Joab JacksonU.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service
Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for the IDG News Service, and is based in New York.
IBM channels stadium rock at its new Interconnect conference
The kickoff of the IBM InterConnect conference showed how companies such as Citi and Airbus embrace digital transfrormation
IBM brings BlueMix platform services in-house
IBM is launching a series of tools to help ease the process of setting up a hybrid cloud
Google Cloud offers security scanning for customer apps
The Google Cloud Security Scanner can ferret out XSS and mixed-use vulnerabilities
Facebook garners big gains from tighter management of open source
Facebook is now contributing more to external open source projects and keeping closer tabs on its own open source efforts
Microsoft launches machine learning as an Azure service
Microsoft's new Azure service aims to take the pain out of managing large machine learning systems
Pivotal goes all-in with open source in Big Data Suite
Enterprises demand it because they're taking a more active role in software development, Pivotal says
Big data vendors to forge a common Hadoop base platform
The Open Data Platform seeks to provide compatibility across different versions of Hadoop
HP extends R programming language for big data use
Distributed R can be used to analyze data across multiple file servers
Big data digest: The backlash begins
Critics diagnose the limits of big data, while analysts continue to see a bright future
Only selected partners will have access to most of LinkedIn's APIs
HP courts enterprise workloads with new Helion private clouds
HP has seven new cloud services tailored for specific enterprise workloads such as ERP and CRM
Hitachi buying Pentaho to boost its IoT business
Pentaho's software will provide data analysis in IoT systems Hitachi Data Systems plans to build for vertical industries
Microsoft fixes Internet Explorer's dangerous memory problems
Windows and Office also got patches this month as part of Microsoft's scheduled update.
Microsoft, IBM get behind stewardship of Node.js Web runtime platform
A new foundation created by Joyent hopes to establish vendor neutral governance for the open-source software
MarkLogic buddies up to JavaScript, throws shade at old pal XML
In MarkLogic Server 8, everything you can do with XML you can now do with JSON