Features & News


Teradata Stays Hungry

Teradata's new DW appliances -- and, especially, its new appliance pricing -- highlight a new limberness (some might call it agility)

Why All Content Matters: Getting Started with Unstructured Data

After users become familiar with your BI project's benefits, they'll likely want more. Be prepared to provide analysis of unstructured data. We'll show you how to begin.

Talend's Data Integration Power Play

Open source data integration specialist Talend markets an intriguing alternative to proprietary solutions, and for some uses, it's free.

Analysis: Can We Ever Reach BI's Limits?

BI initiatives can stall for a variety of reasons on their way to full potential -- but is there a limit to what they can do?

Managing Your Workforce’s Mobile Devices

The surge in mobile device usage is forcing IT to adopt new management techniques.

Federal Agencies Lag in Security Preparedness

When it comes to ensuring compliance with information security rules or best practices, a substantial minority of federal agencies still aren’t making the cut

Separating Truth from Hype about Unified Communications

We reveal three facts to keep in mind during any unified communications evaluation.



Analysis: IBM's POWERful New System

The data center impact of the new POWER 575 systems that IBM announced last month could be nothing short of radical

Another Mean Season Underway

Testing is where the rubber meets the road….and fewer than 50 percent of companies ever do it

SOA: It's the People, Process, and Orientation

Disputes between rival IT factions can stop an SOA project dead in its tracks

Vertica and Kognitio Get SaaS-y

Vertica and Kognitio say their SaaS packages address real-world business problems

Data Warehouse Players Get Business-Savvy

The data warehouse appliance -- that wunderkind of the data management field -- might finally be growing up.

Accelerating Innovation with New Data Strategies

Effective product innovation depends on fast access to critical design and engineering data.

Data Warehousing on a Shoestring Budget (Part 3 of 3)

You can implement data warehouse solutions on a small budget by focusing on system, database, ETL, and reporting technologies that work in concert with requirements gathering, development, testing, and training. In the final part of our series, we look at how to choose the right data warehouse project.

Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Dark Storage

Dark storage is disk space that is unmapped, unclaimed, or unassigned.

Gartner Warns about Problems in Outsourcing Help Desk

Outsourcing to cut IT costs may be a worthy goal, but not for your help desk, Gartner warns.

IT Process Automation

How to turn manual and mundane workflow processes into automated, error-free tasks

Vertica Appliance Puts Data Warehousing in the Cloud

With turnkey deployability and enterprise scalability, officials say Vertica-on-the-Cloud is a quick, painless, and inexpensive way to get into data warehousing

Latest Compliance Regulation Tackles Identity Theft for Enterprises Large and Small

Firms that extend credit to consumers and small businesses must comply by November 1

Business Service Management Dos and Don'ts

An experienced practitioner and author recommends BSM best practices and suggests how you can avoid the most common mistakes.