What big data did next

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...
How loosely coupled applications beat middleware

This is a guest piece written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog by Phil Lewis, business consulting director for UKIMEA at enterprise software vendor Infor. A lot of people in business hate the software that runs their company. Executives grudgingly accept the painful shortcomings...
Explaining “Intelligent Workload Management” in simple terms

This is a guest post by Mark Oldroyd, a senior technology identity and security specialist with Novell.
In this piece Oldroyd...
Larry Ellison: how should we define the cloud?

If you've been following the news for Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne 2010 so far you'll have seen a whole heap of products unveiled. The company has quite literally carpet-bombed the newswires with some pretty meaty announcements. There is therefore, I hope, room for some slightly more tangential...