Sales forecast 2015: Ultra-mobile computers stabilise the PC market 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak The market research firm of Gartner has good news for the PC industry: Following years of continuously falling sales, 2015 could see a small hike of one percent. In 2016 growth should even rise to 3.7 percent.
Cloud Computing: Business decision-makers prefer hybrid clouds 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak In cloud computing for enterprise development, a movement towards hybrid clouds has been observed for quite some time, and is now coming into clearer focus: in a study for the Avanade consultancy, Wakefield Research Analysts have published the current figures. The study reveals that managers from the business sector are currently pushing towards hybrid clouds, …
Web applications: W3C makes the Indexed Database API the benchmark 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has, after several years of preparation, declared the Indexed Database API as their recommendation, or in other words as the standard. This is a programming interface through which Web applications can access local databases.
IT security: Botmaster is targeting cloud servers, mobile devices and smart devices 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak While many companies are settling on hybrid or private clouds for security reasons, hackers are gearing up to tackle them too. The security vendor BitDefender is therefore judging attacks on those clouds to be one of the five most important sources of risk this year: “Private clouds are becoming targets worth attacking.”
Storage technology: Laser switches micro-magnets in record time 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak To store larger amounts of data on ever smaller hard drives, researchers are trying to design ever smaller magnetic bits and bytes. In Switzerland, scientists of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) are currently working with a surface made up of tiny squares of only thousandths of a millimetre. Each of these is a magnet – …
Cloud Computing: For Germans, security is a knock-out criterion 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Only about one in five German citizens (21 per cent) use cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, to save documents, photos or videos on the Web. That’s the figure reported by the BITKOM Industry Association, citing data from the European statistics agency Eurostat. The most cloud-friendly country in Europe is Denmark, …
Programming languages: The countdown to JavaLand 2015 has begun 23. January 2015 by Ralph Novak From 24 to 26 March 2015, the second JavaLand Conference will be held in Phantasialand in Brühl near Cologne. The event, organised by the German Oracle user community (DOAG) and the Heise Zeitschriften Verlag (Heise magazine publishing) in collaboration with the iJUG (Association of German-speaking Java user groups), is once again offering more than 100 …
Digital marketing: High-impact campaigns improve customer knowledge 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak In the retail trade, the final two months of the year show the highest turnover; in many branches they decide the state of the final balance sheet. However, special digital marketing strategies and campaigns for Cyber Monday must be well planned. Firstly, there is the optimisation of the mailing processes, because above all, customers want …
Data integration: GoldenGate 12c reads heterogeneous databases 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak A revised version of Oracle GoldenGate 12c is now out, with extended support for heterogeneous databases and for big data solutions. GoldenGate is thus now supporting the data acquisition and provision in real time for IBM Informix 11.5, 11.7 and 12.1 on the large 64-bit OS platforms.
Global Bandwidth Index: Newly industrialised countries are carrying out further studies into mobile Internet 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Clearly, the World Wide Web is used in very different ways across the globe. More precise usage data would be of economic interest, especially for mobile Internet. Juniper Networks has looked into this question in more detail with its first Global Bandwidth Index. The networking equipment manufacturer wanted to know how people use mobile Internet …