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Developers are moving past proprietary databases to open source upstarts -- often under the radar of IT management
Data lakes are said to be the next big thing in IT, finally bringing the promises of big data to the non-IT masses. But when you scratch beneath the surface, are data lakes really helping with agility, or are they just making things more difficult?
Hadoop isn’t living up to its hype -- which means that both Hadoop vendors and their customers need to widen their array of big data technologies
IBM's new silicon photonics chip will be used in data centers, and competes against a similar Intel technology
Cloud Bigtable, a management-free approach to NoSQL, is a version of Google's core data-processing system
Enterprise-oriented document database brings powerful indexing and flexible querying to a broad range of data types
When the clues start piling up, a pretty resume can't cover the incompetence of a new employee
The database market has largely been impervious to open source pricing pressure. That may be about to change
According to a new survey, 75 percent of enterprise data remains structured, although modern data technologies are growing fast
A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting SQL Server 2005 entirely, so the push is on to migrate customers to newer editions or to Azure