Computerworld - In its 73 years, Hewlett-Packard has had bad quarters, but perhaps none like the one it posted Wednesday. Its $8.9 billion loss was huge, but there was little drama about it. HP's CEO, Meg Whitman, is already deep into a ...
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IDG News Service - While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who presented their ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle has finally answered a big question hovering over its emerging family of cloud services: What do they cost? While not giving a public price for every one of its cloud products, Oracle's website now has pricing ...
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SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT, August 23, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- "We are proud to have thrived through some of the toughest years this economy has seen," said Roland Groeneveld, CEO of Logic Supply. "Our model of combining engineering expertise ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a staggered affair that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a ...
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MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI(business intelligence)software platform,covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework,during the MicroStrategy World ...
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Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Instantis,a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company,to beef up its cloud services portfolio.The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Combining the capabilities ...
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JetBrains has thoroughly revamped its IntelliJ Idea IDE for Java, redesigning the user interface on top and installing a new, faster compiler underneath. IntelliJ 12 is also the first version of the integrated development environment to ...
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Leading global configure, price, quote (CPQ) system chosen by online IT infrastructure provider to streamline sales processes worldwide. Cameleon CPQ chosen to make the sales and customer experience better and more efficient. Cameleon ...
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Leading French mutual insurance company with more than 3 million members chooses Cameleon Software for its offers management system. Cameleon Software, announced today that the MGEN Group, the leading French mutual insurance company for ...
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IDG News Service - The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla recently described Silicon Valley as a state of mind, rather than a geographical place. If that's the case, that state of mind can increasingly be found in San Francisco. Young tech ...
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Enterprises have long lived in a world where storage meant buying in bulk,preparing for possible influxes of data and signing cheques to make even the wealthiest of businesses wince. However,with the growth of cloud computing,a shift has ...
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IDG News Service - Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. The visualization monitoring ...
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Multinational companies are spending large sums on corporate virtual private networks(VPNs)to make their business-critical applications secure and available,but still using them for more mundane tasks,such as browsing the web or checking ...
A marketplace where security researchers can sell details on software bugs said it was compromised on Tuesday due to an "embarrassing oversight" that left its web server vulnerable. ExploitHub, based in Austin, Texas, has an online ...
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