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CSC, which is one of the most reputed companies for technology-enabled business solutions, launched Foundation Services for Oracle on March 20, 2012. This tool will allow users to utilize Oracle software products and hardware for transforming their business tools to a computing infrastructure that is cloud based. Clients will be able to leverage the integrated stack from the applications-to-disk … [Read more...]
Get Your IBM Update and Improve Big Business Efficiency. IBM has added many features to DB2 10.1 to make it a lot more useful for big-data operations that are common in the modern day industry. The company also has a lot of secondary service businesses and systems that use the DB2 databases. There are three forms of DB2 databases. One of them is meant for mainframe, the other is used for IBM i … [Read more...]
Even in 2009, when Oracle announced its plans to buy Sun Microsystems, it expressed support for JavaFX which is a multimedia software platform. Now, in early April 2012, Oracle announced another move to please the skeptics. Oracle will appoint two advocates for the JavaFX software platform. However, many consider that this move might be a bit too late and insignificant for the JavaFX platform to … [Read more...]
Many business organizations want to use performance management and business intelligence but they do not want to deal with the complications that accompany a conventional implementation. CIBER has come up with three different integrated packaged solutions that allow you to use various Oracle packages through a plug and play implementation. The Oracle packages supported by CIBER include Oracle … [Read more...]
Those who work with Java should be interested in learning that February saw a lot of development as far as Java is concerned. This means companies stayed abreast with all these changes with the help of the latest Java training courses in the market. Today, there are many websites on the internet that can keep you updated with news regarding Java. One such page is the Java page, which is maintained … [Read more...]
ZyLab North America is a company that provides products related to information management and e-discovery. They make use of XML to archive data for their customers. That is why basic information of XML, which can come from XML training courses, is useful when dealing with products from ZyLab. E-discovery has been growing over the last few years as well, with big companies like EMC, Symantec, … [Read more...]
Teradata is one of the leading analytic data solutions companies in the world. On the 23rd of January, the company announced next generation capabilities for organizations that want more functionality, control and business value. These capabilities are to be provided by Oracle's Business Intelligence technologies and will soon be incorporated into the education systems of IT professionals … [Read more...]
Oracle recently shipped its Big Data Appliance in January, according to a ComputerWorld.com report. This appliance together with the NoSQL database was unveiled last fall at the OpenWorld user conference. The company declared that this new appliance will run Cloudera's Apache Hadoop implementation and management software. This announcement was made on the day of the shipment of the appliance. This … [Read more...]
At the Oracle Open World in 2011, it was announced that Oracle fusion applications will soon be available to the general public. These applications are meant to be the ERP solution for the next generation and will soon take place of the current Oracle E Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and other products that were developed or acquired by Oracle in the past. This suite has been in development … [Read more...]
Oracle recently updated the database firewall to facilitate better security for enterprises. According to an EWeek.com report, Oracle's new update offers improved security for MySQL databases and helps block malicious inside attacks and SQL injections, and prevents access to sensitive data. MySQL initially joined the product portfolio of Oracle after the software giant sealed a $7.4 billion … [Read more...]
Oracle issues their patch updates quarterly, and the January update has been released. A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. There are 78 updates this quarter that affect various database products including Oracle Database Server, Fusion Middleware, E-Business Suite, Oracle Sun products, MySQL, VirtualBox, and PeopleSoft. Oracle is … [Read more...]
If you are looking for a Christmas present for the son or daughter that has everything, a leg up on their studying habits is a gift that will create better habits for their future. StudyBlue has developed the StudyBlue for iPhone app which ties in with a StudyBlue account online. The account costs $10.00 a month, or $60.00 for a year, which gives you a Premium membership. You need the … [Read more...]
Oracle performance tuning can include speed performance, memory usage, cpu, general i/o or reads and writes specifically. Sometimes it is the Oracle database that needs to be fine tuned or the application using it but it always reducing resource usage by the database. When tuning Oracle systems, consider individual susbsystems and application modules rather than looking at the system as … [Read more...]
Since Oracle and Sun Microsystems joined forces, the number of Oracle and IDE tools have grown to a point where it is a little overwhelming to choose which tools are necessary to build applications. The Oracle tools for devlopers can be divided into four categories if you seperate the tools for Solaris /Linux and the Java APIs. These categories are Java/SOA, .Net, Business Intelligence … [Read more...]
Oracle is in the process of suing Google for patent infringements on the Java script used in Google's Android. The trial was set to begin October 31, 2011, but Judge William Alsup has postponed the trial to begin sometime in 2012. Talks between both CEO's have not worked out, so it looks like a settlement may not be reached, and a trial may begin in 2012. Lawyers for both sides met early … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com is adding more channel services to it’s existing clouds in a pay-as-you-need-it service. Cloud vendors are working with channel vendors to improve cloud applications while making it much less expensive for their clients to upgrade. This is giving software companies of the past a run for their money as the days of paying for each and every upgrade as if it is completely unique … [Read more...]
Erskine Bowles has been hired on to the board of directors at Facebook. Erskine Bowles is believed to bring political power to Facebook as the company increases it's involvement with the government. Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg and then CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, met with President Obama to discuss the future of technology among other technology super powers such as Google CEO, Eric … [Read more...]
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