As expected, Apple has confirmed 7 March as the launch date for the iPad 3 and possibly a couple of surprises. But, beyond the launch, will Apple start to make a major play for enterprise users before Windows 8-powered tablets arrive later in the year?
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iPad 3 Launch Confirmed: Time to Battle Microsoft in the Enterprise?
We reported in October of last year that Microsoft was making the leap into NoSQL with a Windows version of Hadoop. Although several months have passed, there haven’t been any official statements from the Seattle giant regarding a concrete roadmap. We still don’t have any official details, but we do have a leaked slide.
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Leaked Slide Reveals Microsoft’s Hadoop Roadmap
Pentaho is continuing its efforts to make big data a first -class citizen in business analytics. In October of last year, the open source business analytics provider began its efforts to comprehensively embrace big data by adding support for Hadoop and a few other NoSQL data sources. Now the company is going a step further.
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Pentaho Extends Big Data Support to Cassandra
Digital asset management (DAM) helps groups of people manage and find all of their digital media in one location, and APIs promise the same benefits — but to other computer systems. Is an API integration necessary to improve your workflow?
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Does Your Digital Asset Management System Need an API?
While there are many benefits to Facebook’s Timeline feature, a prominent byproduct allows us to more easily have access to those incriminating posts we made back when we were much less savvy about sharing our thoughts and opinions than we are today (hopefully). Yes, we can block others from seeing them, but we know that they are there. Well, now thanks to DataSift, brands can have access to tweets from as far back as 2010 — back to a time when we thought tweeting about our breakfast was exactly what our followers wanted to know.
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DataSift Offers Twitter Feeds From as Far Back as 2010
