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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
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Searching for data scientists as a service
The advent of big data has companies scrambling to find data scientists
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SAP and databases no longer an oxymoron
In its rise to leadership of the ERP market, SAP shrewdly placed bounds around its strategy
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Informatica's stretch goal
Informatica is within a year or two of becoming a $1 billion company, and the CEO’s stretch goal is to get to $3b.
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EMC's Hadoop strategy cuts to the chase
Analyst Tony Baer examines the Hadoop landscape and explores EMC's latest big-data move
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Oracle fills another gap in its big data offering
With Oracle’s announcement of general availability of the big data appliance, it is filling in the blanks by disclosing that it is OEM’ing Cloudera’s CDH Hadoop distribution, and more...
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HP does a 180 -- Now it's Apotheker's company
HP is now pulling a 180 in ditching both the PC and Palm hardware business, and making an offer to buy Autonomy.
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Big data consolidation race enters home stretch, as Teradata buys Aster Data
Viewed from a market perspective, Teradata’s acquisition marks the home stretch for consolidation of the current crop of analytic database challengers, who are mostly spread in the columnar field.
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Leo Apotheker needs to target HP's forgotten businesses
Can HP afford to converge itself in another direction? Can it afford not to? Leo Apotheker has a heck of a listening tour ahead of him.
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HP buys Fortify, and it's about time!
IBM Rational and HP have been in an arms race to incorporate the discipline of security into application development quality assurance.
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IBM adds Sterling Commerce to Websphere, expands scope of B2B integration
This gets IBM deeper into the supply chain management applications market.
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Just as vendor-speak turns from SOA, the users are actually embracing it
IBM won’t call it the applications business, but when you put vertical industry frameworks, business rules, business process management, and analytics together, it’s not simply a plumbing...
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VMforce: Cloud mates with Java marriage of necessity for VMware and Salesforce.com
This really means that Salesforce morphs into a different creature, and now must decide whom it means to compete with because -- it’s not just Oracle business applications anymore.
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Pegasystems doubles-down on winning streak with Chordiant buy
The potential synergy is where Chordiant optimizes customer-facing front office processes while Pega’s BPM frameworks optimize the corresponding back office processes such as loan origination.
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AmberPoint finally gets acquired as Oracle fills in more remaining stack holes
Of course all this M&A rearranges the dance floor in interesting ways. Oracle currently OEMs HP’s Systinet as its SOA registry, an arrangement that might get awkward now that Oracle’s getting...
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Oracle's Sun Java strategy: Business as usual
The highlight for us was what happens to Sun’s Java portfolio, and as it turns out, the results are not far from what we anticipated last spring: Oracle’s products remain the flagship...
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The march of Progress Software: Savvion provides latest entry in BPM consolidation parade
Progress’s $49 million deal, which closes right away, is a great exit strategy for Savvion. The company, although profitable, has grown very slowly over its 15 years. Even assuming the offer was...
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Early thoughts on IBM buying Lombardi: Keep it simple
IBM’s strategy is that Lombardi provides a good way to open the BPM discussion at department level. Not surprisingly, IBM is viewing Lombardi for its simplicity.
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Oracle's Fusion Apps finally come out from behind the OpenWorld curtain
While ERP emerged with and was designed for client/server architectures, Fusion has emerged with a full Java EE and SOA architecture; it is built around Oracle Fusion middleware 11g and uses...
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Engine Yard draws funding as it ushers more developers onto the Ruby services train
The latest reminder of the strength of grassroots markets in the developer sector is Engine Yard’s securing of $19 million in C funding last week. The backing comes from some of the same players...
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VMware fleshes out its cloud computing support model with SpringSource grab
This acquisition was a means to an end, pairing two companies that could not be less alike. VMware is a household name, sells software through traditional commercial licenses, and markets to IT...
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