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Oracle's Delusional Hardware Marketing Isn't Fooling Anyone
Despite repeated reprimands from the National Adverting Review Board, Oracle continues to run ads making questionable claims that its Sun hardware outperforms the competition. This isn't...
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HP Looks to Moonshot for Data Center of the Future
Seeking to reverse its flagging fortunes and build the foundational layer for the 'Internet of Things,' HP unveils a new class of software-defined server: the HP ProLiant Moonshot.
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Why Developers are Turning to API Services
As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up.
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How IT Can Achieve Operational Resiliency
Today's complex IT environments make maintaining 'always on' availability more challenging than ever before, even as IT has become central to most business operations. IDC's David Tapper says...
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IT Automation: The Need for a New Architectural Approach
In today's fluid 24/7 world where business demands are real-time and IT resources are a mix of both physical and virtual, someone -- or something -- is needed to manage it all. In response, many job...
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ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool
The tried-and-true enterprise service bus--long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments--is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate...
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How IBM Beat Up HP in Las Vegas
IBM and Hewlett-Packard recently held events in Las Vegas. IBM went first and demonstrated how its customers will use Watson to change the world. HP responded by bringing executives on stage to talk...
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How to Do Financial Trading IT Right: Behind the Scenes at Liquidnet
With massive amounts of data, low latency, hundreds of connection points and no margin for error, financial trading is grown-up IT. Liquidnet does it in more than 40 markets with a staff of just 300....
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EMC 'Bringing the Sexy Back' to Data
When it comes to backup and recovery, IT is struggling to meet business demand within most enterprises--and the problem stands to get only worse. EMC believes the answer is a more open and agile...
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What Every Programmer Should Know About Design
What does a lead designer for a Madison Avenue technology firm think every programmer should know about design? Sneak preview: Interfaces actually matter less than you might think. But that's just the...
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How to Evaluate Moving Legacy Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud
The flexibility and scalability of the cloud can make migrating mission-critical applications a tempting proposition, but availability can become a serious issue.
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NASA Turns to Open Source Middleware for Human-to-Robot Communications
Data management is inherently tricky, but when it involves robots in space—communicating via a low-bandwidth intermittent link—it's trickier. NASA is leveraging Data Distribution Service for Real-Time...
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IT Careers: Does it Pay to Become a Brand Specialist?
Before you make a grab for that Salesforce.com architect job, pause and remember: It was once hip to be known as a Lotus 1-2-3 developer.
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Apple and the Enterprise: A Complicated Relationship
Over the past 15 years, Apple has worked, and at times struggled, to figure out the best way to integrate its products into enterprise environments. Columnist Ryan Faas takes a look at that complex...
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Software AG acquires JackBe for mashup tooling, real-time analytics
A new Intelligent Business Operations Platform is also in the works
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Where Do SDNs Fit in the Data Center?
As CIOs try to make sense of the hype surrounding software-defined networks (SDNs) and their potential in data centers, some experts and vendors say IT leaders are looking for answers in all the wrong...
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How to Overcome Resistance to Global IT Standardization
There’s inevitable tension between enforcing global IT standardization and allowing flexibility at the local level. Here’s how to find the right balance.
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How to Beat Storage Bottlenecks in a Flash
When a data visualization and analysis software provider found that its backend storage was slowing down its developers, it resisted the urge to add capacity. Instead, it turned to a software solution...
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Manage Cloud Computing With Policies, Not Permissions
Cloud computing obsolesces the idea that IT operations must put users through the ringer to get their hands on scarce resources. Many organizations continue to insist that someone must review resource...
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Teradata Turns to the Cloud, Offers Data Warehouse as a Service
Aiming to give customers the flexibility to store, process and leverage their data on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, Teradata is making its portfolio of platforms and services...
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