Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data tables. "Joining terabyte-sized tables has traditionally been a challenging task for data ...
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Heat 11 has successfully delivered a major order for the plastics industry. For a heating system of a roughly 100 meters long processing facility for web-shaped plastic products a total of 36 package units were dispatched to the ...
In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the scalability and speed of NoSQL. The data store, ...
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OCZ Technology is offering beta testers the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator represents a new direction. Instead ...
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Bit9 said a common Web application vulnerability was responsible for allowing hackers to ironically use the security vendor's systems as a launch pad for attacks on other organizations. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company sells a ...
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eSight Energy releases a minimum of two new software versions per year and is committed to continuously enhancing eSight Energy Management Software's functionality to meet legislative requirements and Market standards. Due for release this ...
Computerworld - After offering solid-state drives (SSDs) in its storage arrays over the past three years, NetApp said it will begin selling an all-SSD array this year and what it called a "purpose-built" flash storage architecture in 2014. ...
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Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. Amazon Redshift was first announced as a limited preview at the AWS ...
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Infoworld - Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end to a massive array of applications, from network monitoring frameworks to Facebook. To those uninitiated in how databases work, setting up MySQL for ...
PTC announced PTC Windchill PDM EssentialsTM, a product data management (PDM) solution for the small business market. The new offering, which will be sold exclusively through PTC's channel partners worldwide, takes PTC's enterprise-class, ...
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Open-source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft has launched what it claims is the first fully featured pay-by-the-hour BI service in the cloud. The ability to offer periodic subscriptions in this way is down to the cloud platform on ...
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The Mega file-sharing service has launched a vulnerability reward program that will pay up to 10,000 euros (around $13,600) for every serious security flaw found in the platform and reported responsibly. The rules of the program were laid ...
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IDG News Service - Users of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS. Amazon's Simple Notification Service (SNS) will give administrators a ...
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IDG News Service - With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. "We're in constant dialogue with our customers and users, ...
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