Contributor: Steve Swoyer
        
 Stephen  Swoyer is  a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has  focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a  decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems  most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk  about.
Stephen  Swoyer is  a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has  focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a  decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems  most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk  about.
 
  
 
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                    Teradata touted a new Extreme Performance data warehouse appliance and its first-ever enterprise-oriented cloud offering, and that was just the beginning.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- November 4, 2009
 
            
                
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The accord with HP is very similar to a partnership that SAP notched six months ago with Teradata. Its similarity raises questions.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sooner or later, data warehousing pros will have to come to terms with the remarkable staying power of the mainframe.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM's rumored announcement of an "Exadata Killer" turned attention to Oracle's latest powerhouse. Why is there a surprising paucity of on-the-record information about what enterprises are using Exadata and how they're using it?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 14, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Vendors competing in the fractious analytic database segment sure know how to keep things interesting
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 7, 2009