Saturday, May 15, 2010

Stuff that complicated my existence over the past several days May 10-14 2010

Petabyte storage in a Linux distributed file system


RDF meets NoSQL

http://bit.ly/aX9XSy


Social networking boosts legal, regulatory compliance headaches


How Social Knowledge Networks can Help Global Organizations Capture and Retain Knowledge


Open Government, Social Media and CRM
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69957.html


In-Memory Databases Push the Envelope


Delivering data analytics through Workday SaaS ERP apps empowers business managers at actual decision points


Kapow adding IDE to Web data integrator


Twitter Bug Fix Drops Followers To Zero


Twitter Tests Business Toolkit


New IBM Predictive Analytics Software Personalizes Customer Relationship Strategies http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4265771&access=EH


IBM Text Mining Upgrade Is Social Media Savvy


Robert L. Mitchell: A social map of the Gulf oil spill


Amazon Web Services sees infrastructure as commodity


BUILDING AN ADAPTABLE CPM SYSTEM AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11537677/2433922


Facebook's Open Graph: It May Look Personal, but It's Purely Business
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69970.html


Why Microsoft's Dominance Is Over


SAS Intros Government Fraud Detection Software


Microsoft Unveils Spindex Social Networking Tool


Enterprise mashups: here are tasks best still left to IT


Delivering data analytics through Workday SaaS ERP apps empowers business managers at decision point


The problem with SIEM 3


The problem with SIEM 2


The problem with SIEM 1


HP's WebOS-based Hurricane Tablet Coming, Report Says
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1007153/5553367/79861/0/


How Many Zettabytes Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1007153/5553367/79875/0/


Kapow takes Web data retrieval to an enterprise scale


Six high-level benefits of enterprise mashups


SIZING HARDWARE FOR SAP BW APPLICATIONS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11544072/2433922


Use cases outlined for federated directory


Kickfire Targets Underserved Users in Crowded Analytic Database Market


Predictive Analytics: A Shopper's Checklist


Q&A: Why Data Quality is a Measurable, Ongoing Effort


Richi Jennings: SQL for the no-fly list, Bruce Schneier and more


SAP's Plattner to renew pitch for in-memory databases


IBM points predictive analytics at social Web


Twitter confirms beta testing of new business features


CLOUD-BASED DATA INTEGRATION HAS SAME RISKS, REWARDS AS OTHER SAAS
APPS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11546324/2433922


Social Media Will Play a Big Part in BI’s Future


Revolutionary R, An Interview with Revolution Analytics CEO Norman Nie – Part 2


BPM Takes Center Stage at IBM Impact


Beyond Guessing: Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting with Analytics


Microsoft Releases Office 2010


Microsoft Details Azure Cloud Development


Talend Shows That Open Source Success is Not Just About Low Price


Tibco Refreshes Software Event Monitoring Suite


New software personalizes customer relationship strategies
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31472.wss


Sword Ciboodle Identifies the Customer Engagement Continuum http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4270379&access=EH


Why Android Will Dominate the Mobile Market


Can You Read this Whole Post?


XML workflow spec finalized


Real-Time ID Service boosts B2B commerce


Are REST-Based Services Capable of Supporting Enterprise-Grade Functions?


Bridging the Gap Between Self-Service and Live Service
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69986.html


“Ad Hoc Analysis” Lacking in Business Intelligence Systems


Business Intelligence Strategies: Keys to Success


Success Secrets of Data Warehousing and MDM


How to Define Accuracy in Analytics for Business


The State of In-Database SAS Analytics


Securing Elasticity in the Cloud
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1794516


UK to kill national ID card program
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6404734/7006273/287413/0/


Social Media and BI


BI Implications Of SAP-Sybase Deal - Plenty


How to Ride — Not Fight — the Social Media Wave


The Rise of CouchDB


Whose Wikipedia Is It, Anyway?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69992.html


Contact Centers Go Social
http://www.webtorials.com/content/featured/avaya/


SAP Buys Sybase For $5.8 Billion, Extends Mobile Reach Of Enterprise Software


SAP buys Sybase, gets back in the race


SAP Must Prove Sybase Synergies


SAP Smart To Snare Sybase's Mobile Mojo


SAP Buys Sybase For $5.8 Billion, Extends Mobile Reach Of Enterprise Software


Sybase Acquisition Strengthens SAP's Hand Against Oracle, Microsoft


Why Buying Sybase Was a Good Move for SAP


Sybase, an SAP Company


SAP's Sybase acquisition: Handicapping the big questions


Sybase and SAP: the unanswered questions


What Sybase customers should expect from SAP


SAP Will Buy Sybase; Does It Mean a Shift in Strategy?

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0310010FRSV3&nl=2&full_skip=1


SAP Strikes Deal for Sybase


SAP acquires Sybase for $5.8 billion, but why?


SAP to Acquire Sybase, Inc.

http://www.sap.com/about/investor/press.epx?pressid=13202


SAP's Sybase Acquisition Brings ERP to Smartphones


SAP Puts Its Money Where Its Mobile Ambitions Are in Sybase Deal
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69990.html

SAP Acquiring Sybase, Rocking the Analytics Market with Deep Synergies