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Cisco to acquire real-time network analytics firm Truviso

Cisco plans to acquire network analytics company Truviso for an undisclosed amount, in an effort to help users hone operational efficiencies.
Oracle to go after SAP customers with new BI and analytics strategy

Oracle co-President Mark Hurd is scheduled to reveal new details about the vendor's BI (business intelligence) and analytics strategy, including new applications aimed at SAP customers, during an event on 4 April.
Google brings Big Data analysis to the cloud with BigQuery

Google is building a Big Data service called BigQuery that will allow for analysing large amounts of data in the cloud rather than in-house.
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.
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.
Anonymous hackers post Apple user information online

A list of 27 user names and encrypted passwords apparently for an Apple website was posted to the Internet over the weekend along with a warning from hacker group Anonymous that the Cupertino-based computer maker could be a target of its attacks.
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.
Microsoft Office app analyses user schedules

A free new PowerPivot App looks at how you're spending your time
Kognitio promises fast data analysis with Pablo virtual cubes

Kognitio has launched a virtual cube database system, called Pablo, which is aimed at tackling businesses? struggles around managing physical datasets.

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What does the new Apple iPad 3 mean for business users?

Apple's new iPad arrived Friday and will almost certainly start showing up in the workplace this week. While this month's buzz has been mainly focused on Apple's new tablet, its release was just one of several moves the company has made in the last two weeks. Consider that before the iPad even hit store shelves, Apple had pushed out iOS 5.1; unveiled an updated version of the iWork suite; rolled out a slick iOS version of iPhoto; and released the new Apple Configurator tool for managing various iOS devices in various business and education settings.
Designing and building the infrastructure for the next generation IT

Enterprises and their customers increasingly expect business services to be available and responsive at any time, requiring the underlying technology infrastructure to be ?always on- always available?. The themes currently driving technology trends for 2012 share this common goal of highly available and pervasive computing.
Apple TV is an iPod Touch by any other name

The inside of the new Apple TV likely resembles the interior of the iPod Touch, a move that allowed Apple to dramatically cut costs, a Canadian research company said today. What's unknown, said Jeffrey Brown, who heads the business intelligence group at Ottawa-based UBM TechInsights, is whether the new model has the memory necessary to store downloaded applications and Bluetooth connectivity that could be used by game controllers.
What's new in SharePoint Server 2010

Project management consultants Campana & Schott describe their experience
Is open source virtualisation getting any love?

Virtualisation is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open source virtualisation twice as much of a good thing?
Oracle ignores data migration worries claims rival

EntepriseDB takes the opportunity provided by the recent release of 11G to have a dig at Oracle's data migration, its licensing costs, and its green claims about 11G.
Data warehousing utopia

Dataupia has a new data warehousing appliance which scales by matching processing and storage power on a blade basis
Users speed feeds to data warehouses

Near-continuous replication of transactional data by GoldenGate.
Accounting scandals: time for better IT

Corporate accounting scandals have become commonplace. It is time for IT to help turn the tide.
BPM sounds dull but watch your backs

Behind the faltering ERP market lies a potential revolution in IT software buying trends, with "business process management" at the forefront.

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