Data Mining

Learn what a Web Service is and how it works, the advantages of using a Data Quality Web Service, the technology assessment for implementation, and several case studies (Saab and other real world case studies) to demonstrate real life successes.

Tom Brennan and John Nydam explain the Melissa Data and Stalworth partnership, discuss the business problems caused by bad data, and describe how DQ*Plus provides a complete data quality solution for enterprise applications and commercial databases.

Dell's automated deployment solution meets the challenges that IT managers face, according to Windows expert and author Jerry Honeycutt.

SAS Grid Computing delivers enterprise-class capabilities that enable SAS applications to automatically leverage grid computing, run faster and takes optimal advantage of computing resources. With grid computing as an automatic capability, it is easier and more cost-effective to allocate compute-intensive applications appropriately across computing systems. SAS Grid Manager helps automate the management of SAS Computing Grids with dynamic load balancing, resource assignment and monitoring, and job priority and termination management.

Designed for CIOs, IT managers, data center managers and grid computing architects seeking to improve performance, SAS Grid Computing on the HP BladeSystem. C-Class helps accelerate growth and mitigate risks with a simplified, consolidated infrastructure that’s agile enough to efficiently handle change. SAS Grid Manager on HP BladeSystem can lower costs through automation, virtualization and improved IT efficiency.   Download  HP's "Quick Sizing Guide for SAS Grid running on HP BladeSystem and EVA Storage" to learn more about the equipment needs to deploy SAS Grid Manager on HP BladeSystem.

Read how Comcast, the largest cable communications company in the U.S., is using Vertica Analytic DBMS able to quickly collect and analyze data being generated by millions of network devices to ensure quality of service and accuracy of capacity planning to ensure a consistently good customer experience.

Data modeling has evolved from an arcane technique for database designers into an entire family of interrelated techniques that serves many constituencies, including techno-phobic business stakeholders and users. The new maturity of modeling tools and techniques arrives in the nick of time, because new technical and regulatory realities demand that enterprises maintain scrupulous awareness of their data and how it is used. Data modeling is no longer for databases only, no longer for technologists only, and no longer optional.

Backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized servers involves different steps than the familiar VMware servers. So how exactly is Hyper-V backup different? Check out this FAQ Guide to learn the challenges of backing up Hyper-V virtualized servers.

Private cloud computing advances the delivery of efficient, agile IT infrastructure allowing enterprises to plan incremental enhancements to existing infrastructure, and the right SAN.

How automation can help small and mid-sized businesses manage expenses

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

Real Case Studies - Maintaining and Upgrading a Legacy Data Center Webcast

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

Despite progress in delivering IT as a service, providing up-to-date enterprise software flawlessly and rapidly to the business remains massively challenging for in-house teams.

5 Must Haves in your Information Management Strategy

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

Today's lean, more tightly-regulated economy and the ever-increasing importance of IT have many organizations caught in a bind. On one hand, reliable access to power is vital to keeping data centers operational, and the costs associated with loss of power can be devastating. On the other hand, IT departments are being asked to get more done with less money even as energy rates continue to rise.

Seeing into the hearts and minds of our customers is impossible; but this article describes how Data Mining techniques can be used to create strategies and tactics to increase customer retention and value.

Use the IDS Low Administration ROI tool to assess potential savings and expenses in deploying IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.

This strategic view is the proverbial "gold" that can be mined from your data protection systems; it is the asset that will enable IT management to prioritize activity to bring activities in line with business objectives and communicate policy compliance to corporate officers and data owners.

Microsoft Windows-based applications and data are growing in size and complexity, reaching the limits of their architecture and scalability. Download this whitepaper to read the benefits of updating database applications to the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform with the HP Integrity family of 64-bit servers.

The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions – with similar results. There are thousands of business process steps in a typical enterprise where pervasive BI insights can be added. What are leading companies doing with pervasive BI?

Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency.  However, despite the proliferation of data that businesses generate today, the potential value of this location dimension is often overlooked in the business intelligence process.

DataDrill EXPRESS is known for being the most capable web-based performance dashboard tool available for software and IT projects and organizations, automating every aspect of performance measurement.