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May 11th, 2012 by HPForrester: Formulate A Database Security Strategy to Ensure Investments Will Actually Prevent Data Breaches and Satisfy Regulatory Requirements
Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core - their databases. Many don't have a comprehensive database security strategy to defend against sophisticated attacks, track sensitive data, or even meet emerging regulatory requirements. In addition, organizations tend to focus on detective controls rather than preventive measures when it comes to database security. By contrast, Forrester finds that by implementing a comprehensive and integrated database security solution with a strong emphasis on preventive measures enables organizations to improve security controls and introduce a higher degree of automation across the enterprise. Commissioned by Oracle, the Forrester paper will help you formulate a database security strategy.
May 1st, 2012 by OracleSmart Tools to Keep Your Data Clean
This toolkit of programming APIs for .NET will verify addresses, phone numbers and email addresses at point of entry or in batch so you have clean contact data to power your applications, reduce waste and maintain contact with customers and prospects. Download a free trial now!
May 1st, 2012 by Melissa Data CorpNext-Gen Business Intelligence: Self-Service Tools for Optimized Decision-Making
Getting actionable data into the hands of business users can be an expensive waiting game. For companies already using Excel and SharePoint, Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 and its integrated BI tools may offer the most seamless, cost-effective self-service solution for managing data.
ICF Ironworks BI experts Deep Sogani and Sean Woehrle explore some of the challenges faced by executives choosing a self-service BI solution and provide tips for successful integration into an existing data management landscape.
Q&A: Storage savings through unified design
IDC research shows that data volumes are growing at roughly 50 percent, year over year. Organisations need to spend more and more money each year on simply meeting needs for regulatory and legislative compliance, let alone meeting any corporate objectives and policies. IT often has to manage this with a budget that does not seem to align with the data demands. In fact, the budget could be flat to declining. This Q&A with Hitachi Data Systems and Benjamin Woo, program vice president for IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems practice, touches on challenges that businesses currently face with data storage and characteristics an organisation should look for when evaluating/selecting unified storage.
April 26th, 2012 by HitachiOracle Storage Solutions for Data Protection & Business Continuity
Data is the core asset of any organization. Loss of data due to lack of preparedness for equipment failure, human error, or natural disaster can adversely affect operational continuity. An organization must have solutions that are able to recover lost data during a specific timeframe and to a particular point in time that matches the economic value of the data. This white paper explains how Oracle's end-to-end solutions provide flexible and cost effective ways to meet data protection challenges, particularly in Oracle software environments.
April 25th, 2012 by OracleEmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services: Chauffeur Firm Uses Cloud Computing to Trim Operating Costs 30 Percent, Grow Business
For EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services, technology is a key competitive differentiator. Even after virtualizing its data center, EmpireCLS sought even greater data center efficiency and automation. Using Microsoft System Center 2012, EmpireCLS transformed its virtualized data center into a private cloud environment. It also created a public cloud for offering software as a service to other transportation firms. By moving to cloud computing, EmpireCLS has reduced its data center footprint by a factor of seven and trimmed power and cooling costs by 50 percent. It has reduced IT and operating costs by 30 percent during a period when the business grew 30 percent.
April 16th, 2012 by MicrosoftLazyBase: Trading Freshness for Performance in a Scalable Database
The LazyBase scalable database system is specialized for the growing class of data analysis applications that extract knowledge from large, rapidly changing data sets. It provides the scalability of popular NoSQL systems without the query-time complexity associated with their eventual consistency models, offering a clear consistency model and explicit per-query control over the trade-off between latency and result freshness. With an architecture designed around batching and pipelining of updates, LazyBase simultaneously ingests atomic batches of updates at a very high throughput and offers quick read queries to a stale-but-consistent version of the data.
April 13th, 2012 by Association for Computing MachineryMedio's analytics transform mobile data into business action, IBM System x and Intel Xeon processors helps take the guesswork out of CRM - A Case Study
Based in Seattle, Medio Systems is a leader in the emerging field of predictive analytics, quickly analyzing data streams to give mobile phone carriers and providers actionable insight into their customer's preferences and buying habits.
April 10th, 2012 by IBMForbo Customer Case Study
This client success story illustrates how a manufacturer in Europe easily integrated IBM Connections with their existing IBM Lotus Notes software, and decreased the frequency of status meetings by 75 percent, while improving efficiency and transparency within a pilot program. IBM Connections social software supports collaboration and provides greater visibility into projects. It supports faster and more accurate decision-making processes because skills and information are now easier to find.
April 4th, 2012 by IBMKeep up with ZDNet Australia
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