On the one side of the scale there is the UNIX philosophy “one tool does only one job but it does it very well”. On the other side of the scale there is the approach “You only need one tool that does it all.” There is no universal truth and that the best solution for ...

For far too long, organizations have confined structured data to relational databases and unstructured data to simplistic keyword-matching technologies. Exploiting information across its many forms is the next big wave to drive competitive advantage. Following the acquisition of Vertica and Autonomy, HP has brought these two into a single solution called Next Generation Information Optimization ...

One of the most important fiestas of consumption in the US takes place on Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving Day, when a tide of consumers fills the stores and malls in search of bargains. But since 2005, the Monday after Black Friday (called Cyber Monday) takes place, the most significant days of the year ...

Years ago, when the Internet was new, every visit to a website was a thrilling discovery, like a gold digger exploring the great unknown.  But things have changed with the advent of the social Web, where we have started acting less like gold diggers and more like miners prospecting in the field and looking to ...

Last week, HP announced that it had taken an accounting charge of more than five billion, after discovering accounting improperties and outright misrepresentation on the part of British software maker, Autonomy. HP had paid $11.1 billion last year to acquire the firm. This admission of failure was overwhelming, and rather expensive. In a brief statement, ...

Several companies have noticed a tremendous new, purely commercial use of popular Splunk data analysis solutions, originally intended for mass analysis of system logs. As it turned out, in-depth analysis of system logs can provide a lot of valuable information for new ideas and strategies to the main activity of the enterprise. Until now, many ...

Google’s Nexus 4 and sister devices have apparently struck a nerve. Their smartphones and tablets were sold out in merely 40 minutes after going on sale in the U.S. Google Play store.  Just one day earlier, the Nexus 4 Google Play store sold out within half an hour after its launch in the UK and ...

CollabNet, the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and UC4 Software, the market leader in IT process automation, announced a new partnership to help enterprises achieve DevOps at scale. The two companies will jointly develop a comprehensive and continuous platform to market, sell, and support enterprise-wide DevOps. The combined ...

Recently, Oracle acquired a minority stake in the company Engine Yard, developer of specialized PaaS platform such as Ruby, PHP and Node.js applications. Although this is an interesting move, the financial details of the investment have not been publicly disclosed. In a press statement, both the companies are said to “interconnect their respective PaaS offerings to accelerate ...

You probably don’t use your smartphone to make phone calls much these days.  You’re far more likely to look up nearby eateries, because you’re hungry and it’s lunch time.  Indeed, smartphones have become extremely resourceful tools in navigating our surroundings, and that very act of curiosity has empowered an entire industry to market differently to us consumers. ...