Girls Who Code
Why won't IT departments automate themselves?
Welcome to the Bloor Information Management blog, lead by Philip Howard.
Cray and Hadoop: not (at first sight) an obvious partnership
Cray has announced a pre-built but open (i.e. not quite an appliance) Hadoop implementation. It raise questions about what Hadoop means.
FacilityLive
FacilityLive is a search/KM tool that competes with data virtualisation. It has some nice features but it isn't as interesting as the company thinks it is.
Connexica update
Connexica - a Search/BI vendor is succeeding where others have failed. Why is that?
Re-thinking data security
This is a short preview of Informatica's Secure@Source, which be released next year
Getting value out of data integration
I am going to be having a live discussion about getting value from data integration tools: come and listen!
Distributing MySQL databases
ScaleBase provides the ability to distribute MySQL databases without change to existing applications.
Turning the Internet into a corporate database
Bitvore provides the ability to capture fresh data from the Internet and use it as a corporate asset
The gazelle leaps into action
Springbok is a data preparation platform for business users.
Diaku: more than governance
Diaku offers a superset of data governance that is worth a serious look, especially in heavily regulated environments