Grazed from Silicon Angle. Author: Maria Deutscher.

Couchbase Inc. is breaking up its namesake document store and turning the individual components into discrete services that will deploy separately to make the whole more efficient. The overhaul represents a historic departure from the conventional way of building databases.

Like practically every other enterprise application, the software that organizations use to manage their information has traditionally come in tightly-integrated bundles. The way that information is stored changed over the years, as has the data itself in many cases, but not the packaging. That is, until now…

Grazed from TheGuardian.  Author: Editorial Staff.

So Microsoft has decided to “retire” Internet Explorer, its web browser. So what? For most internet users the news probably ranked somewhere near the latest information about bond yields on Romanian debt. But for old timers like this columnist, it draws a line under an interesting chapter in the modern history of the computer industry.

So let’s spool back a bit – to 1993. By then, the internet was roughly 10 years old, but for its first decade had been largely unknown to anyone other than geeks and computer science researchers…

Grazed from Inquirer.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Yahoo Inc is set to completely exit from China this year, after the United States-based technology giant said it was shutting its research and development center in Beijing.  The company’s decision to end its only physical presence in the Chinese mainland could eliminate as many as 300 jobs, industry sources said on Thursday.

Yahoo, however, declined to specify the actual number of jobs that would be made redundant.  “We are constantly making changes to align resources, and to foster better collaboration and innovation across our business. Today (Wednesday) we informed our employees based in Beijing that we will be closing our office there,” a statement said…

Grazed from SBS.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM has introduced its first cloud-based data-mining and analysis services that have arisen out of its new partnership with Twitter.  The US technology giant is offering to trawl through Tweets posted on the micro-blogging site, evaluate and analyse them for the benefit of its business clients.

A half a billion Tweets appear daily on Twitter and, with the help of intelligent analytical tools, trends can be identified and client requests fished out, IBM manager Alistair Rennie said at CeBIT, the world’s largest info technology fair in Hanover, Germany…

Grazed from MotleyFool.  Author: Anders Bylund.

Hillary Clinton has certainly been newsworthy recently. Stretching from the late 1990s and all the way through her stints as U.S. Senator and Secretary of State, ending in 2013, Clinton shunned government-run email services in favor of a system running in the home she shared with former president Bill Clinton. Critics argue this practice violated government policies, not to mention allowing her (and Bill) to avoid public disclosure of her service-related communications.

The official policy that ties federal officials to government-run email systems wasn’t the law of the land until 2014, nearly two years after Clinton stepped out of the political life again. Nevertheless, she’s still in the national spotlight over this old-yet-fresh scandal…

Grazed from ChannelPro.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

Grazed from ComputerTechReview.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell announced this week virtual workstation appliance to support the growing use of graphics-intensive, workstation-class workloads with dedicated GPU pass-through and shared NVIDIA GRID vGPU options in a number of work settings.

The Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse helps a variety of organizations – from media and entertainment to engineering firms to the exploration and energy industries – reap the benefits of workstation-class computing with improved IT efficiency, better data security and improved user workflows, while delivering on performance…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Ted Navarro.

One of the most significant factors influencing cloud adoption is the promise of enhanced availability. Because it’s so much less complex and expensive to create redundant infrastructure architectures, the cloud makes building reliable and highly available networks economically viable. The key word here is “building”. Clients have to build redundant infrastructure — it doesn’t come as a given simply because infrastructure is deployed on the cloud.

It’s true that at the data center level, cloud platforms may have some built-in redundancy for compute, and especially for storage, but at levels higher than the data center, clients have to actively think about and deploy redundant systems if they’re obtain acceptable levels of consistent availability…

Grazed from Huffington Post. Author: Jeff Fernandez.

The rise of cloud computing is arguably the most consequential tech development of the past decade. Businesses now find it cheaper and easier than ever to access scalable, agile processing power and storage, and end users enjoy unprecedented platform flexibility. Software is more responsive, more social, and crucially, more portable than ever.

Meanwhile, developers are gaining new access to high-performance processing just as the diversity of digital consumer devices is about to explode. CES 2015 saw the debut of smart objects that we’ve never seen connected before, including "rings, pendants, jackets, handbags and so on." All of these devices that are part of the so-called Internet of Things, as well as devices like smartphones and tablets, will run cloud-based applications…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, has named Windstream’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) as a 2015 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner.

Windstream’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is a robust, enterprise-class, UC solution that integrates voice, multi-media, unified messaging, presence management, mobility and other services onto a single platform in the cloud. Hosted in Windstream Hosted Solutions’ secure, protected and environmentally controlled data centers, this UC solution seamlessly integrates with Windstream’s state-of-the-art, fully redundant private IP network to ensure the highest quality of service, providing optimized performance and scalability to adjust bandwidth speeds, as business needs change. Windstream has forged partnerships with a number of market leaders, including Avaya and Mitel, for even more customizable options…