Features & News


Business as Usual in the Fractious DW Appliance Segment

Netezza and DATAllegro announce appliance enhancements, even as IDC confirms that the DW appliance market has indeed arrived.

Acquisition Fever Spreads: Business Objects, Informatica Go Shopping

The BI acquisition-go-around continued apace last week, as both Informatica and Business Objects acquired smaller vendors

Data Warehousing Tools Market Surges

Oracle is tops in the overall data warehousing market, but Microsoft has officially arrived as a data warehousing superstar.

Podcast: Moving to Software as a Service

The move to SaaS can be full of uncertainties. We sort out the issues.

Symantec Announces Security Enhancement Tools for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Symantec Corp. is first out of the gate to announce companion products to Microsoft’s updated Exchange Server 2007

POWER6: Last of the Big-Time RISC Chips

With months to go before its launch, the industry’s already buzzing about POWER6, with good reason

Case Study: Small College Addresses Big Storage and DR Needs

Newly created Olin College chose a beefy but cost-effective iSCSI storage area network for rapidly escalating storage needs



Traveler Introduces CPR for Data

What happens when a major technology player seems to disappear?

Mainframe Sales Drive Surging Server Market

Server revenues were way up in Q3, and IBM lucrative System z mainframes helped lead the charge

Oracle Tops in Red Hot Business Analytic Segment

Oracle controlled 13.2 percent of the overall business analytics market—far ahead of runner-up SAS.

MDM Enthuses, Confuses BI, DM Pros

No one seems to agree on just what Master Data Management is—and many DM pros still aren’t familiar with MDM as a technology vision, either.

Informatica Revamps Data Quality Toolset

What’s that you ask? Since when did Informatica become a data quality vendor?

Informatica Moves 'Beyond Data Warehousing'

If 80 percent of enterprise information in unstructured, could the effective integration of that info spell trouble for the old 80/20 rule?

Data Encryption: The Whole-Disk Option

For sensitive data sitting on a portable, encryption is no longer an option. It’s a necessity.

Outsourcing Storage: This Time it’s about Compliance

Enterprises once considered using a third-party to manage their off-site data on the basis of cost. The economics have shifted.

Case Study: Centuries-old Hospital Adopts State-of-the-Art Backup and Archiving System

Famous British hospital moves to integrated backup, e-mail archive system

NAC: Remediation and Integration

Options for notification and remediation, as well as NAC integration techniques and technologies.

SHARE to Spearhead Mainframe’s Future

New SHARE president Martin Timmerman says he has ambitious plans for the world’s oldest mainframe user group

Long Is the Road that Leads to BI and PM Excellence

BI and PM programs -- like that eternal city of proverbial renown -- aren’t just built in a day.

Pitney Bowes Focuses on Customer Data

Pitney Bowes unveiled its new Customer Data Quality (CDQ) Platform, an all-in-one data profiling, data cleansing, and data enrichment suite.