MIT-backed DBSeer Improves Cloud Computing Performance by 95%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 researchpresented [...]
EMC and VMware Shares Boost Due to Big Data
Shares of stock of EMC and VMware went up after unveiling Pivotal Initiative at a recent investors’ forum. The big data projectaims 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 [...]
Intuit Beats PayPal, Launches First Mobile Payments Solution in the UK
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 launchedin the United Kingdom, ahead of PayPal which first announced launching its own mobile payment in the region. Intuit’s [...]
News Digest March 24, 2013The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: IsraelIsrael 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 [...]