Enterprise resource planning (ERP) from SAP and other monolithic enterprise applications from big vendors like Oracle are at risk from multiple forms of attack, according to Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO of cybersecurity firm Onapsis. In a video demonstration at the…
Jive Software continues to add to its collection of mobile communications and collaboration apps, with today’s release of Jive Circle, an app it promises will help employees search through organizational rolls to quickly identify and get in touch with subject…
There are few technologies today that are as exciting as containers for the deployment of virtualized applications. Containers run on multiple operating systems and now are able to run on IBM’s Power architecture with new capabilities set to debut later…
After over four years of development, including missed deadlines on general availability, the open source Drupal 8 content management system (CMS) finally appears to be nearing the finish line. Drupal, one of the world’s most popular CMS technologies, is used…
For most of the history of modern computing, application developers needed to consider and understand infrastructure in order to build applications. Today, though, not so much. At the Amazon Web Services Summit (AWS) in New York City today, Werner Vogels,…
Steve Herrod is one of the better known venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, investing millions into the next big thing. Herrod is a managing partner at General Catalyst partners, which has multiple types of technology investments. Among the companies that…
When it comes to enterprise application performance, it’s important to have control and visibility over the infrastructure on which applications run. That’s the promise of AppFormix , a startup that emerged from stealth this week with new technology that can…
In February of this year, Hitachi Data Systems announced its intention to acquire privately-held business intelligence vendor Pentaho. The deal officially closed yesterday, and Pentaho is now a Hitachi Data Systems company. As proof Pentaho isn’t sitting idle under new…
By Aaron Rudger, Keynote Organizations large and small across industries are embracing the digital age. Increasingly, these businesses are beginning to understand the role of customer experience in digital success. As a recent survey conducted by Forrester discovered, organizations now…
Applications are rarely built from scratch today, but rather tend to leverage myriad tools and libraries as organizations increasingly move to a rapid deployment DevOps style of IT. Software vendor Sonatype aims to help further enable the DevOps model with…
As CIO of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart’s Karenann Terrell handles her share of IT challenges, some unique to Walmart but others – like legacy apps – that are found at many companies. In some organizations, the idea of legacy…
ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s largest energy companies, is using the power of Big Data analytics to improve its operations and boost efficiency. At a session at the recent Interop conference, CIO Mike Pfister and Richard Barclay, Advanced Analytics program…
By Max Katz, Appery.io The enterprise mobile app developer is under constant pressure. There is a growing backlog of mobile apps to build and expectations to deliver faster than ever. Technology and tools are evolving rapidly and making it difficult…
Apple’s App Store has been a huge success, selling $500 million worth of applications and in-app purchases in the first week of January alone. More than 1.4 million apps are sold through the store, in more than 150 countries. Though…
Appcito’s Cloud Application Front End (CAFE) doesn’t deliver coffee to enterprise IT, but it serves a similar purpose to caffeine in that it can help stimulate and accelerate applications. Siva Mandalam, VP Product and Strategy at Appcito, told Enterprise Apps…
Cloud analytics provider Birst last spring released a data visualization tool called Birst Visualizer. So it seems a bit strange that today the company announced a partnership with data visualization specialist Tableau Software in which Birst’s data extraction and unification…
Tools to build websites and applications change over time, but one tool that has stood the test of time is ActiveState’s Komodo IDE (integrated developer environment). This week ActiveState released Komodo 9, continuing the legacy of the IDE that began…
The OpenStack open source cloud platform has grown in popularity in recent years as a pathway to enable multiple types of applications and services in the cloud. One such application class is databases, which are enabled by way of the…
Supply chain management is an area of the enterprise that is ripe for the disruption of cloud-based software, according to Folia Grace, vice president, Product Marketing of Anaplan. “The way companies attempt to match supply to demand today, with piecemeal…
By Steven Brykman, Propelics The trend with Apple products has always been to make things smaller and faster with greater storage capacity. The only Apple product which has gotten consistently and significantly larger over time (other than desktop displays) is…
Application integration is still too often an afterthought for folks evaluating enterprise software. While folks understand its importance, they still tend to give the bulk of their attention to “sexier” features like pretty user interfaces. Software providers definitely get it,…
Business intelligence and Big Data analytics vendor Pentaho is being acquired by Hitachi Data Services (HDS), in a deal that is set to close in June. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Pentaho CEO Quentin Gallivan told…
Salesforce.com is a company that is perhaps best known for its array of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, but it also enables businesses to build their own applications on the Salesforce platform. Adam Seligman, VP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, helps lead…
Hadoop is a big deal in the world of Big Data applications and analysis, but getting qualified staff to actually run Hadoop can be a big challenge. In a bid to help reduce the Big Data skills gap, Hadoop vendor…
As organizations of all sizes increasingly look to the cloud as a deployment and delivery model for applications, the demand for services to make cloud deployments easier is also growing. It’s a demand that startup Distelli is hoping to help…
GraphLab, a provider of analytics software based on open source code, is changing its name to Dato as it aims to tackle the growing demand for predictive applications that can leverage machine learning. The Dato name change is being accompanied…
There are so many app stores out there, it can be tough to keep track. Though Apple was the first with the concept and tried to trademark the term “app store,” they have proliferated in recent years. Samsung in August…
HashiCorp today announced that it has secured a $10 million Series A round of funding. The company will use the money to continue to evolve its application development and deployment technology, including the development of a new commercial service known…
Startup Mesosphere today announced it has raised $36 million in a Series B round of funding, to fuel its efforts in supporting and extending the open source Apache Mesos technology platform. The B round brings the total capital raised to…
It’s a big week for Big Data and the open source Hadoop ecosystem. The Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 project was released on Nov. 30, and today the Apache Drill project announced it had become a top level project in the Apache…
In the modern world, understanding data is a prized and valuable enterprise IT activity. Among the myriad tools available to make sense of data is the popular open-source ELK stack, which includes the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana technologies. In a…
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has rolled out a new enterprise platform release and improved security controls for Big Data processing. Cloudera Enterprise 5.2 leverages the company’s open-source CDH (Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop) project and provides users with additional enterprise-grade hardening. Additions…
Micro Focus announced today its intention to acquire privately-held Attachmate in a deal valued at approximately $2.3 billion. The deal includes the issuance of 86.60 million shares of Micro Focus to Attachmate’s parent company, Wizard Parent LLC. Micro Focus states…
While companies are interested in using cloud analytics, many of them cite data integration issues as a key hurdle, according to a Ventana Research study mentioned by Loraine Lawson in an IT Business Edge blog post. She includes a quote…
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates Establishing a passive data governance strategy is one of the most important steps that organizations can take in ensuring sustainable data quality and relevance. By enabling companies to monitor data that already exists in corporate…
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting This is an exciting, and challenging, time to be a CIO responsible for enhancing the value of IT while reducing spending and keeping up with the breakneck growth of technologies such as cloud…
Logi Analytics, provider of a Web-based data discovery solution, has inked partnerships with more than half a dozen companies over the past year in an effort to expand its presence in the burgeoning Big Data analytics market. This week it…
SoftWatch, a company that earlier this year introduced an analytics application that tracks usage of Microsoft Office across the enterprise, has rolled out another software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that helps managers drill down into software usage patterns. According to Israel-based SoftWatch,…
If there was any doubt that the Big Data market is a platform for big money, those doubts should now disappear. Open-source Big Data startup MapR Technologies today announced a $110 million round of financing, including $80 million of equity…
One of the biggest performance bottlenecks in any application pipeline is the time it takes for the application to read and write data to a spinning disk-based database. Oracle is now trying to remove that bottleneck with the in-memory feature…
Oracle this week is updating its Oracle Enterprise Manager platform with a new update that builds on existing application management capabilities. The Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c release 4 update, provides improved lifecycle and IT operations management features. Oracle Enterprise Manager…
The app store is gaining traction in the enterprise. And no wonder: As Tibco Software founder John Mathon points out on his Cloud Ramblings blog, enterprise app stores can help IT departments better manage the rapidly growing number of apps,…
In a major coup for Linux vendor Red Hat, the company today announced a significant expansion of support for SAP applications. Applications that can now run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) include SAP Adaptive Server, Enterprise (SAP ASE), SAP…
By Nitin Bhatia At an undisclosed location, the countdown has been initiated: five, four, three, two, one and deployment! A few tense moments follow and then a burst of joy. High fives, chest bumps, the whole nine yards. After countless…
Big Data isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a transformative technology trend that can have real impact, according to the new report. The study, which surveyed 540 decision-makers involved in Big Data purchases, found some surprising trends. Across all company sizes,…
SAP and VMware today announced that the HANA in-memory database is ready for production use on the vSphere 5.5 platform, clearing the way for deployment of HANA applications in a virtualized environment. VMware released the vSphere 5.5 platform, which provides…
In a recent interview with Enterprise Apps Today, Greg Girard, program director, Merchandising and Marketing Strategies and Retail Analytics, for IDC Retail Insights, said companies are falling into groups of Big Data haves and have-nots, and that those in the…
Tibco Software announced late yesterday its plan to acquire privately-held open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft for $185 million. Under Tibco’s ownership, the current plan is to keep the JasperSoft’s BI brand intact. “While Jaspersoft is no longer an independent…
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting With the fiscal year-end rapidly approaching for both Oracle (May 31) and Microsoft (June 30), the scramble is on for closing sweet discount deals for everything from new components to enterprise software systems.…
The Big Data world continues to attract attention both in terms of users and in terms of funding. In the world of Big Data, Hadoop is king. At the pinnacle of the Hadoop ecosystem sits commercial vendor Cloudera, which this…