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Partner Products Come to Fore at Teradata User Conference

Kalido, Information Builders, and Expressor Software announce products.

Google Sues Feds Over Cloud Contract that Requires Microsoft BPOS

Google is suing the Interior Department for allegedly excluding Google's products in a request for quotation the agency issued on August 30.

Taming Your Moving Assets: Governing through Policies and Procedures

An effective ITAM program can be the difference between getting the most out of your assets and possibly leaking millions of dollars.

Q&A: How to Choose a SaaS Provider

The benefits and drawbacks of software-as-a-service, plus tips for choosing a SaaS provider.

Survey Reaffirms Mainframe's Staying Power

IT shops are holding steady on the mainframe. A new survey from BMC also examines how IT shops are employing systems and how workloads are growing.

Clickstream Data Warehouse: Bleeding Edge or Mainstream?

The ability to know what people want by observing how they think as you follow their clickstream data is a powerful way to support business decisions.

Pervasive Analytics Revisited

A new study suggests that one key to driving analytic uptake is to put analytic technologies into the hands (or at the fingertips) of more users.



Reading the IBM/Netezza Tea Leaves

Few industry watchers foresee much in the way of serious overlap between Big Blue's existing data warehousing assets and Netezza's. However, IBM will probably have to make some tough choices, particularly on the software side.

In Praise of Operational Data Warehousing

Real-time or not real-time is no longer the question.

Mid-Size Enterprises are Prime Targets

Mid-size shops are increasingly -- even disproportionately -- coming under attack by hackers, yet few security budgets are rising.

Q&A: Application Performance Management

Why managing application performance is so challenging, and how to make it pay off in the enterprise.

Careers: Hiring Unsteady Despite Encouraging Government Report

The IT job market might not be quite as resurgent as federal data indicates.

Application Monitoring in the Clouds

Business-driven processes for measuring and guaranteeing service levels in the cloud will help CIOs successfully transition to this new infrastructure.

Survey: Few IT Pros Have Deployed Office 2010

An industry-sponsored survey of IT professionals found that just four percent have deployed Microsoft Office 2010, although interest remains high in the productivity suite.

Apps.gov to Add Storage, Virtualization, Web Hosting Services

Government agencies will soon have access to storage, virtualization, and Web hosting applications via Apps.gov, the General Service Administration's cloud-based storefront, government officials said yesterday.

Building Creative PowerPivot Solutions

Creative ways to leverage PowerPivot.

Toward Pervasive BI: A New Generation of Analytic Applications

The best analytic applications will help improve business processes, monitor and manage critical business events, and deliver richer information through both contextual relevance and analytic insight.

Q&A: Emerging BI Technologies

Emerging tech is the theme of Orlando TDWI conference. BI expert and conference speaker Steve Dine leads us through the latest in BI innovations and trends.

Q&A: IAM and the Unix/Linux Organization

Unix/Linux systems needn't be islands of identity; we show you the challenges and options for addressing authentication, provisioning, and security and take a closer look at Active Directory bridges.

How Tape Storage Helped MLB Handle Massive Archives

Major League Baseball discovered efficiencies, cost savings using tape for mass storage of historical footage.