Feb 25
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Open…and Shut It will come as no surprise to the largely libertarian technology industry that big government has done little to advance the interests of Silicon Valley. But you might raise your eyebrows at the degree to which the US government is hurting the very people it tries to help.…
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Feb 25
Queplix Wednesday put a couple of tools on the market that are supposed to make it easier, quicker and cheaper to move data to the cloud.
Its new VirtualETL and CloudETL lines bring data virtualization to usually thorny extract, transform and load (ETL) tasks and are supposed to cut the time required to connect applications a good 75% compared to traditional ETL methodologies.
Queplix CEO Mark Cashman says using data virtualization for ETL “changes everything; ETL teams can mix any combination of relational, object, cloud or XML-based applications. And they don’t need to use SQL to set up connectivity, define the transforms, tune data quality or get the integration into production. We’ve essentially turned the cost model upside down, lowering product costs and dramatically reducing set-up costs.”
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Feb 25
Queplix Wednesday put a couple of tools on the market that are supposed to make it easier, quicker and cheaper to move data to the cloud.
Its new VirtualETL and CloudETL lines bring data virtualization to usually thorny extract, transform and load (ETL) tasks and are supposed to cut the time required to connect applications a good 75% compared to traditional ETL methodologies.
Queplix CEO Mark Cashman says using data virtualization for ETL “changes everything; ETL teams can mix any combination of relational, object, cloud or XML-based applications. And they don’t need to use SQL to set up connectivity, define the transforms, tune data quality or get the integration into production. We’ve essentially turned the cost model upside down, lowering product costs and dramatically reducing set-up costs.”
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Feb 25
PC World - Virtualization isn’t just for geeks or those who run enormously powerful servers. It offers something for everybody, and if you haven’t yet dipped your toe into the virtualization ocean, then you’re at serious risk of being left behind.
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Feb 25
Get this complimentary report today to learn how you can get the most out of server virtualization by understanding how critical your storage strategy is to data center transformation. Get the information you need to make the best storage decisions so your data center is ready for what’s next. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited
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Feb 25
The acquisition of 3PAR by HP in late 2010 cast the spotlight on the next generation of Tier 1 storage. Go beyond the media coverage with this complimentary Taneja Group Analysis of 3PAR, which discusses how 3PAR Utility Storage is designed to uniquely support virtualization and cloud environments in delivering IT-as-a-Service. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited
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Feb 25
meta coder writes with word of the release of FreeBSD 8.2: “This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights includes improvements in Xen support and various bugfixes.”


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Feb 25
itwbennett writes “It’s nothing like the glory days of Xerox PARC, but still there are some interesting projects in Xerox’s new Open Xerox website. Copyfinder, for example, takes an electronic document and returns the URLs pointing to it, to different versions of the document, and to related documents. Trailmeme is a new publishing tool that allows readers to navigate stories in both Web-like and book-like ways. And the Arabic Morphological Analyzer accepts modern standard Arabic words and returns morphological analysis and English notation. As of Thursday, 15 research projects were posted at Open Xerox, and the company has another 70 projects in the pipeline, said Victor Ciriza, lab manager at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.”


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Virtual Computer, Intel and Lenovo Kick Off Virtualization Webinar Series WHAT: Rachel Chalmers, industry expert and analyst for The 451 Group, will… Read more at VMblog.com.
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Feb 25
Zeus Technology, a pure software-based application traffic management ( Application Delivery Controller ) company, announces today that Zeus Simple… Read more at VMblog.com.
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