Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., an expert provider of advanced memory solutions, today unveiled its newest memory card globally – the EVO Plus 256GB microSD card. The EVO Plus 256GB offers the highest capacity for a microSD card in its ...
To encourage developers to create more mobile applications to run from its cloud services, Google is offering two new or updated frameworks to run the back-end infrastructure of mobile apps. This could free developers to concentrate on ...
“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.” So ...
Rovio, the Finnish studio behind the popular Angry Birds computer game, has deployed Riak, the open source NoSQL database from Basho Technologies, to aid scalability and management of data volumes from its games and animated Angry Birds ...
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When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...
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Easing the path for organizations to launch big data-styled services, Red Hat has coupled the 10gen MongoDB data store to its new identity management package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. "The beauty of Identity ...
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Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
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MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify for VMware's vSphere platform the ...
Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen, the company shepherding the open source ...
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EMC today announced that it is preparing the next version of its EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system. Building on the late-2012 launch of OneFS 7.0, the next version of Isilon's operating system will extend customers' ability ...
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Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers. It also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime. Red Hat hopes ...
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It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features heavily in pitches for both high-speed analytics and in support of transactional ...
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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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Yodil, a provider of business intelligence (BI), data analytics, and management reporting to the insurance industry, has signed an agreement with Nevada General Insurance, a provider of insurance software to the property and casualty ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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