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  • Datameer adds governance tools for Hadoop analytics

    Datameer is giving its native Hadoop environment new data governance capabilities in an effort to help organizations tackle data quality, security and compliance problems stemming from the growing use of analytics tools by business users.

    Written by Katherine Noyes04 June 15 03:15
  • IBM's new Power Systems servers are custom-made for SAP Hana

    SAP and IBM share a long history dating back to the very roots of SAP, and on Monday that allegiance got a little closer with two new IBM Power Systems server configurations tailored specifically for SAP's Hana in-memory data platform.

    Written by Katherine Noyes05 May 15 03:04
  • Zoho bolsters cloud tools with expense report features

    Few things in the workforce present as many challenges for corporations as expense reports. Filing them is a task few enjoy and most avoid for as long as their bank accounts can bear the burden. Zoho wants to alleviate some of the pain with a new expense reporting application that's tightly integrated with its suite of productivity and collaboration tools.

    Written by Matt Kapko08 April 15 04:54
  • Informatica goes private in $US5.3bn buyout

    Back in 2010 there was a round of widespread speculation that Oracle was about to snap up Informatica, but -- like so many such rumors -- it never came to pass. Now, Informatica is getting purchased by someone else.

    Written by Katherine Noyes08 April 15 04:31
  • AtScale opens Hadoop's big-data vaults to nonexpert business users

    When it comes to business intelligence, most enterprise users are intimately acquainted with tools such as Microsoft Excel. They tend to feel less comfortable with data-management technologies like Hadoop -- despite the considerable insights such tools could offer.

    Written by Katherine Noyes08 April 15 01:55
  • In a haystack of data, Alation helps find the needle

    One of the paradoxes of today's data-driven world is that the very data we seek for competitive advantage can be both a curse and a blessing. Businesses need the right data to gain a leg up, but each new bit they acquire makes it harder to uncover the data they need.

    Written by Katherine Noyes01 April 15 11:50
  • Tableau 9.0 beta rolls out

    Tableau will showcase beta version 9.0 of its data visualization and analysis software to a large group of customers today, touting features that include drag-and-drop analytics as well as data-preparation features that formerly had to be done outside the application.

    Written by Sharon Machlis12 March 15 00:20
  • How to achieve Agile business intelligence success

    The Agile development approach to data management and business intelligence projects is seeing greater take up by CIOs as public and private sector firms demand faster, more measurable returns on their information investments.

    Written by Tony Kenney18 Feb. 15 14:39
  • ClusterHQ: Bringing the power of containers to enterprise data

    It's no small testament to the appeal of container technology that Docker -- by far the leading contender in the field -- went from under 3 million downloads in June 2014 to 100 million last month.

    Written by Katherine Noyes06 Feb. 15 11:55
  • HP plugs the Vertica analytics engine into Hadoop

    Bringing some enterprise rigor to the wild world of big data, Hewlett-Packard has issued a package that will allow organizations to harness HP's Vertica analytical database engine to investigate reams of unstructured data residing in Hadoop systems.

    Written by Joab Jackson18 Nov. 14 09:44
  • In pictures: CIO roundtable - data management

    CIOs gathered at the Park Hyatt in Sydney for a spirited roundtable discussion on data management issues - both present and future. The luncheon was sponsored by Unisys.

    Written by CIO Staff10 Nov. 14 11:49
  • Oracle fortifies integration suite for mobile work

    If it weren't enough of a challenge for IT architects and system managers to glue enterprise systems together, they must also now worry about connecting their systems to mobile and Web applications as well.

    Written by Joab Jackson27 June 14 04:31
  • USENIX: Unstable code can lead to security vulnerabilities

    As if tracking down bugs in a complex application isn't difficult enough, programmers now must worry about a newly emerging and potentially dangerous trap, one in which a program compiler simply eliminates chunks of code it doesn't understand, often without alerting the programmer of the missing functionality.

    Written by Joab Jackson20 June 14 06:45
  • LucidWorks preps Solr stack as Splunk killer

    Enterprise search software provider LucidWorks has introduced a package based on its open-source Apache Solr search engine that will allow administrators and business analysts to extract more information from IT system logs.

    Written by Joab Jackson02 April 14 22:02
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