As the business world catches on to virtualization, its value beyond hardware consolidation may surprise enterprise users.
There's a renewed focus on application security, but experts say most enterprises still don't have a handle on how to go about fortifying their apps. That's partly because getting control of the app-dev lifecycle to add security measures is just plain tough.
What impacted the Java community most this year? See who the JCP recognized as outstanding innovators in its fourth annual awards.
We have yet to agree on a sharp-edged definition of "Web 2.0," but many of the technologies coalescing around this loosely defined, hyper-hyped buzzword—everything from Web services, the Ajax Web development technique, and service syndication, to wikis, tags, podcasts, and even blogs—should begin figuring into every IT leader's business strategy.
In fact, say Gartner analysts, all revenue-generating channels should be operating in a Web 2.0 architecture by 2008.
Sun Microsystems honored the winners of its 4th annual Duke's Choice Awards last week at the JavaOne conference. The awards are given to the most innovative Java-based apps of the year. The contest attracts a wide range of submissions from developers and companies around the world. The winners are selected by James Gosling, VP and Sun fellow, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun.
Open-source application integration software is getting accolades from end users who previously spent “weeks and weeks of man hours coding integration tools and utilities to process data.”
Apparel manufacturer The Marena Group had relied on in house programming talents to exchange orders and product information data with business partners. Jitterbit changed all that.
Application integration has become a crucial challenge, both for developers designing the apps, and businesses acquiring them, says Gartner. The analyst firm examines the five major trends affecting app development in the face of widespread integration.
Big Blue announced initiatives to help programmers and ISVs get that old-time mainframe religion
Successful service-enablement requires a high degree of visibility into an organization’s IT inner workings.
Tax preparation software provider Orrtax is already working on the next release of its IntelliTax suite of products for the 2006 tax year. To streamline product development, Orrtax will use change management tools from Seapine Software.
Innovation is globalizing, and more than 75 percent of new research and development sites planned over the next 3 years will be established in China and India, according to a recent survey. However, it reports few companies growing their R&D networks have the internal capacity to run them efficiently and effectively.
People chuckle at the phrase “end-user programming,” yet, IBM's new PHP-based QEDWiki project (“quick and easily done wiki”) is focused on that very concept.
ADT’s 12th annual Innovator Awards recognize the work of IT teams who developed—and deployed—unique apps to solve their company’s business problems.
AJAX’s success has forced many programmers to come to terms with the shortcomings of the conventional Web app dev model. What’s different about AJAX is not that it’s an innovative technology, but that it’s disruptive to the old way to thinking.
The IT industry has caught on to something that mainframe pros have known for years: virtualization—of CMOS resources, especially—matters.
Two trends in the embedded systems space are underscored by Vitutech's release of a simulation model of the Freescale MPC8641D dual-core processor: the advent of multicore processors and the growing demand for "concurrent" development.
OASIS today announced that it has approved the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.
Salesforce.com's acquisition of wireless software maker Sendia for $15 million in cash is a small deal by industry standards, but something of a milestone in the rapidly evolving software-as-a-service (SaaS) market segment.
Oracle enters the already-crowded enterprise search market, as IT moves to supply fast but secure search results.