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  • Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

    A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

  • Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

    Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

  • Interop 2013: Big data is a big but young market

    A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.

  • Ericsson uses Jaspersoft for Big Data analytics on MongoDB

    Ericsson has improved its Ericsson Multiscreen TV Solution, which allows TV service providers to easily monitor and manage delivery of content to virtually any type of consumer entertainment device from a central location, with the help of open source technology.

  • Nine in 10 tech start-ups plan to recruit this year: report

    The jobs market may be grim, but new research has highlighted that technology start-up businesses have ambitious hiring plans for the next year.

  • Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market

    Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance.

  • Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

    Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

  • Infosec 2013: cyber security sector failing to attract new talent

    The cyber security sector in the UK is failing to attract young people into the industry ? especially women ? according to research released this week by e-skills UK.

  • IBM beefs DevOps delivery with UrbanCode buy

    Sensing a need among its customers for faster software development, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a provider of tools suited for the emerging practice of rapid software development called devops.

  • Report: IT jobs still in high demand, but skills in short supply

    The Recruitment and Employment Confederation?s (REC) latest jobs report indicates that although IT & Computing permanent jobs are still experiencing strong demand when compared to other sectors, there is troubling skills shortage in the market.

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  • 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

    Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn?t pay

  • HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

    During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop.

  • The impact of the 'Internet of Things' on corporate IT

    The Internet of Things (IoT) is a broad concept plotting to make vast amounts of the physical world interactive, IP-enabled, and ?smart?, according to Forrester Research analyst Andrew Rose.

  • Dell software chief: why hardware is no longer enough

    Dell launched its software group at the beginning of 2012, and since then the company has been defining a strategy for the group and populating it through acquisitions ? the biggest and most recent of which was Quest.

  • Your mobile strategy will fail without effective application rationalisation

    Mobility in the enterprise, whether it be through, bring your own device (BYOD) strategy, mobile business intelligence (BI), internal application development, or pushing out applications to customers, has been this year?s hot topic for CIOs and senior IT managers.

  • Big Data a big opportunity to discover new revenue streams

    With alarming regularity supposed experts and commentators predict the demise of the chief information officer (CIO) role. Yet if they were to listen to the leading CIOs present at a recent round table dinner hosted with Intel, these commentators would realise just how far off the mark they really are. The evening's topic was Big Data, and the Business IT Hub could summarise the thoughts shared in just two words - big opportunity.

  • HANA is nothing short of dazzling, says SAP, which early customers confirm

    Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling.

  • What big data can learn from total football: The 451 Group

    There is no such thing as big data, according to Matt Aslett, leading analyst for The 451 Group. Data is not getting bigger, there is simply more of it.

  • iPhone 5 shows optimum enterprise smartphone not yet been developed

    The mobile device market has always been a vibrant place, but up to now has been the playground of a number of very successful specialists. Successively, the market has been dominated by the likes of Nokia, Motorola, RIM and Palm. These hardware specialists had their day and sank back, some disappearing altogether from the market.

  • Big Data causing big changes, analysts predict

    The unprecedented growth in the volumes and complexity of business information is ushering in the era of ?Big Data?. The phenomenon is not a "thing" but instead a strategic approach that crosses many IT borders and so poses one of the biggest challenges currently facing CIOs from companies of all sizes.

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