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Oracle Expands Cloud Services With Acquisition of Textura

Oracle added to its growing cloud services roster April 28 by acquiring publicly traded Textura, a provider of construction contracts and payment management cloud...

SAP Now Enabling Specialized Development for HANA Projects

SAP continues to expand far beyond the reaches of mere data center software. The SAP that used to simply sell systems middleware and on-premises...

Percona Branching Out With Its Second MongoDB Server

Percona, an open-source server maker well-known for working with the popular MySQL database, has branched out to make servers for MongoDB—another often-downloaded database.The Durham,...

The Next Challenge for Hadoop: Quality of Service

The Next Challenge for Hadoop: Quality of Service For Hadoop to move forward into the next decade, the community must address one key but often...

IBM, Bear Naked Deliver Watson-Based Customized Granola

You just never know where IBM's Watson cognitive computing technology will pop up next, whether in concierge robots at hotels, as an advisor to...

Dell Targets ‘Citizen Data Scientist’ With Statistica 13.1

Dell officials want to enable the "citizen data scientist."Dell is rolling out version 13.1 of the company's Statistica data analytics platform, which will offer...

DataStax Launches Scalable Real-Time Enterprise Graph Database

NoSQL database provider DataStax has announced its entry into the graph database space with DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Graph.Martin Van Ryswyk, the company’s executive vice...

IBM Partners With American Cancer Society on Watson Cancer Advisor

IBM and the American Cancer Society (ACS) today announced a partnership to develop a Watson-based advisor for people fighting cancer—to bring the cognitive power...

LinkedIn Open-Sources Dr. Elephant Hadoop, Spark Tuning Tool

LinkedIn has open-sourced its Hadoop and Spark performance tuning tool, known as Dr. Elephant, to help Hadoop and Spark users add easy, self-service tuning...

IBM Extends Spark to Mainframe for Real-Time Insights

IBM has released its new z/OS Platform for Apache Spark to help give data scientists and developers real-time, secure access to mainframe data.The new...