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7 top tools for taming big data

Posted April 18, 2012 - 6:11 am

Top-flight reporting, analysis, visualization, integration, and development tools that help you harness Hadoop
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8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation

Posted March 27, 2012 - 10:32 am

Reporters wrangle all sorts of data, from analyzing property tax valuations to mapping fatal accidents -- and, here at Computerworld, for stories about IT salaries and H-1B visas. In fact, tools used by data-crunching journalists are generally useful for a wide range of other, non-journalistic tasks -- and that includes software that's been specifically designed for newsroom use. And, given the generally thrifty culture of your average newsroom, these tools often have the added appeal of little or no cost.
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Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier

Posted January 18, 2012 - 7:21 am

Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs
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NoSQL standouts: New databases for new applications

Posted July 21, 2011 - 6:10 am

Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, Riak, Neo4J, and FlockDB reinvent the data store
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BI, value creation key for CIOs: Gartner

Posted January 31, 2011 - 12:18 pm

Increasing enterprise growth, reducing costs and attracting new customers are the three areas CIOs are focusing their attention on in 2011, according to the latest research from Gartner.
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Fabulous PHP frameworks: CakePHP

Posted January 26, 2011 - 12:19 pm

CakePHP combines easy installation with command-line tools that jump-start development, striking a good balance between small and large
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Security Conference: My First FIRST

Posted June 16, 2010 - 1:35 pm

The 22nd annual Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) conference is meeting this week in Miami. While this is my first opportunity to participate in any FIRST activity, these conferences have obviously been ongoing since 1988. With a focus on detecting and responding to security incidents and the convention of moving to a different location each year -- last year in Kyoto, next in Vienna -- the conference in unsurprisingly international.
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Seven reasons to care about SQL Server 2008 R2

Posted June 15, 2010 - 4:12 pm

New BI and reporting features in SQL Server 2008 R2 hit the mark, but other additions leave SQL Server shops wanting more
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Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Posted May 12, 2010 - 10:03 am

In November, we gave SharePoint 2010 beta a test drive. Now, we put the shipping product through its paces and find that Microsoft has delivered a multi-purpose tool that delivers a bigger bang because of its tight coupling with Office 2010.
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Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Posted May 3, 2010 - 10:19 am

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.
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Ten things you need to know about SharePoint Server 2010

Posted November 19, 2009 - 11:25 am

Based on our hands-on testing of the beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, here are 10 things you need to know.
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Review: SharePoint Server 2010 beta pulls it all together

Posted November 9, 2009 - 2:27 pm

Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2010 is a significant improvement over SharePoint 07, providing IT execs with multiple ways to streamline their infrastructure and cut costs.
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