How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People
April 23, 2009Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.
Sun adding open source app server to Amazon cloud
April 22, 2009Sun Microsystems will make its open source GlassFish application server available on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform on Wednesday.
Rising data-loading speeds may be leaving most BI users behind
April 20, 2009Vendors of data warehousing tools are touting ultrafast times for loading info into warehouses. But there may not be a widespread need for that kind of speed at this point.
A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL?
April 15, 2009Start-up Kickfire is unveiling a MySQL-based appliance boasting proprietary chip and software technology that it claims delivers high-performance data warehousing out of the box.
Analytics: Unlocking Value in BI Initiatives
April 14, 2009Over the past few years, one of the hottest growth areas in IT has been in the business intelligence (BI) space. Companies have finally realized there is value in their data and have launched major BI initiatives in their organizations. But most companies are making a colossal mistake in how they are approaching this challenge because they fail to realize data does not equal information.
Oracle not budging on maintenance fees
April 13, 2009Oracle is offering customers license discounts, but don't expect any breaks on maintenance, experts say.
Fate of Sun's products up in the air
April 6, 2009With rumors of an impending Sun-IBM merger becoming more intense late last week, the next big question mark pertains to what happens to Sun's vast product line, which has hardware and software that overlaps with a lot of IBM's own product lines. Observers -- including a former Sun employee, a former software developer for the Sun platforms, and the founder of the Ruby on Rails Web framework -- maintain varying perspectives on what to expect and offer degrees of both optimism and pessimism about the whole endeavor.
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Bernie Madoff's Client List vs. MDM: Lessons Learned
April 3, 2009While Bernard L. Madoff awaits sentencing from the comforts of his prison cell, the rest of world (financial and legal authorities) is untangling the web of investor connections, "feeder funds" and victims' transactional data that grew out of his now-infamous Ponzi scheme.
Open source and SaaS offerings rethink the DB
March 24, 2009The world of low-rent key-value storage silos is exploding. Here's a list of some of the more prominent new projects: