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The faster analytics performance spurred by in-memory technology can help companies capitalize on big data, but there are barriers to be aware of.
Marketing and advertising are the sweet spots for big data, but those who serve up marketing insights and ad space will need to evolve to survive.
Expert Brian Jordan shows business intelligence managers how to avoid developing dashboards that overwhelm business users with too much information.
VMware's upcoming public cloud and AMD's 64-bit ARM servers are technologies for the data center that exemplify the changes in the IT industry.
Stagnant strategies for data center cooling will keep energy bills climbing ever higher, but a more modern approach can bring them back down to earth.
The rise of converged systems has brought a new level of manageability to the data center, but these integrated offerings have a few drawbacks.
Boston Children's Hospital upgraded its business intelligence architecture to boost enterprise reporting, a move that also required retraining users.
With user interest rising, Hadoop vendors are trying to pave a path to higher adoption with add-ons that target issues holding the technology back.
A podcast Q&A; with SAS execs Jim Goodnight and Jim Davis looks at big data enablers, including in-memory analytics, and the role of data scientists.
Roundtable discussion on business value of big data, chaired by Brian McKenna, Editor, SearchDataManagementUK, and featuring Mike Ferguson, Roxane Edjlali (Gartner), Joshua LeCure (GlaxoSmithKline).
Find out where to hone your business intelligence, data management and data warehouse skills with this list of training courses for 2012.
Poor data quality can have serious financial consequences for businesses. Read about the current state of data quality management at UK companies, including dirty data problems.
Accountants hate having to play with scripts. In this tip, TopDown Consulting explains how to build script rules so that accountants don't have to.
Oracle master data management products are starting to merge various data management hubs, which is a help in particular vertical industries.
Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan made it popular, and it's certainly relevant for DBAs in today's consolidated, virtualized IT world.
SharePoint is a complex application. But training business users for an upgrade to SharePoint 2013 doesn't have to be a daunting task for IT teams.
The adoption of hybrid IT approaches creates a need for executives who can both formulate business objectives and assess IT requirements.
SharePoint 2013 adds new features to the collaboration software. But it comes at a time when SharePoint's value is being questioned in some quarters.
Microsoft delivered two critical and eight important bulletins in May's Patch Tuesday release, fixing issues in Windows Server 2012 and Office apps.
As Windows Azure Active Directory moves into general availability, we look at how it can help admins manage user authentication in the cloud.
Wondering how to get PowerShell to read XML files? Our expert explains a few methods you could use.