databases in comment and analysis
Leader: Database wars
Leader It remains to be seen if open source will cut it for databases, though. In databases Microsoft continues to raise its game, trying to reach the rarefied air that IBM and Oracle breath. Oracle boss Larry Ellison seems to be positive about open... [07 Nov 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for search technology
Comment Ultimately, it should be possible to search across the entirety of a corporation's electronic records, be they stored as emails, databases, web pages, Word files, PDFs or whatever esoteric format the company may be using. [26 Aug 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment Payroll systems, databases, logistics - all are standardised globally. What is it that your organisation can do better than anyone else? Is it being fully harnessed? René Carayol asks you to ask whether your board is missing a trick. [13 Jul 2005]
Leader: How much more data loss can we stand?
Leader If that facility contains credit cardholder databases how can it be broken into? Over the past couple of months we have been hit by a wave of data scandals, blunders and thefts which will have seriously undermined many people's confidence in the... [20 Jun 2005]
Leader: BI not just for rocket scientists
Leader Clearly there is a major IT element in terms of checking that the right databases are connected and that the necessary levels of security and performance are in place. Taking the data held in your business systems and analysing it to make better... [24 May 2005]
Election '05: High-tech v doorstep canvassing
Comment The aim was to see what actual impact all the money and faith the political parties have invested in the analytical capabilities of various voter targeting databases have actually had on the ground in the local constituencies and whether they... [05 May 2005]
Election '05: Can technology change a campaign result?
Comment He continues: "[These databases] enable parties to be more sophisticated in not talking to people who have already made up their mind or who don't matter very much. Databases of voter information, for instance, are not as valuable in the UK because... [29 Apr 2005]
Election '05: High-tech campaigning targets key voters
Comment In a move away from internally developed databases, the Conservative Party has spent a reported £250,000 on technology used by the Republican Party during the US presidential election last year. Traditional election campaigning methods have found... [27 Apr 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Give me Autonomy
Comment It began, in the tell-tale white on red text: "Databases store 20%. It's happening, says Tony Hallett. Autonomy is these days a fairly well-known UK software maker. Headed by Mike Lynch, a man equally referred to on these pages over the years as an... [18 Mar 2005]
Leader: Open source to boom?
Leader These are all proof that open source is moving 'up the stack' from the operating system to databases, business applications and development tools. Is open source the next big boom à la dot-com? Granted the fervour around all things open source, in... [03 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Buying secrets on eBay
Comment The average personal computer now has enough storage capacity to hold several large databases. With personal information stored on computer hard drives so easy to access, it seems our security procedures aren't keeping up with technology, says... [22 Feb 2005]
VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment Fine for databases and email and so on but not so good for voice. Ever wondered how IP telephony actually works? What jitter means or how packet loss is another's gain? Elizabeth Biddlecombe explains all. [10 Feb 2005]
Leader: Is one data leak one too many?
Leader But we would advocate establishing more carefully which databases represent where genuine 'zero' tolerance is required regarding breaches. It's been a week of security leaks - from military documents in the Netherlands to Homeland Security breaches... [08 Feb 2005]
Leader: Tagging kids
Leader We see this with national databases, ID cards and - where the argument is generally one of crime reduction - CCTV. This publication and doubtless a number of others in the mainstream press have today covered a primary school in Swansea looking to... [21 Jan 2005]
Before you roll out RFID... read this
Comment This could include anticipating and avoiding problems linking new and old databases or allocating sufficient resources to extract meaningful information from the large volumes of data typically generated by RFID technology. [20 Jan 2005]
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