DBSeer, a software system developed by MIT researchers, can improve cloud computing performance as well as reduce hardware requirements by 95%. It makes use of techniques in order to create more accurate models of resource demands and performance in database-driven applications. This is basically the content of the research presented at the Biennial Conference on…
Shares of stock of EMC and VMware went up after unveiling Pivotal Initiative at a recent investors’ forum. The big data project aims to help companies find better ways to use information from Facebook and Twitter. Share prices of VMware went up to $81.37, an increase of 8.1% while prices of EMC jumped to $24.90 for…
There’s one more addition to Europe’s growing number of mobile payment providers. Aside from local startup companies, Intuit recently launched its mobile credit card payment system known as Intuit Pay. It was initially launched in the United Kingdom, ahead of PayPal which first announced launching its own mobile payment in the region. Intuit’s closes US…
The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: Israel Israel has always had a great reputation as one of the best hubs of software innovation in the world, and so it is not a surprise that Israeli companies are also some of the early entrants into the cloud computing space. The cloud computing scene in…
Israel has always had a great reputation as one of the best hubs of software innovation in the world, and so it is not a surprise that Israeli companies are also some of the early entrants into the cloud computing space. The cloud computing scene in Israel is made up of traditional fields of expertise…
Cyberwar fundamentally changes how government must handle security. Faced with increasingly sophisticated attacks from gangs of cyber criminals and foreign governments probing systems for sensitive data, threats frequently go undetected for days, weeks, and even months. And it’s not just financial data being stolen. Terrorists and rogue governments may steal confidential data, including intelligence information,…
Originally founded in 2011 by Paul Biggar and Allen Rohner, CircleCI offers continuous integration (the CI in their name) as well as CTaaS, or Code Testing as a Service. The two founders even jokingly refer to their company as “Heroku for code testing” (Heroku being Salesforce.com’s PaaS platform). The biggest benefit of CircleCI can be…
3D Printing was one of the key topics at SXSW in Austin, TX last week. Not alone due to the keynote by MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis. 3D Printing is being used mainly for manufacturing of various parts, to actual rendering of CAD output, and as a recent incident proves, can also be used to make…
Tagattitude Introduces Mobile Banking for Rural Areas At a recent Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, the old and obsolete Nokia mobile phone took center stage. A small French firm explained that this type of cellular phone is being used for mobile bankingin areas […] Related Articles: Pentagon is Deploying Secure Mobile Devices for…
At a recent Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, the old and obsolete Nokia mobile phone took center stage. A small French firm explained that this type of cellular phone is being used for mobile banking in areas where smart phones aren’t popular. Most technological firms are geared towards producing sophisticated mobile products for…