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Cool BI: Heading to the TDWI Forum in Chicago

Which key BI trends matter most? Cindi Howson explains the top seven innovations she and co-presenter Dave Stodder will discuss at the Cool BI Forum in Chicago in May.

Q&A: The Magic Bullet for BI and DW Success

How do organizations effectively handle the inevitable challenges in human dynamics to ensure project success?

SafeNet Releases Software Protection Solution with White-box Cryptography

SafeNet Sentinel portfolio of software licensing and protection solutions hardened against reverse engineering, tampering, automated attacks in hostile environments.

Quest Introduces vFundamentals Virtualization Management Suite

New vFundamentals bundle created by Quest simplifies VMware management for SMBs.

The Undervalued Security Benefits of IPsec

IPsec is a secure, robust, and transparent network widely available to businesses with smaller overhead than you might think.

How Business Development Enriches IT Delivery

If IT professionals are a restaurant's chefs, then business development professionals are the rest of the staff -- those attracting guests, designing the menus, and managing the profits.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 now available for purchase.



Big Data or Big Boondoggle?

Is Big Data everything it’s cracked up to be or is the Big Data value proposition based on fears of an undiscovered insight in our data? Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, looks at why Big Data isn’t for everyone.

Akamai’s New Terra Alta Addresses Evolving Complexities of Enterprise Application Delivery

Solution designed for changing enterprise IT requirements for end-user mobility and development and deployment of complex cloud applications.

UCS Marks Third Anniversary

Cisco calls Unified Compute System 3.0 "third generation of fabric computing."

EMCO Updates Network Hosts Monitor with Scheduling Functionality

New version of EMCO Ping Monitor allows IT professionals to organize 24x7 monitoring of network connections to servers, desktops and network devices for detecting connection outages.

SmartBear Advances Load Testing for Web Services and APIs

Server monitoring in new loadUI Pro helps testers pinpoint server-side problems under scale.

EMC Goes Social, Open, Agile with Big Data

Greenplum Chorus social tools feature third- party applications; new OpenChorus Initiative releases Greenplum Chorus as open source.

Zetta DataProtect 3.0 Provides Enterprise-Grade Online Backup, Disaster Recovery for SMBs

Single managed service requires no appliances, can be deployed in minutes.

BI Experts: No Time for BI Complacency

Three catalysts that are changing BI and data warehousing.

AnalytiX Pre ETL Mapping

A decade ago, using spreadsheets to manage ETL source mappings might've made sense. Today, an upstart BI vendor claims, it isn't just inelegant -- it's anachronistic.

SQL Server 2012 Marks the End of an Era

Microsoft bids "adios" to OLE-DB.

The Confusing Future of BI and Data Warehousing

Thanks to a combination of social, mobility, cloud, Big Data, and other forces, business intelligence and data warehousing are on the cusp of profound transformations. The question is: which way are these technologies headed?

Q&A: Analyst Sees Bright Future in Big Data

Huge data sets can reveal hidden patterns, analyst explains.

McAfee Addresses Security of MySQL Databases with Free Audit Plug-in

Downloadable plug-in for MySQL allows users to capture detailed MySQL database activity information.