Database management

Gartner: Deriving value from Big Data for CRM

Kimberly Collins, research vice-president of Gartner highlights the critical steps organisations should to take to integrate big data into Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Continue Reading

CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4

Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading

Information Governance

This research from AIIM looks at the risk profile around electronic records, the keep-all versus delete-all options, e-discovery, and the implications of social, mobile and cloud on risk management policies. Continue Reading

Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Information Security Breaches Survey 2013

Security breaches cost large businesses an average of £850,000, the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey reveals. Continue Reading

Enabling the secure use of RFID

Dario Bevilacqua and Keith Mayes describe the design of an UHF RFID system for secure identification and tracking. Continue Reading

Is EMC Greenplum the real Hadoop company?

EMC Greenplum launched two new Hadoop-related technologies to support Big Data deployments. Analyst Group, Nucleus Research assesses their importance. Continue Reading

Making sense of storage in a big data world

Robert White, executive director for enterprise infrastructure at Morgan Stanley, offers advice on how to develop a strategy for managing big data storage. Continue Reading

Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat

Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CW Buyer's Guide: Big Data Infrastructure

Computer Weekly looks at the mindset and technology infrastructure businesses need to analyse big data. Continue Reading

How to manage the risk of the human factor in database administration

Fail to manage the risk of the human factor in database administration and you court disaster. DBAs, like air traffic controllers: work in pairs? Continue Reading

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• Jon Reade, Contributor

Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility

Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Sap business suite now available on Sap Hana

This analyst report from Nucleus Research assess the impact of SAPs decision to power SAP Business Suite by its SAP HANA in memory database technology. Continue Reading

CW Special Report on Oracle

This special report, updated for 2012, gives an independent view of the challenges facing Oracle, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. Continue Reading

Modelling the Insurance Enterprise

This report from the Open Group is aimed at managers, architects, and designers that serve the insurance industry or have an interest in integrating the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards. Continue Reading

Online gambling sector bets on business intelligence

Online gambling and gaming industries crave structured business data. Volumes can be huge and they need to react to customer behaviour Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

The Human Face of Big Data: Data Driven

Software engineers are transforming the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people for good and for ill, writes Jonathan Harris. Continue Reading

The Human Face of Big Data: Pulse of the Planet

Big Data is about to radically transform our understanding of the planet, writes entrepreneur and commentator, Esther Dyson. Continue Reading

Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database

Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Conquering the sys-admin challenge

This report from Quocirca presents new data on how well organisations are able to automate their sys-admin procedures, manage the use of privilege and satisfy the requirements of auditors. Continue Reading

CW buyer's guide: The business advantages of big data

Big data may appear to be just another bandwagon, but it is important, and needs to be addressed carefully and sensibly. Continue Reading

German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales

German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Scenes from EMC Momentum Vienna 2012

EMC Momentum took place in Vienna this year, at the Messe Wien Congress Centre. 1,100 EMC attendees descended on the conference for hands-on-labs and a selection of sessions. View photos from the event here. Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly

Teradata brings big data into the SQL family

Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture. Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Cloud APIs at hand to connect to databases

The pros and cons of using cloud application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect users to databases via mobile or web Continue Reading

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• Arif Mohamed

Star schema vs snowflake schema: Which is better?

Yahoo’s data and business intelligence architect, Rohit Chatter, answers the latest debate, Star versus Snowflake schema, by breaking down the differences, one aspect at a time Continue Reading

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• Rohit Chatter, Yahoo!

In-memory database technology gains ground, but challenges remain

In-memory database technology improves specific application performance notably. But challenges need to be met before in-memory database becomes the norm. Continue Reading

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• Sharon D'Souza, Reporter

Deloitte spots analytics trends, ethics and open data

Deloitte identifies four analytics trends: an increased focus on ethics, the rise of open data, new business models and a refusal to do analytics for its own sake. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

European river managers delve into new knowledge management system

The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

Shell HR gains from structured information quality programme

Oil giant Shell’s human resources function has been on an information quality journey since 2002, integrating historically decentralized businesses into one assured talent pool. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

BBC evolves digital asset management with Life

The BBC’s Life series marked an ongoing shift from film to digital media that is making the need for rigorous metadata and digital asset management in broadcast media more pressing. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Hadoop's run into enterprise cloud

Free enterprise cloud software from Hadoop is causing a lot of buzz in the market, and the economics of the public cloud are leading customers to more mid-sized cloud providers. Continue Reading

Database normalization in MySQL: Four quick and easy steps

Normalization helps in achieving resource optimization with improvements in MySQL database design. Learn about database normalization in MySQL Continue Reading

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• Ronen Baram

What to look out for when migrating to cloud databases

Companies going for a mix-and-match approach to migrating databases to the cloud are meeting interoperability problems. Early evaluation is necessary for integration. Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

When data goes bad: how data quality analysis can fix problems

How can data quality be improved for business benefit? Data quality is complex, and thrown into relief by the pressing requirement for analysis. Learn how to clean it up through data quality analysis. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

TPC-E: New IT benchmarks for OLTP database servers

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released new benchmarks for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers and hopes CIOs will use the new measures to inform their purchasing decisions. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Emmerton, Contributor