Facebook may open source some of its back-end code this year
CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing “the hacker way,” which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near ...
Intel’s Haswell will include new multi-core enhancements
With Ivy Bridge set to debut in just a few short months, Intel has begun to talk about what we can expect to see in Haswell. First up: Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX).
EMC's Hadoop strategy cuts to the chase
This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog . Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum. To date, Big Storage has been locked out of Big Data. It’s been all about direct attached storage for several reasons.
Red Hat's GlusterFS Appliance for Amazon Now Totally Virtual
One thing you don't quite get accustomed to in reporting developments in cloud technology is how even the virtual things become virtualized. Last December, Red Hat released a software storage appliance based on the GlusterFS software-based NAS system that Red Hat acquired in October . That product is a way to apply the same methodology that GlusterFS customers used to build network-attached ...
Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It
Reading Leena Rao’s recent article on Techcrunch about the personalization revolution, you get the sense that the tech world is waiting for a bus that isn’t coming. Rao quotes well-known industry experts and luminaries describing what needs to happen for e-commerce to finally realize the promise of personalized shopping, a future where online retailers predict what you’ll want to buy before you ...
EMC's Hadoop Strategy: Cutting To The Chase
By Tony BaerTo date, Big Storage has been locked out of Big Data. It's been all about direct attache...
Quorum Announces Strategic Integration and Partner Strategy
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA-- - Quorum Information Technologies Inc. announced its integration and partnering plan. Called the Quorum Integration Strategy Program , the plan outlines dealers' capability to access data in XSellerator , Quorum's dealership and customer management system, for their own use or to ...
Altegra Health Awarded NCQA Software Certification for The HEDIS.com Solution
Altegra Health, a leading provider of business and technology solutions that improve health plan performance, today announced that the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQ
HID Global Completes NFC Mobile Access Control Pilot at Arizona State University
HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today announced it has successfully completed the world’s first university pilot of NFC smartphones carrying digital keys.
KXEN Announces Certification of InfiniteInsight™ for Sybase IQ v.15
KXEN, the leading provider of predictive analytics for business users, announced the certification of its flagship product, InfiniteInsight™ for Sybase IQ v.15, the industry's leading column-based analytics server.