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Performing iterative calculations against transaction data can become time intensive, especially when there are millions of rows in the table. Thats why online analytical processing (OLAP) has become so essential. But OLAP necessarily summarizes the data along the parameters of interest, called dimensions. In doing so, the ability to dig down to a transaction level […]

Unswayed by the big-hype stillborns of the application service provider niche, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce a new ASP-enabling strategy at the ISPCon/ASPCon tradeshow on Tuesday in Las Vegas. The program, called Destination ASP, is a co-sales and co-marketing strategy to help independent software vendors and service providers enter the ASP business, at a point […]

Not everyone is willing to wait for someone else to cut the desktop tether. Loose coalitions of tech geeks, amateur radio hobbyists and social activists worldwide have begun to build free broadband wireless networks. Sit in a park or café near one of these networks with your laptop and modem, and you can access files […]

Network and hosting service providers venturing into the software business have found demand for all but the most obvious of these futuristic services is slim, and that competition for network services tends to creep up from the most improbable places. Just a year ago, the formula still seemed to be clicking. Businesses, tired of maintaining […]

What will the future of computing look like? Intels Pat Gelsinger is spending about $4.2 billion this year to get some answers. Gelsinger, 40, is an Intel lifer who started at the company in 1979 as a teen-ager fresh from technical school. He was recently named chief technology officer — the first CTO Intel has […]

Ruminations on the future of information technology tend to be optimistic homilies, cheerful predictions of nothing but the goodness of faster, cheaper and more useful computers. The future of Internet security, however, is a much different story. The forecast on this front isnt for blue skies — its more like a tornado warning. The number […]

Computers, you might say, are growing up to be more like us. Someday, they will be able to process information as quickly as we can, which means they will be able to understand what were saying. An intelligent electronic companion that anticipates our every informational need isnt very far away. For the next few years, […]

The software that powers future Internet computing will be built in a very different way than it is today. In place of large, monolithic applications — such as, say, a Cobol mainframe accounting system — software experts see a world in which a module of code is developed once, then used in many different applications. […]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Thats the well-worn observation by futurist and writer Arthur C. Clarke. Here we are in 2001, though, and its difficult to believe theres anything very magical about the tools we use to access or produce information. Todays computers are unreliable, primitive tools when compared to the proactive […]

Intel Corp. researchers have developed a new technology that paves the way for producing processors running at speeds of up to 20GHz in a few years. Engineers working for the giant chipmaker say they have designed a new method for “packaging” microprocessors that will enable Intel to manufacture smaller, more energy efficient and faster chips. […]