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Two Oracle-sponsored white papers suggest that Java has a bright future on embedded and M2M devices.

New research from IDC suggest that the already thriving Hadoop/MapReduce ecosystem is set to grow bigger, estimated to be worth a cool $812.8m come 2016

You could be using cloud computing services, and not even be aware of it, according to a recent survey conducted […]

Economic recovery, ageing servers and the need to simplify IT infrastructure is driving demand for both public and private cloud computing.

An IDC study has said by 2020, more than 1/3rd of all digital information created annually will either live in or pass through the cloud.

Led by Western Europe, the Europe, Middle East Africa (EMEA) region saw higher adoption of server virtualization in the last quarter of 2009. The competition among vendors also intensified and market leader VMware’s lead shrunk a little in the same period.

Global Industry Analysts (GIA) has estimated that the SOA software market would reach US $21 billion by the year 2015. […]

Real-time operational intelligence or active data warehousing is becoming popular with enterprises across Europe, says a  release from Teradata. Quoting […]

Interest in business analytics is surging worldwide. Quoting IDC, Reseller News reports that enterprises in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) […]

A third of organizations do not know how to effectively measure the benefits of business analytics projects. The lack of effective measurement methodologies is stalling enterprises from reaping the full advantage of their IT investment. It may also be holding back widespread deployment of analytics solutions.

IDC has just declared that SOA is live and kicking. A little over a year ago, Burton Group blogger Anne Thomas Manes wrote a damning obituary of SOA. The IDC projections ironically prove her right. The way SOA was practised is dead, but the services-orientation of IT architecture has gained momentum in the last one year. Further, SOA-style thinking is reshaping management. Whether SOA is live or not, the debate is far from dead. It has just taken a new turn.

McAfee have announced a ‘McAfee Cloud Secure program’ which will allow Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to add additional security to their […]