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IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better...
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A quest for Big Data discovery
The volume of digital information is expected to nearly double every two years between today and 2020, reaching 40 trillion gigabytes, in just seven years according to analyst firm IDC. To stay ahead...
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Hortonworks previews a Hadoop of the future
Hortonworks has released a preview distribution of the next generation of Apache Hadoop, one that promises to broaden the scope of the kinds of analysis that can be carried out on the data processing...
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The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere
Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since...
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Dangerous Linux Trojan could be sign of things to come
Desktop Linux users accustomed to a relatively malware-free lifestyle should get more vigilant in the near future -- a researcher at RSA has detailed the existence of the "Hand of Thief" Trojan, which...
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