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IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs.
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Tibco welcomes third-party online meeting products into its Tibbr ESN suite
Tibco has made it possible to plan, manage and launch third-party web meeting and video chat services from its Tibbr enterprise social networking (ESN) suite.
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Fujitsu 'world's thinnest' laptop has 11-hour battery, three times Full HD
Fujitsu will this month launch a super-thin Ultrabook, built on Intel's latest Haswell processors, with an 11-hour battery life and a screen with nearly three times HD resolution.
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Acer to launch 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, unveils 5.7-inch smartphone
Windows 8 is joining the 8-inch tablet bandwagon with a new device from Acer that will launch later this month and come with a price tag between US$400 and $500.
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SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.
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Teradata takes on SAP's HANA with ?intelligent' in-memory
Teradata has stepped into the in-memory database market to take on the likes of SAP's HANA with a solution that aims to reduce the cost of placing data in RAM by ?intelligently' identifying the most used data.
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Durham University upgrades supercomputer for cosmology research
A high performance server cluster is enabling researchers at Durham University to better understand the universe, by allowing them to model phenomena ranging from solar flares to the formation of galaxies.
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SAP launches free online training for HANA, other new technologies
SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program available at no charge.
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Tibco sharpens mobile apps for its Tibbr enterprise social software
Tibco is revamping and extending the mobile access to its Tibbr enterprise social networking software, adding support for more smartphones and tablets, and upgrading its mobile user interfaces and functionality.
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Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow
The team in charge of maintaining and developing Fuduntu, a Linux-based operating system designed as a hybrid of Fedora and Ubuntu, voted Sunday to close down the project.
