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• Business Analytics

  • Nate Silver lays out data-driven business strategy

    A lack of standards and best practices can hold back businesses from becoming more data-driven, says Nate Silver, founder and editor in chief for FiveThirtyEight. But they can overcome challenges.

  • HP Vertica users put limits on using Hadoop for analytics

    Hadoop is one of the most popular big data technologies. But when it comes to predictive modeling and data visualization, its utility is somewhat limited, users of HP's Vertica system say.

  • New business intelligence skills in, BI developers out

    Consultant Lee Feinberg says organizations need to build up their data storytelling and visualization capabilities -- and details a competition for finding people with the right business intelligence skills.

• Data Center

  • Network bottleneck looms when data center storage improves

    The high-IOPS, low-latency potential of SSDs moves bottlenecks to the network. SDN offers provisioning adjustments to avoid any slowdown in the data center.

  • Colocation pricing morphs into cloud pay-per-use model

    Cloud computing users have been able to pay just for what they use, but that hasn't been an option for colocation customers -- until now.

  • Is IT service continuity only for the rich?

    Technologies like cloud and virtualization mean IT service continuity no longer requires an extra data center or two.

• Data Management

  • IBM pushes MPP engine to boost cloud database services line

    IBM has added massively parallel processing and R language support to its dashDB software -- important steps for a data warehouse database tailored for distributed cloud computing.

  • Swim fast with a Hadoop data lake architecture -- or sink

    The Hadoop data lake concept presents plenty of challenges for organizations. But the experiences of early adopters point the way toward successful data lake architecture deployments.

  • Data preparation process comes under new scrutiny

    Data preparation processes are changing as business users cope with big data in all its variations, according to the latest Talking Data podcast.

• DataManagement UK

  • Big data roundtable webcast: gaining value from big data

    Roundtable discussion on business value of big data, chaired by Brian McKenna, Editor, SearchDataManagementUK, and featuring Mike Ferguson, Roxane Edjlali (Gartner), Joshua LeCure (GlaxoSmithKline).

  • 2012 training courses: BI, data management, data warehousing

    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: what is dirty data costing UK organisations?

    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.

• Oracle

  • How to make sense of Oracle licenses for VMware environments

    Oracle licenses are a tricky subject and Oracle licensing for VMware environments doubly so. Find out about the important documents and policies that guide Oracle licensing and VMware.

  • Oracle announces its new, lower-cost SPARC processor

    At Hot Chips 27, Oracle presented its new, lower-cost SPARC processor, Sonoma, which puts Oracle into competition with Intel x86 and the Xeon chip.

  • Oracle Mobile Cloud will integrate with Xamarin platform

    Oracle Mobile Cloud Services will integrate with the Xamarin platform, which lets developers build, test and model mobile applications in C#.

• Content Management

  • Experts highlight potholes in the Office 365 roadmap

    Office 365 provides new options for lightweight collaboration, but experts at SPTechCon Boston said some features aren't ready for prime time yet.

  • SharePoint 2016 beta is solid, but don't expect fireworks

    SharePoint 2016 beta makes some solid improvements for the user experience, but feels more like an update than a major new release, said one expert.

  • Are text analytics tools the future of records management?

    In recent years, text analytics tools have simplified the time-consuming and onerous work of records management.

• Windows Server

  • With Azure Key Vault, cloud security no longer up in air

    Admins with an Azure subscription can use Azure Key Vault to protect and encrypt keys and data. Here's how to set it up with PowerShell.

  • Control IT access with JEA PowerShell toolkit

    Just Enough Administration restricts administrative access to the bare necessities for user tasks, giving organizations more control over security.

  • Tips for landing the best Windows administrator jobs

    Whether you're looking for the best Windows Server job or have been in your position for years, these five tips will help you strengthen your skills.

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