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REAL-TIME DATA WAREHOUSING DEFINED
by Michael Haisten, Daman Consulting
We are now poised for the most radical transition in the short history of data warehousing. We are about to witness the arrival of Real-time Data Warehousing (RTDW). Despite its name, the impact of this change is due less to the increase in speed of availability (which is significant) than to a significant reduction in overall processing complexity.
THE DIGITAL DOCTOR IS IN
Breakdowns of industrial machinery cost companies millions each year, with most of the cost resulting from lost production time while unscheduled repairs or maintenance are performed.
GRID COMPUTING LURING MAINSTREAM BACKERS
Is grid computing in your company's future? During the past 10 years, academics and start-ups have been connecting numerous servers to create collective supercomputers capable of performing taxing calculations such as global climate modeling.
- Leading Edge R&D
BEYOND GENOMICS AND DIADEXUS ENTER AGREEMENT
Beyond Genomics will use proprietary pattern recognition, clustering and data mining software (BioSystematics) to integrate and analyze all relevant data to generate new insights into the mechanisms of these cancers, leading to new diagnostic and therapeutic product opportunities.
THE BRAVE NEW OS OF THE FUTURE
Imagine computers in a group providing disk storage for their users, transparently swapping files and optimizing their collective performance, all with no central administration. But the machines providing this pool of virtual storage dare not trust one another completely. But not to worry.
- Business & Money Trail
GOOGLE: YOU HAVE TO PAY TO PLAY
Google said it has begun auctioning ad-sponsored links on its search results pages, firing another shot across the bow of paid-search leader Overture Services. The program, called AdWords Select, ranks ads based partly on how much an advertiser pays and partly on popularity, or click-through rates.
BUSINESS OBJECTS ANNOUNCES OEM AGREEMENT WITH PEREGRINE SYS
Business Objects, a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced an OEM agreement with Peregrine Systems Inc, a leading global software company, to deliver BI capabilities in its Infrastructure Management solutions.
SAS MERGES DW TO THE INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE
Introduced at the Data Warehousing Institute conference in New Orleans last week, the SAS Intelligence Architecture is a framework that integrates industry-leading solutions in data warehousing, analytic intelligence and business intelligence to provide organizations with one version of the truth, and ensure consistent information.
TOYLAND IS TOUGH, EVEN FOR ROBOTS
Mark Tilden recalls being a lonely child, repeatedly uprooted by his family's moves around Canada. He took comfort in his gift for constructing toys, especially mobile toys.
VERITAS, ORACLE AND SUN JOIN FORCES AT eBAY
Maynard Webb, president, eBay Technologies, explains how the company teamed with VERITAS, Oracle and Sun (VOS) to implement a high availability cluster and how the VOS Joint Escalation Center (JEC) has helped maintain high levels of system performance and availability.
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"The reason grid computing is getting so much noise is that it's a fascinating idea. There's something very appealing about using all these spare (CPU) cycles and tying all the computers together on the Internet to solve difficult problems." -- Tony Iams, D.H. Brown analyst
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