Leading retail intelligence technology group Cogenta (www.cogenta.com) has launched a multi-national version of its Cloud-based Retail Insight platform. The innovative pricing intelligence application is the first system to enable international retailers, manufacturers, brand managers and market researchers to monitor consumer goods pricing data from major economic centres in 24 countries across the globe, including Europe…
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The Three Most Important Open Computing Trends to Watch in 2014
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. The key events of 2013 set up many of the changes in open computing that we can expect to see in 2014. This year, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) will go cross-platform, Linux will increasingly be deployed…
Open Computing Accelerated Sharply in 2013
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. Open computing has been steadily growing in enterprise acceptance and, in 2013, that trend accelerated sharply. Many factors contributed to the upward trajectory of open computing in the last year. However, there were three notable developments…
In Remaking Itself, HP Delivers the IT Means for Struggling Enterprises to Remake Themselves
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HP has quickly made itself a key supplier of some of the most important technologies of the present corporate era: cloud computing and big data processing. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Perforce Announces 2014 Predictions for Software Development
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The year ahead promises significant changes in the business of software, including rapid adoption of Continuous Delivery, a surge in private clouds and growing importance of software developers in non-technical industries Key Points:With concerns of falling behind their competitors and learning from the challenged launch of the US site HealthCare.gov widely publicised on both sides…
Docker goes broader – supporting more Linux distros out of the box
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Docker, the popular container technology that, in theory, lets developers encapsulate their apps and run them on bare metal, virtualized and private or public cloud environments, now supports nearly all the major Linux distributions right out of the box. Source: Tech
8 Habits of High-Performing IT Teams
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Accenture says higher-performing IT teams are more open to new projects, cloud and virtualization. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Flexiant Solves the Business Challenges of OpenStack
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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator Helps Service Providers Commercialize the Cloud by Opening the Platform to OpenStack and Adding Functional Feature-Rich Services London, UK – 20th November 2013 – Flexiant, an international provider of cloud orchestration software, today reveals how it is opening its platform to support OpenStack to solve the business challenges associated with the open…
IBM System z, Legacy or Useful Tool?
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Kusnetzky Group clients often speak to us about their need for scalability, reliability, management, and security. They also report the challenges they face when considering cloud computing, the use of Big Data and analytics to better understand their customers’ needs and how to safely and effectively support both their own staff and customers using today’s…
Mikko Hypponen: Open Source Software Will Make the World More Secure
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Open source software can be one answer to combating the global surveillance of innocent citizens, said security expert Mikko Hypponen in his keynote last week at LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe in Edinburgh. Source: Tech