Data virtualization could be the next big thing in the customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise applications space. If you can imagine an environment where you can integrate on-premise, cloud and SaaS applications quickly, easily and securely, you’re on your…
Visible Technologies has announced its vision for Social Intelligence and also announced Visible Intelligence, a software platform built from the ground-up for the future of the social Web. As mentioned in the company’s news release on Business Wire, Visible Intelligence…
Online tracking company, RapLeaf, knows more millions of Americans than others do: their real names and email addresses. According to this report on WSJ.com, most trackers either can’t or won’t keep the ultimate piece of personal information — a name…
According to a new report on Bloomberg, European Union regulators may propose expanded criminal penalties to enforce data protection rules that limit what companies and governments can do with personal information. As noted in the report, Google Inc. and Facebook…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Momentum is growing to regulate data and online privacy, according to a new U.S. government internet policy official, who cited a number of domestic and international efforts that could lead to stronger controls on personal data. Ari…
According to PC World, SAP plans to release its High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) in November. Also noted in the report is that the HANA machines employ in-memory technology SAP has been developing for some time. In-memory processing pushes data into…
OpenERP seems to be a rarity among open source business software companies. There are no special enterprise editions — open source and paying customers get the exact same software and features — yet the company has managed to turn a…
EMC has rolled out a new Data Computing Appliance, claiming it can crunch “big data” faster than other systems at a lower cost. As reported on EnterpriseStorageForum, The new EMC (NYSE: EMC) Greenplum Data Computing Appliance integrates database, compute, storage…
Open source business intelligence company Pentaho unveiled BI and data integration tools for Hadoop this week, but they aren’t available to users of the free community edition of Pentaho. The new offerings, unveiled at Hadoop World this week, make Hadoop…
A research paper published this week should serve as a wake-up call to those who are particularly fond of social networking sites and therefore make ideal candidates for a new breed of malware that in practice resembles something close to…