The cloud can bring a lot of value to the enterprise that knows how to leverage it properly. But it comes with its own set of dangers, and in many ways, it's still the wild...»

Late last week, Verizon issued its Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report, highlighting IT security issues. And while the telecom's own summary of the report highlights the rise of hacktivism - 58 percent of data...»

There’s no better way to handle product quality problems than to prevent them from happening in the first place. That’s just what IT giant EMC intends to do and it recently launched an ambitious Big Data predictive analytics...»

Sabre Holdings has a considerable data trove. Its holdings span reservation systems for airlines to the online travel service Travelocity. Its databases are spun out across the network. There are databases for IBM mainframes, Oracle systems and those...»

A report released by the National Inflation Association (NIA) indicates that by 2013, cloud computing could be a $150 billion market - bigger than the dot-com boom of the year 2000. The proof, according to...»

At this week's Structure Data conference, Google discussed BigQuery, its forthcoming entrant into the emerging big data marketplace, leveraging Google's computing power and algorithmic know-how as a cloud platform for business intelligence and...»

In a pair of customer case studies released today, Amazon Web Services hammered on the usual sales pitch for the cloud: Lower OpEx, higher ROI, better scalability and so forth. But what really stood out...»

Earlier this week, Google made a quiet announcement that could have a widespread impact: Web applications that integrate with the Google platform no longer use passwords or shared keys, relying instead on certificates and the...»

Online video provider Movideo has signed a four-year contract (sorry, "strategic agreement") with Microsoft Windows Azure to move its Java-based platform into the cloud as it attempts to grow its business in the Asia...»

Welcome, Larry. Take a seat. Great to see you again How are you? "Third quarter earnings, doctor." "Aah. How did it go?" Okay, let me start. Two things, all these geniuses mention HANA and they  mention the cloud....»