Why Does Microsoft Want a Piece of Dell?
There’s a new dynamic to the speculation about Dell’s bid to buy back stock and become a private entry, with reports emerging yesterday that Microsoft is also taking part in the discussions and may be…
Dell Says BYOD is Still Relevant, Nevermind Dell Can’t Conquer the Trend
According to a recent study commissioned by Dell Quest, allowing workers to bring their mobile devices to work improves productivity and customer response times. The full report by Vanson Bourne is available here. About…
Did Yahoo ‘Snap Up’ Snip.It Just To Get Its Hands On Ramy Adeeb?
Yahoo is moving forward with CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy of acquiring high value startups with talented teams, announcing that it’s snapped up the content discovery and sharing website Snip.it for a price thought to…
Hortonworks Unveils Desktop Version of Hadoop, Expedites Automation
Hortonworks launched a new trial version of Hadoop that enables users to run the analytics engine on a desktop with minimal setup. It’s infinitely more accessible than downloading and deploying the Apache versions of…
Misconceptions about NoSQL
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By Dwight Merriman, CEO and co-founder of 10gen We’re several years into the rise of NoSQL, and yet common misconceptions persist about the movement. As spotlighted by 451 Research, NoSQL job demand is booming,…
Multi-Petabyte Databases Demand Hyperscale Distributed Technologies
Multi-petabyte and exabyte sized databases, until now largely the province of large government agencies and cloud/social media service providers like Facebook and Shutterfly, are quickly coming to large and even medium-sized companies, Russ Kennedy,…
Valve Launches Steam Guides
By Isha Suri
Valve, the entertainment software company, and the creator of some of the world’s most award-winning games, has officially launched a Guides tab in its community hub, allowing players to get some much needed hints,…
‘Anonymous’ Hacks Australian University’s Email, Protests Bulk iPad Buy
By Isha Suri
Protesting the bulk purchase of iPad devices by the University of Western Sydney, the Anonymous hacktivist group has hacked the Oz University’s e-mail server. A hacker or hackers, signing their work with ‘Anonymous’ has used…
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 22, 2013
Gartner Rates Dell Quest Among User Admin Leaders Dell Quest Software’s One Identity Manager is positioned in the Leaders’ quadrant in the “2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning”. The report, issued on December…
Top 5 Reasons to Get Your Graph On
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The NOSQL world is crowded with data stores that offer variations on key-value storage. These so-called aggregate-oriented# stores often have beneficial operational characteristics when compared to relational databases but little modeling expressiveness. Yet there’s…