Few enterprise data warehousing (EDW) professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that ...

Real-time insights and self-service analytics have become critical for survival in a rapidly evolving data landscape.

Seamless access for data analysis across heterogeneous data sources represents ‘the holy grail’ within mainstream enterprises. Designed for Big Data processing and performance at scale, Cirro is a ...

The General Services Administration is working to create a place where data providers can go to see if their data fits into a set of standards others might be already using. This new effort, the ...

There are a few key traits that successful federated data efforts — when a specific kind of data is collected across disparate organizations — tend to have in common. And The General Service ...

With the growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

The ability to use data in place is a great solution for using heterogeneous data in the cloud. But it's easy to create performance and security flaws when you do so It’s often the first problem you ...