Service offers application development and testing 'in the cloud'
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Bungee Labs unveiled a new version of its Web development and hosting service and said that it is opening its beta program to all developers.
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InfoWorld - A startup working in Microsoft's backyard is taking aim at the software giant's entrenched project management software with a new hosted service.
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Company targets software-as-service businesses with Âon demandÂ database program.
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A basic database service, though in beta testing, joins Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing and Simple Storage Service.
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Photo organizing, editing tool emerges from beta test.
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This White Paper from Optimyz, discusses how to use WebServiceTester, a comprehensive web services testing solution that performs Automatic Test Suite and Data Generation, Functional Testing, Web Services Orchestration/Workflow Testing, Secure Web Services Testing, Interoperability/Conformance and Regression Testing, Load/Stress &amp; Performance Testing and Web Services Diagnostics &amp; debugging.
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(Source: Webex)  With the growing array of hardware, software, and systems necessary to support businesses, today more than ever, software-as-a-service or on-Demand solutions offer feature-rich, real-time functionality without the burden associated with deploying, managing and supporting an in-house approach.  See if it's right for you.
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Firm's new consulting service supports services-oriented architecture, an emerging software-development model.
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(InfoWorld) - Two U.S. government agencies are embracing performance-engineering processes and application testing throughout the development cycle as a way to avoid costly fixes after deployment, officials there said Wednesday. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said they've deployed performance-engineering software in recent years, and it has helped cut down on problems after development. "If you catch an error in development, the cost is the cost," said John Chambliss, manager of the IRS WAN management team. "Once you get to [operations and maintenance], it's about 100 times the cost." For the past two years, the IRS has used application performance management software from Opnet Technologies in Maryland to fix problems in the development of its portals that allow Web-based tax filings, Chambliss said at Opnet's annual conference in Washington, D.C. If electronic filing doesn't work, the IRS has major problems, he said. The IRS uses Opnet's software on in-house development and also encourages outside developers to use it, Chambliss said. The IRS has run into several IT problems in recent years. In 2006, the agency paid out more than $381 million in improper tax returns because of problems with a new Web-based version of software that detected fraudulent returns. Carolyn Aragon, enterprise operations center manager for the Forest Service, said her agency has been using Opnet application performance management software for about eight months. The agency has used the software to help with the development of two applications, including one that allows vendors to create invoices for firefighting services, she said. Chambliss and Aragon, along with representatives of Opnet and three private customers, participated in a forum on successful implementations of application performance management software. One of the major advantages of application performance management is testing how changes to software will affect how they run, added Peco Karayanev, senior systems engineer at National Instruments, an engineering design testing vendor. Application performance management helps the company roll out changes "without completely destroying the service we're providing customers," he said. It's sometimes difficult to get developers to buy into application management, added Farid Dana, director of Dell's global operations for telecommunication networks. "You don't tell them it's [application management]," he said. "You tell them its application enhancement. Then, they're receptive." While the forum participants sung the praises of application performance management, many organizations are still looking at the technology. "We're at that stage in the adoption curve where it's getting out there," said Alain Cohen, Opnet's president and CTO. In many cases, an organization needs to run into serious problems with application development before they see a need, Chambliss said. Cohen agreed. One large company used "war rooms" during their application development, he said. Instead of a typical war room, where an organization would map out a strategy, this company's war rooms were places where employees would argue about who's to blame for an application's failure, he said. Application performance management can pinpoint problems in development and "the 'blamestorming' can stop," he said. "Some organizations need to get burned before they say, 'Okay, maybe we need to go back and call Opnet.'"
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The need to test packaged applications on virtualised systems could hold up the deployment of server virtualisation software, according to attendees at Gartner&#39;s datacentre conference in Las Vegas this week.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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Company aims to ease server management headaches with PHP tool set. Also on tap: updated tools for Web developers.
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The company hopes to lure software partners by promising to save them from infrastructure headaches.
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The software maker says the time has come to offer business software in versions that are both hosted and not hosted.
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New technical support service lets businesses outsource tuning, patching and monitoring of their PeopleSoft systems.
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The company plans to making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet.
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Brian Aker talks about the differences between community and company open-source, how to get started in the open-source world and what the future holds for database services "in the cloud."