To generate interest from developers, Akiban Technologies has released as open source its flagship database software, called Akiban Server. The company also released a connector for replicating a MySQL database within Akiban, and forged a ...
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SAP could be close to announcing the general availability of its foray into the PaaS (platform-as-a-service) market, NetWeaver Cloud, which will go up against rival offerings from the likes of Oracle and Salesforce.com. NetWeaver Cloud ...
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ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced Wednesday that it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014. ...
Today, Concurrency, Inc. announced it has been named to Microsoft's elite Azure Circle, a group of specialized Microsoft partner organizations that provide deployment planning services for organizations migrating to the public cloud. ...
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Oracle has released an out-of-cycle security update to patch newly identified vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited, after the security community urged the company not to wait. The move comes hot on the heels of news ...
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Rapid Protect [TM], a leading mobile solutions company based in NJ, is continuing its innovation in the mobile app field. It recently announced availability of Full Rapid Tracker application on J2ME non-smart feature phones and did major ...
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IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind. And that's good, analysts say, because the company must focus on new applications like those to ensure that its workhorse data center ...
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VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be ...
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The Department of Homeland Security has chosen to feature Code Dx, software assurance visualization technology developed by the Secure Decisions division of Applied Visions, on its Build Security In website. NORTHPORT, NY, August 05, 2012 ...
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Oracle's emphasis on cloud computing isn't going to wane anytime soon. To the contrary, on Thursday the vendor held the first in nearly 100 Cloud Builder Summit events scheduled for locations across the globe between now and December. ...
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Cloud acquisitions paying off for Ellison Software and cloud revenue gave Oracle's financial figures a boost, but hardware sales continued to decline. For the second quarter of fiscal 2013 Oracle recorded revenue of $9.1bn, an increase ...
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Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, a leading global Financial Technology Company, today announced that in the CEB TowerGroup research report, Polaris' Intellect Payments received 'Best in Class' for Payables Functionality, one of three major ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has pinned all its hopes on its upcoming mobile operating system (OS) BlackBerry 10 (BB10). Despite promises to launch by the end of the year, the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, told the world they would have to ...
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For the first time since 2009, Java founder James Gosling on Thursday morning appeared onstage at the JavaOne technical conference during a Java community keynote presentation. Gosling was a longtime Sun engineer but left Oracle shortly ...
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to various U.S. financial institutions. Dubbed Stabuniq, the Trojan program was found on mail ...