Independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. has declared in their Forrester Wave research that Teradata has the top-rated Enterprise Data Warehouse strategy. Forrester Wave is used by many companies to compare vendor offerings and create a custom vendor shortlist. “Teradata provides the most scalable, flexible, cloud-capable EDW solution in today’s market.” – Forrester Research, Inc….
The biggest obstacle facing public cloud computing today is security. The major concerns include: internal and external threats, data collection, privacy and compliance. An essential part of any cloud implementation is the cloud service provider’s ability to have a secure infrastructure to protect customer data and guard against unauthorized access. Today’s public cloud is becoming…
Read our exclusive section on the latest topic on Cloud Computing: “Big Data”. CloudTimes recently visited the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA, which was the most important event around Big Data so far. The event was based on the theme “Making Data Work”, and will be held twice a year. The next event will…
Twitpic, Twitter media sharing site launched video support this morning enabling Twitter users to share their video clips in real time. Users can post photos or videos to Twitpic from their phones, the Twitpic site, or via email. This new feature is key considering worldwide company’s growing reliance on Twitter for marketing, customer service and…
In the past, customer service has been associated with call centers where company representatives had to access different data bases to gather required information on a customer or prospect, to be able to answer the inquiry or resolve the issue at hand. This process was very time consuming and knowledge deficient. To efficiently address customer…
This year’s 20th Annual RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco next week, is set to center around cloud security. The conference will address the latest improvements in securing applications and data in the cloud; now that Cloud computing is a key resource for IT deployments. RSA conference is a forum where companies gather and…
Recently marketing strategies have shifted from traditional print advertising and direct mail to online campaigns, mass emails, webcasts and webinars to name a few. Automating the marketing process, enhances cross-channel communication and lead generation, decreases the cost of acquiring new business to the organization, and provides tools for the marketing and sales teams to increase…
Oracle announced today that it has packaged two file management software programs into a single integrated offering, called the Oracle Cloud File System. This new offering will help expedite and improve management of applications, databases and storage, particularly in hybrid and private clouds The Oracle Cloud File System offers organizations a solution that extends cloud…
rollApp Inc. released today a free beta service that provides users with online editions of Open Office, integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox. It provides SMBs with a solution that combines all the rich functionality of traditional office suites with all the benefits of cutting-edge cloud platforms: on-demand scalability, anywhere access, no install/support pain, and reduced…
EMC Corporation will announce today at the O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara, a free Community Edition of the EMC® Greenplum® Database, the industry-leading, high-performance massively parallel processing (MPP) database product, along with free analytic algorithms and data mining tools. A free download is immediately available at http://community.greenplum.com. This free set of tools enables the…