The dirty little secret of Hadoop has been just how dull many of its tasks have been. By far the biggest use for Hadoop to date has been as a "poor person's ETL"—that is, a form of data integration, at the risk of oversimplifying—rather than all the big, sexy data...
Agile development is no longer an alternative way to develop software. With the pace of technology adoption accelerating at a frenetic pace, agile is increasingly the only way to develop software. That is, if you want to stay in business.Making Each Release A Non-EventAgile software development essentially refers to an iterative, incremental...
Guest author Ian Fisher is CTO of Taptera, a mobile-app development company.Recently, I found myself having a very familiar conversation: How many features should you put in a single mobile app? This topic comes up constantly in the enterprise mobility space, largely due to the huge influx of new users...
Guest author Nolan Wright is the CTO of Appcelerator.Any day now, Apple will launch iOS 7. The release of Apple’s newest mobile operating system will be the most important event for the iPhone since it was first announced in 2007. iOS 7 includes an astounding 1,500 new APIs, a completely...
Application programming interfaces first found their footing among consumer Web sites wanting to transform into platforms. APIs let Web sites foster developer communities that could build apps anchored to their services. Innovative apps would attract new users to the Web site, help keep existing users engaged and—with a little bit...
With the announced acquisition of Nokia's mobile devices unit for $7.2 billion, Microsoft is positively plowing its way to becoming the devices and services company it feels it must become in order to survive.But as it stands right now, there seems to be very little chance that Microsoft will survive...
Amazon CEO Jeff BezosDespite being five times the size of its next 14-largest cloud competitors, Amazon isn't content. It wants the enterprise, too, and all signs point to a major push to dominate enterprise cloud computing, just as it does public cloud computing.Game over?Amazon's Hiring BingeEarlier this year I reported...
The use of the cloud within the enterprise is still growing at a healthy pace, but in a much more disciplined manner than in recent years. New data suggests that cloud computing is becoming less of an experimental tool but a production workhorse in the enterprise.The data comes from just-released...
Guest author Nolan Wright is the CTO of Appcelerator.There is no denying that since its inception in the mid 90’s, JavaScript has become one of the most popular Web development languages. In September 2012, industry analyst firm, RedMonk, showed it as the top language. Much of this is due to...
Salesforce wants to make itself a one-stop-shop for mobile enterprise developers.The cloud services and customer management company is aiming to place itself at the center of the enterprise app revolution. Just like it did when enterprises started coming online over the last 15 or so years, Salesforce is building toolsets...
The Big Data future is here, but isn't yet evenly distributed, to paraphrase William Gibson. More accurately, what we call Big Data today is what Silicon Valley's web giants were doing years ago, but it's considered new and exciting today because the methods and technologies used to power Big Data...
Mobile in the enterprise is like crack. First, organizations got a little taste of it and liked the results. Now they crave more. And mobile developers are scrambling to hook them up.Unlike consumers, enterprises tend to sample addictive new technologies warily. Smartphones and cloud services take months or years to...
OwnCloud has gotten a lot of attention of late, no doubt helped by concerns over the potential vulnerability of cloud storage services to government spying on corporate data.While the private cloud storage vendor didn't leap to take advantage of the fallout from PRISM, ownCloud is well aware that its customers...
Guest author Jesus Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of KidoZen.It has taken more than five years, but the first phase of integrating mobile into enterprises is almost over. Enterprise mobility is evolving. The first generation of enterprise mobile solutions focused on the management of mobile devices (MDM), enabling traditional email...
Guest author Esmeralda Swartz is chief marketing officer at MetraTech.Most of the high-end products we purchase are bought without inherent understanding of how they work. That's not usually a problem, but the Internet went nuts when Gartner recently predicted that by 2017, chief marketing officers (CMOs) will spend more on...
Even as developers were celebrating the about-face of Google leaving its Calendar APIs open after all, another team inside Google was making an announcement of its own: the availability of the Google Maps Engine API.Formerly known as Google Earth Builder, the Maps Engine API will enable developers to create and...
There is no greater barometer on what people want than allowing them to be free to make a choice. When it comes to smartphones in the enterprise, that choice increasingly belongs to Apple.The BYOD ("bring your own device") trend continues to alter the personal computing landscape just as it upends...
“Only the paranoid survive” – Former Intel CEO Andy GroveThings seem so good in the enterprise technology universe right now it is a little scary. The IT transition to cloud/mobile/social has entrepreneurs and investors salivating, with three significant forces at work:Real, not PowerPoint, multi-billion dollar opportunities are emerging for new...
While Microsoft is obviously having trouble convincing consumers to adopt Windows 8, its message is that enterprises have been far more accepting. It turns out that might not be true, either.Last week, Forrester Research released a report claiming that Microsoft's Windows 7 is used in about 50% of all enterprise...
Many of the world’s biggest companies have only a couple of people in their entire IT department dedicated to mobile. This skeleton crew is responsible for building and maintainin the company’s mobile apps, devising strategies and solutions, handling employee issues around Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and distributing software...
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