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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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