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The latest major vendor to try its hand at "democratizing" Big Data is Oracle, which today announced a quartet of new products designed "to enable Hadoop, NoSQL, and SQL technologies to work together and be deployed securely in any model -- whether public cloud, private cloud or an on-premises infrastructure."
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App crashing? There's an app for that.
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Microsoft today announced updates to several Big Data-related services on its Azure cloud platform, exhibiting a continuation of its new direction toward openness and interoperability.
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The company is open sourcing its Big Data platform, helping to found an Open Data Platform to promote technologies based on open source software, and is joining with Hortonworks Inc. to further Apache Hadoop capabilities.
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Datameer Inc. has introduced what it calls the first enterprise-grade Big Data analytics platform targeting department-specific deployments.
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Node.js, the popular open-source, server-side JavaScript runtime project, will soon be governed by an independent foundation.
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Excelsior has shipped an updated version of its flagship Java optimizer and native code generator, called JET ("Just Enough Time").
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Scala.js, the open-source Scala to JavaScript compiler, is no longer "experimental," say the project's maintainers.
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One of the coolest data visualizations I've seen in a while shows JavaScript rules the repository roost on GitHub, by a pretty big margin.
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Enterprise NoSQL database platform vendor MarkLogic Corp. cited "massive enhancements for developers" in the latest version of its flagship database.
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Service virtualization can be a real productivity boost for developers. John delves into what it is/what it can do with expert analyst Theresa Lanowitz.
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Industry perspectives on developer fatigue plus a possible solution.
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Mobile dev tools keep emerging to solve that pesky "coding is hard" problem.
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Big Data specialist BlueData Software Inc. added Tachyon to its EPIC private cloud platform as a speedy in-memory distributed file system option.
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Extending a process started last year, Microsoft yesterday announced it has open sourced its CoreCLR execution engine for the .NET Framework.
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"We're not chasing the write-once, run-anywhere pipe dream. Instead, what we want to do is chase the learn-once, write-anywhere paradigm."
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Lavastorm Analytics is the latest company seeking to "democratize" Big Data analytics in the face of a lack of data scientists, developers and others with advanced statistical and analytics skills.
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Along with the explosion of mobile apps comes an explosion in mobile app development platforms, as evidenced by a new offering with an enterprise social twist and a company coming out of stealth with new funding and a design-centric approach using a variant of C#.
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Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) will offer a Go programming language SDK to its stable after taking over a third-party project it happened to notice.
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IoT Think Tank
The differences between the Interet of Things (IoT) and, say, embedded systems may seem small but they're vital -- it's those differences that will take IoT to the mainstream this year.