Microsoft's FAST strategy took still another turn last month when it announced several revisions to its FAST roadmap
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 25, 2009
With the advent of several explicit end-user-oriented offerings -- including Microsoft's Project Gemini -- workgroup BI is poised for a comeback.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 25, 2009
BI and DW professionals had been anxious to discover just what Oracle's Database Machine brings to the table. A new report bolsters the company's impressive performance-throughput claims.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 18, 2009
Need more BI horsepower? A data warehouse appliance may be just what you need.
Greenplum says its new Scatter/Gather Streaming capability can meaningfully accelerate loading times
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 18, 2009
With IQ 15, Sybase takes aim at columnar competitors ParAccel and Vertica -- as well as the teeming MPP appliance market.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 11, 2009
With social media, consumers can spread their praise and condemnation. From blogs to video-rich sites, this new conversation is changing CRM, and enterprises and BI professionals must pay attention.
- By Ted Cuzzillo
- March 11, 2009
Teradata explains the importance of appliances -- as both data warehouses and data marts -- and trumpets its Active EDW vision.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 11, 2009
Appliance proponents aren't worried about SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Instead, they raise credible objections about Redmond's high-end DW push.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 4, 2009