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Terracotta In-Memory Upgrades Add Speed, Capacity, Control for On-Premise, Cloud Apps
Exploding data volumes are driving the need for better use and automation of in-memory resources, say the caching experts at Terracotta. The firm’s latest in-memory software aims to improve response times, scalability and service levels for on-premise and cloud-based apps. IDN explores Terracotta 3.6’s BigMemory and Automatic Resource Control with execs.
Full Story >Gartner Lists Top 10 IT Technologies for 2012
Gartner Inc. has identified 2012’s top corporate IT technologies and the list includes a few heavyweight trends from this year, along with some new players. IDN looks at what Gartner says why next year will be pivotal for clouds, enterprise mobile, business intelligence, enterprise-facing apps stores and in-memory technologies.
Full Story >Evans Data Finds Three-Fourths of Enterprises Focus on Mobile Apps
Mobile app development is taking off in all directions, according to Evans Data Corp.’s Mobile Development Survey released this month. The survey found nearly three-fourths of enterprise devs are working on mobile apps for customers, enterprise users and to extend mobile access to legacy apps. IDN speaks with Evans Data CEO Janel Garvin.
Full Story >Leapfactor Brings Cloud, Apps to Enterprise Mobility
Leapfactor is using the cloud to provide an enterprise-class mobility platform that will allow enterprise IT to quickly and easily get any business application or process ready to run on a mobile device securely.
Full Story >First iPhone/iPad DevCon Event Coming Sept 27-29 in San Diego
Apple’s iPhone 4 sold some 1 million units on its first day, and total iPhones/iPads now top 50 million. The industry’s first iPhone/iPad Developer Conference to be held in San Diego, Sept. 27-29, 2010, will feature more than 45 technical and business sessions to show CIOs, devs and business execs how their companies can benefit from the iPhone/iPad explosion.
Full Story >Open Source IT Embraces Cloud Computing, Google App Engine
Cloud computing is gaining strong momentum in the open source community, with close half of all professionals saying they will offer their apps as web services via cloud providers. Google's Apps Engine, so far, is the top cloud provider-of-choice, says a survey by Evans Data Corp.
Full Story >Google Apps proves SaaS is here to stay
The development of applications by Google proved that Software as a Service (SaaS) will last for a number of years, an updated report has concluded.
Full Story >King Says Seam 1.0 Will Unify Java Components
Seam 1.0 creator Gavin King sees his latest project takes on a big problem for Java devs -- how to better build end-to-end web apps that offer state, orchestration and reliability. Seam would cut dev code by at least 30% by unifying the component models for EJB, JSF and other frameworks. IDN speaks with King, father of Hibernate, about his latest project.
Full Story >Avoid Mobile Enterprise Dev Hazards - I
Devs facing the task of mobilizing their existing applications need to adjust their current enterprise integration approach, according to a growing number of enterprise wireless experts, IDN gets top advice for senior mobile dev execs from Intel, IBM and others in this 2-part series.
Full Story >Former Sun CTO Sees Flaws in EJB 3, Hibernate
Peter Yared, former CTO for Sun J2EE app server unit says the newest J2EE technologies - EJB 3.0 and Hibernate - don't go far enough to solve the pain of today's IT staff. See why Yared says that current J2EE initiatives may miss the point -- and the opportunities -- in the next wave of IT build-outs.
Full Story >Former Sun CTO Sees Flaws in EJB 3, Hibernate
Peter Yared, former CTO for Sun's J2EE app server unit says the newest J2EE technologies - EJB 3.0 and Hibernate - don't go far enough to solve the pain of today's devs and architects. See why, as a result, Yared says J2EE may lose out to Open Source LAMP approaches for building more efficient, scalable apps. Yared, after leaving Sun, founded ActiveGrid Inc., which will unveil an Open Source-based "develop-to-deploy" framework later this year.
Full Story >Survey: Evans Reveals Mobile Dev Concerns
A recent Evans Data study of mobile devs looks at the pros, cons and common practices for wireless development. The survey comes as JavaOne planners have lined up a wide array of wireless event programs. Among the tidbits: (1) devs are building apps for both intermittent connections as well as always-on apps; and (2) devs care less about the number of handsets deployed than about features. Get a glimpse of mobile dev concerns and trends in Evans 2005 mobile dev survey.
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