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  • IBM introduce preconfigured analytics servers

    IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.

  • EMC adds purpose built Hadoop appliance to range

    Among a flurry of announcements today at its annual user conference, EMC announced it will be distributing it's a free version of Apachee Hadoop and a licensed version for enterprises as well as a pre-configured appliance for big data analytics tasks.

  • Tibco brings BI to the cloud

    Tibco has brought its BI Silver Spotfire service to the cloud.

  • Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 launched

    Microsoft has launched the newest versions of its Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint software packages, with a strong focus on the cloud.

  • Gartner backs open source BI tools

    Deployments of open source business intelligence software are doubling every year because the tools are deemed "good enough" for routine applications, a Gartner report says.

  • IBM's Cognos Express focuses on mid-sized businesses

    IBM is releasing a slimmed-down version of its Cognos business intelligence software aimed at midsized companies that need more insight into their business than a spreadsheet can provide, but not the complexity of an enterprise-level product.

  • IBM to buy BI software partner

    IBM is to buy analytics software specialist SPSS just a month after IBM announced plans to embed SPSS technology in its BI and performance management tools.

  • Compellent ships speedy disks in SAN

    Compellent Technologies has announced that solid state disks (SSDs) are now available in its Storage Center storage area network (SAN) products. This allows the system to automatically store 'active' data on the pricey SDDs, whilst 'inactive' data can be stored on cheaper storage.

  • MicroStrategy adds multisource engine to BI suite

    MicroStrategy has released the latest version of its business intelligence software suite, MicroStrategy 9, and is claiming that it is more flexible and powerful than previous editions.

  • Oracle enters hardware market for first time

    Oracle is set to take the plunge into the hardware market. CEO Larry Ellison has announced tow high-end servers, developed in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard that have been designed to tackle data warehousing applications.

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  • Top data visualisation and management tools

    You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualisation useful, whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text or to try to explain complex issues to a non-technical audience.

  • TiVo chooses virtualisation for agile provisioning

    TiVo found a way to create a more agile provisioning method and offer developers cloned databases with which they could test code without worrying about blowing up their joint test environment.

  • Internal clouds: More than virtualising servers

    Less than two percent of enterprises have deployed internal cloud computing networks, and vendors are just beginning to provide the proper tools necessary to build them.

  • Linux starts to take a more central IT role

    IT managers are now running key applications and databases on Linux-based systems as open-source software penetrates deeper into corporates.





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