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Swedish Online Music Streaming Service Spotify Is to Work with Hortonworks
Sep 17, 2013Swedish online music streaming service Spotify is to work with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks as it looks to further personalise its services and improve its analytics. An early adopter of the Apache Hadoop data storage and processing ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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UNIX Now Finds Itself in a Slow,Inexorable Decline
Aug 21, 2013Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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Oracle's Long-Awaited 12c Database Has Apparently Received a Firm Launch Date
Jun 27, 2013Oracle's long-awaited 12c database has apparently received a firm launch date,with a company executive stating that it will be released"within the next two weeks." In addition,Oracle plans to release an update to its Fusion Middleware ...
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Oracle's 4Q Revenue Was Flat at $10.9 Billion But Profits Rose 10% $3.8 Billion
Jun 20, 2013Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue was flat at $10.9 billion, while profits rose 10% $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions and "engineered systems" like Exadata. But ...
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SAP Is Buying Privately Held Hybris in a Bid to Build out an E-Commerce Software
Jun 5, 2013SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devices and touch points." Terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday, were not ...
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Sikka Has Been a Champion of SAP's HANA in-Memory Database Platform
May 29, 2013SAP abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka has ...
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SAP Has Abruptly Reorganised Its Development Strategy
May 28, 2013SAP has abruptly reorganised its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka ...
Tags: advisor, Ariba, Bill McDermott, Bob Calderoni, cloud, CNME
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IBM Is Pitching Its SmartCloud IaaS for Use in Data Reporting and Analysis
May 28, 2013Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
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SAP Has Oriented The Line-of-Business Applications Into Four Thematic Areas
May 17, 2013Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to ...
Tags: SAP, Cloud Apps, Computer Products
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SAP Is Hoping to Win Points with Professional Sports Teams
May 16, 2013SAP is hoping to win points with professional sports teams by showing how its HANA in-memory database, analytics, mobile software and other technologies can help them make fans happier, find better players and improve their operations. ...
Tags: SAP, Software Scores, Software
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SAP Knows Its Number-One Focus Is The HANA in-Memory Database and Development Platform
May 16, 2013Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in ...
Tags: SAP, HANA Platform, Ecosystem
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SAP Is Set to Offer Customers The Option of Running Applications on a Cloud-Based Vesion
May 9, 2013SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology. The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, which was announced Tuesday, will be offered by SAP ...
Tags: SAP, HANA, Computer Products
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SAP Has Spent The Past Year Wooing Entrepreneurs Around The World
Apr 11, 2013SAP has spent the past year wooing entrepreneurs around the world in hopes they'll be entranced enough by its much-hyped HANA in-memory database to build products and even entire companies around the technology. On Friday, SAP brought the ...
Tags: SAP, commercial product
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Oracle to Release a Series of Applications That Take Advantage of in-Memory Computing
Apr 9, 2013Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between itself and SAP. While Oracle announced more than a dozen in-memory applications on ...
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SAP's HANA Becomes The Centrepiece of Software Vendor's Technology Strategy
Mar 12, 2013It’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 ...
Tags: SAP, HANA in-memory database, technology strategy, AWS