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Why developers should get excited about Java 9
With work moving forward on the next edition of standard Java, developers can start looking forward to what they will get with the planned upgrade.
So long, iOS -- jailbreakers have found their home: Android
This week, another virus was reported infecting jailbroken iPhones. Honestly, if you jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, you deserve what you get as a result.
10 no-bull benefits of the Internet of things
Walmart's investment in open source isn't cheap
In a recent blog post, a senior developer at Walmart Labs explained that the company's embrace of open source costs big money.
Dark skies hang over midtier cloud providers
We now have three major cloud leaders: Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. As the cloud market continues to mature, I predict that the runners-up will have an increasingly hard time keeping pace. Even if they are more innovative and creative, some aspects of being a cloud leader come down to the money you can spend -- and market leaders have more to spend.
How to survive the data explosion
IDC estimates that enterprise data doubles every 18 months. That's an astounding statistic, but somewhat difficult to wrap your head around. A simple analogy may help.
Republicans to FCC: Don't force municipal broadband on us
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Video: Meet the most connected man in the world
You're a pretty connected person, right? You have your smartphone stuffed full of apps that let you keep tabs on everything all the time. Maybe you have Google Glass. Perhaps you slap on a FitBit when it's time to exercise. You're fully plugged-in -- yet, you're still a very long way from Chris Dancy.
11 essential JavaScript tools for Web developers
Oracle works both sides of the SQL/NoSQL street
It's no secret that Oracle became very successful by selling relational database technology anchored by the venerable SQL standard.
PostgreSQL ramps up its NoSQL game
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NoSQL databases like MongoDB or CouchDB generally compete with each other, but now a columnar database is positioning itself as a NoSQL player.
SDS still young, but very much on the rise
Anything "software-defined"-- networks, storage, data centers--is grabbing a lot of attention these days. Security is no exception. Software-defined security (SDS) is an emerging model in which information security is deployed, controlled and managed by software.
With SDS, security controls such as network segmentation, intrusion detection and access control are automated and monitored via software.
11 essential JavaScript tools for Web developers
Oracle works both sides of the SQL/NoSQL street
It's no secret that Oracle became very successful by selling relational database technology anchored by the venerable SQL standard.
PostgreSQL ramps up its NoSQL game
Credit: iStockphoto
NoSQL databases like MongoDB or CouchDB generally compete with each other, but now a columnar database is positioning itself as a NoSQL player.
