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Remember the last time when an Internet site tried to be all things to all people, limit the way that they accessed their content, and tried to make themselves into

Back in the days when Microsoft could just behave as a monopolist without the legal consequences thereof, the acronym FUD was tossed around (meaning fear, uncertainty and doubt): Merely by

Following the announcement of its partnership with Dell, Cloudera announced a new partner program for resellers and professional services providers. Among the various elements of the Cloudera Connect Partner

Big, or at least unbounded data, continues to have a profound impact on business intelligence, business analytics and data warehousing. This week we saw a few particular developments in

In a recent interview by RedMonk's Michael Cote with Pete Marshall and Peter Spung of IBM, Coté says that DevOps is moving into the mainstream. Marshall thinks this is

Global enterprise software revenue increased 8.5% to $245 billion in 2010 according to Gartner. Enterprise software sales declined 2.5% in 2009, so this is encouraging growth for enterprise software

Earlier today we told you about how the Hadoop business is heating up. Hadoop isn't a database, but Hbase and its alternatives are a core part of the platform.

IBM is announcing its biggest release for WebSphere in the past four years. It is also naming the application server one of its top technologies for its centennial celebration. We're

Here we are at the opening for Sugar CRM's Sugarcon event. The theme is openness and the social world. This is a defining event for Sugar as the service

As enterprises face increasingly sophisticated and specialized risks, criminals seem to be taking a quality-over-quantity approach to malware, phishing and spamming. According to the IBM X-Force 2010 Trend and

I want to end the week with a short video by Dennis Howlett. The video is a fascinating exchange between Dr Vishal Sikka, an executive board member with SAP and

IBM Netezza and Revolution Analytics announced today at the Predictive Analytics World event that the two companies are working together to integrate the statistical programming language R into Netezza's

The water system that serves the U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. dates back to the nation's Civil War. Just think - in the time of Lincoln people dug into

Today's live blog comes from IBM Pulse where we will explore how data moves to the greater physical world, be it buildings or physical objects. It's also an event that

We go into day two of the three-day Jeopardy contest with IBM's Watson tied for first place with Brad Rutter. They each have $5,000. Ken Jennings has $2,000. What does

Being at IBM's Lotusphere event this week has me thinking about a number of companies in the enterprise 2.0 space that have pioneered the use of social technologies. In

We saw in the Twitter stream yesterday a slide for IBM's new social business tool kit that is being unveiied today at Lotusphere. The details are bare but you

Predictive analytics is a subject we're keeping an eye on this year. Today we're taking a look at some of the ways predictive analytics are being used by businesses:

As part of its Predicts 2011 series, Gartner has made four predictions for the near future of business intelligence and analytics. Also, Forrester analyst James Kobielus has written a

The annual Five on Five gives IBM's predictions for the next five years. The predictions this year are thought provoking but one really caught our attention. The hologram. As

IBM is diving deep into the healthcare market with an array of analytics technologies it has accumulated with the $11 billion in acquisitions it has made in the past several

IBM's obsession with analytics made its way into social networking today with the announcement of Lotus Connections 3.0. New analytics driven features include recommendations of other users to connect

Today Oracle announced its intent to acquire e-commerce company ATG. In addition to typical online retail features, ATG offers analytics, click-to-call and call tracking features that will compliment Oracle's

Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche

IBM continued its acquisition feast today by gobbling up Clarity Systems, a financial governance software company. It also completed its acquisition of risk and compliance management software company OpenPages.