SAS promises pervasive BI with new tool

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	SAS promises pervasive BI with new tool SAS Institute unveiled new technology designed to allow a broad swath of enterprise users to do advanced analytics on massive volumes of data. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue In this Issue 8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation Oracle set to update analytics strategy, go after SAP customers Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud How to wrangle your virtual machines Who holds the encryption keys? NatGeo moves its media archive to the public cloud On CIO.com: 5 business analytics tech trends and how to exploit them EU civil liberties officials agree to US data transfer deal Latest healthcare 'meaningful use' rules require patient involvement Governance at the speed of change SugarSync revamps data backup, sync service for iPad Review: Tomboy, a powerful and free database for notes RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! 8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation Data crunching can be useful for a wide range of analyses; we look at 8 tools that can make it easier to sort your numbers and show them off to their best advantage. Read More Oracle set to update analytics strategy, go after SAP customers Oracle co-President Mark Hurd is scheduled to reveal new details about the vendor's BI (business intelligence) and analytics strategy, including new applications aimed at SAP customers, during an event on April 4. Read More Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts of data in the cloud. Read More How to wrangle your virtual machines While vendors continue to work toward a single console, or "single pane of glass" tools, customers must choose from products that manage only parts of their environments or focus on specific problems such as the sprawl of unused virtual machines, security or backup. Read More Who holds the encryption keys? Experts and IT leaders offer strategies for getting the most from the latest encryption and digital rights management technologies. Read More NatGeo moves its media archive to the public cloud The National Geographic Society announced that it is moving its backup and archive of large unstructured multimedia files -- including video, photos and graphics -- to Nirvanix's Cloud Storage Network. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Migrating Your Legacy IBM Database Environment Download this guide to ensure a seamless migration and take advantage of reduced costs associated with extremely efficient day-to-day database administration. Learn More! On CIO.com: 5 business analytics tech trends and how to exploit them Big Data. Faster infrastructure. Falling costs. Mobility. Social media. CIOs at John Hancock, Shopzilla and other organizations say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence. Read More EU civil liberties officials agree to US data transfer deal In a surprise turnaround, members of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee voted to endorse a controversial data transfer agreement with the United States. Read More Latest healthcare 'meaningful use' rules require patient involvement The next round of 'meaningful use' healthcare rules require that patients begin using e-health records before hospitals and doctors' offices can qualify for reimbursements. Read More Governance at the speed of change The right approach to governance -- using real-time metrics -- can enable more reliable applications, more agile IT, more satisfied business owners and, ultimately, happier customers. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More SugarSync revamps data backup, sync service for iPad SugarSync introduced a completely redesigned app re-written from the ground up to be optimized for the iPad. Read More Review: Tomboy, a powerful and free database for notes Take the intuitive simplicity of jotting down a quick note in Notepad, combine it with the ever-present nature of Stickies, and add easy linking between topics that's even more instant than TiddlyWiki. You've got Tomboy: A free application that makes managing your knowledge easy and fast. Read More
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