Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-06

For the most part, the empirical tools used by physicists working in finance are theoretical data grubbing techniques that search for exploitable correlations in historical data. For example, if there is an asset price that is correlated with an observable variable, hopefully with a lag, then price movements can be predicted – the higher the correlation the better the prediction – and used to make profit or hedge against risk. But as the Lucas critique points out, relying on these correlations can be dangerous since they can change when people try to exploit them.

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The Hadoop world isn’t all about CDH and HDP though. Another important distribution out there is the one from MapR, which seeks to make the Hadoop Distributed File System more friendly and addressable as a Network File Storage volume. This HDFS-to-NFS translation gives HDFS files the read/write random access taken for granted with conventional file systems.

MapR trails Cloudera’s distribution by quite a lot, however. And Hortonworks’ distro will probably overtake it quickly, as well. But don’t write MapR off just yet, because in the last couple of weeks it has emerged as an important piece of the Hadoop cloud puzzle.

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Efficiency savings. By making smarter decisions about how departments are
organised and what work gets prioritised, the direct cost of government
operations can be reduced.
zz Reductions in fraud and error. The application of big data tools can help
identify sources of fraud and error in the welfare system, and target scarce
enforcement resources where they will have the best payoff.
zz Improvements in tax collection. Again the application of big data tools can
be used to detect and prioritise actions that will help close the tax gap (the
difference between theoretical tax liabilities and actual receipts collected by
the government).

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Enhanced operational efficiency: £13-22bn ($20-35bn)

Reduced fraud and error: £1-3bn ($1.6-4.7bn)

Increased tax collections: £2-8bn ($3.1-12.6bn)

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Big Blue is upgrading its big data muncher to the most recent Apache modules and integrating it with its own add-ons. And with its InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition V1.4, IBM is also doing something else interesting: It is letting customers slide in the Cloudera CDH distribution and slide out its own variant of the core Apache Hadoop stack.

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The execs agreed that there’s more to Facebook than just likes, citing that the ability to conduct sentiment analysis was one of Facebook’s strong points. Furthermore, the executives expressed frustration with the integration of social data into their existing CRM strategy, since a lot of the data on Facebook is almost stuck on the platform, leaving brands little opportunity to extract it.

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Enterprise search just got a nice pre-holiday surprise with the 4.0-alpha releases of both Apache Solr and Lucene.

Lucene and Solr are two Apache projects that are heavily intertwined–Lucene is the Java library upon which Solr is based, and both projects are deep in the DNA of Apache Hadoop. This ancestry might lead some to regard Lucene/Solr-based products as outmoded when compared to Hadoop and related software, but that would be a mistake. Enterprise search is a big business, and a very viable force within the larger big data movement.

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Just two weeks after inking a deal with Amazon Web Services, MapR gets an exclusive to run Hadoop services on the Google Compute Engine.

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A distributed network of cars is by definition ad hoc – the vehicles are constantly moving in relation to one another. They’re forming new W-Fi connections while breaking old ones, changing their positions within the network or leaving the network entirely. Trying to get these mobile and unpredictable nodes to cooperate is going to be difficult.

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The message in a nutshell, is that there’s definitely a use case for integrating master data management with big data, but there hasn’t been much distance covered yet.

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[Summary: not doing anything with all that data they can access. -DBM]

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The four-hour, online event is designed to meet the increasing demand for MongoDB education worldwide. Developers previously unable to attend 10gen’s events gain an introduction to the MongoDB basics as well as the opportunity to explore how MongoDB can be used for future projects. Registration for the event is now open.

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The check involved 67 tax inspectors accompanied by 30 police officers, and lasted from dawn to well into the night, according to a report in French investigative newspaper Le Canard Enchainé, published Wednesday.

The inspectors came from a number of agencies, including the National Directorate of Tax Investigations, responsible for detecting tax evasion, and the Brigade for the Verification of Computerized Accounts, according to the newspaper report.

Nicolas Vanbremeersch, of Microsoft’s public relations company Spintank, said Wednesday that the company had no comment to make on the number of inspectors involved, or the duration of the inspection.

The investigation began just over a year ago, according to Le Canard Enchainé, when tax inspectors visiting a French gaming company discovered invoices from Irish and U.S. subsidiaries of Microsoft for advertising and commercial services allegedly performed in France by employees of French subsidiaries.

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[Still just one untrue, chest-thumping tweet… -DBM]

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The company’s quarterly results beat analysts’ estimates, as revenue from new licenses jumped, but it forecast third-quarter earnings mostly below expectations.

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Latest buy central to Dell’s aim to be full service IT vendor but challenge lies in successfully integrating other units around the software management company, analysts note.

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Gaining better insight into wear and tear on the tracks should deliver benefits to the organisation and its customers — the train and freight operating companies.

“We can build better alliances if we’ve got a better understanding of the capability of our infrastructure. We can have better conversations with the train operating companies. So rather than block booking capacity out for maintenance, we can say, ‘This weekend we don’t need to take maintenance out.’ We can be more transparent, basing ourselves on facts rather than age-old policies,” Goodman said.

In a sense it is also a “big data” story, he continued. “We have a large programme of thousands of sensors on the network to monitor. We want to move away from being reactive to a “predict and prevent mode.” If Network Rail has a better view of the traffic running on the tracks it can assess impact more accurately. Clapham Junction tracks will have a different profile to “a small line in North Wales,” he said.

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Among the studios with WikiLeaks movies in development are Time Warner Inc.’s HBO Films, DreamWorks Studios, Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures and Annapurna Pictures, the company run by Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison.

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The company is also gearing up for the launch of ‘Mongoose’, a platform as a service (PaaS) development environment. “It’s focused on extending Infor applications,” Angove explained. “We have 1,500 application partners that generate a quarter of our licence revenue, and they want to extend applications without having to redevelop them. Mongoose will help them provision on-premise or in the cloud and it will automatically come with ION integration and automatically come with contextual applications that run in Infor Workspace.”

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If there is sufficient size and uniqueness, if it’s useful enough to others, and if there are appropriate (legal, technical) methods to exchange/federate it with other data sources, it becomes the accretion point for even more new data, services and products.

The net-net is that amassing and exposing vast amounts of unique data to third-party ecosystem partners can effectively create Data-as-a-Platform.

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Mr. Kilar, a former Amazon.com Inc. and Walt Disney Co. executive, and a Hulu spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Hulu is owned by several media companies including News Corp., NWSA -1.28% publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

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“I think all software companies may need to do is not utilize a ‘perpetual’ license… simply state a 99 years or some other long period that doesn’t, depending on the applicable country law, violate the rule of perpetuities or whatever analog exists to stretch this metaphor into the real property transfer arena. By the time that date rolls around we’ll all be dead, the software obsolete, what have you, but for legal purposes there’s not been a license for an ‘unlimited period.’”

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What is the most difficult skill-set or position to fill today?
1. Java developer
2. Mobile developer
3. .Net developer
4. Software developer
5. Security
6. SAP
7. Sharepoint
8. Web developer
9. Active federal security clearance
10. Network engineer

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Zuora is also a tool for creating what Tzuo calls “the subscription economy.” This is a world where people don’t buy products—they buy services.

Zuora tracks things like monthly recurring revenue and customer lifetime value.

As he changes the way companies think about business, Tzuo sees the old school—namely Oracle and SAP—withering away.

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We believe Oracle will find it difficult to sell Exalytics into SAP’s installed base. Exalytics does not use the standard Oracle database – Oracle 11g. SAP can choose to not provide Exalytics support for its ERP, BI and BW products, effectively locking Exalytics out of its installed base. This implies that to sell Exalytics to an existing SAP customer, Oracle would have to displace SAP BI and BW with Oracle BI products. We note that Oracle has hardly gained shares in the BI market recently. Moreover, customers have invested in building customization, linkages and apps on top of SAP BI and BW products that they already own, and thus are unlikely to switch over.

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Benefits of using the HTML-based user interface include:

Streamlined, three-step process for initiating new Service Requests (SRs)
Single, consistent workflow for both hardware and software incidents
Enhanced personalization and filtering within the user interface
New accessibility features (enabling screen readers, large fonts, etc.)

Additionally, please note Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) will no longer be supported.

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Oracle first rolled out a Flash version of the portal in 2009, replacing the long-time Metalink site. This quickly spawned a backlash from some users, who complained of bugginess, poor performance and also questioned why Oracle would use Flash, since the platform’s use is restricted within many corporate IT departments.

The company soon made a partial concession, announcing that an HTML option would be restored.

In January, Oracle rolled out a new version of the HTML site built with its ADF (Application Development Framework) toolset. The update coming next week is also built with ADF, which underpins Oracle’s next-generation Fusion Applications as well.

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We continue to see unmatched transactional and analytical performance – average of 7,976 times performance improvement over previous systems across all the project implementations. More than 16 customers are in the more than 10K performance improvement club already! And our hardware partners continue to roll-out scale-out solutions, including a 500 TB in memory system we have jointly created with IBM that we showcased at the HANA 1 Year celebration.

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“As-Is” process mapping was critical for software engineering but it offers little value to an SAP implementation

If you have made a firm commitment to the business process engineering then the “As-Is” process mapping exercise not only wastes time but it keeps your business stuck in the old ways of doing things and creates a high likelihood of demands for custom development. Correct SAP blueprinting methods will automatically review the “As-Is” processes but only briefly enough to ensure that the future state covers all of the requirements.

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It was clear that that internal IT as well as Business and IT relationships can be significantly enhanced, employees can benefit from up-skill and a sense of investment, and the organisation can be left with a record of their processes against which all future systems changes can be assessed at the touch of a button.

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If those unique process areas directly impact your industry or market position then they might make sense for customized modifications. However in less unique areas, such as purchasing, or accounting, or inventory management, it makes more sense to try to stay close to the standard functionality.

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So the new thing in Silicon Valley appears to be for public companies to be run as private ones without significant input from boards and shareholders. This leaves the wunderkinder of the Internet free to run their companies without interference. The question is whether this is merely a bubble in corporate governance or a trend that will spread to the rest of corporate America.

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It really boggles the mind that such a court could redefine intellectual property rights in such a fundamental way. Furthermore, I could understand, though not accept, it if this action came from North Korea or China where pirating is an open secret. But to have the European Court of Justice come up with such a boner leaves me just shaking my head.

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“They used to point their finger at IBM and laugh,” said Bill Hill, a former Microsoft manager. “Now they’ve become the thing they despised.”

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Heins said the twice-delayed BlackBerry 10 platform would “empower people as never before” by linking them to parking meters, car computers, credit card machines and ticket counters.

“We do not believe RIM is a company at the end,” he wrote. “RIM is a company at the beginning of a transition that we expect will once again change the way people communicate.”

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Faced with the exhaustion rule, on-premises distribution will seek to be profitable for many vendors. Expect most vendors to move purely to cloud delivery and the rental model in the next 18 to 24 months. Most vendors will lobby for protections in the US Department of Justice and the FTC to avoid the EU debacle.

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Software developers in general—as well as Java, mobile software and Microsoft .Net developers in particular—are in short supply today. Those fields represent four of the top five most difficult positions IT managers are looking to fill, according to a survey of 866 technology-focused hiring managers and recruiters by Web-based IT jobs site Dice.com.

The fifth most difficult skill set to find was in the general area of security, followed by SAP developers, Microsoft Sharepoint specialists and Web developers. Active federal security clearance specialists and network engineering professionals rounded out the top 10. With so many developer positions remaining unfilled, there are several reasons the market isn’t moving to bridge talent gaps, Dice research indicated.

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The second request is part of a regulatory-approval process under antitrust laws. The companies said they intend to continue working with the Justice Department and now expect the deal to close in the fourth quarter of this year. When the deal was disclosed in May, the companies projected it would close in the third quarter.

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The court also said the trade in used software also applied to software that had been downloaded from the Internet, not just to hard copies on a physical medium, such as a CD or DVD.

The Luxembourg-based court said the rights holder exhausted his exclusive distribution right when “he makes available to his customer a copy…and concludes, in return form payment of a fee, a license agreement granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited period.” This also applied to the copy of the computer program “sold as corrected and updated by the copyright holder.”

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Some people are complaining that neither Google nor Ubuntu refer to their operating systems as Linux, here’s why they don’t use the “L” word.

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The company says this midsummer, five-product death notice is part of a “spring clean” the company started last fall. Here’re the products meeting their demise:
iGoogle…
Google Video…
Google Talk Chatback…
Symbian Search App…
Google Mini

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[Video interview -DBM]

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Companies that undercut and neglect IT are playing a dangerous and fool’s game, putting themselves and their customers at risk.

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[Anyone agree with this thesis? Anyone? Anyone? -DBM]
Revenue doesn’t equate to profit, but it’s inevitable that huge Oracle will become the largest seller of cloud applications, says Trip Chowdhry, an analyst for Global Equities Research.

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Please join Hasan Rizvi and other key Oracle executives on July 25 for the launch of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0. Oracle’s latest release of hardware and software is engineered to work together to run your business applications.

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On Monday, the company admitted its online businesses won’t grow as quickly or be as profitable as it has forecast, so it will book a $6.2 billion charge. The move would wipe out Microsoft’s profit for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, according to Wall Street estimates for quarterly results.

The charge mostly reflects a write-down of goodwill related to Microsoft’s 2007 acquisition of aQuantive Inc., a $6.3 billion all-cash deal that Microsoft hoped would catapult it into brokering more ads across the Web.

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Once diagnosed, a simple reboot or an even more simple reset of Linux’s timekeeping (e.g., via date `date +”%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S”`) was enough to fix the problem; the only difficulty was in determining the cause.

Initial reporting often fingered Java or even Cassandra as the culprit, which is a testament to the popularity of these systems in high-traffic web sites, but the actual problem was a kind of livelock in the Linux system calls responsible for timers. What made this non-obvious (if you weren’t one of the unlucky admins whose servers actually crashed) is that tools like top would report that the application in question was consuming the CPU; digging deeper to see that the culprit was system calls like futex_wait misbehaving is beyond the scope of most systems administration.

This affected Java systems software like Cassandra, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Jetty, as well as non-Java code like MySQL or even client software like Firefox.

A fix for the Linux kernel is in progress as of t

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A system administrator would have first noticed the problem manifesting as an extremely high system load or even a system crash that could be traced back, via the normal administrative tools, to an application such as Cassandra, the Java Virtual Machine, Hadoop, or MySQL. The actual culprit, however, turned out to be a harder-to-pinpoint bug in the way Linux updated its clocks when a leap second was introduced, Ellis said.

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More than 600 cities applied to host the first-ever expansion of the patent office. The pool was narrowed to fewer than 50 in the spring. In addition to San Jose, Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas also have been chosen for patent office sites, according to documents obtained by the Denver Post.

“I’m kind of floating right now,” said an ecstatic Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, part of the public-private coalition that pushed hard to persuade the Department of Commerce to select San Jose. As part of the 58-page application submitted in January, 125 valley CEOs signed a letter backing the effort. On Sunday, Guardino was on his way to toast the victory with Lofgren at her San Jose office. “You’ve got to celebrate on this occasion.”

“A local patent office will give Silicon Valley the capability to deal with the volume of patent applications generated here but will also enhance the quality of the applications,” said Lofgren, who also lobbied for the local off

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Companies plan their budgets well in advance for future purchases. They set year-long strategic goals that impact what they look to buy and how much they’re willing to spend. You want to be top-of-mind during these market-planning phases. There will always be discretionary spending and freedom to experiment with new technologies, but don’t miss out on injecting yourself into these key budget cycles.

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Enterprises are accustomed to long sales cycles, approvals, demos, trials, more demos and so forth. Changing those habits is not always easy, and in some cases you’ll have to play by the rules to get a foot in the door. At the same time, customers can stretch things out forever, and you will lose momentum quickly.

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America’s Cup World Series final standings
Place/Team Match points Fleet points Total points
1. Oracle Team USA Spithill 47 55 102
2. Emirates Team New Zealand 41 52 93
3. Artemis Racing 50 32 82
4. Energy Team 38 36 74
5. Oracle Team USA Coutts 39 29 68
6. Team Korea 33 33 66
7. Luna Rossa Piranha 26 26 52
8T. Luna Rossa Swordfish 15 16 31
8T. China Team 15 16 31

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HANA provides a fantastic performance boost – there is no reason why BW customers shouldn’t move to HANA. Significant investments exist in the BW platform, and by leveraging HANA and BOBJ, these customers have a great platform going forward.

But when it comes to non-ERP data, I’m not yet sold that BW is the EDW platform you should use.

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“If you’re looking to drive your own career and make a difference, there is no better opportunity than NetSuite. We have built a culture of teamwork and innovation, where hard work is rewarded. At NetSuite, success is in employees’ hands.”

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“Flexible hours, a very nice work site, very respectful people, and stress-free environment.”

“Commitment to personal integrity, fairness, ethical behavior is real and demonstrated regularly at all levels. I have been in high-tech for 30 years and this is the best place I have ever worked.”

“My boss is great, the people I work with are talented and smart, the work is fun, challenging but doable. ”

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“I have the flexibility I need to balance my work and personal life.”

“The people I work with and the people I work for. The benefits are outstanding.”

“Working under ambitious and motivated managers coupled with a strong team.”

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“I work with highly creative team and I always feel I can speak my mind. My managers are very supportive and treat me well. ”

“My manager is positive and supportive. My team is fun and energizing. The executives of the company and smart and strategic and are working to ensure the future success of the company.”

“The team members are awesome, the work is challenging and interesting and I love the benefits VMware gives to all employees.”

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It’s a high-tech global marketplace, but this year’s Top Workplaces also depend on face-to-face and personal communication as they strive to keep staff motivated and collegial. Encouraging teamwork and support of employees, each company focuses on frequent communication within their operations.

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“Flexible work hours and self-guided leadership, yet I am held accountable for my actions and output.”

“I am innovating, creating value for customers and generating revenue for SAP”

“I am surrounded by top-notch professionals all the time who are always willing to help.”

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“I have a lot of fun and the work is meaningful”

“I have support from my management team. They are both positive and encouraging.”

“Actuate values the balance between personal lives and work. ”

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“Because I’m encouraged to learn and grow. I’m given the opportunity to take on additional responsibilities. I have flexibility and I’m supported by my manager and team.”

“Everyone here is passionate about what they do. My manager is excellent, and our company is doing great.”

“I love the culture, love the product we build and the technology it uses. People I work with are smart and nice and have integrity. It is a fun and exciting place to work.”

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“I work for a company that is changing the world of business in direct, impactful and extremely profound ways.”

“I work with bright people and have a lot of responsibilities that make me part of something great!”

“NetSuite is a great place to work and is flexible with the needs of their employees.”

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“Great people, great environment, great compensation.”

“I have work-life balance, the company is always doing innovative things and the management respects and values my job function.”

“They are long-term thinkers with very deep business insight.”

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Google Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt has proposed a series of changes to end his company’s possible abuse of its dominant market position in Internet search and advertising, as alleged earlier this year by the European Commissioner for Competition, Joaquin Almunia.

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Strengthening its systems management, security and data protection services, Dell has agreed to acquire enterprise software specialists Quest Software for $2.4 billion, at $28.00 per share.

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The acquisition provides critical components to expand Dell’s software
capabilities in systems management, security, data protection and workspace management. In
addition, Quest’s software portfolio is highly complementary to Dell’s scalable design approach to
develop solutions that scale with customer needs. Some examples include:

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Apple’s strategy of taking Google’s Android partners to court instead of going after Android itself, has in effect turned up a notch with this injunction. The Galaxy Nexus is Google’s Android flagship phone, which before the injunction was sold in Google’s Play store as well as by other retailers.

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This 3 minute whiteboard will help you better understand how SAP’s cloud computing strategy can help your business run better than ever through a combination of industry & line of business specific applications and analytics.

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Apple Inc. will pay $60 million to settle a trademark dispute with a Chinese company over the iPad name, according to a Chinese court, potentially resolving a case that illustrated new intellectual-property challenges for foreign businesses in China.

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LinkedIn said Twitter had “evolved its strategy.”

“We know that sharing updates from LinkedIn to Twitter is a valuable service for our members,” according to the notice. “Moving forward, you will still be able to share updates with your Twitter audience by posting them on LinkedIn.”

LinkedIn users can push their content to Twitter by checking a box with Twitter’s icon and clicking “share.”

The two companies had worked together since 2009. Twitter was oblique about the changes and didn’t mention LinkedIn, writing that it did not want developers to mimic its application.

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“What you’ll see us do more and more as a platform is allow third parties to build into Twitter.”

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SAP AG today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA Infrastructure Projects” report(1) and the “Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects” report.(2) The products examined in the reports are part of the 7.3 version of the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform.

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“There are a lot of really interesting and different ways to use those, regrettably they are trying to kill most of them and inflict a homogonized, boring, monoculture on their user base they can monotize, which will make the experience progressively worse,” the poster said.

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Red Hat is ramping up for the next generation data center by supporting Google’s Open Compute project, software-def ined networking advancements such as OpenvSwitch and OpenFlow and making steady advancements in the operating system, virtualization, storage and networking, company executives said at the summit this week.

Red Hat, for example, is optimizing its Linux, storage and virtualization software platforms to hook into Google’s Open Compute project to provide for a more agile and flexible data center, essential for cloud computing. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is ready for certification on Open Compute Hardware.

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As a result, the Apple of the past may still be the Apple of the present, but don’t expect it to be the Apple of the future. Clearly, it’s a buy or hold stock for the moment, but don’t hold your breath. The fault lines are there. Keep an eye on where Cook spends his personal time at work and what problems (or products) he associates himself with. Ignore the Apple PR spin that Cook doesn’t need to innovate; research shows that innovative companies are led by innovative leaders. And the Apple of the future is not likely to be an exception to that rule. It hasn’t been and won’t be, so watch well and be ready to sell.

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Wrong: “SAP HANA is 5-50X more expensive than Exalytics.” 1 TB HANA H/W would cost $362K, and SAP HANA software would cost $3.75 M.

Right: For 1 TB we expect H/W to cost $40-$60K (not $362K) and software to be also dramatically less expensive than touted here. Also SAP HANA is available at price points for different market segments.

It ranges from HANA edge for small-business with appropriate prices (e.g. $12K for a single node H/W + $2K for HANA for SAP B1 Analytics on HANA) to very large scenarios of greater than 100TB of memory. Customers can also buy SAP HANA for an app (BW, BPC, CO-PA, Smart Meter Analytics, etc.) or for data marts and data warehousing. BW on HANA for Data warehouse sizes of 40 TB is very competitive. Also, HANA pricing is inclusive of everything customers need – test, development and QA environments and support. There is no need to buy other software for data loading and movement, storage acceleration (e.g. Exadata) etc. Considering all this – for a 512 GB u

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The webcast was supposed to be announcing Exalytics functionality, but he spent more than half of the hour specifically attacking SAP HANA.

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According to Oracle, TimesTen (their in-memory database) is significantly better than SAP HANA, based on their comaparative strengths over SAP Hana in the following features:

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[Perhaps the most flawed analysis ever. -DBM]

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The “leap second bug” hit just as the web was recovering from a major outage to Amazon Web Services, an online operation that runs as much as one percent of the internet. Some operations, including Google, saw the leap second coming and prepared for it, but others weren’t so diligent.

In a post to Twitter, Reddit — the popular news aggregation and discussion site owned by the same parent company as Wired — said it was experiencing problems with “Java/Cassandra,” referring to the open source database, and it attributed these problems to the leap second. Originally designed by Facebook and now used across the web and beyond, Cassandra is built with Java.

Reddit did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, Eric Ziegenhorn — a site reliability engineer with Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser — posted a bug report on the organization’s site saying that Mozilla was experiencing problems with Hadoop, another open source platform written in Java. Ziegenhorn also b

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Initially, many will be written off by the legacy players as too simple to be important. But as they rise, we’ll see software categories created, remade and destroyed. Some of these apps, of course, will invariably go the way of Yammer, and be snapped up by incumbents. Others, however, will remain independent, evolve to the needs of large enterprises, and turn into leaders that define the next generation of enterprise software. And then they, too, will have to defend their positions against the next wave of “toys.”

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In short, we have both groups still, those who wish to profit from restricting competition and those who wish to do so by beating the competition. But our technology gurus strike me as being more those on the good side, as with Carnegie and Vanderbilt, than on the bad.

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Given their prominence, we know surprisingly little about our modern moguls – for various reasons. One is that we are remarkably incurious about what makes them tick. We focus instead on the fact that one of them (Zuckerberg) wears a hoodie even when being interviewed by investment bankers; or that Larry Page, co-founder of Google, refused to stop using his laptop when a big media mogul came to talk to him; or that Bill Gates used to rock furiously backwards and forwards in a rocking chair when being interviewed for an anti-trust case; or that Steve Jobs drove a comparatively modest sports car and lived in a small, old-fashioned house rather than the postmodern minimalist palace that many people would have predicted.

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“It just feels longer when you’re effectively helpless,” he said.

[How many non-Cloud data centers, how many IT departments, have gone down in this weekend’s storm and power outage? I’m willing to bet that lots more enterprises were impacted by their own data center outages than by Amazon’s outage … -DBM]

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By the end of 2012, SAP will make a new enhancement package for Netweaver 7.3 available to first customers and partners that will bring ABAP and SAP HANA together more closely.

(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)

This document describes SAP’s vision, strategy, development, and commitment to enable ABAP for SAP HANA.

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The executives were stunned by how deeply Apple was willing to reach into the global supply chain to secure innovative materials for the iPad and, once it did, to corner the market on those supplies. Microsoft’s executives worried that Windows PC makers were not making the same kinds of bets, the former employee said.

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There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1.

Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.

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It was the stunt heard ’round the world: On Wednesday, as Google co-founder Sergey Brin prepared to promote his latest pet project, a team of sky divers leapt from a zeppelin hovering over San Francisco’s Moscone Center, landed on the roof and hand-delivered to Brin a pair of Google’s “Project Glass” computing glasses — all while connected in real-time to the Internet so those below could see the action from the divers’ perspective.

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Google’s Sergey Brin leads a demo of Google’s Project Glass with a group of skydivers outfitted with the new video-capturing spectacles. The skydivers jump from an airplane during Google I/O while attendees watch via the company’s Hangout software.

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The Nexus 7 reveals how Google wants to play the tablet game. They’re gunning straight for Amazon, who not only have a huge content store that people are happy to use, but also have their own forked version of Android running on the Kindle Fire… a version of the OS that Google has no control over, and that earns Google no advertising revenue. Every sale of a Nexus 7 is likely one less sale of a Kindle Fire, slowing down Amazon’s ecosystem and adding to the momentum behind a Google controlled experience.

(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)

Google and Microsoft will both take a hit as they regroup and put their weight behind their new unifying efforts. This will be because they have to build up brand and trust over again.

Meanwhile Apple will continue to dominate in hardware, selling iOS and OS X devices by the million, but even its most dedicated customers must acknowledge that both operating systems aren’t as fresh as they used to be.

So while it’ll be another year of big sales for Apple, you’ll see a creeping discontent with its software offerings. A full overhaul will be due — maybe even overdue — by June of next year, when Apple again gathers its global cadre of developers. But by that time, who knows? Maybe Google and Microsoft will have gotten their acts together, and the sparks of their own reinventions will be catching fire.

(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)

Apple is running servers from IBM and Oracle with flavors of the Unix operating system at its Malden, North Carolina, data center, according to a job entry posted on the company’s website.

(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)

Apple and its lawyers convinced Judge Koh that the Galaxy Nexus likely infringes all four of the patents asserted in the preliminary injunction motion, and that all four of them are likely valid.

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[Marketing demo of SAP Business ByDesign -DBM]

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