Electrical retailer, Comet, has picked Sequent to provide it with a data warehouse to store and analyse information about its customers. The system uses a Sequent NUMA-Q enterprise server, kept on Comet's premises but maintained remotely from...
Wayne Eckerson, senior consultant, Patricia Seybold Group, said that data warehouse customers are now looking for industry-focused offerings, and that Sybase and SGI have established a "milestone towards providing true packaged analytic...
BT has chosen IBM and storage company, EMC, to set up a £5m 13TB data warehouse to store and manage customer information. It will use Numa-Q servers and EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems. Before finalising the contract, BT asked the...
There are a number of data warehouse population tools on the market which automate the process. Warehouse Population The data is then transformed and the quality of the data improved before it is integrated with data from different data sources and...
Companies investing in new wide area networks are advised to migrate to IP VPN technologies instead of frame, ATM and leased lines because of increased network flexibility and potential WAN total cost of ownership savings of around 30 per cent.
Analyst firm Gartner recently warned users to look for tangible business benefits of voice over IP (VoIP) networks beyond cost savings from decreased call costs, and in a research note outlining Gartner's predictions for 2004, analyst Steve...