Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
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IBM has shown interest in acquiring the vital enterprise services business of struggling smartphone maker Research in Motion, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday. The report cites two unnamed sources, including one person who said ...
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A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
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IBM and Oracle shared more details this week about new RISC chips they're building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain more ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
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Stonefield Software Inc. is pleased to announce today that it has become a Oracle Gold partner. By becoming an Oracle Gold Partner, Stonefield Software will further empower our award winning Stonefield Query SDK reporting software and ...
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Google is yielding control of its GWT (Google Web Toolkit) for browser application development to a multiparty steering committee, a Google official said on Friday. The company also introduced a release candidate of GWT 2.5, featuring ...
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
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Software-defined networking won't turn enterprise switches into an inexpensive commodity until three to five years from now, according to Arpit Joshipura, the former Force10 Networks executive who now manages Dell's networking products. ...
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IBM and its partner, Hands-on Systems have deployed the Flex System for retailer, Harris Farm Markets. The system will help the retailer reduce IT costs and complexity as well as support its business growth. The IBM Flex System ...
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Mark Large, GOSH IT director, said: "Our clinicians told us that they want to use Apple technology, so it is something we are embracing, and have created one of the best infrastructures in the world to make it happen." "What is ...
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Microsoft SharePoint technology is increasingly used as a business collaboration platform on-premise or in the cloud, to connect and empower people. SharePoint additionally cuts costs with a unified infrastructure. Organizations can rapidly ...
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The Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully moved its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system, and all the work was done in-house. The decision to keep the work in-house prompted much debate and skepticism, but there was no ...
EMC Monday unveiled a high-capacity mainframe disk archive based on its flagship VMAX Symmetrix storage array. The new DLm8000 Disk Library follows three earlier versions of "disk libraries" or disk archive arrays - the DLm1000, DLm2000 ...
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