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As part of its program to develop a completely integrated and open software stack, Oracle (news, site ) has just announced the release of new Virtual Machine (VM) templates for three of it s principal business applications.
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Microsoft’s SMB survey shows spending is definitely in the air but while it looks like they will be investing in technology, many are looking for cost efficiencies through IT department cuts. Iron Mountain gives SMBs litigation support.
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This year’s COLLABORATE 10 conference is the first since Oracle (news, site) acquired Sun. So it's the first time that users of both can get together officially and compare notes. Speaking about the Sun deal, Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) president Ian Abramson says the result will
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While there has been anecdotal evidence that SMBs are beginning to spend on IT again, this week a number of reports show that it’s actually happening, although not in the areas you might expect.
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A story with an apparently broken embargo -- that moved us to revisit the science of media embargoes -- brought the news that Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL (which recently ended up in hands of Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition) became the CEO of open source
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It’s always a given that security is going to be a major concern for any vendor, particularly a really big one like EMC (news, site ) who have just announced that they have extended the security solutions and services of their security division RSA.
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According to recent research from Gartner (news, site), document management will be one of the top 10 technology priorities for CIOs in 2010. Reminiscent of 2009 top 10 strategic technologies, virtualization and cloud computing challenges will also keep CIOs on their toes this year.
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Ready for some more predictions? Gartner (news, site) got them. Looking at 2010 and beyond, the analysts put together a mighty list of trends and events that will shake the world of information technology. Just as last year, these predictions were selected from across Gartner’s research
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IBM (news, site) has been braving the strong winds of the analytics industry lately, trying to propose a better way of managing unstructured and structured content in combination with analytics used for business intelligence and more insight into web content.
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At the end of August, Microsoft released a preview of their Azure SQL database, a database rival to Amazon's Simple DB. But while Simple DB is non-relational and designed for fast querying, the Azure SQL would support relational queries.
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When it came time to find an Executive Chairman for up-and-coming cloud computing vendor rPath, founder and CTO Erik Troan only had to look back in time -- and his LinkedIn connections -- to find the right candidate.
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At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analysts presented their insights into the top 10 technologies and trends to rule the world in 2009.
With emphasis on virtualization, organizations should also pay close attention to cloud computing, green IT, Business Intelligence (BI) and social software -- among other strategic trends.
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Nexsan, a storage solutions provider, has announced Assureon 6.0, the latest version of an energy-efficient and long-term storage solution.
This is the first green archive-as-a-service solution for the storage industry, and it will allow users to easily manage secure and efficient archives.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he wants more powerful software for the Web.
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