IDC says that Y2K and Euro projects have held back the data warehouse market for the last year, but it predicts growth will increase during 2000 and 2001 as businesses free up budgets and find they need data warehousing functions in order to compete.
This will be driven primarily by the increasing popularity of using the Web as a channel for video and music - both of which consume acres of disk space. For the moment, and probably for another five years or more, the requirement for disk space is...
Lars Nyberg, chairman and CEO at NCR, said in a statement: "The strength of our earnings this quarter clearly demonstrates that we are now a growth company. NCR stock surged by more than 10 per cent in response to today's news.
In addition to using up free disk space, Benjamin opens an anonymous website from which it displays advertising banners. Most anti-virus vendors have already updated their software to block the worm. Popular peer-to-peer (P2P) network KaZaA has...
It is based on Windows XP, has a power-efficient 1GHz processor, around 10GB of disk space, at least 256MB of SDRAM memory and a lithium polymer battery that will last up to eight hours. Rob Enderle, Giga research fellow, is among the experts who...
With terabyte-scale databases readily available, the new generation of data warehouse appliances offer real benefits to organisations analysing large volumes of transactions - such as financial services and telecoms.