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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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    The Stuff of CIO Nightmares: Study Shows Many Marketers...

    They’re data hoarders: Some of them have 10-plus years of transactional data stored or several months of cookies.And that...

    Three Proven Ways to Use Hadoop

    Are we already entering the trough of disillusion with Big Data? Gartner Research Director Svetlana Sicular says she sees...

    Data Governance Offers Opportunity to Integrate Ethics

    In general, I think companies stink at thinking ethically, particularly when it comes to technology.As long as I’ve covered...

    The Benefits of Enterprise Architecture Methodologies

    Friday, I wrote about TOGAF, an open standard for starting and running an enterprise architecture (EA). I’ve written about...

    TOGAF: How the EA Standard Improves IT/Business Alignment

    When I first started working, Total Quality Management was all the rage, and when my workplace embraced it, I...

    How an Application Integration Strategy Can Help Connect with...

    APIs are the primary means of integrating SaaS, but that’s not your only option. It’s also possible to take...

    The Middleware Revolution: Cloud Is Changing Integration Solutions

    Are we really done with the application stack?Ross Mason, CTO and co-founder of MuleSoft, thinks SaaS’s growing adoption is...

    APIs as a Management Issue

    APIs may seem like the domain of developers, and in many ways, they are. APIs have a small footprint,...

    What Will It Take to Make Hadoop Enterprise-Friendly?

    To date, there are three companies offering Hadoop distributions aimed at enterprises — Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks. To be...

    SaaS, Mobile Put Focus on Application Integration

    The technology sector is about to spend a lot more time talking about application integration for a very simple...

    The High Costs of Big Data: Will Monetizing Lead...

    It’s never been cheaper to obtain the technologies needed to process Big Data, but alas, that doesn’t change the...

    The Internal Cloud as One Stop for App and...

    Forbes published a really great Q&A between Chris Perretta, a banking CIO, and Joe McKendrick, a technology analyst and...