A maker of software development testing tools, Coverity, has released version 5.5 of its testing suite and is announcing its integration with HP’s ALM platform. A key advantage of the integration, says Coverity, is that the people doing QA on an application build, can be tied in with the people setting the business requirements of what the software is supposed to do — and vice versa.
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Coverity 5.5 Released, Includes Integration With HP ALM Platform
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Windows Phone 7, Day 28: My Five Biggest Windows Phone 7 Complaints
30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 28
We’ve entered the home stretch for the 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 series. As I used Windows Phone 7–both “NoDo” and “Mango”–I was shocked by just how impressive the Microsoft mobile OS is.
But, my experience wasn’t all wine and roses. Here are the top five issues or complaints I have about Windows Phone 7:
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Salesforce Turns Oracle Snub Into PR Coup But Ellison Gets The Last Word
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, whose keynote address Wednesday at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 was reportedly cancelled by Oracle, moved to a hotel across from San Francisco’s Moscone Center to give his presentation anyway. In it, Benioff said he was removed from the agenda because his business model of delivering IT through the cloud and advancing the use of social media in businesses conflicted with Oracle’s approach that “proprietary hardware and software is the future.”
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Oracle Proves Unstructured Data Is Big Business
There are dozens of solutions on the market that claim to tame the wild world of Big Data. However, many of those solutions require multiple vendors and significant integration to work as intended. Oracle is looking to change that situation by creating a platform that leverages Oracle’s key software and hardware technologies to bring unstructured data analysis under the umbrella of a single vendor.
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Cisco’s WAAS Appeal: 5x Bandwidth, 3x User Increases
Cisco is refreshing its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) appliances for Wide Area Network (WAN) applications. The company says the number of Internet-based applications is expected to reach 1 million this decade and it wants to help customers scale the delivery of rising volumes of applications and video traffic across networks to any user and device. The new solutions will ‘substantially’ improve application performance and user experience by providing up to five times the bandwidth and supporting up to three times the users compared to the previous generation, as well as reduce the hardware required by 66 percent.
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Xirrus Introduces Wi-Fi With Greater Range, Capacity, To Meet WLAN Demands
Xirrus is rolling out technology to increase the range and capacity of WLANs and make them more programmable so they can further expand as necessary. Xirrus’s XR Wireless Array product line includes a wireless modular switch, which can replace the number of legacy radio access points by a ratio of as much as eight-to-one.
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Build for IT Nirvana
In many data centers large and small there is a history of making short-term decisions that affect long-term design. These may be based on putting out immediate fires, such as rolling out a new application, expanding an old one, or replacing failed hardware. They may also be made by short-sighted or near-sighted policies, or more commonly old policies that aren’t question in the light of new technology. These types of decisions can range from costly to crippling for data center operations.
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F5 Launches IPv6 Professional Services
While Nemertes Research recommends that enterprises should already have started planning for an IPv6 transition, the reality is that it’s not even on the radar for almost 80% of respondents to the company’s 2011-2012 benchmark. IT professionals at 78% of companies said that their organization has no transition plan yet.
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InteropNet’s IPv6 Network Evolves For Interop New York
Some of the most interesting technology to be seen at this week’s Interop will be running inside of the show’s InteropNet network. That’s because, as was the case at the spring Interop show in Las Vegas, IPv6 will be a big part of InteropNet, serving as both a demonstration of the technology that will run the Internet in the near future and, at the same time, providing a good set of lessons learned for businesses deploying IPv6.
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Oracle Exalytics Invites Comparisons To SAP’s Hana Appliance
Oracle headlined its Oracle OpenWorld 2011 convention this week by unveiling the Exalytics appliance for business intelligence (BI), which can analyze data instantaneously since the data runs in memory rather than being retrieved from storage. The appliance seems similar to one already on the market from rival SAP, the Hana appliance but an Oracle executive begs to differ.
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