Last time, I wrote of my conversation with Grady Booch, a legendary thinker who first made his mark in the mid-1990s (as co-inventor of the Unified Modeling Language and contributor to the Rational Unified Process). He continues to be on the cutting edge of development in his role as IBM Fellow. He spoke of a … continue reading
What are your non-technical staffers working on? The Intuit-sponsored 2015 “State of Citizen Development Report” found workers are creating their own apps to gain efficiency, to get it done more quickly, and actually consider creating apps as part of their jobs. “True citizen development is here now,” said Jeff Prus, director of product management for … continue reading
As organizations seek faster time-to-market releases of the software necessary to stay ahead of the competition, new solutions that enable the business to create applications without the need for IT to get involved are starting to emerge. As with all things, of course, there are several angles from which to approach this need. Some platforms … continue reading
CIOs today are concerned with three key areas: security, DevOps and the cloud. But DevOps is a misnomer, according to test platform provider Appvance CEO Kevin Surace, because it purposely leaves out QA. And as anyone who’s had to deal with the aftermath of buggy, poor-performing software knows, you have to test before you deploy. … continue reading
Electric Cloud, originally known for build software and later Continuous Integration, is extending its ElectricFlow product into DevOps with the release today of application release automation software. ElectricFlow Release gives organizations one place form which to manage traditional and Continuous Delivery pipelines and software releases, according to Electric Cloud’s director of product marketing Sam Fell. … continue reading
Capping off a weekend of speculation, Dell this morning announced it will acquire EMC for US$67 billion—the largest technology buy in history. VMware, a subsidiary of EMC, will remain an independent, publicly traded company. The deal is expected to close in mid-2016, with EMC becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Dell. Pivotal, the cloud computing … continue reading
When I first learned I’d have the opportunity to speak with the brilliant Grady Booch about the future of application development, I thought it a contradiction. For you kids new to development, Booch is perhaps best known for working with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh at Rational Software in the mid-1990s to create the Unified … continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
