Make no mistake: Hadoop changed information management. No, it won't replace the enterprise data warehouse, but Hadoop is here to stay, at least until the next big idea changes everything. One reason for its all-but-assured success: the commitment of open source ...

We've all heard the selling points of cloud computing: low initial cost, ease of deployment, lack of maintenance concerns. But what about the downsides? In the long run, the costs can start to rival those of on-premise solutions, and coming back down from the cloud can ...

What goes around, sure does come around, even in the field of information management. Way before big data or data science, the earlier renditions of insight-oriented software focused on knowledge management and document management. Today, as organizations look to complete ...

Where there's smoke, there's fire, which is just one reason to seriously consider the principles upon which master data management was built. Information systems are increasingly heterogeneous, despite the brute force of cloud computing and its predicted hegemony. ...

When the earth shakes, buildings fall and that's why skyscrapers in San Francisco boast tremendously flexible foundations. In the world of information management, the foundation is typically a database, and one that honors the time-tested ACID standard: atomicity, ...