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Ongoing arms race with Oracle escalates as customers of Salesforce.com's Marketing Cloud can now tap social analytics options from 20 partners
SAP's claims of the in-memory database's speed and power are valid, but it still has a new product's growing pains, users say
Relentless data growth has conjured up new technologies for data analysis and unprecedented opportunities for insight
'All politics is personal' is truer than ever in the big data era -- especially in the hands of the Obama and Romney campaigns
Upgraded version of SAS High-Performance Analytic Server supports Hadoop, HDFS
Lucene/Solr 4.0 comes with a new distributed indexing architecture and can offer real-time results
In contrast to Oracle, IBM takes a workload focused approach to building integrated systems
Contrary to popular opinion, you don't need a huge budget to get started
An increasing number of tools can help, but there are many issues to work through first
Oracle's new 'eighth-rack' version of the Exadata database machine costs $200,000 and is aimed at attracting midsized customers