Chris Kanaracrus

MapReduce's goal is to provide a trivially parallelizable framework so that even novice developers could write programs in a variety of languages to analyze data independent of scale

While definitions of SOA vary, it generally refers to an IT architecture approach that eschews monolithic applications and instead breaks down functionality -- such as a customer credit check request -- into interoperable "services,"

The search engine giant's online productivity applications will be integrated with the customer relationship management offerings of the on-demand specialist. Customers share their reactions

Less than a year after HP decided to purchase Opsware, another major player in the data centre automation space gets swept up in the momentum of IT industry consolidation

Analysts at the research firm suggest in a new report that the consolidation in the business applications space will change following major purchases by SAP, Oracle and IBM. CEOs from the remaining smaller vendors speak out

The company offers an Express Edition of its product that it says will give enterprise users all the features of a commercial version in a single download. The fight with Google heats up

The database giant walks away from the middleware vendor, but doesn't completely rule out the possibility of a second try. A user group president mulls over the other potential suitors