Microsoft explores ‘Job-Centric’ provisioning of Cloud Services
Researchers from Microsoft have found out that cloud customers can purchase resources based on the ‘job-centric’ standard. This cloud model will have an additional abstraction layer to cloud computing wherein an interface can be provided for customers to cite cost and performance goals as an alternative to an interface which allow them to allocate resources directly. It included many renowned researchers and according to them, cloud consumers will find a job-centric interface convenient and easy. This will be possible because the job centric interface takes out the translation burden of high level objectives to the related resource necessities and it is flexible enough for cloud service providers to assign the amount of resources necessary to a particular job.
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What Is Dark Data?
Dark Data sounds like an unpleasant and evil mastermind intending world domination. But in the world of BI it’s nothing much to worry about. It’s the neglected data that accumulates in log files and archives that nobody knows what to do with. Although it never sees the light of day, no one feels comfortable destroying it because it might prove useful someday, and one may think of expanding the storage. But either we preserve it or destroy it we need to get answers to the following questions- Is Your Dark Data a Business Intelligence Gold Mine? What If The Dark Data Are Just Digital Dust-Bunnies?
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Masterminds behind PHP Tackle Mobile Development
Zend Technologies, the company founded by PHP’s adoptive parents Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski is on its swift way as consumers are demanding mobile applications for accessing their favorite web applications. Zend is responding to this shift with a new version of its Zend Studio product that will make it easier for PHP developers to turn PHP applications into cross-platform apps for Android, iOS, and other devices. It is releasing a drag-and-drop interface for building graphical interfaces for mobile apps using elements from the popular JavaScript library jQuery.
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Google sees Big Data and Collaboration as key to Enterprise growth
Google has spread overall in the last 14 years including the email domain, with Gmail being a hugely popular tool, so also the social world with Google+ and the ever popular Search engine being its core area. While all of these developments can appear to be consumer-oriented, they have all played a key part in the firm's continued push into the enterprise IT landscape. One area where Google’s Head of Enterprise, Thomas Davies was keen tout with its plans to ramp up the push of its big data offering Big Query.
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