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Although relational databases will continue to be used for high-speed online transaction processing, conventional relational databases have clearly exhausted their usefulness for business analytics. What’s ahead for database technology?
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Although Big Iron had a bad quarter, the long-term indicators -- bolstered by several mainframe product cycles' worth of data -- suggest System z is just tracking through its life cycle.
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How can IT do more with less? By automating tasks. We explore the financial and productivity benefits, look at the downsides of automation, and examine how Big Data, virtualization, and cloud computing benefit from automation.
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Cloud technology is rather easy to obtain. The right mix of technical skills mix to design and implement the technology is not.
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One way to do more with less is to outsource tasks, including some components of your data center. What help and benefits can you expect from third-party providers, and what work should remain on premises?
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Users often disregard SharePoint’s built-in security to get their job done.
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IBM asks the not-so-obvious question: If you already have a mainframe in-house, why not make it the centerpiece of your business intelligence and data warehouse efforts?
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BI teams need to focus on what business users want most.
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Phasic Systems touts a combination of software, services, and even naysaying as an effective solution for effective enterprisewide governance.
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Sophisticated e-mail archiving solutions can generate business intelligence from stored e-mail messages.
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A best-practices approach and advice for securing your Windows 7 environment.
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Mobile devices are just one of a number of assets that must be managed. Fortunately, the cloud can help.
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New servers deliver real-time power data, but it’s difficult to uncover.
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Storage clouds are rapidly losing what little buzz they once enjoyed in the industry. But other cloud-based services are beginning to appear.
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HTML5 has emerged as the lingua franca for mobile application development, and companies of every size are racing to respond to the mobile revolution.
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In the current economic climate, IT must align itself closer to the business needs of its users to achieve success. We explain how this IT/business alignment can occur as IT becomes a marketer of business services to its user base.
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Company refreshing entire line of services.
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Diagnosis and resolution of performance issues hampered in complex environments; the agility of IT’s virtualized environments still missing.
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Big data offers BI professionals new ways of making information work for the business.
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HP's Chris Carney explains how a business intelligence competency center can help align BI efforts and needs across the enterprise, bringing real business value.
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A new report from TDWI discusses the how and the why of mobile BI.
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The traditional BI stack has failed. What's next?
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The beauty of the BI mashup is that it makes it easy to expose any kind of information -- including data you wouldn't typically want to bring into a data warehouse.
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Over the years, IT has built up a collection of tapes, especially for backup. The problem is -- what's on all those tapes?
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How B2B processes became so complex and why IT should consolidate them.