Helping businesses mobilise data from SharePoint, Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM or WebSphere London, 4 July 2012 - United Planet (www.unitedplanet.com), one of the leading developers of enterprise portal software in Europe, will be releasing its new Intrexx Business Adapter for OData later this summer. The smart interface for OData data sources will enable data from all software systems and Internet services that use OData as their foundation to be incorporated into Web applications and enterprise portal processes, quickly and without any additional programming. This will increase the speed at which data from Microsoft SharePoint, Dynamics ERP and CRM, IBM WebSphere and other systems can be made available on any smartphone and other mobile devices. Axel Wessendorf, managing director of United Planet, explains: "Providers of software solutions and Internet services are inc... (more)

EU court's SAS ruling conflicts with Oracle v Google

In a blow to SAS's efforts to litigate competitor and low-cost SAS clone WPS out of existence, the European Union High Court has ruled that programming languages can't be copyrighted. SAS Institute (Cary, NC) had claimed that the WPS software — which allows users to process SAS data files and SAS "data step" scripts without SAS software — breached SAS's copyright in its re-implementation of SAS functionality. But given that WPS did not study SAS source code, and merely reimplemented its interfaces and behaviour based on observation, the court ruled that this was not a violation. ... (more)

The evolution of the office

International Data Corporation, in conjunction with Microsoft, recently announced research that suggested that by 2015, the cloud will add 14 million jobs across the globe. It’s safe to say that we’ve crossed the chasm (thanks Geoffrey), at least in terms of acceptance of the cloud as the way businesses will use technology in the future. The question is no longer, “Are you in the cloud?” But rather, “What are you using it for?” Unfortunately, just when we think people are starting to “get” the cloud, a new level of confusion is being introduced by the cloud providers themselve... (more)

Emulex Partners with Myricom to Enter High Performance Networking Market for Low Latency Applications

COSTA MESA, Calif, May 8, 2012 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the introduction of a family of new OneConnect® Network Xceleration™ solutions for the High Performance Networking (HPN) market. Emulex is bringing its new family of OneConnect (OC)e12000 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Network Xceleration solutions to market in partnership with Myricom, an industry leader in delivering high performance, latency optimised Ethernet solutions for vertical market applications. This multi-generational marketing and development partnership leverages Myricom's deep expertise in HPN, ... (more)

Monitoring Redis Database with Monitis

Among other NoSQL databases there is a particularly nice one called REDIS. It’s an open source and advanced key-value store database. What is meant by ‘advanced’ here? Redis keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets on which you can run atomic operations. It also works with an in-memory dataset, supports master slave replication and is equally useful for tiny projects running on a single VPS as it is for huge services running across dozens of servers. But we are not going to discuss the features of Redis here, because those are already well covered in many other ... (more)