Application level vulnerabilities are quite common and can be difficult to detect many a times. While there are many tools to identify such vulnerabilities, ThreadFix from Denim Group, a security software development company is a new opensource freely-available vulnerability management platform that aggregates vulnerability test results from disparate static and dynamic scanning tools as well as the results of manual penetration testing, code review and threat modeling to create a single comprehensive view of the security status of all applications within an organization.

Name a business that does not say they are going to make or have already made social media as key part of their marketing strategy. Hopefully none. One thing that IBM has repeatedly shown is defining their product invention based on enterprise research, the result of which is its new social software platform offering, IBM Connections.

Opensource and descendant of original Berkeley code, PostgreSQL has come of out its beta version for its latest revision PostgreSQL 9.2 since its release in May, 2012 boasting a considerable step up in performance and both vertical and horizontal scalability.

Smartphone market is no longer a competition between devices but as experts say turned out into mobile ecosystem competition. While Android and Apple iOS have ruled the mobile phone industry last few years, Nokia managed to re-launch itself releasing Lumia 900 series last week on Windows Phone operating system. So will Nokia be able to regain its lost love?

While the argument of SQL vs NoSQL databases has been ongoing from years, companies have started to realize the benefits of NoSQL mode of data storage and retrieval. Thanks to saturated market of NoSQL databases, the adoption of nosql has rocketed in the recent past. This is exactly where 10Gen has shifted its focus for its NoSQL product MongoDB targeting developer adoption by releasing enhancements that include an advanced aggregation framework, new multi-data center deployment features as well as 600 more developer friendly features.

Big data this year has gradually shifted from being a bit unknown to edges of known with key focus in establishing easier ways to analyse data and present the analytics in a readable format. There are start-ups which are aiming to let business focus on what they do best and encapsulating complex analytics and statistical computations within their big data solutions. One such start up that has announced a beta version of its new business intelligence software is Alpine Metrics.

After an amazing progress within its PAAS offering and making JBoss central to its cloud based development initiatives, Red Hat has this week announced first beta of its open source virtualization platform Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a comprehensive virtualization platform that delivers an open virtualization hypervisor with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and corresponding management tools for both server and desktop virtualization deployments.

Why would someone directly in competition with a similar rival product wish to join the rival. Well, that's what an opensource based innovation can make you do today compared to yesteryears. VMWare has applied to join OpenStack Foundation, while it is well known that its vCloud Director (“vCD”) cloud management platform is in direct rivalry with OpenStack Compute.

Decision making has never been easy within an enterprise and particularly becomes critical when there are so many software turning up to assist in data mining in volumes to arrive at various improvements tied up to business process. Helping organizations to quickly react to changing business and regulatory requirements and adapt processes in enterprise applications, SAP this week has announced SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management.

IBM looks to strengthen its HR space with a buy out of Kenexa, the Cloud HR Software for $1.3 billion. Kenexa is a leading provider of recruiting and talent management solution that brings a combination of Cloud-based technology and consulting services that integrates both people and processes, providing solutions to engage a smarter, more effective workforce across their most critical business functions.