services that work with its cloud

Market researchers at IDC are predicting that tablet sales are about to cool down. It believes sales of the mobile devices will grow at just 19.4 percent this year, a

Red Hat has announced that its Open Shift platform as a service (PaaS) can now run applications written on Microsoft’s .NET platform. However, currently the .NET support is limited and

At the recent NodeDay meetup held at PayPal’s headquarters, several companies shared information about the positive effects Node.js has had on their business. Node.js allows them to run server side

Tiobe has updated its programming language popularity chart once again, and this month the big story is F#. A year ago, the Microsoft-backed functional language was all the way down

Verizon Ventures, the venture capital arm of Verizon, has announced that it will invest in the CloudBees platform as a service (PaaS). The two companies had a previous relationship as

At the ongoing SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced the availability of a new update for Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013. “Whether you are building a mobile

eWeek recently conducted an interview with Simon Aspinall, chief of vertical markets, strategy and marketing at Virtustream. He identified ten market forces that are influencing enterprise cloud computing this year:

A report from middleware vendor Typesafe finds that most developers are eagerly anticipating the March 16 release of Java 8 despite security concerns. Among those surveyed, 29 percent plan to

When it comes to Linux instances running in the cloud, Amazon is the undisputed leader. But when it comes to Windows instances, the story is a little different. According to

IBM would like to see mobile developers create apps that take advantage of its Watson cognitive computing platform. To that end, the company has announced the “IBM Watson Mobile Developer

SAP and Xamarin have announced a new partnership. The Xamarin Test Cloud will now include SAP Mobile Platform data verification capabilities, which will make it easy for mobile development firms

Development tool vendor Atlassian already offers a number of Git-centric tools, and now it’s bundline several of them together in a product it calls Atlassian Git Essentials. “Businesses know they

On Monday, IBM made two big cloud computing announcements. First, it said it will spend $1 billion on new cloud computing capabilities, including bringing much of its enterprise software portfolio