Major data warehouse vendors Oracle, Business Objects, Cognos,
SAS etc, do 200,000 data-warehousing/business intelligence implementations
every year.
Moving from silos of information to organization wide information.
The #1 priority for most CIO's is business intelligence and using
information.
There are 4 primary aspects not being addressed by many current
marketplace, data warehouses:
The key behind advanced data warehouses is the use of data objects
and being able to detect relationships.
| Organizing Sensitive Data in the Cloud |
| What does a cloud vendor do to properly segment various types of sensitive data within its cloud? Gregory Machler discusses how to capture the metadata you'll need.
08/29/2010
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| Where Are All These Files Coming From? |
| Raphael Reich looks at 5 sources of unstructured data at risk of being overlooked or underprotected
08/17/2010
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| Deep Theater Defense |
| We all know perimeter firewalls are necessary but not sufficient. But what's the right strategy for building additional layers of security? Greg Machler dives in.
08/16/2010
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| Forrester: Open-Source BI has Pros and Cons |
| A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open-source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities enterprises require, certain shortcomings remain.
08/10/2010
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| Workarounds: 5 Ways Employees Try to Access Restricted Sites |
| Company policy may forbid access to certain web sites, but some employees try creative techniques to view them anyway. Here are five common workarounds and what security can do about them.
08/10/2010
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| Security Blunders 'Dumber Than Dog Snot' |
| At the 2010 USENIX Security Symposium, a vulnerability assessor reveals some of the more egregious examples of stupidity on the part of professionals who should know better.
08/10/2010
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| Needed: Better Emergency Playbook for DDoS Attacks |
| Akamai says DDoS attacks are growing steadily more vicious, aided by massive botnets. At Metricon 5, a senior service line manager warned that companies are short on emergency response playbooks to meet the threat.
08/09/2010
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| Security Metric Techniques: How to Answer the 'So What?' |
| You need to be ready when the boss responds to your presentation with a "so what?" At Metricon 5, the focus is on several security metric techniques to pull it off.
08/09/2010
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| Teradata Quietly Scoops Up Kickfire |
| Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query performance.
08/09/2010
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| What it's Like to Be Grilled By the Secret Service |
| CSO's Bill Brenner learned the hard way that there are certain things you shouldn't do in Washington D.C. Here's his account of a run-in with Secret Service.
08/08/2010
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| Search Engine Optimization Techniques for Hackers |
| At DefCon, Barracuda Labs will explain how malware pushers use search engine optimization techniques to push their poison to the top of those Google rankings.
07/26/2010
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| Hollywood Pushes Movie Streaming Standard, UltraViolet |
| The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a group of 58 Hollywood studios and technology companies, is pinning its hopes for the future of entertainment on UltraViolet, an online digital locker that would allow you to buy a movie once, and stream it over the Internet for free on any other compatible devices.
07/19/2010
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| Black Hat, DefCon and B-Sides: a Survival Guide |
| CSO's Bill Brenner won't be making it to Las Vegas for the perfect storm of security events scheduled for later this month. But he's been to enough Black Hat confabs to offer these survival tips.
07/12/2010
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| EMC-Greenplum Deal Could Precede More Consolidation |
| EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.
07/07/2010
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| Inside the Celtics' Infosecurity Playbook |
| The Boston Celtics' VP of technology explains how using the MacBook Pro and cloud-based services helped improve the franchise's IT security.
07/06/2010
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