What big data did next
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Ask a database vendor what they want to talk about next and odds on they'll say "big data and analytics" pretty quick. Ask a middleware or infrastructure software the same question, you'll probably get the same answer. Actually, if you ask a cloud hosting provider, a storage specialist, a Business...
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The facts of (software development) life
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The software application development industry is governed by facts. That's just how it is; guesswork does not lend itself well to software engineering and this carved in stone truism will not change over time. Fact number #1: software testing firms like to use project failure...
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TIBCO: how do we build the ‘social enterprise’?
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The TUCON TIBCO User Conference is staged this week in Las Vegas at the extremely new and shiny Aria resort. In keeping with the current technology streams being championed and evangelised by many large scale IT vendors right now, TIBCO is working to make the social enterprise zone an accepted...
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TIBCO hoops big data on Californian basketball courts
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
The TUCON TIBCO User Conference is staged this week in Las Vegas. As is customary at these customer-centric, developer, user and partner-friendly events, a nice case study presentation always goes down well during the opening keynote sessions. As the self-styled "enterprise infrastructure"...
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Salesforce Heroku drives Java in a single click
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Salesforce.com stages its Dreamforce 2012 conference and exhibition this week in the shadow of downtown San Francisco's hip vibe and bracing ocean-facing climate. The company has drawn what is claimed to be 70,000 attendees and over 350 cloud-centric companies together under one roof for this...
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Cloud’s next battleground: upload/download
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
It's conference season in the technology industry. Or, if you prefer, it's symposium, convention, congregation and convocation or confabulation season. It's true, I do end up looking for synonyms for the word "conference" when I am dashing between various different developer events and you have my...
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Intel: 15 billion online toasters by 2015
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Despite a lowering of its financial forecast for the rest of 2012, Intel continues its mission to be seen as 'more than just a chipmaker' this month with events staged around the firm's IDF Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. New initiative launches include the firm's Intelligent Systems...
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Visual Studio 2012 heralds start of Windows 8 development
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Microsoft's core software application development IDE (integrated development environment) Visual Studio 2012 was officially released along with the .NET Framework 4.5 this week. This final release will be heralded by some as the official start of software development for the Windows 8...
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Where NASA and Instagram get open source databases
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the PostgreSQL 9.2 open source database with native JSON support, covering indexes, replication and performance improvements. NOTE: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based data-interchange format programming language...
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How to unlock and drive a car with a 3G iPad
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Having been on something of a personal test drive with the latest Vodafone 3G connection offering for iPad recently, I have been trying to adopt the "mobile connected life culture" with...
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