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IBM’s new FlashCore Module 4 – ransomware attack detection cut from minutes to seconds
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Cisco to acquire Splunk for $28 billion
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IBM dives into data lakes with the Elastic Storage System 5000
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Supercomputers hunt for answers to COVID-19
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8. SaaS and Infrastructure will lead the software market
The software market will grow by 3.0% in 2020 and we will spend more on almost every product type. I expect the strongest spending growth to be on the Software as a Service (SaaS) area, with an increase of 5.1% over the 2019 rate (nevertheless the increase in SaaS spending […] Read more »
Red Bull Racing’s Malaysian win and its Milton Keynes IT
Formula 1 has much to show commercial IT how to run future systems. Read more »
IBM Edge 2016 – Tom Rosamilia on the need for innovation
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2016 prediction 8 – Applications dominate in the shift towards a ‘Software Defined’ future
Cloud computing will grow by 13% to reach $354B. The strongest growth will be in SaaS (26.3%), which we count as part of the software market. IT services engage to build and manage private, public and hybrid clouds will grow by 16.3%, PaaS by 7.7% and IaaS by 8.1%. The […] Read more »
SAP Business Suite On HANA – The Shift To Real-Time ERP
SAP launches its Business Suite on HANA, stretching in-memory databases to industry sector ERP. Read our analysis. Read more »
ARM In Servers – Hyperscale Or Hyperbole?
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Hadoop And Big Data Enterprise Challenges
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