By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research The widespread presence of open source databases in web and enterprise applications is not new. But recently, a few upgrades to some of the leaders in the space as well as a much-anticipated new entrant have cast...
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Mar 23, 2011
Cloud gaming, also called gaming on demand, is a type of online gaming that allows direct and on-demand streaming of games onto a computer through the use of a thin client, in which the actual game is stored on the game company’s server and is streamed directly to...
Mar 22, 2011
Even as security doubts persist, a majority of organizations are opting with the cloud and virtual machines for disaster recovery and data backup, according to a vendor-backed survey of 1,473 SMB and large enterprise IT professionals. Although only 44 percent of...
Mar 21, 2011
The unreliability of Amazon Web Services is causing some cloud-dependent firms to reconsider their options and move their infrastructure onto other platforms. Problems with the firm's Elastic Block Store (EBS) service occurred at an Amazon datacentre in Virginia on 17...
Mar 21, 2011
Personal computer makers have a lot of aspects to consider in order to keep up with their competition and to stay current with the latest trends. Investors who focus on technology should consider exchange traded funds (ETFs) to cover the wide array of tech trends...
Mar 21, 2011
Retail giant Target plans to roll out Microsoft's virtualization technology to its 1,700 stores, giving the software giant's enterprise cloud computing efforts a new boost. Microsoft announced a new deal in which Target will manage such operations as inventory,...
Mar 18, 2011
SOURCE: IT CHANNEL PLANET IBM Corp. said that it will pour some $38 million into a new cloud computing data center in Singapore to offer businesses in the Asia Pacific region access to cloud services and related technology, a market researchers estimate will climb to...
Mar 18, 2011
SOURCE:Â BitNami BitNami, which simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, and Jaspersoft, the world's most widely used business intelligence platform, announced today that they have partnered to bring open source...
Mar 16, 2011
If your head hasn’t been lost up in the cirrus or cumulus, you’ve probably heard of cloud computing over the last few years. "The cloud" has figured prominently in President Barack Obama’s technology initiatives, in the business plans of familiar tech giants such as...
Mar 10, 2011
SOURCE: Broadview Broadview’s cloud-based services target the growing opportunity for Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Both SaaS and IaaS allow companies to move software, applications, storage and server hardware that support...
