Cloud computing
Cloud computing is an increasingly broad topic that encompasses everything from Google Apps to data center services to virtualization to software-, infrastructure- and platform-as-a service. Technology executives are increasingly interested in cloud computing as a way to save money. Nevertheless, cloud adoption remains in the single digits amid security concerns. Rest assured that cloud computing is a game changer. Key players include: IBM, HP, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, NetSuite, VMware as well as dozens of others.
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The demand for data-intensive and transactional workloads such as data warehousing, real-time analytics, and virtualized environments is expanding dramatically.
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I kind of feel like my pocket has been picked of the little black book I keep there for my contacts. My contacts.
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If Clustrix and its brethren can allow MySQL values to grow unencumbered via NewSQL then it will be of interest to more than start-ups.
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This guest post comes courtesy of E.G. Nadhan of HP Enterprise Services. By E.G.Nadhan, HP Enterprise Services Not far from where The Open Group Conference was held in San Francisco this week is...
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