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IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
Product Information Management and Information Server enhancements aimed at getting data right, matching names, standardizing terms and doing business around the globe.
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Doug Henschen
Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
IT departments scramble to devise backup plans following service disruptions at Amazon, Citrix, and Google.
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J. Nicholas Hoover
Amazon To Launch Persistent Storage For EC2
Elastic block storage allows you to attach persistent, unformatted, or "raw" data storage to "instances" of applications or services that reside on Amazon's EC2.
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Richard Martin
BI Tools Can Slice And Dice Data Without A Data Warehouse
A medical center is using DataWatch's Web-based Monarch BI Server to analyze patient data from lab reports and other sources to improve care.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Google Apologizes For Gmail Outage
Millions of users were unable to access Google's Gmail service for several hours on Monday.
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Thomas Claburn
How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
Overly ambitious data-quality professionals get shot down because trusted data will not directly increase revenue, reduce costs or improve operational efficiencies, key criteria for getting funding approved, Forrester Research says.
SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial
Users looking to try out Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 can download a fully functional copy free of charge and run it for up to 180 days.
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Paul McDougall
Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008
The upgraded database includes improved data compression, better scalability, and easier management of concurrent workloads.
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J. Nicholas Hoover
IBM Joins Linux Distributors In Attacking Microsoft Windows, Office
At LinuxWorld, IBM threw its support behind Microsoft-free PCs for business and introduced a package of open source software for Linux-based supercomputers.
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Antone Gonsalves
BI Executive Bill Baker Leaves Microsoft
Long-serving executive helped grow the business intelligence product line from its roots in Microsoft SQL Server.
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Doug Henschen
Actuate Upgrade Bridges Strategic and Operational Performance Management
With an interface for every user type and eight extendable BIRT report layouts, Views 8 app is said to go from strategic scorecards down to operational exception reports.
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Doug Henschen
AT&T Jumps Into Cloud Computing With Synaptic Hosting
Synaptic Hosting will allow companies to host Windows Server or Linux client-server applications and Web apps in AT&T's data centers, rather than in their own data centers.
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J. Nicholas Hoover
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