A new report explores which BI professionals are drawn to the technology and the self-service benefits it can provide.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Making the most of the 80 percent of data stored as text is the job of this increasing popular technology.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How PowerPivot can be incorporated into your enterprise BI projects.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Users are yearning for more analytic responsibility
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    One quarter of respondents said they experienced a "significant network disruption" in the last year 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lower HPC costs make it possible for more companies to be cutting edge in their market.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    More than three-quarters of chief information security officers in state government cite stagnant or cut budgets as top problem.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Given the appeal of data protection features storage array vendors have been adding to their equipment, is the practice of replicating data for protection using software operating outside of the storage array -- rather than as a built-in function of an array controller -- in jeopardy?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If you can’t save costs through efficiency, you can’t afford to be innovative -- but how do you get business and IT users to see eye to eye on the future?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The community of volunteers that developed the OpenOffice.org project have split off from Oracle and formed a new structure called The Document Foundation. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Although efforts to reach the "neglected" or "untapped" mid-market shops are nothing new, HP's Just Right IT seems to have most of its ducks in a row.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cloud computing services accounted for 12.5 percent of overall IT budgets, according to a research report released this week by Gartner. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Using BI and data warehousing tools on data collected from social media applications could allow companies to better store, search, and analyze that data. The founder of a firm that makes a capture and storage platform for social media sees synergies just ahead.  
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Why data aggregation, data exhaust, and metadata are the fundamental building blocks to tomorrow’s business model for organizations of nearly any size.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free for small businesses to use "beginning in early October," Microsoft announced
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hard BI benefits -- such as reductions in costs or in employee headcounts -- remain frustratingly elusive, according to a new survey.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New release aimed at broadened use of Windows HPC Server.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With so many choices for outsourcing, should Chile be on your radar?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT pros with Windows 7 skills are -- or soon will be -- a hot commodity.