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Tag: virtualization (page 6)
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Understanding Hadoop from a Business Perspective
In spite of the claims by NOSQL proponents, the Information Week’s 2010 State of Database Technology study says 44% of technology leaders have never heard of NOSQL databases like Hadoop.
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The Impact of Virtualization on Data Protection Strategies
Virtualization has gone mainstream and so have the problems it brings. In a survey conducted by Veeam, a data management and protection firm, 500 organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France were surveyed.
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Is Oracle Really Going After EMC?
It’s said that where there's smoke there's fire. So let’s try and read the smoke signals from Wall Street over the past two days that suggest Oracle (news, site) is in the market to buy EMC (news, site ).
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Integrate your ERP, CRM and SCM Data Into a Single Virtual View
Coca-Cola promised that one day we’d live in perfect harmony, but what about our data? Thankfully, Queplix has developed a solution designed to harmonize ERP, CRM and SCM data across a singe view. With Queplix’s Virtual Data Manager customer, product and financial data can be consistently viewed so that vital
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SMB Tech Roll-up: Microsoft Offers Free SMB Security, Google Adds Records Management to Apps
Security is again on the radar with Microsoft offering micro-enterprises free copies of its Security Essentials solution, while Google says it is introducing compliant records management to Apps through software start-up RecMan. Meanwhile, research from Spiceworks shows SMB spending is on the rise. Microsoft Offers Micro-Enterprise Security Microsoft (news
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Oracle Introduces Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Outlines Cloud Strategy #oow10
If anyone was still in doubt as to what Larry Ellison thinks of the cloud, or what Oracle (news, site) is going to do with Sun Microsystems, the launch on Sunday of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud should put an end to all the speculation.
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GRC Roll-up: EMC to Offer VM Compliance, Guidance Brings e-Discovery in-House
After all the hoopla around the ILTA conference in Las Vegas last week seems things have quieted down a bit GRC-wise.
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IBM Secures Enterprise Assets After BigFix Acquisition
It’s been a busy summer for mergers and acquisitions, and looks set to continue. In the case of IBM (news, site ) who reportedly paid US$ 400 million for security firm BigFix and closed the deal on July 20, they have already used the company to produce
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Is Dell Preparing to Counter HP's Bid for 3Par?
The battle to secure storage software provider 3Par (news, site) has a way to run yet. There are now rumors circulating that Dell (news, site ) is getting ready to come back with a sweetner to the US$ 1.
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Dell Boosts Its Storage Portfolio with the 3Par Buy
More acquisition news today. This time, from Dell (news, site ) that has just announced an intention to buy data storage vendor 3Par for US$ 1.15 billion in a deal that, the buyer says, will enable it to cut enterprise data management costs by up to 50%.
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Kapow Ends FY2010 with 67% Year-over-Year Growth
If you have ever done a content migration, or dabbled into a web data extraction project, Kapow Technologies (news, site ) might be a familiar name. If you're a Kapow customer, you probably have contributed a penny or two to their FY2010 results.
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Oracle Releases BI 11g, Creates Single Business Intelligence Environment
The London launch of Oracle’s (news, site) 11g Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition this week is the culmination of three years work to pull together all its business intelligence tools and build on the technologies it acquired with the Siebel and Hyperion acquisitions.
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GRC Roll-up: IBM Builds Security Into Application Design, Smartphone Users To Get MAD
In a week that has seen a number of new releases on the GRC front, IBM has decided that the best way to deal with security is to build it into applications at the blueprint stage.
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SMB Tech Roll-up: Microsoft and HP Upgrade SMB Offerings, SaaS CRM Has Pulling Power
The last week has seen a lot of jostling for position in the SMB market with Microsoft targeting it with upgraded Dynamics and HP upgrading its partner channels. SaaS adoption is still an issue, while hosted CRM and ERP are the principal services SMBs are looking for.
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