Requirements for protecting data being transferred internally or externally vary, but there are commonalities across industry regulations, national and state laws, and security specs.

Research organization TDWI recently published an online survey and assessment guide to help organizations determine how ready they are to adopt and implement Hadoop. In the past few years, the number of organizations using Hadoop—or contemplating using it—has grown astronomically. Each organization has common questions about whether they are really ready to implement Hadoop, and […]

The "need for speed" is a misconception that has driven software development for too long. I have a ’66 GTO with more speed than I know what to do with. I wondered what features, other than speed, would get me to upgrade?

Relational databases are designed for either OLTP or OLAP workloads. You can’t use one database for both. Today, that limitation is no longer acceptable as IT struggles to keep pace with the speed of business. To recap, in previous posts I discussed two aspects of how relational databases have inflexible data models that are not […]

This comprehensive guide to R for DataDirect ODBC/JDBC explains what R is, breaking down into easy steps how it can be leveraged for data analysis and graphics.