Loraine Lawson

The Top Five Reasons Big Data Means Big Business in 2013 One of the major use cases for Big Data is input from sensors. For the most part, this has meant

Cloud integration continues to be a big issue for companies, as recent research shows. But it isn’t always a big deal.In fact, you may be surprised at the

Back in the old days — we’re talking, three, four years ago — there was a huge debate about the best approach to developing Web services: SOAP (Simple

One of the exciting use cases for Big Data is its potential to help bring data together for analysis. After all, one of the biggest challenges with data

When I first started to cover integration, it took me a long time to figure out the real difference between application and data integration. After all,

There really should be some rule that if you’re going to play in the big leagues, you’ve got to bring the right equipment to the game.In the same way you

These days, there are so many vendor announcements related to Hadoop, I’ve given up keeping track of them all. But one did catch my eye: Hortonworks is

Cloud adoption has grown. Explore the areas where Cloud Integration & SaaS Integration are growing and where there are concerns now.

I recently interviewed someone in the data/application integration space recently and asked for that person’s opinion on open data.He didn’t know what it

When I was a reporter, I had to file my fair share of open records requests — even when we all knew the information I wanted qualified as an open

While most organizations are still enamored with Big Data, there’s another major data disruption budding: Open Data.Saturday was International Open Data

Gartner analyst Merv Adrian picked up the “Hadoop is not a data integration solution” baton from fellow analyst Ted Friedman this week.I’m not sure what