Category: Technology
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Wipro Building Global Utility Computing Platform for Enterprise Clients
Was about time the global outsourcers got serious about diversifying into IaaS and PaaS. “Last year we began offering multi-tenant, virtual server hosting to our existing clients as part of large, integrated infrastructure management engagements. Clients have quickly adopted the service, and today, 15% of the servers hosted in Wipro’s data centers are delivered in…
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The Hadoop Ecosystem, Visualized in Datameer
The Hadoop Ecosystem, Visualized in Datameer: It’s all about the Datameer guys showing off their visualization tools. Well done!
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Designing Database Systems for Failure
Inspired by Amazon’s recent downtime: As relates to disaster recovery of databases, public cloud customers need three things: Safe Data Guarantees: To have live, fully up to date and fully consistent copies of all your databases in a location of your own choice. That might be your corporate datacenter, a portable USB drive or an…
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VMware buys DynamicOps to manage Xen, AWS
This just in, funny how this is just as much about VMware as my last post before the break… Deals of the term were undisclosed, although sources tell me the sale price was between $100 million and $150 million, and probably closer to the top half of that range. DynamicOps had raised $16.3 million in…
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Now it’s VMware’s turn: Meet Spring Hadoop
Now it’s VMware’s turn: Meet Spring Hadoop. MapReduce in Spring, MapReduce in Excel… exciting times!
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Microsoft’s Hadoop play is shaping up, and it includes Excel
Microsoft’s Hadoop play is shaping up, and it includes Excel. Curious to see how the marriage of Excel and Hadoop is going to work out.
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Brain Hacking: Scientists Extract Personal Secrets With Commercial Hardware
Brain Hacking: Scientists Extract Personal Secrets With Commercial Hardware: Chalk this up to super-creepy: scientists have discovered a way to mind-read personal secrets, such as bank PIN numbers and personal associations, using a cheap headset. Scary!
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HP yokes Autonomy, Vertica together for big data push
As expected: HP yokes Autonomy, Vertica together for big data push
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Oracle buying WebOS from HP to power Exadata
Oracle buying WebOS from HP to power Exadata? Well not exactly, but still interesting rumour – what would Oracle do with WebOS?
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SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available!
SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available! A few customers requested updates in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP3 are: Enhanced upgrade experience from previous versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008 SP3. In addition, we have increased the performance & reliability of the setup experience. In SQL Server Integration Services logs will now show…
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