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Everyone in the enterprise is now talking about how to leverage big data, and a good chunk of that discussion includes the evolution of NoSQL database technologies. Experts are saying that 2012 is the year when IT departments start adopting NoSQL in earnest, but is the enterprise ready yet? What needs to happen in NoSQL's evolution to make it prepare it for highly complex data requirements? To find out, eWEEK asked Robert Greene, vice president of technology at Versant and a 20-year veteran of the database industry, to break down what needs to happen for NoSQL to become enterprise-ready. Versant is an object-oriented database provider, and the company is taking its own approach to the NoSQL movement. For instance, Greene said that NoSQL solutions need to leverage more of the classic database techniques for concurrency control and design their internals to take full advantage of modern multi-core hardware architecture. In addition, Greene said NoSQL is learning what the object database industry learned several years ago as it sought to deal with soft schema over a relational storage engine. However, enterprises will not change all their internal processes and replace existing systems for the sake of NoSQL. To evolve, NoSQL must address interoperability with existing systems, to couple through ETL, to facilitate data manipulation through enterprise tools, and it needs to present itself as a well-defined resource to existing monitoring and management processes.
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News Analysis: EnterpriseDB is hoping entice more enterprises into cloud computing with a database-as-a-service offering geared to challenge Oracle in the database market.
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A California judge dismissed claims by Oracle that HP fraudulently concealed it was planning to hire Leo Apotheker as CEO while negotiating a settlement over Mark Hurd.
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IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and Lotus Live allowed Newly Wed Foods to bring new products to-market in about half the time, says Brindza, SOA business analyst at the food ingredient technology company. The collaborative technology was easy to implement and required no end-user training because of its user-friendly, social media interface.
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EnterpriseDB delivers its Postgres Plus Cloud Database with support from CloudBees, Engine Yard and others.
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Alloy Navigator Express 6 is designed to give businesses the ability to facilitate troubleshooting of hardware and software issues.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a new NoSQL database service known as DynamoDB that delivers fast and predictable performance with all the scalability you can ask for.
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Sencha, which creates frameworks, tools and services for developers to build Web applications using JavaScript and HTML5, has released its 2012 HTML5 Wish List. "Looking at the phenomenal rise of HTML5 as the next industry standard for Web development, it's clear that 2011 has been a transformational year for this powerful set of Web technologies," said Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha. He said Sencha's offerings give Web application developers the ability to "harness emerging HTML5 technologies and create highly functional Web applications that erase the line between native apps and Web apps." Sencha also issued a 2011 wish list, and out of the 10 wishes, four came to be. The four wishes that came through were: A richer CSS3 effects toolbox; high-performance position for mobile browsers; pervasive GPU acceleration; and Websockets stabilization. Sencha's 2012 list includes wishes such as better mobile browser debugging, a contacts API, IndexedDB and better offline caching. This slide show offers the full Sencha wish list.
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Oracle is expected to address 78 vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including two in Oracle database and 27 in the MySQL database.
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OpenLogic, which makes enterprise open-source solutions for the cloud and data center, recently announced its 2011 trending report for open-source software. The report ranks hot open-source projects in three key categories: Web and application servers, application frameworks, and databases and big data. To develop its report, OpenLogic analyzed popular as well as up-and-coming open-source projects that are used as core infrastructure in enterprise applications. The purpose of the analysis was to evaluate whether enterprise adoption of the projects was trending up, staying level or declining. For each open-source project, OpenLogic analyzed eight metrics that include public data, as well as aggregated data from OpenLogic’s tools and customer base of more than 250 enterprises throughout the world. According to the report, the five projects that were fastest-growing or gained the most were, in order: HBase, a distributed, column-oriented database system built on top of Hadoop; Node.js, a platform for writing highly scalable Internet applications in JavaScript; nginx, a high-concurrency, low-memory usage Web server and reverse proxy; Hadoop, a framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers; and Ruby on Rails, a highly scalable Web application framework.
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The new release included parallelized replication and new real-time analytics capabilities; this is the first update for TimesTen since 2009.
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French regulators decline HP's request to force Oracle to resume supporting Itanium, but say they will continue investigating antitrust claims.
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Oracle forged a partnership with pioneering Apache Hadoop interface/tools provider Cloudera to use its distribution inside the new Big Data Appliance.
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There have been a number of major acquisitions in the security space in the past two years, including Hewlett-Packard purchasing ArcSight for $1.6 billion, Symantec acquiring Verisign for $1.3 billion, Apax Partners buying Sophos for $580 million in 2010, and chip giant Intel stepping into the security business by scooping up McAfee for $7.8 billion. The Intel-McAfee deal, announced in 2010 but completed in February this year, was just a hint of how traditionally nonsecurity-focused companies would snap up security companies in 2011. Sometimes a technology buy and other times a way to sign on renowned security experts, the deals signaled how organizations were prioritizing security and privacy. High-profile security breaches, malware outbreaks and privacy scandals dominated news headlines in 2011 as attackers targeted governments, small and large enterprises, and individual consumers. The Federal Trade Commission and Congress took technology companies to task over securing user privacy. Global cyber-security spending in 2011 reached $60 billion and is expected to grow 10 percent every year for the next three to five years, according to the "Cyber-Security M&A" report released by PwC recently. Below, eWEEK has put together a baker's dozen (plus one) notable security-related deals announced in 2011.
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Defying a weak economy, the global database and systems management markets grew in 2011, according to new reports from IDC.
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It’s clear that NoSQL adoption has paid dividends to the Twitters and Netflixes of the world. But it’s been less apparent just how much attention mainstream organizations ought to pay to the trend, since relational databases are familiar and well-entrenched, and since many well-established solutions exist for scaling relational databases.
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What will become of the open-source MySQL database after database giant Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems? After considering the database market, Oracle's and Sun's strengths, and history, eWEEK Labs' Jeff Cogswell thinks that MySQL and its customers can expect the database to live on, although perhaps not exactly as we know it now.
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