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Oracle moves on R statistics market with Advanced Analytics

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open source statistical modelling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It has announced a new Advanced Analytics product that ties R to its database and family of software/hardware appliances.
SAP reveals HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs

SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.
Amazon cuts price of S3 cloud storage

Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3), saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said.
JasperSoft makes open source analytics suite available through Red Hat

Open source business intelligence vendor JasperSoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offerings.
Oracle reveal pricing for SAP HANA rival Exalytics

Oracle have quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, a new member in its family of specialised hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, in the same week Oracle announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance.
SAP plans reinvention for HANA

SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software architecture during an event in Boston on Tuesday.
SAP HANA makes big 'data analytics more accessible'

SAP's new high performance analytics appliance (HANA) allows IT departments to spend less time on the plumbing and more time on tasks that will provide tangible business benefits, according to Timo Elliott, Business Intelligence evangelist at SAP.
Disaster recovery spending not a top budget priority

Organisations continue to spend on business continuity and disaster recovery, but BC/DR is still not a budget top priority, according to newly-released data from Forrester Research.
Oracle buys Endeca for unstructured information search technology

Oracle said Tuesday it is buying Endeca Technologies, a move that will bolster its capabilities for searching and analyzing unstructured information.
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.

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What's next for Dell?

Dell's formation of a new software group last week could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
Five things your CEO will love about the iPhone 4S

The iconic Apple iPhone got an internal makeover but not much else this week, no radical redesign, no iPhone 5 name change. Fashion-conscious consumers weren't very happy, but iPhone-toting CEOs should be pleased with the iPhone 4S. They might even cheer Apple for leaving out a flashy upgrade.
Analytics firm Polk expands performance with Oracle Exadata machines

Oracle wants to triple the number of installed Exadata database machines to 3,000 in its current fiscal year, and it could get there by tapping existing customers like automotive analytics vendor Polk.
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.
Why IT departments need to learn to give up control

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance," said Paul Simon. It's a lesson that IT needs to learn and, more important, act on.
Semantic web tools you can use now

Vince Fioramonti had an epiphany back in 2001. He realised that valuable investment information was becoming increasingly available on the web, and that a growing number of vendors were offering software to capture and interpret that information in terms of its importance and relevance.
Cubicle wars: Best and worst office setups for tech workers

Consider the modern office layout: Open floor plan, lots of common space flooded with natural light, clusters of "pods" with low partitions (or none), all designed to encourage teamwork, boost productivity and management hopes improve the bottom line.
What will you build with app inventor for Android?

After several months in private beta, Google's App Inventor for Android is now available for general use, so any business or individual can start using the technology to create Android apps of their own.
Top business applications for iPad

So far, Apple has sold more than 3 million of its iconic iPads, making it the bestselling tablet on the market. A runaway success? Absolutely. But an out-of-the-box iPad can be a disappointment for business tasks. Its rudimentary word processor, email client, contacts directory and calendar are slim pickings, especially for those who want to use the device for work on the road.

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Mobility is exploding: Are you ready?

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