IBM's Nancy Kopp-Hensley talks about cloud, data warehousing and what's ahead for its new BLU Acceleration for Cloud. She also explains why being a good sales person -- especially if you're an over-taxed IT administrator -- never hurts.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 10, 2014
For enterprises just beginning to explore Hadoop, we offer a five-point road map to unlocking the full potential of big data.
Be known for recognizing a good vendor. Recommend the ones who understand their products and your true needs. Don’t take a vendor’s (or anyone else’s) word for assessments that you yourself must make on behalf of your organization.
The centerpiece of recent Teradata's recent announcements, QueryGrid, will likely take considerable time to flesh out and realize in practice.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 3, 2014
The search for a clear front-runner in the business intelligence and analytic search market is far from over.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 3, 2014
Vendors such as GridGain say they want to democratize in-memory computing, but that's happening right now. The prerequisites are falling into place.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2014
How often do people actually use BI technologies? BI adoption can't seem to crack 25 percent. What if the users actually working with BI are using it to the max?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2014