Friday, March 19, 2010

Stuff I read in between everything else all week--mar 15-19 2010

CA To Buy Nimsoft For $350 Million

Text Mining: Will 2010 be the year when text analytics is adopted by the masses?

Microsoft to offer Web analytics for Silverlight apps

A trend? Intel releases $125 'affordable' SSD

Twitter Turns on Its Geolocation Feature, Makes It Opt-in

Database Activity Monitoring Part 4 - Compliance and Technical Architecture

TIBCO rolls out Spotfire 3.1 with spotlight on predictive analytics

Cast Iron launches integration platform to help pull hybrid cloud models together

Can Novell thrive by being a jack of all trades?

What is Social Media Management, and Why Should You Care?

Will Oracle's Open Source Efforts Die of Brain Drain?

Facebook pushing 'Suicide Machine' into an open-source afterlife

Oracle Loses XML Co-inventor to Google
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/932094/5553367/62471/0/

Pegasystems Buys CRM Vendor Chordiant
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/932094/5553367/62479/0/

W3C Launches Decisions and Decision-Making Incubator Group
Staff, W3C Announcement
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Elastic Provisioning in the Cloud: Terracotta and Eucalyptus Integration
http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/03/tc-eucalyptus
http://www.terracotta.org/news/pr/2010-02-09-terracotta-and-eucalyptus.html

The Rise of Free -- and Fake -- Antivirus Software

Google Set to Close China Site

Teradata Boosts Data Warehouse Appliance Speed

Autonomy Delivers the First Meaning-Based Multichannel Customer Interaction Analytics Application http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4207423&access=EH

Progress Releases Real Time BPM Suite

Do SSDs Belong In Laptops?

Database Activity Monitoring Part 4 - Compliance and Technical Architecture

SAP revamp could include big acquisitions

Progress Releases Real-Time BPM Suite

Tibco Brings Analytics to Spotfire Business Users

Microsoft, PreEmptive Launch Silverlight Analytics Tools

Cast Iron Launches Cloud Integration Platform

Twitter to simplify integration of tweets into Web sites

StoredIQ and NetApp Deliver Next-Generation Enterprise-Class Information Management Solution http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4207836&access=EH

IBM Extends Development and Test to the IBM Cloud http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4207615&access=EH

Sibley Memorial Hospital Selects CareTech Solutions as Infrastructure Outsourcing Partner http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4207578&access=EH

Microsoft Announces Hardware-Accelerated HTML5, Pushes Boundaries on Web and Cloud Development

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4208008&access=EH


The Appliance Wars Drag On And On


Mitch Wagner: Twitter's confusing @anywhere announcement: An attempt at an explanation


Mitch Wagner: Why does Twitter's @anywhere have to be so cryptic?


Andre Yee: How Social Media Influence Impacts Customer Service


Ted Cuzzillo: How Lyza stole the buzz at TDWI


The Modern XML Appliance: From Acceleration to Integration and into the Cloud


Sparx to Embed Service-Oriented Modeling Framework for SOA and Cloud Computing Modeling


If 'semantic web' annoys you, read on...


Twitter Will Stream Tweets Across Popular Web Sites

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=100006NX821W&nl=2&full_skip=1

The Trouble With Twitter's @anywhere Service
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/933284/5553367/62837/0/


SXSW: Twitter Announcement a Real Yawner
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/933284/5553367/62842/0/


Is the Data Delivery Platform a Federated Architecture?

http://ow.ly/1nh2C


Novell Expands SUSE Appliance Program With Ingres http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4208749&access=EH


Former Yahoo Data Executives Join Forces to Create nPario, a Startup that Helps Organizations Understand and Market Consumer Intent http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4208967&access=EH


Dataupia's Hinshaw Back in the Saddle


The Many Uses of Data Federation


Software Enables Complex Customer Searches Across Huge Database


Twitter's @anywhere could prove risky for users


Information Builders Delivers Latest Version of Performance Management Framework


Extreme Cloud Computing, CERN Style
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69548.html


Twitter Turns On Its Geolocation Feature


Social CRM Thrives on Powerful Dashboards and Process Analytics


Interested in How Well SAP is Addressing Your Data Management and BI Requirements?


Actuate Goes Apple and Creates Information Platform for Cloud Computing


The Economic Approach and BI


Data Services and Virtualization


Will Google Tip the Scale Toward OpenID?


SQL Server Geospatial Data


Microsoft Drives Customer Success With Microsoft Dynamics CRM http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4209783&access=EH


Microsoft Accelerates Desktop Virtualization http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4209847&access=EH


SAAS BI AND DATA WAREHOUSING 'FINALLY' STEPPING OUT OF THE SHADOWS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11121385/2433922


Predictive analytics software next battleground for BI vendors
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11121389/2433922


2010 data warehouse appliance guide and special report
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11121390/2433922


IDtrust Hosts "Web of Complexity" at e-Identity conference
http://www.revolutionevents.plus.com/eema/index.htm


Novell's MonoDroid project bringing .Net development to Android


Social networking addicts updating from bed, bathroom


Database Dangers In The Cloud


Self-Service Predictive Modeling: Vendors Still Have Far To Go


Mainstream BI vs. Mainstream Predictive Analytics


Database Activity Monitoring Part 5 - A Brief for Business Decision Makers


Apple, Facebook Get Into Geolocation
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/939138/5553367/63968/0/