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If you just can’t bring yourself to part with that four-year-old expense report taking up space on your hard disk, or delete those photos from the office party three years ago, you’re not alone. A new study by Veritas Technologies LLC finds …
MemSQL calls its new streaming technology a ‘game-changer’
Boosting its claims of being the fastest SQL database platform for analytics, MemSQL Inc. today is announcing version 5.5 of its namesake product, incorporating new features for streaming data ingestion from external sources such as Apache Kafka. The new feature, called MemSQL …
Australian bank re-imagines customer experience thanks to NoSQL technology
Bankers view customer-facing digital technology with a mix of excitement and fear. While online banking and mobile apps have made it easier than ever for customers to do business, they also threaten to blur the brand equity that banks have worked so …
Cisco-backed study finds few firms have optimized cloud plans
Cloud adoption is accelerating, but most organizations don’t have a coherent strategy for rationalizing multiple clouds. Cisco Systems Inc. sees that as an opportunity. The networking giant today is rolling out the results of a global study it commissioned from International Data …
Pluribus expands hardware support for open switching OS
Pluribus Networks has added certified support for the Open Compute Project (OCP)-compatible 10G/40G AS5712 and AS6712 white box switches from Edgecore Networks Corp., further building out the ecosystem around its Open Netvisor Linux (ONVL) operating system. ONVL is a software-defined approach to high-speed switching that …
Runnable’s private staging servers attack development bottleneck
Runnable Inc. is boosting its lineup of developer productivity tools with a service that provides developers with their own private staging servers, thereby attacking a chronic bottleneck in the development process. Staging servers mimic the production environment in which an application operates, …
Tectonic expands line of cloud migration services
Tectonic LLC is expanding its lineup of cloud consulting, marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM) migration services with a new program that provides companies with guidance and the ability to test new technologies before moving fully to a cloud environment. “MoveIt” is a custom consulting service based upon pre-packaged …
LinkedIn seeks more CRM partners for Sales Navigator app
LinkedIn Corp. is stepping up efforts to woo vendors of customer relationship management (CRM) applications to embrace its Sales Navigator social selling tool with a new partner program that enables vendors to integrate Sales Navigator functionality directly into their applications. LinkedIn previously …
Here are details of today’s Oracle cloud announcements
Oracle’s said its new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing initiative is aimed squarely at market leader Amazon Web Services LLC, but its strategy appears to take a page from a more traditional competitor – IBM. Oracle’s announcement this morning stressed the …
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld, cloud computing will take center stage
As the 20th annual Oracle OpenWorld conference gets underway next week in San Francisco, the world’s second-largest independent software company will have a lot to show off — and a lot to prove. An estimated 60,000 customers, partners, journalists and analysts will gather …