The latest software development methodologies require a more collaborative and dynamic environment for teams to work. Short iterations and continuous integration mean results and feedback are shared continuously. This paper provides insight, examples, and tools you can use in your environment for software development in virtual private clouds. 

Cloud computing is transforming the way IT departments build and deploy custom applications during lean times and changing the economics of information technology. Here are the 5 reasons why thousands of companies are betting that cloud computing is the right technology strategy for 2009 and beyond. 

Development and test is optimally suited for cloud service, given the security and demand variability characteristics of that key workload.  In addition to cost reduction, development team should consider the value cloud services can provide during the development lifecycle, and how cloud can help an organization become more agile and responsive... 

Join us for the Cloud computing for developers virtual events in October and learn how to solve business and technical challenges in the cloud. Through real-world examples of specific challenges and solutions, as well as live demos of techniques and products, you can learn more about leveraging the cloud. Read on for details. 

The downside to modern software delivery strategies such as cloud computing, mobile apps, and agile and composite development methods, is the often overlapping complexities that these innovations introduce to application lifecycles. View this webcast to learn strategies for application lifecycle management (ALM) that reconcile this new complexity. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

View this webcast to learn how to combat the server and application sprawl that is consuming your IT budget while driving efficient innovation. Discover an infrastructure approach that maximizes performance of existing assets while allowing for modernization and mainframe development. 

The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. 

This fall, Gartner Inc.'s 2012 ITxpo conference centered around the highly disruptive, consumer-driven group of phenomena that consists of cloud computing, Web information, mobile devices, and social media innovations. Read this expert e-guide to find out what conclusions Gartner reached about how IT should be adjusting. 

Whether you're using agile methodologies or a traditional waterfall approach, this white paper can tell you how cloud can be your opportunity to integrate apps and ops into a seamless team that produces and maintains higher-quality applications and services. 

This article discusses cloud computing in general, then dissects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this movement is important for enterprise developers. 

Learn how to test mobile applications quickly and efficiently while keeping costs in line. 

In this white paper, discover how Android development is affecting project managers and application lifecycle management best practices. Explore how your IT group can prepare now for changes to come in the near future and how Android and Java development compare and contrast, among other insights and analysis.