Cask extends Big Data app development platform

Cask Software, creator of an application development platform for Big Data, has updated the platform and expanded beyond Hadoop through a new partnership with Cassandra company DataStax. In a blog post, CEO Jonathan Gray discussed Cask Hydrator, a new capability built into version 3.2 of the CDAP app platform that enables data ingestion and ETL … continue reading

IBM Watson: From game-show champion to game-changing industries

When last we left IBM’s Watson, the cognitive computing platform was basking in the glow of its victory on the television quiz show “Jeopardy.” Showing off its mastery of trivia, Watson smoked the field of human contestants back in 2011. Since then, IBM has been building an ecosystem around Watson, working with entrepreneurs to develop … continue reading

SD Times Blog: JetBrains changes course on licensing… again

On Sept. 3, software development toolmaker JetBrains announced it was changing its licensing model from a perpetual model to a subscription model. The company’s rationale for creating JetBrains Toolbox is that the new distribution model would cost customers less and simplify management of the licenses. The Toolbox plan also would let customers pick and choose … continue reading

OMG to approve CISQ software measurements as standards

The Object Management Group will approve as standards new measures to evaluate the quality characteristics of software created by the Consortium for IT Software Quality. The CISQ Quality Characteristic Measures cover the areas of reliability, security, performance efficiency and maintainability, as well as for automating function point measurements, according to Bill Curtis, executive director of … continue reading

Microsoft acquires cloud security company Adallom

Continuing its commitment to cloud security, Microsoft today announced it has acquired Adallom, which specializes in identity and access management. According to a Microsoft blog post by Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft corporate vice president of cloud and enterprise marketing, Adallom provides a cloud access security broker that gives visibility and control over access to data. (Related: … continue reading

Industry Watch: Be careful what you wish for

A couple of years ago, loyal readers of this column will remember I wrote of getting into a crash with a wrong-way driver. That kicked off a column about information sharing and data management, where I posited what a wonderful world it would be if as soon as the crash occurred, the police, my body … continue reading

Industry Spotlight: Internet of Things: Closing the gap between customers, business

The Internet of Things (IoT), put simply, is a way to infuse computing power into the world around us. But Ron Evans, an IoT developer, sees it a little differently. The Internet of Things, said Evans (the self-described “ringleader” at California-based boutique consultancy The Hybrid Group), “is about closing the last meter between customers and … continue reading

Industry Watch: Software industry M&A grows in the last year

Mergers and acquisitions in the first six months of this year grew by 3% over the last six months of last year, according to a new study by mid-market investment bank Berkery Noyes. That’s a positive sign that investment in the technology sector remains strong. In fact, beginning from the last six months of 2013, … continue reading

Requirements must keep pace with agile

It long has been understood that requirements are the very first step in the application life cycle. After all, you can’t build what you don’t know, so requirements are what inform software development from the beginning. Requirements take time to create, though. Business meetings result in ideas for new products or features, and then business … continue reading

Industry Watch: Apps are the key to BPM

Here’s a statement I never thought I’d hear: “In the past, [Business Process Management] has been too much focused on process.” But that’s exactly how Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO and cofounder of Bonitasoft, views the market today: less talk about process and more about applications. After all, it is applications that use these business processes, … continue reading

What exactly ARE requirements?

Requirements define the things we want our applications to do, but before they are requirements, Microsoft’s agile “guru” Sam Guckenheimer said, they start as a belief. “Everything is a hypothesis,” he said. “The hypothesis has to be turned into an experiment, substantiated or diminished with data. Then, you either do more or do something else. … continue reading

Open source offers way into mature markets

MongoDB is in fifth place on db-engines.com’s list of databases based on popularity. Leading the way is Oracle, followed by the open-source MySQL project, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Kelly Stirman, vice president of strategy at MongoDB, told me this week at the company’s user conference that of 200 NoSQL databases that exist today, only … continue reading

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