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  • Want to API Enable Your COBOL Applications? Have At It

    October 18, 2013

    Business
    COBOL, Commercial Products and Services, Data management, IBM, Languages, Netflix, Programming, SQL
     

    So, the thinking goes like this. A multitude of critical systems are still running on old hardware, written in old languages and sitting on old stacks. Despite the unicorns and rainbows protestations of many, that isn’t going to change…

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  • Heroku Rolls out Support for JavaScript within PostGres

    June 5, 2013

    Business
    google, Heroku, JavaScript, JSON, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Relational database, SQL
     

    There’s always battles waging in the technology community – Linux vs Windows, OpenStack vs AWS, DevOps vs NoOps vs SomeOtherKindOfOps. Another oft visited argument is the relation versus non-relational databases. Essentially the protagonists for the NoSQL movement suggest that…

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  • HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

    May 1, 2013

    Business
    data center, High availability, HybridCluster, IBM, rackspace, Servers, SQL, VMware, Web hosting service
     

    Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the…

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  • AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition

    December 3, 2012

    Business
    amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, BitYota, Data warehouse, IBM, Redshift, SQL
     

    Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem, and ecosystem partners who leverage what the platform brings, but remain apprehensive about the long term intensions of…

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  • Scale Out vs Scale Up – ProfitBricks Aims to Challenge the Current Thinking for IaaS

    September 7, 2012

    Business
    Central processing unit, cloud computing, google, InfiniBand, ProfitBricks, SQL, Virtual machine, VMware
     

    One thing that few people argue about in the move to the cloud is the accepted view that the best way to achieve scale is by throwing together lots of lightweight commodity machines with relatively low specifications, and stringing…

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  • Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

    August 15, 2012

    Business
    Apache Hadoop, Big data, Business intelligence, Data warehouse, MapReduce, RainStor, SQL, wikipedia
     

    Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data…

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  • Survey Shows Increased Adoption of NoSQL

    February 8, 2012

    Business
    CouchBase, Database, Database management system, NoSQL, Relational database, SQL
     

    One of the more striking developments in the application database space in recent years has been the rise of unstructured databases. Aggregated under the heading “NoSQL” (not an ideal name it must be said), these unstructured database management systems…

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  • Xeround Still Has Faith in Heroku

    March 15, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, Database, Heroku, MySQL, Salesforce.com, SQL, Xeround
     

    Late last year salesforce.com announced its acquisition of PaaS product Heroku. At the time there was a smattering of concern from users of Heroku as to what the acquisition would mean for Heroku – would salesforce play nice with…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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