Start-up Nimble Storage announced new, scalable flash storage arrays with a range of performance and storage shelves. The new products are designed to offer easy-to-deploy storage clustering and are being marketed for use in ...
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SAP has announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialised business content for use by various industries. The four offerings ...
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To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
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An official document containing policies and pledges for customers of Oracle’s cloud services reveals that many aspects fall in line with industry standards, while others may prompt cause for worry among customers, according to ...
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Dutch insurer ING's US unit has inked a $330m deal with Cognizant, pursuant to which Cognizant will expand the business process management contract between the two companies. According to the terms of the deal, Cognizant will hire over ...
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All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
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Computerworld - Hoping to speed online transaction processing, Microsoft is adding in-memory features to its SQL Server relational database manager. The next version of SQL Server will allow users to host database tables, or even entire ...
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SAP has developed an update for its HANA in-memory database that will enable it to"power mission-critical transactional and analytical applications in one platform,"the vendor announced Wednesday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences ...
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SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
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Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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IDG News Service - With the latest release of its Tuxedo transaction processing server (TPC), Oracle is hoping to lure mainframe users onto the cloud. Moving a mainframe application to an Oracle Exalogic system, where it would run on the ...
Amazon Web Services(AWS)is offering solid-state disks(SSDs)in the cloud to support low-latency applications. The cloud service is providing SSDs capable of delivering in excess of 120,000 read input/output operations per second(IOps)and ...
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