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The article focuses on the implementation of modular data center by the Purdue University. It states that design of modular data center relies on inexpensive building materials and efficient construction practices. Further it discusses the benefits and growing trend of modular data center implementation in Information Technology (IT) firms.

Rising concerns about privacy mean that the security of sensitive information such as medical and financial data and information about children is coming under tighter scrutiny these days. And this […]

What do the death of a fruit fly cell and the rise and fall of a stock's price have in common? Both things happen incrementally over time, says Harry Hochheiser, […]

Be selective in how you implement HSM. Instead of blindly giving all your data to a robotic HSM process, analyze and classify your company's data usage to know how often […]

The jury appears to be out on Oracle Corp.'s claim that it saved $1 billion by standardizing on its own applications. While some industry observers and competitors expressed doubts about […]

The article discusses the Penn Data Store, a data warehouse and series of individual dashboards of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, that aims to create a single data storehouse with all the data of patient as well as administrative, financial and supply chain mapped to a standard data model and vocabulary. It highlights the eight steps employed for the completion of the six projects of the University, along with the various considerations for the steps.

The article offers information on various questions that computer industry watchers and information technology (IT) groups must ask before launching a storage virtualization project. It includes the determination of what level of storage to be employed for the optimization of computer storage devices to virtualize software. Another is the assessment on what type of virtualization the IT groups may use that will best suit one's primary storage in a storage-area network (SAN) environment. Specifying the level of complexity for virtualizing network is also mentioned.

This article focuses on the Letterman Digital Arts Center, the data facility of Lucasfilm Ltd in San Francisco, California. Inside the facility, everything is state of the art. The multistory buildings include a 13,500-square-foot data center, raised floors that accommodate more than 600 miles of network cabling, and a 3,000-square-foot media data center. The latter is capable of simultaneously delivering high-definition video to remote clients and to several in house viewing spaces. INSETS: SPREADING THE STORAGE LOAD;CONSOLIDATION OF CULTURES.

This article focuses on data warehouse vendors. When Premier Inc.'s medical databases began bogging down last year, the San Diego-based provider of clinical data put its data warehouse in a box literally. Premier sells access to clinical data it gathers from 400 hospitals to pharmaceutical manufacturers. As data warehouses continue to grow, more users are demanding access to business intelligence tools to conduct data-mining exercises across large data sets. Some start ups offer only software, while others include software and hardware in a single bundle or appliance. But all use a parallelization scheme that involves symmetric multiprocessing or a massively parallel processing architecture. INSETS: Optimizing the Data Warehouse;DATA WAREHOUSE ACCELERATION APPLIANCES;Nielsen's Data Mart Factory.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Mickey Lutz had expected that at some point his […]

In the old world at Allegiance Healthcare Corp., harried managers, embroiled in competitive battles in a cost-conscious marketplace, were stuck with limited and inflexible financial information available in paper-based, end-of-month […]

When CUC International, Inc. and HFS, Inc. merge this fall, the combined company will have 168 million consumer records. Talk about a marketing gold mine ripe for data mining. CUC […]

Supercomputing centers better known for hashing out complex particle physics equations are starting to take a business focus that could help companies sift through enormous databases quickly. Businesses with a […]

Giving business users a say in the design process has become a key tenet of data warehousing. But sometimes it is easier said than done. Many early warehousing proj-ects were […]

Just what other retailers want to see: Wal-Mart armed with detailed forecasts of demand for individual products at each of the stores in its sprawling chain. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is […]

Need IS workers with data warehousing skills? Join the crowd. And if you're lucky enough to have such workers already, grab your calculator and start figuring out how to keep […]

Data warehouse managers are struggling to meet end-user demands for access to more and more production data without exceeding storage budgets or stretching the limits of their systems. Most companies […]

All of the indexes and summary tables used to boost data warehouse speeds can add up to a lot of data in their own right. In fact, they often hog […]

Government officials in charge of two data mining projects that have been criticized by privacy advocates told Congress last week that the information to be collected will be much more […]

Legislation that Congress failed to adopt two years ago would have created an interagency data-mining capability that could have detected and helped prevent last September's terrorist attacks, a senior Republican […]

Database vendors are betting that an old programming style will broaden the appeal of data warehouses to less sophisticated users. But even the vendors wonder whether these naive IT operations […]

Most early users of SAPAG's data warehousing software have started small with their installations. But they have bigger plans in mind, as long as an upgrade that's now being beta-tested […]

Microsoft Corp. said it has 47 applications and tools that have met entrance requirements to integrate with the company's database and operating systems. The Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework 2000 alliance […]

Many users running Oracle's green-screen applications want to bypass the company's first Web-only release and upgrade directly to a second version, expected in February. And Oracle is doing all it […]

Customer service managers at Pen- ske Truck Leasing Co. wanted to be able to tell customers everything about the company's 3,000 trucks -- not just where they were, but also […]

What's on the WayFeatures in Release 11i will include:n New user interface with a more graphical look n Separate Web portal-like screens for self-service applications n Self-service accounts receivable module […]

Oracle apps getweb-upgraded Release 11i designed to link global systemsSAN DIEGO Oracle Corp. last week detailed plans to ship an upgrade of its Web-based ERP applications in the fall with […]

Constellar Corp. in Redwood Shores, Calif., next month plans to release an upgrade of its application integration software with a built-in interface to Oracle Corp.'s business applications. Version 3.0 of […]

The Great Elk Co. has announced Panorama, data warehousing software designed for nontechnical users. According to the Bannockburn, Ill., company, the relational online analytical processing tool connects directly to any […]

In 1997, MovieFone Inc. started to construct a data ware-house so that it could follow the historical calling patterns of people who phoned in to its free movie-listing service. The […]

For some manufacturers piecing together global enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, a data warehouse is turning out to be the glue that holds everything together. Take AlliedSignal Inc.'s diesel-engine turbocharger […]

Figuring out how to squeeze competitive advantages out of the millions of bytes of data that companies collect every day offers IT professionals career opportunities in the relatively new fields […]

At its recent user's group meeting in San Diego, NCR Corp. announced that it would begin to add tools and features to its Teradata data warehousing line that will let […]

For years, companies have used data warehouses to market retail merchandise, sell more loans and identify the best customers. Now, health care companies have caught the bug and are using […]

Constellar Corp. in Redwood Shores, Calif., last week announced plans for a link between its applications integration engine and IBM's MQSeries message queuing software. The connection, due by year's end, […]

Information Builders, Inc. has introduced SmartBase, a meta-data management tool for data warehousing. SmartBase integrates Information Builders' SmartMart tools for building data warehouses with Microsoft Corp.'s meta-data Repository 2.0. SmartBase […]

Salford Systems, Inc. has announced CART, data mining and discrete-choice modeling software. According to the San Diego company, the decision-tree software helps users discover patterns, trends and relationships within large, […]

* Customers hope new SAP software will make data analysis less thorny SAP AG'S upcoming data warehousing software has been tested by only 20 R/3 users so far, and even […]

Influence Software, Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced a prepackaged data warehouse designed for SAP AC's R/3 and the manufacturing industry. Influence Knowledge Warehouse for SAP is a World Wide […]

SYBASE, INC. IS BUNDLING all the tools needed to build a data warehouse in one neat package. That's good news for corporations that are on the verge of creating a […]

MineShare, Inc., a start-up in Santa Monica, Calif., last week released end-to-end data mart software that runs on Windows NT servers and supports multidimensional analysis of relational data. The MineShare […]

Broadbase Information Systems, Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif., last week released an upgrade of its packaged data mart software with new built-in data mining capabilities. TurnKey Data Mart 1.2 includes […]

NCR Corp. in Dayton, Ohio, last week announced a pair of data warehousing hardware and software bundles aimed at telecommunications companies. The ChurnSentry and GrowthAdvisor packages can be used to […]

Executives at Nabisco, Inc. thought feeding data analysis tools to 2,500 business managers and salespeople would be too hard. So the $9 billion food maker took an easier-to-digest approach based […]

Vtel, Corp. spent more than two years building and enhancing a data warehouse. Now the company plans to start over. That's because Vtel, based in Austin, Texas, plans to convert […]

Cognos, Inc. in Ottawa last week released an upgrade of its Scenario desktop data mining tool that is integrated with the company's flagship query and online analytical processing (OLAP) software. […]

NeoVista Software, Inc., in Cupertino, Calif., last week announced retail-oriented data mining software aimed at analysis of product assortments at individual stores. The RDS-Assort package can be used to determine […]

Cognos, Inc. last week announced Internet-based software aimed at companies that want to sell or give decision-support data to their customers. DataMer- chant 1.0 controls access to internal databases and […]

Microsoft Corp. this month made a set of preliminary data warehousing exten- sions to its development repository available for review by other vendors. The proposed warehousing extensions cover data transformation […]

Logic Works, Inc. in Princeton, N.J., has announced software for modeling databases that mix object and relational technologies. OR-Compass provides native modeling support for object-enabled databases from Informix Software, Inc., […]