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An emerging core competency of every business is being able to deliver real-time analytical intelligence to those who need it. Advanced technologies such as pervasive business intelligence and active data warehousing can help businesses leverage their portals and Web 2.0 techniques to deliver fresh, timely information to users. Here, Knowledge Center contributors Dave Schrader and Dan Graham offer 10 ways to use pervasive business intelligence to dramatically transform your business.
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Microsoft is working to deliver parallel programming capabilities to the masses, in the way that perhaps only the software giant can. The company is pursuing data parallelism, a form of parallelization of computing across multiple processors in parallel computing environments.
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Following nationwide arrests earlier in 2009 involving fraud and abuse in the H-1B visa program, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service promises a substantial increase in site visits to third parties employing H-1B workers.
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Office has an unenviable task: getting organizations and individuals excited about undertaking a major upgrade of a platform whose previous versions have been handling users' productivity chores just fine for going on 10 years now. The beta of Office 2010 shows extended Web and mobile reach, as well as a number of useful enhancements across the suite's apps.
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IBM is pressing what it sees as an advantage over HP and Sun by cutting prices by as much as 70 percent on memory in its Power systems. The goal is to further tempt customers of Sun’s SPARC systems and HP’s Itanium platform to migrate to IBM’s Power architecture. However, one analyst also said that the Power platform also is competing with less-expensive x86 systems, which are moving deeper into scale-up environments.
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In this era of downsizing, small and midsize businesses are rethinking their disaster recovery and business continuity plans. While some SMBs have implemented their backup plans from the start, most have relied on backup and disaster recovery as an afterthought, implementing strategies only when needed. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Thomas Nieto explains how SMBs can best develop and execute their disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
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The IBM Analytics Solution Center, recently opened in Washington, will focus on the federal market.
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Since announcing its plans to fold its modeling technology, up to now known by the code name Oslo, into its SQL Server platform, Microsoft has been taking flak from developers complaining of a letdown by the software giant regarding the future of its modeling strategy. In response, Microsoft defends its plans and says the modeling strategy is intact.
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A well-chosen, thoughtfully deployed deduplication solution can deliver an impressive ROI for organizations of all sizes. Choosing the right deduplication approach can make a big difference in results. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Janae Lee explains four basic rules about deduplication technology that will help organizations choose the deduplication approach that is best for them.
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Microsoft made the latest community technology preview for SQL Server 2008 R2 available to the general public today.
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The EC and Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes have scheduled the Oracle-Sun hearing for Nov. 25 at the EC offices in Brussels, a source reveals to eWEEK.
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Microsoft has found a home for its "Oslo" modeling technology – in the SQL Server database family.
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UPDATED: The EC, the antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, informed both Oracle and Sun that the decision was because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database. The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world's largest commercial database company owning its largest open-source competitor.
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In an interview with eWEEK, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says "there's no rational argument" for preventing Oracle from acquiring all of Sun, including MySQL with its open-source relational database software. The competitive pressure that MySQL exerts on the market will preserve the independence of the database no matter who owns the product, Mickos asserts.
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The European Commission, the antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, apparently will lodge the objection because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database, and the EC sees a major conflict of interest in the world's largest commercial database company owning its largest open-source competitor.
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The free, open-source Talend Open Studio makes it easy to round up data, tweak it en masse, and load it into target systems such as databases and enterprise applications.
REVIEW: iLuminate sets out to address data warehousing limitations with its iLuminate 4.0 correlation database. Rather than store data in tables, iLuminate 4.0 organizes information in value pools based on data type, with an auto-generated indexing system that keeps track of the values' context. This fully indexed, value-based storage approach can yield significant performance benefits, but eWEEK Labs was most impressed by iLuminate's knack for making data available for analysis with very few planning or design requirements.
What will become of the open-source MySQL database after database giant Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems? After considering the database market, Oracle's and Sun's strengths, and history, eWEEK Labs' Jeff Cogswell thinks that MySQL and its customers can expect the database to live on, although perhaps not exactly as we know it now.
TECH ANALYSIS: IBM has DB2, not to mention Informix, while Sun Microsystems has MySQL. Will one trump the others? eWEEK Labs examines the overlap and synergies between IBM's and Sun's database platforms, and what customers should expect should an acquisition go forward.
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