VMware bets big on open source with Docker and OpenStack
Some of the tech industry's biggest and brightest companies, including Google and IBM, have taken to running software in containers, a kind of hyper-compressed way to package up an app and get it...
View ArticleVMware beefs up desktop suite with help from AirWatch, Google, NVIDIA
There's nothing Amazon can have that others can't try to take away, as today's VMworld event sees the introduction of the VMware Workplace Suite -- a combined platform to deploy and manage applications...
View ArticleWindows Phone: The best platform you should never use
It is with mixed emotions that I tell you that my experiment of using naught but the HTC One (M8) with Windows for a week is officially over. And I have to say: I'm relieved.I'll spare you a thorough...
View ArticleAt home or work, Box's identity is no crisis
This week at BoxWorks, the tagline was "How Tomorrow Works," with a focus on promoting the kind of frictionless collaboration, smarter cloud platform tools, and that the company has been slowly but...
View ArticleMatrix wants to smash the walled gardens of messaging
There are too many messaging apps. If you're like me, you talk to your friends on Google Hangouts during the workday but Facebook Messenger at night, with the occasional Snapchat message -- not to...
View ArticleDropbox expands platform ambitions with new datastore features
Dropbox today announces a trio of improvements to its datastore API, which lets developers sync and store data outside of files (such as settings, contacts, other user-generated stuff), as the cloud...
View ArticleHey Amazon Web Services: Time to open up
Today, Amazon Web Services begins rebooting something like 10% of all Amazon EC2 instances to do a Xen hypervisor patch. That's a lot of instances. But if you're affected, you would have gotten an...
View ArticleOracle's cloud strategy sounds great. For 2012
Oracle has a big problem: It's not cool.This sounds like a little problem, but in the age of consumerized IT -- where end-users bring the tools they want to work, and the onus falls on IT to support...
View ArticleHow Evernote will become a full-fledged collaboration platform
Evernote is in a good position coming into its fourth annual Evernote Conference here in San Francisco. With 100 million users, plenty of people are using the note-taking, memory-augmenting app across...
View ArticleSalesforce's big opportunity is in keeping it simple
It's good to be Salesforce -- and increasingly bad to be anybody else. At this week's Dreamforce conference, Salesforce's annual over-the-top celebration of itself, the company made two major...
View ArticleTopcoder now has 3,700 Swift devs
At its most recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event in June, Apple took the lid off something it had been silently cooking for years: Swift, a new programming language in the C family...
View ArticleTwitter tears into mobile developer services with Fabric
The problem with Twitter has always been monetization: Ads don't pull in the revenue needed to maintain the social network, and it doesn't have Facebook's pull to entice developers to build on top of...
View ArticleWhen it comes to mobile, IT is out of touch
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!" warned Abraham Simpson -- of the Springfield...
View ArticleXamarin offers free app-building tools to students
Xamarin has launched a new program designed to get its popular mobile app building platform into the hands of America's students, because children are our future or something like that. Xamarin's...
View ArticleGitHub Enterprise gets big upgrade with AWS support, high availability, more...
Today, GitHub Enterprise gets what the company is unofficially calling a "Version 2.0" release, with major new features that make the on-premises code repository more enterprise-friendly. That...
View ArticleHey, Samsung: Not everybody has to be a platform
It's easy to see why everybody wants to be a platform these days. Just look at Apple: By owning both the hardware and the operating system, it gets total control over what developers build on its...
View ArticleSalesforce Lightning Connect marries old apps to new
Salesforce has a solid lock on the SMB space, and more forward-looking large organizations have moved to its cloud CRM, marketing and sales solutions, apparently to great success. But for every Virgin...
View ArticleMicrosoft: 'Nobody loves developers more than us'
Last week, Microsoft made huge waves when it announced that its long-proprietary .Net application framework was now available as open source, completely rocking the Redmond, Wash., giant's...
View ArticleEvernote's quest to change the world through productivity software
In early October, Evernote CEO Phil Libin debuted new features designed to make the immensely popular note-taking software friendlier to the enterprise: Work Chat, Context and presentation mode.This...
View ArticleUber scandal highlights Silicon Valley's bad behavior
Car service app Uber found itself in trouble again when top executive Emil Michael was caught at a dinner party suggesting that the company hire opposition researchers to dig up dirt on the...
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