BitNami has added a MongoDB stack for developers to build web apps on the popular NoSQL database. The stack, available next week, allows developers to deploy and manage either on-premise, through Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Windows Azure. The Y combinator alum’s new stack will come integrated with Node.js and be available for free from […]
Posted on November 8th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped the price 10 percent for its M3 instances, designed for media encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving. The price drop is effective November 1 and covers all AWS regions. About this time last year, AWS introduced the second-generation instances have up to 50 percent higher absolute CPU performance compared to […]
Posted on November 5th, 2013 by admin
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LovelyHeroku is a new breed of app that enables IT staff and developers to use their smartphones to manage their work on the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS). It’s the kind of service that reflects how different work is these days now that we can carry it wherever we go. The service is the creation of Matija […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Windows Azure is offering up to 22 percent off the cost of memory-intensive compute instances across Windows, Linux and its “Cloud Services” offerings. The price drop is primarily for running applications such as Sharepoint, SQL Server, third-party databases, in-memory analytics and other enterprise applications. The news is one of a host of new services launched today […]
Posted on October 18th, 2013 by admin
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The double rise of cloud-based services and consumerization have been two of the biggest developments in enterprise IT, but they have also led to one of the biggest conundrums: IT managers and CIOs happy to see employees switched on and working are also facing big headaches around managing and monitoring potentially thousands of apps that […]
Posted on October 4th, 2013 by admin
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Once upon a time, if you wanted your own website, you either had to speak fluent Internet, or write a large check to someone who did. However, thanks to the laundry list of companies and services that have sprouted over the last five years — like Weebly, Wix and Squarespace, to name a few — […]
Posted on September 29th, 2013 by admin
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Few tech buzzwords of late have been more prevalent than “big data,” and SAP is hoping to make sure the market knows it’s hip to the trend with a series of new announcements. Perhaps the most significant announcement, made at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, concerns a pair of new agreements […]
Posted on September 16th, 2013 by admin
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While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset makers like Samsung, it has also slowly been building out a business based around its mapping and navigation division, rebranded as HERE earlier this year. That strategy — which […]
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