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Not Enough Nexus 4’s to Go Around. Is Google Ready for Hardware Sales?
As the largest web company in the world with nearly two million servers at its disposal, Google dominates search and mobile. But it seems that commerce is slightly out of the tech giant’s comfort zone, as many Android enthusiasts found out this week. The Nexus 4, arguably one of the most anticipated smartphones to date, ...
More Data Types, Tools in EnterpriseDB Manager 3.0
PostgreSQL firm EnterpriseDB is releasing a new version of Postgres Plus Advanced Server, alongside Postgres Enterprise Manager 3.0. The updated software runs better, supports more data types and make it easier for database administrators to manage their environment. Postgres Plus 9.2 does a few things better than its processors, thanks to more automation and “ninth generation ...
Lessons in Big Data Transformation from HP Discover 2012
Hewlett-Packard is holding its second annual HP Discover event in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The vendor will likely tackle many of the same subjects it addressed during the US conference in June this year, namely the shift towards big data and the ongoing challenges of IT infrastructure to support the change. Antonio Neri, senior ...
Boundary Brings Big Data to AWS With More Cloud Transparency
Boundary updated its cloud monitoring service this morning with new features that can detect technical difficulties and pending application issues using the power of analytics. The update includes a “proactive alerting” capability that tracks app behavior and sends out a warning as soon as something breaks the pattern. This supplements the second new feature that ...
New Details of Autonomy Accounting Practices Unfold After Investor Sues [VIDEO]
A Hewlett-Packard shareholder filed a lawsuit against the company for an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy, the British analytics firm it acquired last year. When the deal was first announced, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison deemed the $11 billion buyout price inflated, a statement that today seems more valid than ever. The unnamed stakeholder behind the ...
The Science of Sentiment is Big Business in the Valley
While many tech startups are attracting less VC attention than they once did, analytics firm Lattice Engines has had few problems gaining adoration from investors. The predictive analytics seller received $20 million in a Series C funding round. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the round, and existing investor Sequoia Capital chipped in as well. The San ...
Garantia Boosts AWS with Major NoSQL Upgrade
Garantia Data, is making its Redis offering available to developers who are running their apps on Heroku, AppFog and AppHarbor. Garantia is an up-and-coming NoSQL startup that offers cloud services based on Memcached and Redis, two popular in-memory key value stores. The value prop lies in the propriety backup and performance optimization features that Garantia adds to the core ...
Six Enterprise-Grade Firewalls for Your Corporate Network
Security firms are starting to address the requirements of next generation applications with their software, responding to trends such as BYOD, the cloud and big data. Modernization introduces more complexity to the corporate network, and contributes to the creation of new security vulnerabilities as a result. This also means that all business networks from small teams to ...
Who Needs Cyber Monday? eShops Rake in Over $1BN on Black Friday 2012
Black Friday was the heaviest online spending day to date, according to a new comScore report that says e-commerce sites sold 1.042 billion worth of merchandise on November 23. That’s 26-percent more than what digital consumers shed out last year, the research firm says. Customer interest spiked on Black Friday, but it only accounted for a fraction ...
Cutting Costs in the Cloud: Government Data Centers, IaaS and Cisco
Last week’s top stories include a big government shift to the cloud and Capgemini’s push to monetize this trend, in addition to a couple notable updates from Joyent and Cisco. According to a recent paper from the Office of Management and Budget, the public sector’s plans to consolidate IT infrastructure are coming along nicely. No ...