More than half of business executives recently surveyed said the organization rates as “poor” or it is “just making progress” with innovation in IT. These days, virtually no corner of the enterprise remains untouched by IT. From customer-facing Websites and…
Microsoft has open-sourced its new C# compiler and Azure now incorporates the open source Chef and Puppet configuration managers. Joab Jackson, IDG News Service (New York Bureau) April 03, 2014 As it rolled out tools and features for coders at…
There are some things that are so big that they have implications for everyone’s life, whether we want it or not. And Big Data is one of those mega trends that will impact everyone in one way or another. The…
Jira 6 runs faster and provides the user with a cleaner interface and faster navigation. Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified workflow.…
IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) — SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program available at no charge. Dubbed openSAP, the program’s first course…
SAP announced Tuesday a new analytic application to help enterprises detect, investigate, analyze and prevent fraud in Big Data environments. March 19, 2013 by Derek Klobucher Christchurch, New Zealand is rebuilding after a devastating earthquake two years ago and recovering…
After their death three IT persons arrived in hell. Among them a senior manager, a consultant and a software architect. One of the devils was in charge of taking care of these unfortunates. However, hell population has the same kind…
Spark is the shiny new thing in big data, but how will it stand out? Here’s a look at “fog computing,” cloud computing, and streaming data-analysis scenarios. by James Kobielus To survive the competitive struggles, every fresh technological innovation must…
With Microsoft’s strong numbers and Google’s continued progress, Amazon Web Services must realize it’s in a three-cloud race By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Good news for Microsoft: “Strong sales of cloud products to businesses helped lift Microsoft’s revenue by 18…
The companies are also integrating SAP’s Business Objects with Microsoft’s BI software By Chris Kanaracus | IDG News Service Microsoft and SAP’s long-standing partnership is being strengthened with the pending certification of SAP’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other software…
The company’s new R3 instances have up to 262GB of RAM By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service Amazon Web Services is making a pitch for enterprises’ high-performance databases to run on its infrastructure, launching new instances optimized for the…
The platform for building Web and iOS apps can accommodate users with few development skills By Paul Krill | InfoWorld A quick option for building Web and iOS apps is on the horizon from a group of developers in Europe.…
Programmer shows Microsoft’s ASP.Net vNext Web framework can run on Linux and OS X — with some work By Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorldFollow For proof of how radically Microsoft has evolved, especially in terms of its approach to its own…
An InfoWorld Test Center overview of the nuts and bolts of Cassandra: A free, open source NoSQL datastore that supports rapid and massive growth By Rick Grehan Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very…
Recently released LinkedIn feature on the iPhone, Android, and mobile web platforms contains a step-by-step guided flow to the LinkedIn ecosystem for our new members. This onboarding experience removes the uncertainty of how to get started and effectively use our…