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    Loraine Lawson

    Loraine Lawson is a freelance writer specializing in technology and business issues, including integration, health care IT, cloud and Big Data.

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    Is Data Quality Worth the Cost?

    Last year, we spent around $994 million on data quality. That’s a 5 percent increase over 2011, according to...

    Army Draws Battle Lines Against Proprietary Silos

    The Army isn’t playing around when it comes to silos. The military branch is committed to only using common...

    Syncsort’s New Tools Simplify Hadoop’s Popular Use Case: Integration

    One of the popular, and a bit surprising, use cases for Hadoop is to speed up batch processing jobs.More...

    Big Data May Save Your Life

    One of my long-time friends mocks my love of meteorology. He ranks it right above tea leaves and palm...

    Integration’s Coming of Age Story

    So many 50-cent words surround integration that it’s easy to forget that it mostly boils down to two approaches:ETLData...

    Assemble the Knights of the Big Data Round Table!

    “Is Big Data Better Outside of IT?” asked an Information Management article by Forrester’s Michele Goetz last month.I thought...

    What’s the Cost of a Terabyte?

    Here’s an interesting data point in the debate over Hadoop clusters versus data warehouses: The cost per terabyte can...

    How to Justify Investing in Data Management

    Five Ways to Know if Your Challenge Is Big Data or Lots of Data The trend now is to...

    Five Reasons Why Cloud Integration Is So Gosh-Darn Hard

    Time and time again, surveys show at least a third of SaaS or cloud users claim integration is more...

    Online Child Sex Trafficking as a Data Mining Problem

    Making Sense of Big Data in the Real Business World One of the most frustrating Internet crimes is child...

    Portals as the Answer to Meaningful Use

    You may not think of health care as a B2B market, but when it comes to data integration and...

    One Great Reason (+ 8 Good Ones) Why CIOs...

    Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed Why would a CIO ever support a data integration team, develop a...