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 ...

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 ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

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 ...

Managed Objects on Tuesday will weigh in on the configuration-management database issue when it launches its first Business Service Configuration Management offering. In the debate over whether a ...

Moving information among various components of an automated manufacturing enterprise with as little programming as possible has been high on the wish list of automation and information technology ...