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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                    Data virtualization confers advantages that simply aren’t achievable by means of federation alone.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 1, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    What’s so big about Big Data? It’s probably bigger than you think.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 1, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Next-gen DI player Expressor says it tackles integration problems that SQL Server and other conventional RDBMS systems weren’t designed to address.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- December 1, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    EMC’s release last month of its first post-Greenplum deliverable -- the EMC Greenplum Data Compute Appliance -- helped answer a few lingering questions.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- November 17, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data management pros are likely to have very strong feelings about what Kapow does and how it does it.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- November 10, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Teradata likes to use its Partners conference as a launching pad for its splashiest product announcements. This year's event was no exception.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- November 3, 2010