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SQL Injection and Little Bobby Tables: How to Protect Your CMS
If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone. SQL injection attacks are a common kind of security flaw, but are subtle enough that it’s hard for regular folks to understand what’s at risk.
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Ellison Does His Own Demos, Loves His New Job #OOW14
It was classic Larry Ellison on stage, part brilliant computer scientist, part hammy comedian, always entertaining. Oracle OpenWorld, his company's mammoth annual convention that virtually shuts down the heart of San Francisco's SoMa district, will continue through tomorrow.
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Big Data Bits: Big Data Smarts
Yesterday Salesforce completed its acquisition of RelateIQ, a startup that combines CRM and data science to get the right messages to the right person at the right time. The sales price was $392,133,512 -- not bad for a company that was founded three years ago.
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Big Data Bits: Big Data Empowered
The analysts say that big data is maturing, that we’re no longer in an investigative mode and that instead we’re getting busy.
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Microsoft Kicks Oracle's Big Data Butt
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison must be feeling the heat, Forbes reports that the world’s highest paid CEO lost $1.9 billion of his wealth last year.
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Why Microsoft's Reign Will Continue
Leave it to Box CEO and chief Microsoft critic Aaron Levie to spread the word, check out his tweet yesterday: Someone at Microsoft officially pressed the "we're not screwing around anymore" button. Quite impressive to watch. — Aaron Levie (@levie) April 15, 2014 Obviously Levie was tuned into the same
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Microsoft SQL Server Wins in a Big Data World
While Larry Ellison was in the counting house counting all his money (or trophy homes), Microsoft engineers were hard at work spending thousands of hours building SQL Server 2014. The new platform that’s being released to manufacturing later today will give Oracle users a boatload of reasons to
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Six Questions to Answer Before Selecting a Digital Asset Management System
At the beginning of my DAM career, I consulted on a project for a client who was an absolute pleasure to work with. Not only did they have hot coffee and delicious pastries in the meeting room every morning, they also bought me lunch every day.
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Microsoft Reveals Big Data Play at Strata #stratany2012
Following Microsoft’s big data strategy is a bit like watching the US presidential election. We’ve endured months of shifting opinions, surprise partnerships, secrets and leaked information. Now the Seattle giant is capitalizing on the attention from this week’s Strata and Hadoop World to reveal a bit more
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Microsoft Extends Mainstream Support for Windows 2008 to January 2015
Microsoft has decided to extend the mainstream support window for Windows Server 2008. The change is likely welcome news for businesses running the operating system that don’t have immediate plans to move to Windows 2012.
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Microsoft Releases Second Preview of Hadoop-Based Service for Windows Azure
The Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure capacity is expanded by four times. Hadoop Hubbub In February, we wrote about a leaked slide that revealed the Microsoft Hadoop roadmap: As you can see, the roadmap indicates Microsoft is planning to simultaneously deliver the final version of Hadoop on Azure and
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Promises Big Data, Business Intelligence Solutions
Microsoft has officially launched the release to manufacturing (RTM) version of SQL Server 2012 with a virtual conference and free downloads. SQL Server 2012 is heavily focused around three key themes and the company is positioning it as one of the most significant updates to the platform to date.
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Panorama's Necto Partners with Microsoft SQL Server to Strengthen Business Intelligence
Yesterday's release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 brought with it integration with business intelligence (BI) solution provider Panorama's socially enabled BI solution, Necto. Metadata Access Panorama said SQL Server 2012, codenamed Denali, is designed to work with metadata that is "...people oriented and relates to actionable intelligence. As the
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Leaked Slide Reveals Microsoft's Hadoop Roadmap
We reported in October of last year that Microsoft was making the leap into NoSQL with a Windows version of Hadoop. Although several months have passed, there haven’t been any official statements from the Seattle giant regarding a concrete roadmap.
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