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  • IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics

    Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

    The network at one of the biggest annual networking shows is being subject to a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) creating the equivalent of 90 million sessions attempting to use the network at the same time, all as part of a controlled test of the Interop network.

  • ?Content spoofing? a major website vulnerability, study finds

    A close look at vulnerabilities in about 15,000 websites found 86% had at least one serious hole that hackers could exploit, and ?content spoofing? was the most prevalent vulnerability, identified in over half of the sites, according to WhiteHat Security?s annual study published today.

  • Hadoop beefs up search with MapR, Cloudera releases

    Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

  • 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.

  • Crowd-sourced attack data now key to web application defence, says Imperva

    Imperva used this week?s Infosecurity Show in London to announce what it believes is a key innovation for its line of web application firewalls ? crowd-sourced threat data.

  • 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.

Latest Features

  • 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.

  • VMware one-ups Microsoft with vSphere 5.1

    The race for virtualisation dominance between Microsoft and VMware has become more interesting with VMware's recent release of vSphere 5.1. We obtained vSphere around the same moment as the final release of Windows Server 2012, whose newly included virtual switch and enhanced Hyper-V features were designed to clobber VMware.

  • 11 predictions for enterprise software in 2013

    The end of each year sparks an occasion for rumination on the past, as well as a longing gaze into the future. We shined up our crystal ball, rubbed our chin for a while, and sought opinions from industry analysts on what the future holds for the enterprise software market.

  • Real examples of Big Data benefits

    There is big hype being generating around the topic of Big Data, but there is no doubt that data volumes across global enterprises are ramping up exponentially.

  • 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.

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - How good is new office collaboration suite?

    When Microsoft presented the customer preview of Office 2013 as well as SharePoint 2013 and Project 2013 in July, CEO Steve Ballmer made a point of personally presenting the strategy underlying the new versions, calling the 2013 releases the most ambitious projects Microsoft has undertaken in the last decades.

  • The 9 greatest IT security threats

    Hacking has evolved from one-person crime of opportunity to an open market of sophisticated malware backed by crime syndicates and money launders

  • Big data woes: Which database should I use?

    In the era of big data, good old RDBMS is no longer the right tool for many database jobs. Here's a quick guide to choosing among NoSQL alternatives

  • Why employees shouldn't be trained for security awareness

    Fundamentally what IT professionals are saying when they ask for a training program for their users is, "It's not our fault." But this is false - a user has no responsibility over the network, and they don't have the ability to recognise or protect against modern information security threats any more than a teller can protect a bank. Blaming a high infection rate on users is misguided - particularly given the advanced level of many attacks.





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