CIO.com - Data Management

Protect our Data! a Digital Consumer Bill of Rights

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

You've been uploading pictures, sharing stories, and entering personal data into your favorite social network for years. Now the network says that all of your data is public and that it's going to share the information with an advertiser.

Cray Courts the Big-Data Market

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

But do we still need supercomputers when we have Hadoop?

Hands on: HP's Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

If you're like most enterprises, you have data everywhere. It's in line-of-business applications. It's in directories. It's in various departmental servers. It's in your e-commerce platform. To manage all this, most shops use databases of all sizes running on a variety of operating systems and database applications, often from different vendors and editions. Chances are, they're not consistent.

New Social Site Pinterest Attracts Enthusiasm, Scrutiny

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Just as social network Pinterest is taking off, users express concern over tracking code the company adds to their links

How to Evaluate Enterprise Search Options

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

An enterprise search platform delivers many benefits, including improved employee productivity, but there are dozen of vendors and three different approaches -- specialized, integrated and detached -- to consider. Here's how to find the product that best fits your company's search requirements.

Oracle Stakes Claim in R with Advanced Analytics Launch

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

A new software release adds support for the open-source statistical modeling language

Dating Site Matches Not So Scientific

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Though succesful, online data sites can't claim to have truly scientific matching formulas, researchers say

Oracle Seeks New Trial in IP Theft Suit Against SAP

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday.

Five Ways to Mix Business and Personal Data on Your Smartphone

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Here are five ways to access your work and personal data without carrying two handsets.

How to Work with Firehose Data

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

It goes without saying that big data is, well, big. But it's not just the size that's an obstacle when dealing with big data: it's the rate at which that data can be coming into your data storage infrastructure.

Lack of Data Scientists is the New Von Neumann Bottleneck

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Strata Conference's Founding Chair, Edd Dumbill, talks about bridging the data and information gap

Pentaho Open Sources 'big Data' Integration Tools Under Apache 2.0

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Tooling related to NoSQL databases, Hadoop and MapReduce will become available at no charge

Why Big Data Means a Big Year for Hadoop

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friendenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.

SAP's HANA in-Memory Database Will Gain Ability to Run ERP This Year

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The move could accelerate SAP's plans to migrate its applications customers away from Oracle's database

Microsoft Reveals Launch Date for Next-Generation SQL Server 2012

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

But it's not clear when the release will be generally available