The next version of enterprise Java will be fitted with capabilities for PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud computing, an Oracle official said …
The new generation of apps
The world today is at the confluence of several trends, each sufficiently disruptive in its own right to affect profoundly …
Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance
IBM’s Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyse up to 10 petabytes of data “in …
SAP to roll out new BI tools for SMBs
SAP will soon roll out Crystal Server 2011 and Business Objects Edge 4.0, a pair of new BI (business intelligence) …
Itqan’s second wave
Growing competition and increasing regional demand for its services are making it bullish to cross over When Feras Al-Jabi, General …
Mid-market CIOs focus on analytics: IBM
Implementing business analytics has risen to the top of midmarket CIOs’ to-do lists, according to a new IBM study announced …
Dubai Courts discusses MENA’s first e-notary service
Dubai Courts recently completed the MENA region’s first implementation of an e-notary system. At a conference conducted yesterday by Al-Taqnyah, …
Servers up, PCs down
Good news trickled in this week for the hardware sector, plagued by a slump in the traditional PC market, as …
Mainframe, meet cloud
Mainframes are stable, secure and under your control – perfect for anchoring a private cloud- but where’s user provisioning? Mention …
Into the vortex
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Not without the proper service level agreements (SLAs) – contracts that specify quality …
EMC’s Tucci sees hybrid cloud becoming de facto standard
As far as EMC CEO Joe Tucci is concerned, the future of his company is the hybrid cloud and big …
EPM tools still underutilised: report
Oracle released today an independent research report conducted by Dynamic Markets that surveyed 1499 managers from both public and private …
EMC delivers Hadoop for the enterprise
EMC Corporation today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software used for data-intensive …
IBM rolls out tape library for big data
IBM has announced new tape storage and enhanced archiving, deduplication offerings designed to help clients efficiently store and extract intelligence …
Teradata and Information Builders develop BI tool
Teradata and Information Builders have developed a data warehousing package that bundles the latter’s WebFOCUS BI (business intelligence) software with …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
key SaaS executive, John Wookey leaving SAP
SAP executive John Wookey, who was charged with developing a SaaS strategy for large enterprises, is leaving the vendor after …
EMC integrates Avamar and Data Domain deduplication
EMC recently introduced the first major upgrade to its Avamar deduplication backup software , which integrates with the company’s Data …
Raising the bar
The UAE-based Landmark Group is one of the largest retail and hospitality conglomerates in the Middle East and India, operating …
Java founder joins Google
Java founder James Gosling has taken a job with Google, he revealed in a blog post yesterday. “Through some odd twists in …