Web traffic: Most visitors are malicious bots 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Based on current analyses, the security CDN Incapsula, a subsidiary of Imperva, has come to the conclusion that rather than humans it is bots that are responsible for 56 percent of all Internet data traffic. This proportion is said to have grown suddenly by around 10 percent within one year.
Sales Trend: The market for server hardware is shrinking 21. December 2014 by Ralph Novak According to data from the IDC market research institution, global sales of servers have slightly increased once again. After a stagnant 2012, at least 9 million units were dispatched in 2013. This corresponds to an increase of about 3% compared to the previous year. In 2014, 9.3 million units are expected to go to the …
M-Commerce: Christmas business increasingly done on mobile devices 21. December 2014 by Ralph Novak For retailers, the weeks before Christmas are the most profitable time of the year. And this year, the volume of business is expected to increase even further, by 1.9% compared to the previous year in Germany, to reach 72.5 billion euros. This is the conclusion of an international study carried out by the coupon portal …
BITKOM forecast: The German cloud market continues to grow 21. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The industry association BITKOM believes we will see a continued rise in the cloud computing market. Despite the revelations about the NSA and GCHQ, the Experton Group, commissioned by BITKOM, predicts a 46% increase in business volume in the current year, to around 6.4 billion euros. Around 3 billion euros is attributed to services such …
Accelerate: Package solution eases migration to the Oracle Sales Cloud 21. December 2014 by Ralph Novak Oracle has released the new Oracle Accelerate application software for the Oracle Sales Cloud. This is intended to simplify and streamline migration to the Oracle Sales Cloud. The program includes tools for fast implementation, templates and processes to reduce time to market. With this support, the first customers were able to migrate to the Sales …
Oracle Database Appliance: Appliance Manager update supports ACFS 21. December 2014 by Ralph Novak Oracle has published a new release of their Application Manager for the Oracle Database Appliance. The software allows snapshots of both databases and virtual machines to be taken in quick succession, regardless of the volume of data.
Financial Accounting & Reporting: SoundCloud teams up with Oracle 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Berlin-based company SoundCloud claims to be the world’s leading audio platform. On its website, users can provide their own music to download, embed existing pieces in websites and comment on the songs of other musicians. As well as a free account which includes the upload of up to three hours of music, paid services …
25 billion networked things 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Internet of Things (IoT) is, according to Gartner, one of the ten major trends for 2015. Market researchers estimate that there will be around 25 billion networked devices by 2020.
Social Media: Facebook likes Big Data Analytics 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The better the data available, the more informed the decisions which can be made will be. Nevertheless, on average, companies only use half of all internally available information to make decisions.
Java 9: Modularization adapts JSE to the device 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak After Oracle released Java 8 in spring 2014, developers are now focusing on version 9, which will probably appear in 2016. The biggest change is the modularization of the source code of the Java platform, which has been discussed for quite some time under the name Project Jigsaw. In practical terms, the point is to …
