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	VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. In this Issue Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability Glyn Meek: Programming: Old school versus new school From CIO.com: 21 Chrome Web Apps for Serious Work Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people Google+, Facebook duel is big boon for users WEBCAST: SAP How to Create a Modern BI Strategy for Mid-Size Businesses As technology changes, so does BI. Keeping up with these changes to get the most out of your BI strategy can be challenging, but not if you have the right tools and services in place. With technology advances such as social networking and mobility, how do BI and analytics fit in? View now Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open-source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance. Read More Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC conference, being held this week in Seattle. Read More Glyn Meek: Programming: Old school versus new school I always though that the people who wrote programs back in the 70s were much better than those who write them today. Perhaps I was wrong ... who knew? Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Why you need a Cloud to Call Your Own Private cloud computing may not offer the same degree of cost savings as public cloud computing, but greater flexibility and time savings will outweigh less significant cost savings in the long term. A joint F5-IBM cloud computing solution based on proven technology and standards can help you get to the private cloud faster. Read More! From CIO.com: 21 Chrome Web Apps for Serious Work If you use Google's Chrome browser (or a Chromebook), check out these great document creation, collaboration and management tools. Read More Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people Google+ has a new option that will enable users to take a simple step to 'ignore' people on the social networking site. Read More Google+, Facebook duel is big boon for users Industry analysts have suspected that adding Google+ to the social networking mix would force Facebook to up its game. And it looks like that prediction is coming true. Read More
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