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  • Hands on: HP's Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance

    If you're like most enterprises, you have data everywhere. It's in line-of-business applications. It's in directories. It's in various departmental servers. It's in your e-commerce platform. To manage all this, most shops use databases of all sizes running on a variety of operating systems and database applications, often from different vendors and editions. Chances are, they're not consistent.

    Written by Jonathan Hassell • 10 Feb. 12 02:23

  • Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP

    Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 10 Feb. 12 00:28

  • Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

    Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 09 Feb. 12 00:03

  • Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review

    The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra are so vastly different from each other that apples-to-apples comparisons are practically impossible. Thus, within the world of NoSQL, there are subcategories such as key-value stores, graph databases, and document-oriented stores.

    Written by Andrew Glover • 08 Feb. 12 22:15

  • Ansell profit rises, fixing IT problems

    Ansell Ltd says it is rectifying problems with its new business processing system which have resulted in the gloves and condoms supplier losing sales and customers in the key North American market.

    Written by AAP • 08 Feb. 12 13:05

  • Oracle seeks new trial in IP theft suit against SAP

    Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan • 08 Feb. 12 05:26

  • SAP unveils HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs

    SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 08 Feb. 12 03:47

  • Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case

    Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last year.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 07 Feb. 12 16:26

  • Java tops C in language popularity assessment -- but not by much

    Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

    Written by Paul Krill • 07 Feb. 12 07:54

  • SAP community portal launch date still unclear due to bugs

    Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 07 Feb. 12 03:45

  • Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans

    Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 Feb. 12 06:08

  • SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation

    SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 03 Feb. 12 02:12

  • Smart hat monitors brain waves to watch fatigue levels

    I just read an interesting article in Gizmag, an online technology newsletter, about an unreleased product called the SmartCap from Australian company EdanSafe. The SmartCap is worn as a cap and analyzes brainwaves to ascertain fatigue levels, one obvious use case being to monitor commercial drivers to reduce road accidents.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 02 Feb. 12 02:25

  • Oracle outlines plans for RightNow integration

    Oracle executives on Tuesday gave a more detailed picture of their plans to integrate technologies gained through October's US$1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, maker of cloud-based software for customer service through the Web, social networks and contact centers.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 01 Feb. 12 08:06

  • When ERP is botched, CFOs must act

    Companies long have grappled with glitches in their ERP (enterprise resource planning) system implementations -- a situation that the recent botched-rollout record suggests won't get better any time soon. While ERP projects go awry for many reasons, each incident reveals its own set of troublesome repercussions, financial and otherwise.

    Written by Fred O'Connor • 01 Feb. 12 03:39

  • Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case

    A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 31 Jan. 12 16:40

  • Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under Apache 2.0

    BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in the 4.3 release of its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.0 license, the company announced Monday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 31 Jan. 12 01:05

  • Maple Leaf Foods digests rapid, vanilla ERP transformation

    An interview with Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and Jeff Hutchinson, CIO.

    Written by CIO Executive Council • 28 Jan. 12 10:07

  • Cisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' design, interfaces

    Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 28 Jan. 12 07:51

  • Investors bet $16 million on growth in application delivery market

    When investment firm Edison Ventures decided to contribute the majority of a recent $16 million round of funding for application delivery controller provider Kemp Technologies, investment manager Lenard Marcus acknowledged that some initial risk was incurred.

    Written by Colin Neagle • 28 Jan. 12 04:35
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