Thanks to relentless global competition and an unforgiving economy, organizations have been under non-stop pressure to deliver products and services. For many the lifeblood of finding new opportunities has been to mine the data assets being gathered from all corners of their enterprise and beyond—transactions, customer data, employee input, and information about market conditions. However,…

Thanks to relentless global competition and an unforgiving economy, organizations have been under non-stop pressure to deliver products and services. For many the lifeblood of finding new opportunities has been to mine the data assets being gathered from all corners of their enterprise and beyond—transactions, customer data, employee input, and information about market conditions. However,…

As the era of "Big Data" marches on unabated, data is coming from an ever wider range of sources, including transactional systems, mobile devices, sensors, streaming media, and social networks. Businesses are looking for innovative way to better leverage terabytes - and, for some, petabytes - of information. This has placed tremendous pressure on IT…

There is great awareness of and attention on database growth these days. Estimates put the amount of data in existence at this time at more than a zettabyte (or a trillion gigabytes), which would be the equivalent of 75 billion fully loaded iPads. All this data is streaming into and through enterprises from transactions, remote…

In this day and age, for many organizations, data is not only crossing into the hundreds of terabytes, but into the near petabyte(PB) and multi-petabyte range. Data is streaming into, out of, and through enterprises from a dizzying array of sources—transactions, remote devices, partnersites, websites, and non-stop user-generated content. Not only are the data stores…

Data warehousing is undergoing the most radicaltransformation seen since it was first conceived in the 1970s,and brought to market in the late 1980s and 1990s. One reason for this transformation is that data warehouses are on the front lines of the Big Data explosion. Not only do companies need to manage and store hundreds of…

Data warehousing is undergoing the most radicaltransformation seen since it was first conceived in the 1970s,and brought to market in the late 1980s and 1990s. One reason for this transformation is that data warehouses are on the front lines of the Big Data explosion. Not only do companies need to manage and store hundreds of…

More than half way through, 2011 is shaping up to be a recordyear for data breaches. In one of the more egregious incidentsearlier this year, more than four million websites fell prey to aSQL injection attack. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.The same lack of controls that enable hackers to compromisedatabase servers…

More than half way through, 2011 is shaping up to be a recordyear for data breaches. In one of the more egregious incidentsearlier this year, more than four million websites fell prey to aSQL injection attack. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.The same lack of controls that enable hackers to compromisedatabase servers…