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The rise of cloud development platforms has seen a growing number of vendors touting “codeless” enterprise application development. Many of these tools promise to allow business employees to create new
New Investment To Drive Adoption of its Big Data Analytics Platform in the EnterpriseToday Treasure Data, the cloud-based analytics service, announced today that it has closed $5 million in Series
Oracle and ARM have announced that they are working together to update Java for use with ARM processors. That could make Java SE more suitable for use on some embedded
When you hire an employee, especially one with a sensitive role like a system administrator, what kind of background checks do you perform? Typical organizations will check candidates’ criminal records
AppScale has released a new “private cloud in a box” called the App Inventor Cloud Appliance. App Inventor is a Web application that simplifies mobile development. The new appliance includes
Apple has sent an email to developers notifying them that its portal at developer.apple.com suffered a security breach. As a result, the company took the site offline while it investigates,
Adobe has released the 3.0 version of its PhoneGap cross-platform mobile development platform. The open source tool boasts several improvements, including a new plug-in architecture designed to keep your apps
Insurance company MetLife is taking a novel approach to recruiting development talent. The company has launched a new website that asks developers to submit their resumes in JSON. The site
At its SenchaCon2013 development conference, HTML5 development tool provider Sencha unveiled a new tool called Sencha Space that aims to remove some of the headaches of mobile development and deployment
A new study conducted by Microsoft and comScore finds that many enterprise application development pros are not incorporating security into their processes. When surveyed, 42 percent of developers said security
Today’s announcement that Puppet Labs acquired Cloudsmith, coupled with other recent acquisitions in the Cloud space, including IBM’s pickup of SoftLayer, CenturyLink absorbing AppFog, and Aspect Software’s deal for Voxeo
xCloud is a personal cloud App, designed for data-transmission and share between PC and mobile devices. xCloud turns our PC or NAS to be a safe, stable and easy-to-use real
A report from the research division of AppNation holds good news for the mobile development industry. It predicts that the app economy will double in the next four years, growing
Forrester Research has come out with new predictions for this year’s tech spending. It says consumers and businesses will spend $2.06 trillion on technology in 2013, a 3.3 percent increase
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that MapR’s M7 big data platform is now available through Amazon’s cloud computing services. The M7 platform claims to improve the dependability, performance and
One of my clients is a large US Government agency. As with all agencies, the Government’s Cloud First initiative is pushing them to move to the Cloud. The reasoning is
Oracle has launched new versions of several important developer tools and middleware, improving their cloud computing capabilities. The newly updated software includes Oracle Cloud Application Foundation, the WebLogic application server,
Crowdsourced cloud development company CloudSpokes has released a new tool designed to help gauge the quality of crowdsourced or outsourced code. Called “Thurgood,” the new tool works with all coding
Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of InRelease, an application lifecycle management solution formerly owned by InCycle Software. The InRelease technology is slated to enhance the functionality of Microsoft’s Team
Among the many improvements in Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 is improved exception reporting. InfoQ’s Anand Narayanaswamy writes, “While Windows 8.1 adds support for capturing stack traces for exceptions
Microsoft is tightening up the security requirements for apps listed in the Windows Store, Windows Phone Store, Office Store and Azure Marketplace. If developers are notified of a security vulnerability,
Microsoft has announced that the Office and Sharepoint Store will be expanding to 22 new countries, including Australia, Canada, the UK, Japan, India, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland,
There’s an old IT joke that the only truly secure computer is broken, powered down, disconnected from the network, in a locked room, with no key. And as with all
In “Use Big Data Technologies to Build a Content Repository Architecture,” we have explained the key design goals and requirements for a reliable, scalable and extensible content repository. We have
Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 8.1 (formerly codenamed “Blue”) will be released to manufacturers in late August. Citing unnamed sources, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley says it is likely that
In the past, Microsoft used to go years between major updates to its key products. But now, its major desktop and server software packages are getting updates every year, while
I’ve spoken at several Cloud conferences over the last couple of years, including the recent Informa Cloud World Forum, UBM CloudConnect, Sys-Con Cloud Computing Expo, and several others. And while
On July 9, Atlassian will release Bamboo 5, the latest version of its continuous integration (CI) server. The release adds a number of new features related to DevOps, and the
Interest in DevOps, a management philosophy that encourages close collaboration between developers and IT operations, continues to grow. It aims to break down traditional “silos” in IT and to foster
Microsoft has announced that the Windows Store officially has 100,000 apps for the Windows 8 operating system. It reached the milestone about eight months after release of Windows 8. That’s
