French government agencies could become more active participants in free software projects, under an action plan sent by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in a letter to ministers, while software giants Microsoft and Oracle might lose out as ...
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In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more sophisticated ways to extract and transform data. ...
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With its popularity growing, Apache's Cassandra database for high-volume, real-time data management will be fitted with technical and query language improvements in the fall. The open source NoSQL database, which reached the 1.0 release ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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Redis, an open source in-memory data store maintained by VMware, has been upgraded to be more stabile and make more judicious use of memory, two traits that should make it more appealing for enterprise deployments. “Redis 2.6 is ...
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Although last week’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics showed better-than-expected results, the IT industry, was a big disappointment. After sustained growth – including 36,300 jobs added in July and August ...
Tags: employment, Foote Partners, IT, IT jobs, Labour
Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
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The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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Running app Runtastic is using Compuware Dynatrace software from Compuware to ensure the software performs properly. The cloud-hosted mobile application supports over 1,000 devices.It provides sports data such as elapsed ...
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Enterprises should ask a lot of questions when a vendor touts its business intelligence(BI)products as being fully integrated with Hadoop. The hype around Hadoop has pushed many BI vendors to proclaim their support for big data technology ...
Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
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Microsoft will support Ubuntu and OpenSuse virtual machines on the latest version of its Azure cloud service. In a massive departure from its previous stance,the company appears to be supporting open source tools and the Linux operating ...
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