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IBM's latest offering Smart Analytics System is set to offer business intelligence reporting, analysis, dashboards, and scorecards, data mining, cubing services, text analytics, data warehouse management, storage and server platform. . IBM's new focus on business analytics will help clients cut costs and reduce risk while increasing customer loyalty. This new system can also be used by clients or cloud service providers to offer analytics to private or public cloud services. This launch of Smart Analytics System, even in time of global recession, is based on the need to invest in business analytics to gain a competitive advantage over competitors. In coming months, IBM will further extend its BI strategy with a series of cloud-based services. IBM has been placing a big emphasis on BI in recent years, spending billions to acquire Cognos and recently, creating a BI ser... (more)

Top Cloud Computing Solutions People are Looking For in 2009

This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Cloud Computing”. So we can also call the following as “Cloud Computing Trends 2009” 1. Google Cloud Computing Google has invested heavily in online storage and cloud computing. Google went from a happy consumer of open source to an active contributor to open source on a very big scale. Google already lets people port some of their personal data to the Internet and use its Web-based software. 2. Amazon Cloud Co... (more)

Top Virtualization Solutions People are Looking For in 2009

This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing.com in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Virtualization”. So we can also call the following as “Virtualization Trends 2009” 1. Windows Virtualization Windows takes advantage of virtualization assistance in hardware that is based on Intel Virtualization Technology and AMD "Pacifica." By doing this, Windows virtualization enables workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data ... (more)