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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.




