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As more applications are moving towards open source databases, skills, code quality remain key challenges.  For small enterprises, open source databases offer lesser up front investments when coupled with on-demand database solutions. Customers have made a great leap of faith on open source databases these days.   With many open source applications coming to the fray based on Internet based applications …

New research from CEB’s Marketing Leadership Council shows that potential business customers are increasingly using digital channels to form opinions about major purchases. Today’s business buyers do not contact suppliers directly until 57 percent of the purchase process is complete. The challenge for marketers is to be present in these channels at all times with content that educates buyers and …

New NFV Platform Will Accelerate Cloud-Based Delivery Models for Operators, Enable Interoperability and Accelerate Standards Through an Open Source Reference Implementation The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the founding of the Open Platform for NFV Project (OPNFV). OPNFV will be a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform intended …

Businesses, whether small or large, are churning huge amounts of data at an unprecedented rate from a multitude of sources – posts to social media sites, application downloads, digital pictures and video uploads, mobile GPS signals etc. The ability to collate relevant data from these sources and convert it into actionable business insights with the aim of improving efficiency and …

  At a time when power sector is looking at solutions to enable better management of their grid scenario, cloud computing technologyholds great potential when it comes to powering smart utility initiatives and applications. In such a scenario, a secure, reliable and economic power supply is closely linked to a fast, efficient and dependable communications infrastructure. Here the appliance of …

CIOs have spent the past decade tending to IT operations in a world of tight budgets, limited technology innovation, cost cutting, outsourcing and control. But over the past 2 years, digital technologies, including mobile, big data/analytics, social and cloud, have reached a tipping point with their business executives, changing IT’s business and technical context. The tension between cost and digital …

Although the prolonged severity of the recent economic slowdown, and depressed key end-use sectors have elicited decline in value sales for physical access control systems, the market is nevertheless expected to recover poise in the short to medium term period to reach US$6.0 billion by 2015, according to Global Industry Analysts report. Primary factors fingered to drive this growth include …

As cloud computing is one such technology that is engulfing many more segments and areas within the technology and even non technology domains, cloud computing is now all set to drive in mobile gaming as well. There is an emergence of software driven gaming that is completely cloud based and will enable customers to play graphically engaging games on Apple’s …

Expands industry-leading Peakflow solution from Arbor Networks by providing visibility and threat detection for HSPA/LTE networks. A Denial of Service attack (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) aims at rendering a computer resource either unavailable or with sufficiently crippled user accessibility. There are different techniques and means to launch such attacks. Motives could also be very varied, as …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an alternative design approach for building complex IT applications, particularly in the telecommunications and service provider industries, that virtualizes entire classes of function into building blocks that may be connected, or chained, together to create services. For example, virtualized session border controller function could be deployed to protect a network without the typical cost and …