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Survey Reveals What’s Driving SaaS BI

A new report explores which BI professionals are drawn to the technology and the self-service benefits it can provide.

Q&A on Emerging Tech: Analyzing the Voice of Your Customer

Making the most of the 80 percent of data stored as text is the job of this increasing popular technology.

PowerPivot's Role in Enterprise BI

How PowerPivot can be incorporated into your enterprise BI projects.

Pervasive Analytics: Are You Being Served?

Users are yearning for more analytic responsibility

CDW Poll: Enterprises Confident in Network Resilience Despite Disruptions

One quarter of respondents said they experienced a "significant network disruption" in the last year

Lower Costs Pushing Adoption of High-Performance Computing

Lower HPC costs make it possible for more companies to be cutting edge in their market.

Government, Personal Data at Risk, Deloitte-NASCIO Survey Finds

More than three-quarters of chief information security officers in state government cite stagnant or cut budgets as top problem.



Video: Replication in Jeopardy? (Interview)

Given the appeal of data protection features storage array vendors have been adding to their equipment, is the practice of replicating data for protection using software operating outside of the storage array -- rather than as a built-in function of an array controller -- in jeopardy?

Q&A: Improving Business/IT Collaboration

If you can’t save costs through efficiency, you can’t afford to be innovative -- but how do you get business and IT users to see eye to eye on the future?

OpenOffice Foundation Splits from Oracle

The community of volunteers that developed the OpenOffice.org project have split off from Oracle and formed a new structure called The Document Foundation.

HP's Just Right IT Targets Neglected Market

Although efforts to reach the "neglected" or "untapped" mid-market shops are nothing new, HP's Just Right IT seems to have most of its ducks in a row.

Gartner Says Cloud Spending On the Rise

Cloud computing services accounted for 12.5 percent of overall IT budgets, according to a research report released this week by Gartner.

Q&A: Social Media and BI Overlap Ahead

Using BI and data warehousing tools on data collected from social media applications could allow companies to better store, search, and analyze that data. The founder of a firm that makes a capture and storage platform for social media sees synergies just ahead.

Data Deluge or Opportunity?

Why data aggregation, data exhaust, and metadata are the fundamental building blocks to tomorrow’s business model for organizations of nearly any size.

Microsoft Security Essentials Free for Small Businesses

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free for small businesses to use "beginning in early October," Microsoft announced

In Search of BI ROI

Hard BI benefits -- such as reductions in costs or in employee headcounts -- remain frustratingly elusive, according to a new survey.

Metadata Management: An Imperative for Your Enterprise

A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.

Microsoft Takes HPC to the Cloud

New release aimed at broadened use of Windows HPC Server.

Q&A: Outsourcing in Chile

With so many choices for outsourcing, should Chile be on your radar?

Careers: Windows 7 Skills Shortage Looming?

IT pros with Windows 7 skills are -- or soon will be -- a hot commodity.