WebLinc, a technology provider of ecommerce platforms for online retailers, raised $6 million Series A financing from NYSE-listed Safeguard Scientifics, Inc in a bid to fuel an aggressive growth trajectory. During the second quarter of ...
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The demand for big data experts in large companies is expected to more than double by 2017 to 69,000, according to a study sponsored by data analytics specialists SAS. In 2013, there were 31,000 people employed as big data specialists at ...
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A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
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If the community edition of the JBoss enterprise Java application server could no longer be called JBoss,what other name would you choose?JOpen?JWorker?JFree?JMinion?JBoss community users get to decide. Red Hat is planning to change the ...
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There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
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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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MongoDB is a better big data solution for scaling large amounts of information than Microsoft SQL, Haitham Rowley, group IT director for video games publisher Square Enix has told Computing. Square Enix collects and analyses data from ...
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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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After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat?OpenShift Online?platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, charging customers and offering professional commercial support. Over a million applications?have been ...
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IBM and 10gen have announced that they joining forces to create a new open standard that will allow developers of web and mobile apps to access data held in NoSQL databases, such as 10gen's MongoDB, and also IBM's enterprise database DB2. ...
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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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Intel has released its own Apache Hadoop distribution as the firm looks to extend its reach in the big data market. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework that specialises in running data applications on large hardware clusters. ...
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Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra-scalable and interoperable Java and PHP hosting platform for cloud applications, today announced the launch of its free public beta in Sweden through Elastx, a Stockholm-based hosting provider. ...
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Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra scalable and interoperable cloud hosting platform for Java, today announced the launch of its highly anticipated PHP hosting service. Jelastic's PHP Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) runs applications ...
According to a new report from career site Dice, average salaries for technology professionals climbed by 5.3% to $85,619 last year, up from $81,327 in 2011, marking the largest salary jump in more than a decade. Entry level talent (two ...
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