The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customise existing ones, according to ...
Tags: analysts, Gartner, PaaS, platform, Service, cloud service
Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to$9.1 billion for the second quarter,but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness. Hardware systems product ...
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Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application development tool optimised to run in the cloud, marking the company’s foray into the PaaS market. Today, after running it in beta for 18 months, Red Hat ...
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New research-based index unveils the most exhaustive review of BI software vendors for business and IT. Ventana Research has released its 2012 Value Index for Business Intelligence (BI), the latest in a new category of quantified, ...
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SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, claiming that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. “We recently spent time talking with ...
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Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analysing data from smart meters used by energy utilities. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, weren’t disclosed. Smart meters ...
Tags: Oracle, DataRaker, data analysis, DataRaker technology
Mindsharp,a SharePoint education company,is engaging other technology companies with the introduction of the new Partner and Reseller program.This new program will help extend the reach of an organization,increase revenues,and strengthen ...
UTC RETAIL,a leading provider of in-store solutions,including software,hardware and professional services,announced today the results of the 2012 RIS News Software Leader Board listing UTC RETAIL as a top 20 overall software provider. In ...
Editor's Note: The following column by Chuck Fuerst, director of product strategy at HighJump Software, is part of Modern's Other Voices column. The series, published on Wednesdays, features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, ...
The number of global IT services deals with a cloud computing element have tripled since 2010,according to research from IT outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group(ISG). ISG used its TPI index to analyse IT outsourcing deals ...
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Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
IBM,Good Technology and several other mobile device and app management software vendors today separately announced a variety of new or enhanced products. The announcements primarily focus on providing tools and services to help IT shops ...
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IDG News Service - There's been a lot of talk from about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way. Red ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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