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Database management

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility

  Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database

  Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales

  German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Teradata brings big data into the SQL family

  Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  Deloitte spots analytics trends, ethics and open data

  Deloitte identifies four analytics trends: an increased focus on ethics, the rise of open data, new business models and a refusal to do analytics for its own sake.

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  European river managers delve into new knowledge management system

  The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Shell HR gains from structured information quality programme

  Oil giant Shell’s human resources function has been on an information quality journey since 2002, integrating historically decentralized businesses into one assured talent pool.

• October 14, 2011 14 Oct'11

  BBC evolves digital asset management with Life

  The BBC’s Life series marked an ongoing shift from film to digital media that is making the need for rigorous metadata and digital asset management in broadcast media more pressing.

• May 16, 2011 16 May'11

  What to look out for when migrating to cloud databases

  Companies going for a mix-and-match approach to migrating databases to the cloud are meeting interoperability problems. Early evaluation is necessary for integration.

• March 21, 2011 21 Mar'11

  When data goes bad: how data quality analysis can fix problems

  How can data quality be improved for business benefit? Data quality is complex, and thrown into relief by the pressing requirement for analysis. Learn how to clean it up through data quality analysis.

• February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09

  TPC-E: New IT benchmarks for OLTP database servers

  The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released new benchmarks for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers and hopes CIOs will use the new measures to inform their purchasing decisions.