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Java on the mainframe?
Yep, and BMC will manage it
IBM mainframes are not generally considered a hotbed of activity for the Java programming language, but you might be surprised. BMC Software Inc. recently surveyed 1,200 mainframe users and found that 93 percent said their Java usage on big iron is growing, with 46 percent saying it’s increasing at least 10 percent a year. That’s ...
OpsDataStore enhances real-time monitoring system
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its namesake IT service management product with a new version that provides real-time troubleshooting, performance and capacity analytics and customized dashboards. The company pitches its product as providing IT operational information in whatever business intelligence tool the customer chooses to use. It replaces a patchwork of more than a dozen monitoring tools ...
Datto says it lets SMBs keep things in synch for less
Flush with cash from a $75 million funding round last November, backup and recovery service provider Datto Inc. is taking on the heavy hitters in cloud file storage and synchronization with an offering aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that’s priced at $10 per terabyte per month for an unlimited number of users in ...
Slow-loading software seen as $7.5B problem
Nimble Storage Inc. is making a pretty good case for moving from disks to flash storage with a new survey that reveals that business users lose about 10 percent of their day just waiting for programs to load. The ‘Mind the Gap’ report, which Nimble commissioned Oxford Economics Ltd. to produce, found that delays in propagating ...
Survey sees rapid growth in enterprise cloud adoption
A new survey of IT professionals indicates that cloud computing is growing faster in large organizations than in small ones. Use of public clouds at large companies will grow 52 percent annually over the next two years, while private cloud use will surge 31 percent per year during that same time, according an online survey ...
GNU founder Stallman: ‘Open source is not free software’
Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for open source software. There’s also a long suggested reading list of articles and FAQs on the GNU.org website he founded that carefully lay ...
Qubole releases Kafka ingestion, conversion service to open source
Less than three weeks after open-sourcing its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer, big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. is at it again. Coincident with Kafka Summit taking place in San Francisco this week, Qubole said it’s releasing its StreamX ingestion service under an Apache open source license. StreamX is used to efficiently and reliably capture large scale, ...
Oracle blitzes sales and marketing pros with new cloud options
It looks like Oracle is tired of watching Salesforce.com Inc. have all the fun. The database giant is unleashing a torrent of new marketing-oriented products and services today at a quartet of customer experience-focused conferences it’s holding in Las Vegas for customer service, e-commerce, sales and marketing professionals. Collectively, the new capabilities are intended to ...
Survey finds tech professionals are a footloose bunch
Watch out San Francisco; New York is out to get you. At least that’s what it would seem from the opinions expressed by users of the anonymous tech recruiting site Woo. The startup munged through the profiles of 5,000 of its users to find out what technology professionals care about, where they want to live, ...
Microsoft narrowly misses Q3 net, but cloud business is booming
Not yet. Microsoft narrowly missed analysts estimates and earnings and all but matched revenue expectations in the fiscal third quarter, but it offered weaker-than-expected guidance for the year, knocking its shares down in immediate after-hours trading and perhaps obscuring the bigger growth story. Revenues were down about six percent over the year-earlier quarter, but not ...