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Vertica ventures into the cloud

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Vertica has just announced support for Amazon cloud-based data warehousing. What are we to make of this departure? [Read More...]

Tighten content security

Bob Tarzey, Quocirca — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. But before splashing out on content security, CIOs should take a good look at what they already have. [Read More...]

DataDomain boosts de-dupe power and capacity, and answers critics

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

De-duplication should be on every major company's agenda, and specialist vendor DataDomain's new model is a demonstration to larger competitors of how de-dupe should be done [Read More...]

All aboard the data integration expressor

Andy Hayler, Bloor Research — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

expressor is a new entrant to data integration. It offers very high performance using MPP techniques, and a higher level of abstraction than usual in order to reduce the high maintenance costs that plague data integration applications. [Read More...]

IBM Goes Multi-Domain

Andy Hayler, The Information Difference — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A new version of IBM's master data management offerings makes an important first step towards unifying its approach to different data domains. It has also launched an entry level pricing structure which is getting market traction. [Read More...]

Warehouse Management for SMEs - HighJump Warehouse Advantage-45

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Warehouse management is viewed by all involved in Logistics as a key to being successful in this fast moving industry. But the price of IT systems with the right mix of functionality for the SME market has been a major issue. [Read More...]

How to reduce the risk of personal injury claims against your IT department

Simon Parums, Themis — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Simon Parums, founder and managing director of Themis, a claims investigation and risk assessment company, gives his advice on how to reduce the risk of a claim being brought against companies with IT departments [Read More...]

Are data management consulting and business management consulting becoming one and the same?

Gerry Brown, Bloor Research — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:25:00 +0100

Much technology industry talk is now about best business management practices. Gerry Brown evaluates. [Read More...]

ETL vendors don't understand content

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Leading data integration vendors claim to support unstructured data. They do but they don't support content. [Read More...]

Flexible BPM adoption - the Finnish way

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

QPR Software has a different approach to providing BPMS solutions, which allows a phased approach for BPM adoption. This means that the customer does not have to commit a large amount of resources to a make or break BPM project. [Read More...]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Bob Tarzey, Quocirca — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. But actually measuring how distributed a business is can be problematic. [Read More...]

Migration matters

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A pot pourri of news about matters pertinent to data migration [Read More...]

Don't throw the telecoms baby out with the cost centre bath water

Rob Bamforth, Quocirca — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Mobile phone costs are too high, but why do so many financial controllers believe it is better to wield an axe with a blindfold than a scalpel while wearing spectacles? [Read More...]

Business Community Management - the Inovis way

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Business Community Management (BCM) - there's a new name for you. It certainly was to me when I met the EMEA management team of Inovis - John Redfern - MD, Paul Tatam - Sales & Marketing Director and Stephen Jefferies - Director of... [Read More...]

Teradata appliances

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:05:00 +0100

Teradata has finally entered the appliance market. Will they be competitive? I don't think so. [Read More...]

Controversy in SCM

David Norfolk, Bloor Research — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Our recent article on Accurev prompted some feedback from the Subversion camp. But the real issue isn't the tools you buy but whether you can manage the People and Process aspects of SCM. [Read More...]

Oracle completes BEA take-over

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Yesterday saw Oracle finally acquire BEA as approval from the EU was given. [Read More...]

Mixed query workloads - why is it important?

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The ability to support mixed query workloads is driving the agenda in the enterprise data warehousing space - what's it all about? [Read More...]

NVIDIA changes the game

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

David Kirk, Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, is on the offensive. It is a very charming offensive, and it seems his message is a very compelling one. The summary is GPGPU is dead, GPU Computing is the future for affordable supercomputing. [Read More...]

Siemens makes PLM announcement

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

On April 22, 2008, Siemens PLM Software announced what is described as the next big breakthrough in digital product development with synchronous technology, the PLM industry's first-ever history-free, feature-based modeling technology. [Read More...]

EnterpriseDB: not the IBM news

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

While IBM's recent investment into EnterpriseDB has made the IT news, less has been made of EnterpriseDB's recent product announcements. [Read More...]

GS1 UK Conference - RFID update

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

April 10th saw the GS1 UK annual conference, the second hosted at Leicester City Football Club. In this the third and final article I will look at three speakers who talked about RFID matters. [Read More...]

The high security hosting bunker

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:05:00 +0100

Centrinet's Smartbunker hosts high security, zero-carbon data centre services [Read More...]

The impact of MDM on data warehousing

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Enterprise Data Warehouses used to act as the system of record but now MDM does that: what is the potential impact on data warehousing architectures? [Read More...]

How to ensure outsourced software development is secure

Fran Howarth, Quocirca — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

As organisations increasingly rely on developing their own software applications, more are choosing to outsource. This article provides guidance on what steps organisations can take to ensure those applications are developed securely. [Read More...]

Sirit and Reva part of Metro Group's expanded RFID roll-out

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Further extension to the existing agreement between Metro, Sirit and Reva [Read More...]

Enterprise Data Protection - A Reality Today?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The first Bullseye report covering 43 vendors in the Enterprise Data Protection domain has just been released in time for InfoSec Europe, being held in London this week. But is Enterprise Data Protection a reality? [Read More...]

Informatica to acquire Identity Systems

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Informatica is buying Identity Systems (IDS) from Nokia - what does IDS do and is this a good thing or a bad thing? [Read More...]

Measurement - do records management policies, systems and procedures really deliver?

Rob Bamforth, Quocirca — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Is it better to test, or wait for something to go wrong before picking up the pieces - generally the former by a long way, but too many organisations opt for the latter - is lack of measurement false modesty or simply false economy? [Read More...]

Competition in the world of SCM

David Norfolk, Bloor Research — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The Software Configuration Management (SCM) world is being shaken up by the viral adoption by programmers of Subversion and other Open Source tools, regardless of corporate policy. However, AccuRev offers a process-centric alternative. [Read More...]