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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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Microsoft : Hybrid cloud is good for IT, end users and corporate bottom line
Microsoft's vision of corporations using hybrid cloud has benefits for IT departments and end users as well as cost savings, says Brad Anderson, Microsoft vice president of Windows Server and System Center.
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SQL Server 2014 hastens transaction processing
The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.
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Microsoft overhauls pricing for Azure Web services
Microsoft is cutting prices for many of its Azure services and revamping how it charges for many of its services, the company said during its TechEd North America 2013 keynote.
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Microsoft TechEd focuses IT pros on the 'Cloud OS'
For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS."
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TechEd: Microsoft preps system software for cloud usage
Microsoft is updating a number of its IT infrastructure and development tools to work more seamlessly with its Azure hosted cloud services, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio and SQL Server.
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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.
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HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments
Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.
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25 must-have technologies for SMBs
Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I?ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.
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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.
