Tag: application
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Solid-State Storage Can Trump Traditional Drives on Cost
When does expensive solid-state storage become less expensive than cheaper rotating disks? Advertising analytics firm Marketing Architects found the crossover happened when its business intelligence reports were taking up to 4 hours to run. That’s when solution provider Clear North proposed a solid-state storage solution that would resolve the bottleneck in Marketing Architects’ CRM and… Read more
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Verizon Business Rolls Out Application Security Program
Verizon Business hopes to cash in on the customer need to shore up insecure applications with a new service introduced on Thursday. The Verizon Business Application Security Program is aimed squarely at the dynamic and sometimes chaotic development environments within U.S. enterprises. "Businesses are often stuck in a Catch-22 situation when it comes to applications,"… Read more
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5 Reasons the Pre Can`t Save Palm
Categories: News and TrendsPalm reported a $105 million narrower-than-expected loss during its fiscal fourth quarter. The company is hopeful for a turnaround, banking mostly on the promise of its just-out Pre smartphone, a device that company executives have all but declared an organizational life preserver. "The launch of Palm webOS and Palm Pre was a major milestone in… Read more
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Application Development: 19 Reasons Why Microsoft Is Huge with Developers (and 1 Reason Why Not)
Microsoft has a long history of catering to developers, going back to the origins of the company when Bill Gates noted that winning the hearts and minds of developers would be essential for Microsoft’s success. As evidenced by the focus on application development at the recent Microsoft TechEd North America 2009 conference and the overwhelming… Read more
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Health Care Provider Cuts Patient Intake Time with Apple iPhone App
RehabCare Group has created a new application for employee Apple iPhones that has shortened the processing time for patient prescreens from as many as 18 hours to less than 60 minutes, the company reports. The application was created with Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform in four days, according to Salesforce.com, which offers its Force.com platform as a… Read more
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Security Breaches Strike Two-Thirds of Businesses
Cloud-based application security solutions provider Veracode has released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Research around the state of software security today and what enterprises are doing to protect critical data residing in applications. Among the findings, the exploitation of vulnerabilities in software is a major cause of data breaches with 62… Read more