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Since 1998, DevX has helped people start businesses, build websites, and provide enterprise technology to people globally. Interviewing the likes of Microsoft’s co-founder, Steve Ballmer, the publication brings comprehensive, reliable, and accessible insights to the Internet.
By some estimates, there are only eight qualified developers available for every ten job openings. With odds like those, companies are going to new lengths to attract and keep talent.
During Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent cloud computing conference, vendor Riverbed Technology conducted a survey of attendees. Among the 122 people polled, 96 percent said their organizations were either already
Ever wonder what’s in all those books on the business shelf in your local big box bookstore? Management fads. Some management guru comes up with a novel hypothesis about how
According to Synergy Research Group, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not only the leader in the IaaS and PaaS markets, it has more revenue than all its major rivals combined.
If Cisco Systems is correct, cloud computing traffic—particularly enterprise cloud traffic—is poised for incredible growth. In its Global Cloud Index, the company predicts that cloud traffic will increase from 1.2
This article will explore the basics of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), the underlying file system of the Apache Hadoop framework. HDFS is a distributed storage space that spans
During last week’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com gave away $1 million to Upshot, the development firm that won the event hackathon. The firm received the prize for a mobile app which
A recent blog post by Gartner Analyst Alessandro Perilli created a bit of a dustup in the OpenStack world. He wondered why vendors can?t sell OpenStack to enterprises, and came
We’ve added a new blog series to DevX entitled Enterprise Issues for Developers. Look for regular entries to start appearing on the site in the very near future. These articles
The iPhone has its own rules and standards related to web page rendering. To make things more complicated, mobile Safari is quite different from the desktop version. As a result,
Every workplace has its challenges, but which are the biggest drag on programming productivity? To find out, InfoWorld conducted an informal survey of developers. These were the top 15 roadblocks
Big Data is a relatively new paradigm and processing data is the most important area on which to concentrate development efforts. This article will concentrate on the processing of Big
Microsoft has released an alpha version of Node.js Tools for Visual Studio. The tool will allow developers to edit and debug Node.js and to deploy Node.js applications to the Azure
A new IBM report called “The ‘Upwardly Mobile’ Enterprise: Setting the Strategic Agenda” examines the mobile strategies at companies in 29 countries. Among survey respondents, 58 percent said that mobility
It seems my recent article on why the IoT may be DoA (dead on arrival) may have shaken something loose at large telecommunications firm Verizon. Today they announced that they
Google has revamped the Apps Marketplace for its Google Apps cloud computing platform with a host of new features aimed to please enterprise users. Those features include better OAuth 2.0
If you want a job in cloud development or operations, which certifications will employers be looking for? CIO compiled a list of ten noteworthy certs: Cloud Security Alliance’s Certificate of
HP recently used its Fortify On Demand for Mobile product to scan 2,107 iOS apps created by companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list. The company found that nine out
I thought the 9000-person crowd at Amazon re:Invent last week was large, but by all accounts, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce this week in San Francisco puts re:Invent to shame. And all those
When the term artificial intelligence (AI) is mentioned, it is widely believed that the computers really have the ability to think. However, the truth is a little bit different –
Cloud computing heavyweight Salesforce.com is rolling out a new development platform it calls Salesforce1. The idea is to unify all of the company’s existing cloud development services—Force.com, Heroku, and ExactTarget
A new survey conducted by ResearchNow and Mobiquity finds that 58 percent of employees at mid-to-large enterprises have abandoned the mobile apps they are supposed to be using. Why? 43
At its re:Invent developer conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a new offering called Kinesis that will provide cloud-based infrastructure for the Internet of Things. Kinesis enables real-time processing of
Not a moment after the virtual ink dried on my recent blog post pointing out that the more mature Hadoop becomes, the less of a Big Data tool it is,
As part of its plan to offer cloud-based versions of most of its software, Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Online, a suite of developers tools that runs on the Azure
Beginning next year, IBM plans to release a suite of tools that will give developers access to its Watson cognitive computing platform, which famously beat human competitors on the game
Some random thoughts from Amazon’s second Cloud conference, re:Invent, in Las Vegas. There are 9,000 attendees here, easily making it one of the largest Cloud conferences ever. But the crowd
Pivotal, the company spun off from EMC and VMware, has launched its cloud development platform, known as Pivotal One Platform. It leverages the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS in a
Next year, AMD plans to release its Berlin APUs, which will combine traditional CPUs with graphics processors (GPUs) on a single chip. To prepare for that launch, it is releasing
Tiobe has updated its Programming Community Index, and this month, C cemented its position as the most popular programming language. For some time, C and Java have been neck-and-neck in
