CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. That’s ...
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CGG announced today that it has signed a contract with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) relating to the Seismic, Well and Production modules in the Diskos database, the National Data Repository of Norway. The scope of the contract ...
With its powerful data mining capabilities, Hadoop is bringing together people across different places and even across different generations. While Hadoop continues to grow in popularity, most reported use cases around the open-source ...
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The latest documents to be leaked via whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ have tapped the communications networks of popular internet companies. "Top secret" documents published in the ...
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Clinverse has entered into a partnership with OmniComm Systems to combine its automated payment system 'ClinPay' with the latter's electronic data capture (EDC) system. The ClinPay system automates sponsor payments to clinical vendors, ...
A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave. Marketo, which sells cloud-based marketing software, ...
Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information. Hadoop distributor MapR has integrated the LucidWorks Search into its own distribution. And Cloudera ...
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Flash storage vendor Violin Memory has acquired Gridiron Systems for an undisclosed sum and plans to use the company's application acceleration smarts with its flash arrays. Gridiron's operations units have already been integrated into ...
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eRacks Open Source Systems has integrated the latest 4TB Western Digital and Seagate drives into their NAS50 network attached file server. Users can now store up to 1.6 petabytes in a customized two rack system. The NAS50 will enable users ...
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CBR rounds up expert comments on Gartner's new prediction that Worldwide IT spending will reach EURO2.28tn this year. Evanna Kearins, director of Jaspersoft, told CBR "Even though we still find ourselves in a hugely volatile economy ...
The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising ...
While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements. Microsoft's 10 biggest buys Microsoft System ...
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With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, doing away with an Adobe Flash-based visualization engine in favor of one using HTML5 Web ...
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Entrinsik, Inc. announced today that Entrinsik's Informer self-service reporting and business intelligence software is now listed on SugarCRM's SugarExchange and can integrate directly with SugarCRM implementations. Entrinsik, Inc., ...
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Oracle on Monday gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced Sunday by CEO Larry Ellison . The key feature of 12c, which is set ...
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