Todd Papaioannou knows a thing or two about Hadoop. The former chief cloud architect at Yahoo, Papaioannou is now leading a new startup called Continuuity. Continuuity’s aim is to make the benefits of the Hadoop framework available to folks other…
Cisco is expanding its Tidal Enterprise Scheduler technology in a new release that takes aim at Big Data workloads. The latest version of the software, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 6.1, includes Hadoop capabilities, a self-service portal for scheduling jobs and mobile…
SAP is not a hardware company. That fact is helping fuel a rush of new server hardware platforms and features from IBM, Cisco and HP that are designed to leverage SAP’s HANA, the in-memory database software technology which the software…
BP Logix, a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has introduced Process Director Version 2.5, the latest version of its flagship product. Among the new functionality: Records management capability that supports both disposition rules and retention policies for submitted…
Sales are still on an upward trajectory for Salesforce.com. The software-as-a-service cloud application provider reported fiscal second quarter 2012 earnings that continue to defy gravity. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff also used his company’s earnings call as an opportunity to promote…
LAS VEGAS — SAP applications could potentially be at risk from an emerging type of exploit known as Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). That’s the message coming from security researcher Alexander Polyakov at this week’s Black Hat security research conference.…
In a world where applications are increasingly delivered in cloud-based models, the line between native desktop and Web-based apps is blurring. Ubuntu Linux vendor Canonical aims to blur the line even further with a new initiative called Ubuntu WebApps. The…
The whole point of using business intelligence applications is to get better insight out of data, a task made easier by better engaging end users. Given this, the ability to visualize and interact with data is a key focus for…
By Juan Porter, president of TopDown Consulting Oracle earlier this year released Hyperion 11.1.2.2. While a multiple dot release typically represents a minor upgrade, this new Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) release is full of new modules, features and enhancements that…
As Enterprise Apps Today reported in April, while enterprises are keen to bring more mobile apps to their workforces, many find consumer mobile app stores like The Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store don’t adequately meet their needs. A…