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Following Up On 'Claims and Conjecture'
03.18.2010

Doug Henschen

Last week I posted a blog about "Claims, Conjecture and Outright Lies." It generated a lot of comments as well as soul searching on the part of PR professionals, software marketing types and, I'll admit, myself.

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Sandy Kemsley

IBM's (Private-Focused) Cloud Strategy
03.17.2010
Yesterday, IBM announced its cloud strategy and roadmap; I was at the analyst update last week and had a chance to hear about it first-hand from IBM execs... To be clear, there is a predominant focus on private clouds, or what some would not consider cloud at all...

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Cassandra and the NoSQL Scalable OLTP Argument
03.10.2010

Curt Monash

Todd Hoff put up a provocative post on High Scalability called "MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?"... It seems as if the super-scalable Web site biz has moved beyond MySQL/Memcached...

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Doug Henschen

Sifting Through Competitive Claims & Conjecture
03.10.2010
I've certainly had to sort through a lot of dubious competitive claims in the last week. As a journalist, I have many years of experience hearing ill-informed assertions, half truths and occasional bald-faced lies. I usually know BS when I hear it. Sometimes I'm still taken off guard.

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Kimball University: Three ETL Compromises to Avoid
March 1, 2010
by Bob Becker
Why neglecting slowly changing dimensions, failing to capture metadata and overlooking scope creep can be the undoing of a dimensional data warehousing initiative.

Upstart Vendors Keep Data Warehousing Competitive
February 22, 2010
by Doug Henschen
Announcements from Aster Data, Kognitio, ParAccel and Vertica highlight a healthy and growing market for data analysis alternatives.

Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards 2010
February 11, 2010
by Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent Enterprise names 'The Dozen' most influential vendors for the intelligent enterprise and 36 'Companies to Watch' in 2010.

Expert Analysis: The New Masters of Master Data
February 1, 2010
by David Stodder
Can the MDM market overcome the governance problem? Data owners still need a clear business case.

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Cloud Connect: U.S. IT In Forefront
The Cloud Connect conference opens with a warning on how the rest of the world views the U.S.-driven cloud computing phenomenon.

Google Launches Store For Web Apps
The Google Apps Marketplace will let third-party developers sell their Web apps to Google Apps customers.

Cast Iron Launches Cloud Integration Platform
Combining data synchronization with process-support and mashup capabilities, OmniConnect addresses on-premise-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud integration.

Teradata Boosts Data Warehouse Appliance Speed
Built-in speed enhancers include a subsystem that increases processor interconnect bandwidth by 2.5 times over previous generations of the appliance.

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