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Latin Business Chronicle – Latin American Business News and Intelligence Reemerging Markets Productivity and innovation will be the true markers of success in the new global economy. Andbank’s international push Andorra’s oldest private bank is undertaking an international expansion aimed at the United States and Latin America. Latin America: instability at home and abroad While the Ukraine crisis has made headlines around the world in the past weeks, instability in Venezuela and Argentina also has an impact on Latin America’s economies – starting with Brazil.
» Gartner’s top 10 technologies for 2008: SOA precursors; fabric Gartner outlined its top 10 strategic technology areas for 2008 and many roads lead to service oriented architecture. The top 10 is off to the right and there aren't any huge surprises. Who didn't see green IT and virtualization being listed? Integration migrates to the cloud Integration vendor Cast Iron, which for years has offered its product packaged as a hardware appliance, this week unveiled a cloud-native integration service. The introduction of Cast Iron Cloud is the culmination of a transition begun earlier this year when Cast Iron began offering cloud hosting of its upgraded appliance product. Customers can now choose between an on-premise appliance, a dedicated cloud-hosted appliance or the multi-tenant cloud service. Organizations that still have a lot of their own server infrastructure will continue to opt for the on-premise appliance, VP of product marketing Chandar Pattabhiram told me in a briefing last week. The cloud service has been created to serve what Cast Iron sees as a growing market of 'SaaS-centric' organizations — mostly smaller businesses — that use several different cloud services and have little or no servers in-house.
Is the Relational Database Doomed? Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, "if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database". If that is true, then is this a sign that the once mighty relational database finally has a chink in its armor? Is this a sign that relational databases have had their day and will decline over time? In this post, we'll look at the current trend of moving away from relational databases in certain situations and what this means for the future of the relational database. Relational databases have been around for over 30 years.
» The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups Applying mashups in a business settings is often referred to as "enterprise mashups" and recently we've finally begun to see the tools emerging to bring real mashup capabilities to consumers, business users, and IT professionals. However, though anecdotal evidence seem to abound -- there are a good number of stories about businesses creating isolated mashups here and there -- and mashups are again getting placed on hot tech trends lists for 2008, we're clearly still not yet seeing the flood of mashup-based apps inside of organizations despite their consistent and steadfast growth on the consumer Web. ProgrammableWeb's mashup graphs (left of page) currently reports that over 2,400 mashup-based apps currently exist. So what exactly is holding back enterprise mashups from becoming a more popular phenomena inside our organizations? The top 10 challenges facing enterprise mashups in late 2007
Middleware briefing Exalogic Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is designed, optimized, and certified for running Oracle applications and technologies and is ideal for mission-critical middleware and applications from Oracle and third-party vendors. It delivers lower TCO, reduces risk, and offers unprecedented levels of performance, reliability, and scalability. Data Integration Gain pervasive, continuous access to trusted data with high performance and low TCO. Oracle Data Integration provides a complete and integrated solution with real-time and bulk data movement, transformation, data quality, data services, and data federation. Data warehouse Data Warehouse Overview In computing, a data warehouse (DW, DWH), or an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a database used for reporting and data analysis. Integrating data from one or more disparate sources creates a central repository of data, a data warehouse (DW).
AZ Business Magazine December 2008 AZ Business Magazine November/December 2012 Bring on the HEAT The Valley of the Sun has created the perfect climate for tech startups. Don’t believe me? What if I told you the Valley is almost as prolific as Silicon Valley for producing tech startup companies? Make Mashups Using Your Own Data with geoXtract - ReadWriteWeb GeoXtract is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate your own data with Google Maps or Google Earth. Using this desktop application, you can create a personalized map with no programming experience required. Using your own data source, which can be an Excel Spreadsheet (.xls), Access database (.mdb), or Comma-Separated Values file (.csv), geoXtract walks you through the process of creating a mashup.