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Start-Ups Bring Google's Parallel Processing To Data Warehousing
August 29, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
Aster and Greenplum have made Google's MapReduce compatible with SQL for use in the parallel data warehousing systems based on open source PostgreSQL.

Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
August 19, 2008 by Paul McDougall
The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007.

IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
August 18, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Product Information Management and Information Server enhancements aimed at getting data right, matching names, standardizing terms and doing business around the globe.

Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
August 18, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.

BI Tools Can Slice And Dice Data Without A Data Warehouse
August 12, 2008 by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
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.

XAware Upgrades Open Source Integration Tools
August 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Enhancements include better text processing and support for REST operation creation and testing.

How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
August 7, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
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
August 7, 2008 by Paul McDougall
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.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008
August 6, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
The upgraded database includes improved data compression, better scalability, and easier management of concurrent workloads.

Kimball University: Eight Recommendations for International Data Quality
August 1, 2008 by Ralph Kimball
Language, culture, and country-by-country compliance and privacy requirements are just a few of the tough data quality problems global organizations must solve. Start by addressing data accuracy at the source and adopting an MDM strategy, then follow these six other best-practice approaches.

IBM Brings Cloud Computing To Earth With Massive New Data Centers
August 1, 2008 by Richard Martin
Big Blue plans to build a data center in North Carolina and open a "cloud computing center" in Tokyo at a cost of nearly $400 million.

Competitors React to the Microsoft-DatAllegro Deal
July 28, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Oracle stays quiet while Greenplum, Netezza and Teradata say data scalability alone won't satisfy customers.

Microsoft Acquires DatAllegro to Scale Up SQL Server Deployments
July 24, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Deal validates tectonic shift in data warehousing, puts pressure on Oracle and independent appliance vendors.

Sybase Reports 15% Revenue Growth To Record Level
July 24, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Its pace of growth exceeded the 12.6% rate of growth for the database market as a whole during 2007 and most of its relational database competitors last year.

Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers
July 21, 2008 by Thomas Claburn
The company's Simple Storage Service suffered a similar outage lasting about two hours in February, an incident that at the time led many to question its dependability.

Panorama Upgrade Incorporates Hybrid On-Premise-SaaS Capabilities
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The latest version of NovaView enables customers to retain their data warehouse in-house while combining its information with Web-based public data sources.

Kalido Extends Data Warehouse Support To More Microsoft Software
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The additional support stems from the latest version of Kalido Universal Information Director, which makes it possible to get data from Kalido's data warehouse to Microsoft Office, PerformancePoint and SharePoint.

Sypherlink Upgrades Metadata Discovery, Mapping Tool
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Harvester 5.0 has better heuristics matching capabilities, tighter integration with the extract, transform and load process; and a graphical user interface with point-and-click navigation.

SAP To Migrate Customers To More Expensive Support Service
July 16, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The software company plans to move customers from their current agreements to the new service's pricing model of 22% of license fees by 2012.

Microsoft's SQL Server Growth Slows But Still Beats Rivals
July 11, 2008 by Charles Babcock
The total database market grew at a rate of 12.6% in 2007 and hit $18.8 billion, compared with $16.7 billion the year before, says IDC.

Oracle Introduces BI Application for iPhone
July 10, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Free 'Business Indicators' app taps Web services to display metrics and reports. Vendor promises two-way ERP and CRM apps.

Ride the Next Wave of Flexible 'BI Workspaces'
June 30, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Forrester Research says SaaS and in-memory options will let power users and analysts gain insight without IT bottlenecks. Embrace the trend, but beware the costs and risks.

Talend Unveils Open Source Data Profiler
June 27, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Open Profiler helps IT teams assess data to identify potential problems before beginning projects such as data integration or application development.

HP-Oracle Warehouse Marks Another Win for Appliances
June 25, 2008 by Doug Henschen
HP BladeSystem bundle targets 1-4 terabyte market sweet spot. HP claims speed and energy efficiency advantages over Dell's alternative.

HP Tailors BladeSystem To Oracle Data Warehouse
June 24, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The system provides the essential elements of a data warehouse infrastructure, including computing power, storage, interconnect, and management.

Kimball University: Microsoft SQL Server Comes of Age for Data Warehousing
June 23, 2008 by Warren Thornthwaite
With new compression, partitioning and star schema optimization features, Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is catching up with the state of the industry in data warehousing. Here's why these three capabilities are crucial for scalability and performance on any platform.

Guide To Cloud Computing
June 21, 2008 by Richard Martin J. Nicholas Hoover
The market is getting crowded with Web-based software and storage offerings. Here's what you need to know about the cloud computing strategies of Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and five other leading vendors.

Data Warehouse Alternatives Make a Hit in India and Europe
June 20, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Telco Reliance scales with DW appliances. Web marketer TradeDoubler loads and queries faster, cuts cost with a column-store database.

Inside Microsoft's $550 Million Mega Data Centers
June 17, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
A tour of Microsoft's gargantuan, under-construction San Antonio data center reveals a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure on an immense scale.

Are You Ready for Advanced Analytics?
June 16, 2008 by Doug Henschen
You can now buy analytics as an add-on module for your BI suite, but you'll need expertise to make the leap into predictive analytics.

Teradata Updates Warehouse Miner
June 15, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The upgrade includes a new feature that enables business users to drag and drop analytic functions from an index and run them against a data warehouse to discover patterns in customer, financial and operational data.

IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire
June 10, 2008 by Charles Babcock
At first, relational database was a highly mocked product, halting in its performance compared to the programmed-path systems. Now it represents an $18.6 billion a year market.

Q&A: Amazon on Enterprise Computing in the Cloud
June 9, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Speaking at this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, Amazon's Adam Selipsky says enterprises are already embracing the agility and economies of scale of cloud computing.

Comply Or Die: Data Disposition Must Be A Priority
June 7, 2008 by Andrew Conry-Murray
IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations.

Trillium Expands Global Coverage Of Data Quality Software
June 5, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The Trillium Software System version 11.5 is targeted at companies that process large volumes of product and customer data from across regions.

Delta Dental Signs Up For Open Source Business Intelligence Software
June 5, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
The dental benefits provider chose Pentaho's open source BI after comparing it with SAP Business Objects.

HP Upgrades Neoview Data Warehouse Appliance
June 3, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Enhancements target mixed workloads, high data volumes and low-latency demands of operational BI deployments.

How To Assess Offshore Data Security
May 31, 2008 by Adam Ely
Secure offshore outsourcing takes similar strategic thinking as in-house work.

Q&A With Gartner's Don Feinberg on Database as a Service and Cloud DBs
May 23, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Sun are now fueling the growing fire around the database-as-a-service and cloud database markets, but what's the difference between these offerings and what's the appeal? Database guru Don Feinberg defines terms and raises important questions about reliability and security.

Your Next Data Warehouse? Size Up Column-Store Databases and Appliances
May 22, 2008 by Doug Henschen
These approaches may beat out conventional databases in price and performance. Here's how to find products that fit with your company's data analysis needs.

ParAccel Unveils Pilot Program For Analytic Appliance
May 21, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
the new analytic appliance is built on EMC CLARiion midrange CX-3 UltraScale networked storage and ParAccel's analytic columnar database.

Yahoo Claims Record With Petabyte Database
May 21, 2008 by Thomas Claburn
Yahoo claims it has the largest SQL database in a production environment and that it will grow larger.

Startup Aster Offers Software For Clustering Commodity Servers
May 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.

HP Upgrades Database Archiving Software
May 19, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
HP Database Archiving has a new designer module that improves the software's ability to model application transactions, such as purchase orders and sales orders, and to apply business rules and corporate retention policies.

Sybase Unveils Analytic Appliance
May 19, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The new product combines the Sybase IQ database with IBM's System P hardware and MicroStrategy business intelligence software.

New York Stock Exchange Ticks on Data Warehouse Appliances
May 16, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Netezza deployment replaces mega data warehouses while cutting query times from hours to seconds.

Data Deduplication: More Than Just A Feature
May 16, 2008 by George Crump
The major storage manufacturers have struggled to put together viable strategies for data reduction.

How Bad Is The SAP Talent Shortage?
May 13, 2008 by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Currently, there is a deficit of 30,000 to 40,000 SAP project experts worldwide, admits Don Bulmer, SAP VP of global industry and influencers.

Head in Cloud, Vertica Taps Amazon for Online Database Service
May 13, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Column-store database vendor says hosted service will appeal to toe dippers and analytic SaaS providers.

Kimball University: Better Business Skills for BI and Data Warehouse Professionals
May 11, 2008 by Warren Thornthwaite
To deliver better intelligence, BI and data warehousing teams need business acumen, interpersonal skills and communication competencies. Here are helpful tips and 12 invaluable resources for career development and success.