Middleware
Put simply, middleware is software that connects two otherwise separate applications. Shifting functional requirements, the need for customization and time-to-market factors are key points of frustration for CIOs focused on meeting today's shorter cycle times. While XML and other global data standards promised to make middleware unnecessary, it continues to provide the necessary interoperability between applications to significantly improve performance and innovation.
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Word Games: Machine Translation and Speech Recognition Evolve
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Mobile App Stores for Enterprises Come of Age
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Advanced Networking: More Than Just Throughput
Enterprise networking is in a constant struggle to keep up with data loads. Every time there is a breakthrough in throughput, software developers quickly devise a scheme to exploit it and then push More >
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New Code Uses APIs to Simplify ETL Flows, MapReduce on Hadoop
Syncsort announced that the code it submitted to Apache Hadoop has officially been committed to Apache Hadoop 2.0.3 alpha. Josh Rogers explains.
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