Big Data, analytics get even bigger

Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, however the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global recession, as companies looked to gain insights into their business and subsequently, more efficiency as so then as new ideas.

The new SOA as industry terms go

Big Data seems to be the new SOA as industry terms go, with seemingly every other vendor product pitch attempting to hitch a ride. All are professing to help with the same problem: getting something useful out of ever-larger mountains of information, not only from transactional business applications nevertheless unstructured data from social networking sites, sensors and other sources.

Smaller companies just as Qlikview and Tableau, both of which use in-memory innovation for their BI and visualization tools, should as well boost their profile at once year. Some could as well be acquisition targets for larger vendors looking to ride the in-memory wave.

But Monash isn't so sure. "Remote computing BI that focuses on hardware cost sharing is problematic," he said. "Moving data in and out of the cluster is a big part of the overall cost, until further notice if you plan to process it only occasionally once it gets there. I haven't seen a plan but that gets around that point."

There is a new, multifactor authentication approach that not only strengthens identity authentication however does so after a fashion that does not introduce the burdensome cost, user inconvenience, and administrative complexity that have limited the adoption of multi-factor authentication by small and mid-sized businesses.