Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
There is a shortage of big data modellers as well as data scientists, according to the senior vice president of IT research firm Infosys Labs, Subu Goparaju. Infosys Labs is the research arm of IT business consulting firm Infosys, ...
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Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
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Ventana Research has secured four of the top ten blog post positions on Information Management Magazine's 2012 most read blogs. The Ventana Research blogs offered research-based insights on big data, business analytics, data integration and ...
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Computer science is to be included as part of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), a performance indicator that measures the percentage of students in a school who achieve grades A* to C at GCSE level in specific subjects. The EBacc ...
IBM has rolled out a tool it says can cull massive terabytes of data, including email — to help customers detect external attacks aimed at stealing sensitive information or insider threats that might reveal corporate secrets. The ...
Actian, formerly Ingres, is to acquire Pervasive Software, a vendor of cloud-based and on-premises software for data management and analysis. The deal is targeted at the growing big data market. Under the terms of a definitive agreement ...
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A selection of CIOs were honoured as the top 50 in the region today at CNME’s annual CIO 50 Awards and Forum event at The Address Hotel, Marina, in Dubai. The award ceremony recognises the head decision maker of 50 organisations who ...
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Twinword, Inc. has unveiled its new level testing service, called "Levelpump". Levelpump compares your knowledge of vocabulary against a database of associated words in order to assign you to the proper English vocabulary level. SEOUL, ...
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VMware has bucked recent hiring trends in the tech sector by announcing 900 job losses, despite unveiling a three per cent rise in 2012 income to $746m (£475m), while revenue rose 22 per cent to $4.61bn (£2.94bn). The ...
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Q-Sensei Corp., the next-generation search technology company, announced today that its enterprise search platform, Q-Sensei Enterprise, was lauded by the business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan with the 2012 Global Enterprise Search ...
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The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market, but users can expect it to become even more prevalent over the next couple of years, ...
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Underground Elephant has recently announced its strategy to improve insurance agents' ROI by partnering with Blitz Lead Manager. Underground Elephant's high-quality lead flow, coupled with Blitz's workflow platform, promises to be an ...
Business Technology Solutions (BizTech), a leading Business and IT Services firm and Oracle Platinum Partner, is pleased to announce the addition of Oracle E-Business Suite instance cloning onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its cloud ...
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The "big data" buzzword and industry trend had a pretty good year perception-wise in 2012, but the hype may soon fade into a period of disillusionment among users, according to analyst firms Ovum and Gartner. Big data refers to the ...
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