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Why the Cloud Is Advantageous for Agile, and for Accelerating its Enterprise-wide Adoption

How leading firms are winning with strategies for efficient application development, without relying on co-location.

Learn how Drupal - the open source social publishing platform - together with Acquia, gives you the tools you need to assemble a rich, interactive experience with your website.

This report is the result of the largest public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity, originally initiated between Coverity and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The results from the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report detail the findings of analyzing more than 61 million lines of open source code from 291 popular and widely-used open source projects such as Android, Linux, Apache, Samba and PHP, among others.

voke Names Coverity as a Transformational Company in the Testing Market Coverity has been rated as a Transformational company in the voke, inc. Market Mover Array Report for Testing Platforms. Coverity's rating is recognition of the impact that Coverity's software integrity strategy is making in shaping the future of the testing market.

Find out how Coverity has helped Frequentis ensure a high level of software integrity to support its product mission of freedom from failure, while continually improving the productivity of its developers.

By providing a unified Application Delivery Networking platform, F5 BIG-IP offers the ability for organizations to adopt a single platform for all its application delivery needs. Adopting an organizational standard for application delivery can reduce management and administrative costs and improve the ability of the organization to migrate smoothly from traditional to emerging application architectures, and address the unforeseen issues that always arise in the wake of the introduction of new initiatives.

Connecting to a database requires a number of independent layers. The application needs to incorporate software that establishes the connection and calls to the database. A database connectivity layer needs to be in place to help manage security, communications, and data flow with the database. The database has a set of interfaces that help translate the client requests into actions within the database engine. And with the advent of .NET, the costs of managed versus non-managed code must also be considered.

Is building custom software a necessary evil, a process that’s divorced from the really important parts of a business? Or is the ability to do this well the underpinning of every successful organization? The truth is probably somewhere in between these two extremes. One thing is clear, however: In many organizations, how well a firm executes its business strategies is inextricably tied to how good it is at creating and running new applications.

Being better than your competitors at creating and using custom software can bring substantial competitive advantage. Similarly, being worse can put you at a significant disadvantage. If your organization doesn’t see ALM as one of its most important business processes, it’s time to change that view.

This is an important moment in the evolution of development tools. Since team development tools are now focusing on the right problem, they have more to offer than they did ten years ago. Organizations doing team-based development—a category that includes almost everybody—can benefit from taking another look at this style of tool. Learn more today!

Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool’s community of project management solution subscribers.

For more than a decade, Pivotal CRM has been the choice of Microsoft-centric organizations that want the flexibility to model their specific business practices within their customer relationship management system. The Pivotal CRM product line leverages the Microsoft technology stack to provide usability and productivity advantages through integration to Microsoft Office, and more.

Virtual appliances have recently been gaining notoriety with IT organizations. These pre-packaged ready to deploy instances of an applicationcreated in a virtual machine or environment can provide significant management savings. While they can be a powerful IT tool, not all virtual appliances are created equally.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

White Paper explaining the growing need for Digitally Signing Adobe AIR applications, and expanding the market reach of your application by distributing trusted code.

dtSearch Corp. - A leading supplier of text retrieval software

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

The article analyzes changes in the PSD-to-HTML/CSS conversion market happened during the past year.

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

See how Iron Speed Designer builds database forms, and reporting applications for .NET without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security.

When an IT skill falls out of favor it rarely ever comes back; here's a list of 10 dying IT skills.

This white paper discusses five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, yet useful, features, such as network authentication, PowerShell, branch office support and licensing.

Five Things About Windows Server 2008 You Might Not Know