Oracle Database 12c review: Finally, a true cloud database

	In-memory technology speeds up data analytics | Software AG angles its messaging platform for Big Data conveyance
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	Oracle Database 12c review: Finally, a true cloud database Pluggable databases bring a new level of efficiency and ease to database consolidation, while a wealth of other new features address performance, availability and more. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Best Practices in Data Protection Monitoring Whether you consider your domain to be a private cloud, a hybrid cloud, or a public cloud, you are providing data protection as a service. According to ESG's 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey, improving data backup and recovery was the number two-most important IT priority selected by respondents (27%). Learn more. In this Issue In-memory technology speeds up data analytics Software AG angles its messaging platform for Big Data conveyance Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Rackspace supercharges MongoDB service Sharky: See how easy an update can be? Dutch big data project aims to improve flood control, save millions How to turn CSV data into interactive visualizations with R and rCharts VMware and MapR hope to simplify virtualized big data RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Forbes White Paper: Global Cloud Perspectives Read a Forbes Insight study that examines what business leaders really think about the cloud. Learn how more than 500 senior executives from companies around the world are progressively using cloud collaboration to increase productivity, accelerate business results, and enhance innovation across borders and functions. Download Now In-memory technology speeds up data analytics Long the purview of financial firms looking for an edge as they make lightning-fast transactions, in-memory technology is starting to catch the attention of many firms that conduct real-time analysis. Read More Software AG angles its messaging platform for Big Data conveyance Anticipating a greater need for large-scale enterprise messaging, Software AG has rebranded its messaging software, integrated it with its Terracotta in-memory storage technology and is now is pitching the product outside its initial market of large financial firms. Read More Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Read More Rackspace supercharges MongoDB service Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen, the company shepherding the open source MongoDB, to provide advanced support for the service. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8 Business Growing Pains: 5 Ways VoIP Helps If your business is growing, you probably already know that growth also means continually expanding needs. In particular, communication systems often become a stumbling block for small businesses trying to expand. View now Sharky: See how easy an update can be? User calls this sysadmin pilot fish at a health care not-for-profit organization, complaining that the client database program keeps freezing up on her netbook. Fortunately, fish knows all she needs is a simple update. Read More Dutch big data project aims to improve flood control, save millions A big data project called Digital Delta aims to investigate how to transform flood control and the management of the entire Dutch water system and save up to 15% of the annual Dutch water management budget. Read More How to turn CSV data into interactive visualizations with R and rCharts Once your data are in the right format, just a couple of lines of R code can generate a robust chart or graph from your spreadsheet. Read More VMware and MapR hope to simplify virtualized big data MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. Read More
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