Microsoft’s Satya Nadella this week made several announcements related to the company’s Azure cloud computing service. First, Microsoft will discount its prices, in some cases matching the fees charged by

COBOL isn’t exactly the hottest, trendiest programming language around, but it still runs legacy applications in use by thousands of companies. As part of its efforts to interest the next

By now, most enterprise IT types are pretty familiar with the BYOD trend, but there’s a new BYO phenomenon on the horizon — BYOC, short for “bring your own cloud.”

Database software vendor Teradata has published a new report about how companies are finding staff to fill the growing number of big data jobs. Among organizations surveyed in the UK,

When you think about uses for big data analytics, you probably think about the ways traditional businesses might use their data, such as tracking website traffic and boosting online sales.

Adobe has admitted that hackers broke into its systems and accessed the source code for ColdFusion and possibly for Adobe Acrobat and other products. The thieves stole encrypted credit card

The Apache Foundation has officially released version 4.2 of the CloudStack open source cloud computing platform. The release offers a number of improvements, such as zone-wide primary storage, which will

A new report from market research firm Gartner sees growing enterprise interest in hybrid cloud computing environments. These environments utilize both private and public cloud services in order to enhance

A lot of mobile development firms are working on smartphone games, but Mixpanel CEO Suhail Doshi argues that there might be a better opportunity in creating enterprise apps for tablets.

In a push to interest enterprises and developers in its software defined networking (SDN) technology, HP has announced a new SDN software development kit (SDK) and a related app store.

Salesforce.com has announced that its AppExchange has reached a major milestone: enterprises have installed apps for its cloud computing-focused platform more than 2 million times. AppExchange currently has 1,966 apps

Two years ago, Lodsys began sending letters to iOS developers, demanding that they pay 0.575 percent of revenues to license patents on in-app purchasing and upgrades. Apple fought back, saying

Appcelerator has published the results of a new survey that asks enterprise developers and those with related titles about interest in various mobile platforms. Apple came out on top, with

A new survey of developers conducted by Evans Data shines the spotlight on the difficulties inherent in securing big data. Of those surveyed, 39 percent suspect that the U.S. government

Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor Engine Yard used the Oracle OpenWorld event as an opportunity to announce support for two Oracle technologies. First, Engine Yard now supports cloud development

Samsung is going after enterprise customers with a new app store it calls the “Samsung Solutions Exchange.” While many companies offer lists of apps for businesses, this store will focus

At the OpenWorld conference this week, Oracle announced a dramatic expansion of its cloud computing offerings. It is adding ten new services, many of which seem positioned to challenge offerings

The mobile development industry has created a wide range of apps related to health and medicine without knowing whether or how those apps would be regulated. Now the Food and