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Google Is Making Its IaaS GCE Available as a Full-Fledged Commercial Service
Dec 4, 2013After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level ...
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Amazon Web Services This Week Released Its New Cloud-based Data Analytics Tool Kinesis
Nov 18, 2013Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour. Kinesis is an application that sits in the cloud and receives data ...
Tags: Analytics Tool, data Analytics, Amazon, software
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Demand for Big Data Experts in Large Companies Is Expected to More Than Double by 2017
Nov 12, 2013The 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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How Companies Are Using The Open Source Hadoop Big Data Analytics Systems
Nov 5, 2013A 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, ...
Tags: Hadoop, Big Data Analytics
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IBM Kicked off Its Iod 2013 Conference in Las Vegas
Nov 5, 2013IBM kicked off its IOD 2013 conference in Las Vegas today by launching several new big data analytics-based products. The company announced an expansion to its BLU Acceleration offering, with new software that it says "will enable clients ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, IBM
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HSCIC Has Selected It Services and Solutions Provider Mastek to Develop an Identity
Oct 23, 2013The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of the NHS Spine re-procurement and ...
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The NHS Has Selected US Developer Basho's Open Source Database Riak
Oct 12, 2013The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
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What Other Name Would You Choose
Oct 1, 2013If 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 ...
Tags: Red Hat, Linux, middleware, JBoss
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Rovio Has Deployed Riak to Aid Scalability and Management of Data Volumes
Sep 11, 2013Rovio, 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, webgame
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There's a "Lump in The Learning Curve" for Some Organisations
Aug 6, 2013There'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 ...
Tags: Met Office, learning curve
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MongoDB Is a Better Big Data Solution for Scaling Large Amounts of Information
Jul 8, 2013MongoDB 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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The Company's Servers Must Assemble Data for Users Better Visits The Social Networking
Jun 27, 2013Each 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 ...
Tags: Facebook, social networking, IDG, TAO API
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Rackspace Is Now Offering Hosted Versions of The MongoDB Data Store
Jun 21, 2013Rackspace 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 ...
Tags: Rackspace, MongoDB Service, Data Store
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IBM and 10gen Have Announced to Create a New Open Standard
Jun 8, 2013IBM 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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The Creator of MySQL Wants to See The Now-Oracle-Owned Product Disappear
May 30, 2013The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
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