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Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was

Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never WasFederation - Fills out the Data Integration ToolboxJim has done the industry a good service with this article. By getting people to more closely examine their data integration problems and the variety of physical data consolidation / virtual data federation technigues...

Tags: Business intelligence, PRODUCTIVITY, physical data consolidation, data federation, data consolidation, data warehouse

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was

Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Environment, Data Federation, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2008-09-18

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News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Good riddance: Digital music sales to surpass CDs in 2010?

Does anybody actually buy CDs these days? I don't mean going onto iTunes and buying an album. I'm talking about an actual plastic-case CD. An don't even get me started with vinyl albums. Apparently, digital music sales are doing so well that it's projected they will...

Tags: CD, Digital Music, Vinyl, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Google's campaign for Apps doesn't address the IT data elephant in the room

Google's campaign for Apps doesn't address the IT data elephant in the roomCost$50 per user/ per year ? How long does that price last? Especially once Google has all your data and your are locked in with no control or easy way to move it without their help?It...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Corporate America, Google Inc., IT data elephant, IT Data, elephant, Microsoft Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects - Day 1 Live Meeting

These days everything suggests that one should be moving to the cloud. But where to start? Which applications and services should be moving to the cloud? How to build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? The attendee of this webcast will learn architectural patterns and factors for moving to...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Office, Virtualization, Office Suites, Software, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-07-06

Updating Your Technology Knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7 Beta

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this three-day instructor-led course for experienced Windows XP users, you will gain the knowledge and skills to work with the new technologies in Windows Vista and Windows 7 Beta. This course incorporates material from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 6291: Updating...

Tags: Network, Knowledge, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Training 2009-07-01

Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks

During a telephone conversation between us last week Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch said he was going to pick up on my Collaboration Networks meme, and he has now produced a solid post on this topic. Aaron takes on the number one issue plaguing...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Network, Tool, Aaron, Information Fabric, Collaborative Network, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

TechNet Webcast: Windows 7 Feature Overview (Level 200)

The attendee of this webcast will discover Windows 7 platform capabilities that provide enhanced security and control, secure anywhere access that can make users more productive, and seamless desktop management that can make it easier for IT professionals and users to manage the desktop. The presenter will discuss networking features...

Tags: Webcast, Improvement, BitLocker, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-06-03

Florida Gives Teachers Secure Online Access to Terabytes of Student Data

Since the mid 1980s, Florida Department of Education DOE has collected student, staff, and workforce data and used it to guide program development and funding. As data volumes grew, so did demand for data - from teachers, administrators, legislators, and parents. To provide constituents with secure access to confidential student...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Education, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Teacher, Student Data, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Portals, Payroll Solutions, Content Management, Human Resources, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

Google Wave: Catching the Big One

Google unveiled a new online communications tool Thursday at its annual Google I/O Developer's Conference. Called "Google Wave", the new system sets its sights pretty high: replacing email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, and static documents. If anybody can do it, it just might be Lars Rasmussen, creator of the wildly...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Wave, E-mail, AJAX, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Accounting and Billing for Federated Cloud Infrastructures

Emerging Cloud computing infrastructures provide computing resources on demand based on postpaid principles. For example, the RESERVOIR project develops an infrastructure capable of delivering elastic capacity that can automatically be increased or decreased in order to cost-efficiently fulfill established Service Level Agreements. This infrastructure also makes it possible for a...

Tags: Accounting, Billing, Data Center, Infrastructure, Data Centers, Operational Accounting, Storage, Financial Services, Hardware, Data Management, Finance

White papers 2009-05-29

EMC World kicks off with new cloud offerings

Things are kicking off at EMCWorld this morning, before the keynote speeches, with news from EMC and partners about high-capacity storage services that provides a scalable, hybrid model. When it comes to enterprise storage on the cloud, there are two clouds to consider: the "private" cloud behind...

Tags: EMC Corp., Cloud, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-18

The Value of Standards-based CMDB Federation

SACM and CMS help an enterprise implement an overall strategy that aligns business and IT services accurately, with a minimum of resource investment, but to achieve those goals, a range of data sources must be integrated. Without an industry standard for integrating IT data sources, this integration is expensive, difficult...

Tags: Data Source, Information Technology, CMDB, Computer Associates International Inc., Standards, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-04-01

Enabling OSS Transformation With Data Federation

Most Communications Service Providers CSPs are faced with complex OSS system architectures that have evolved over time. They were built by a variety of business groups such as IT departments and system integrators. In addition, some of these systems have been designed to support an organizational alignment on a particular...

Tags: Oracle Corp., OSS

White papers 2009-04-01

The Norwegian Agricultural Authority Safeguards Subsidy Services to 50,000 Farmers and Other Groups

The Norwegian Agricultural Authority SLF wanted to ensure secure and stable access to electronic services for users from various groups and provide seamless integration between the authority's electronic services and Altinn.no, the government's portal for the industry. The challenge was to develop integrated and interactive services for data capture, processing,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Service, Portals, Government, Internet

Case studies 2009-04-01

Software in the Obama world

Is it time for a changing of the software guard? A lot of material has crossed my desk lately regarding software sales in the Obama, crisis-cleanup world. There is some interesting material here and two vendors stand out in the midst. First, let’s discuss...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, OpenAir Inc., Entity, PBO, Government Contractor, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Improving Security and Productivity Through Federation and Single Sign-On

Intel IT has developed a strategy and process for providing seamless user access to externally hosted applications. Single sign-on SSO enables centralized storage of sensitive user profile information through the use of standards-based identity federation, and this information remains under Intel's sole control. Users appreciate that a single password allows...

Tags: Single Sign-on, Intel Corp., Intel IT, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Security

White papers 2009-01-01

Intelligent Workload Factoring for a Hybrid Cloud Computing Model

Despite the hype, cloud computing still stays on IT managers' watching list. The hindrances to the adoption of public cloud computing services into enterprise IT include service reliability, security & data privacy, regulation compliant requirements, and so on. To address those concerns, one proposes a hybrid cloud computing model which...

Tags: Factoring, Workload Factoring Service, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27