Loraine Lawson

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity October was a busy month for integration announcements. A few news highlights from the past week include: Oracle Amps Up Data Integration Portfolio Big announcements in October for Oracle included the upgrades to Oracle Data Integrator 12c and Oracle GoldenGate 12c. Oracle says these “future proof” […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution What’s one of the major pain points in cloud computing? If you guessed integration, give yourself a miniature candy bar. 451 Research surveyed IT decision makers and found that integration, combined with data migration, ranked as the second largest complaint, according to TechTarget If you’ve […]

They say on All Hallows’ Eve, the dead walk the earth and the demons bedevil the streets. For IT pros, something even scarier lurks in the dark recesses of cyberspace: the Data Undead! “Today, be on the lookout for mysteriously running out of data storage space on your laptop. Or running up huge data usage […]

Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed Integration is still a major problem for those who rely on the cloud, as a recent Information Week survey revealed. In yesterday’s blog post, I highlighted a few of the findings, but I also wondered why integration is such a challenge. Why are so many organizations still managing […]

It may be cold comfort, writes Kurt Marko of InformationWeek, but almost everyone has cloud integration problems these days. InformationWeek released its State of Cloud Computing Survey. On one hand, cloud adoption is thriving. On the other hand, cloud integration is not. Forty percent of respondents say they use cloud services. Those who use it […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore The tricky part about data is learning to accept what it says without imposing your own agenda. It seems Big Data is no exception — at least, when it focuses on traditional, structured data, according to a Harvard Business Review Blog post written by Prof. Theos Evgeniou, […]

Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department Hadoop is big, but there’s no doubt that the game changer will be marrying SQL— the primary language used by business analysts for ad hoc analysis—with Hadoop. If you don’t want the information in Hadoop to become an inaccessible silo, then you have to […]

Big Data Security Risk in the Enterprise: The Pitfalls of Hadoop If today’s release of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 (GA) is any indication, the Apache Hadoop community is working pretty darn hard to make sure Hadoop doesn’t become a silo unto itself. Hortonworks is one of the few companies that offers an enterprise version of […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore When it comes to data silos, nobody does it quite as well as the government. This makes government agencies the butt of a lot of jokes, but there are actually some pretty good reasons for these silos. First, most government agencies have been around for nearly 100 […]

Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed Are integration problems at the heart of the HealthCare.gov fiasco? “Data Integration Challenges Underpin Balky Health Exchanges,” read a Wall Street Journal blog column headline on Friday. John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting, told the Wall Street Journal that data integration is at the most likely root of […]

Big Data: Eight Facts and Eight Fictions It seems many organizations are starting where they are with Big Data. On a practical level, what that means is: Organizations are expanding existing systems to accommodate larger data sets. Companies manage Big Data with existing staff, such as data architects, data analysts and DBAs. Now, I’m not […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis More organizations are adopting SaaS and cloud-based data quality tools, according to Gartner. This year’s Magic Quadrant for Data Tools (registration required for download), published Oct. 7, says deployments reached 14 percent for SaaS and 6 percent for cloud-based tools this year, which at least doubled last year’s […]