Todd R. Weiss is an award-winning technology journalist and freelance writer who worked as a staff reporter for Computerworld from 2000 to 2008. Weiss covers enterprise IT from cloud computing to Hadoop to virtualization, enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM and BI, Linux and open source, and more. He spends his spare time working on a book about an unheralded member of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and watching classic Humphrey Bogart movies.
Enterprises are tapping CDOs to monetize digital assets, but how will these new execs interact with IT? And will the hiring trend hold?
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Analysts and early users warn that most data centers lack the analytics expertise needed for the open-source big data technology
Hadoop is all the rage, but it requires expertise that's beyond the ken of many IT shops, customers say
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Here's how some shops are making sure they're getting their money's worth
Then: Expensive customization and broken ERP upgrades. Now: Vertical, configurable ERP versions you deploy out of the box
An important shortcut to the cloud could already be sitting there in your data centers, waiting to make the moving process easier