SOA Software’s API Gateway Unifies, Integrates Core API Project Capabilities

2013-05-22

Survey: Big Data, Cloud Drive White Hot Use of In-Memory Databases

2013-05-17

The Software & Information Industry Association has released its annual survey about adoption of key IT technologies and a range of opportunities and challenges in some of today’s hottest sectors, including Big Data, Cloud and Mobile. IDN takes a quick look.

Build,com is looking to more quickly and easily detect and plug application bugs and vulnerabilities by automating key elements of its application testing. The company bringing Veracode’s cloud-based application security testing solution into its software development lifecycle. 

For 2013, enterprise IT priorities are changing, according to a study released by Serena Software. This year, IT intends to focus on delivering applications faster and better align IT to business goals. Last year, the move to mobile and cloud were the top goals. IDN talks with Serena’s senior product marketing manager Miguel Tam.

Serena Software execs are starting out 2013 with three key predictions for how clouds and self-service trends will change the way architects and devs will approach to IT lifecycles. IDN speaks with Serena Software’s senior vice president David Hurwitz. 

Revenue for US public IT cloud services will grow from $18.5 billion in 2011 to $43.2 billion in 2016, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC).  The report focuses on the public cloud services that are shared among unrelated enterprises and consumers and that are designed for a market, rather than just one enterprise.

SmartBear Software’s latest update brings devs continuous testing capabilities for next-gen desktop and web apps running HTML5, ASP.NET and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). TestComplete 9.1 supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8 and IE 10. IDN speaks with SmartBear’s Goran Begic.

Micro Focus is offering a free personal edition of its team-oriented dev environment for mainframe projects. The company’s Enterprise Developer Personal Edition aims to reduce the skills gap between COBOL, Java and C# devs with a simple, entry-level version of Micro Focus’ Enterprise Developer team suite. IDN speaks with Micro Focus’ Julia Ito.

FICO’s Blaze Advisor business rules management system (BRMS) sports a new visualization feature to improve business visibility and agility. IDN speaks with FICO about Blaze Advisor’s Decision Graph and other SOA-like approaches to help IT create a rules-based “decision services” architecture. 

Gartner’s report “Top Industry Predicts 2012: Industries Face Intensified Consumerization and Technology Disruption,” offers 15 strategic planning assumptions that CIOs, senior business executives and IT leaders should put in their playbooks.  Some may raise a few eyebrows.

Demand for social and mobile collaboration within the enterprise is growing, according to a recent study by ABI Research. A new wave of cloud-based, enterprise-caliber social tools and platforms are emerging as alternatives to email and other “legacy” collaboration platforms in the eyes of workers, the study found.