Loraine Lawson

Jason Hill of the UK company Glue Reply wrote last week what might be my favorite integration article of all time.I’m not saying that lightly. I’ve read a

Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter, but Open Data Makes Them Richer How important is Big Data? The answer seems to depend on whom you ask.Talend, an

It wasn’t the biggest news in middleware when Red Hat acquired FuseSource or Polymita’s BPM technology just a few months ago. But during a media briefing

It’s not easy making sense out of a lot of “noise” in data, which is why I think you see conflicting answers about how to “best” approach large datasets.

Lately I’ve seen several blog posts that I’ve mentally labeled as “Lectures on why Big Data can’t fix stupid.”These posts are essentially cautionary tales

What’s great about covering technology is that it’s always evolving, so there’s always something new.What’s not so great: There’s always a new Three

Going to Oracle’s OpenWorld must be like shopping at a warehouse: Big, distracting and really annoying when you realize you forgot to grab bread — half a

Collecting location data is not new by any means, but it’s becoming more relevant now that we have better mobile technology and the processing power of

“Will Hadoop Steal Work from ETL,” I asked in an August post that looked at how the Hadoop ecosystem is being used in situations where ETL is simply too

Syncsort is joining the Cloudera Connect Partner, which intrigues me for a number of reasons.First, this partnership is truly old-school Big Data meets

“Why is it so hard for business users to get their head around ‘data stewardship’?” Gartner master data management analyst Andrew White asks in a recent

SaaS integration isn’t the big obstacle to adoption it used to be. In fact, there are a number of ways to options for addressing the problem.Still, it can