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...
Microsoft this week said an outside audit of Hotmail confirmed that it had fixed security holes in the email service. However, because the full audit report had not been made public the whole exercise has been criticised by security experts.
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...
Gartner analyst Bill Hostmann warned: "If you don't get it right you will get silos and you won't get the return on investment. And while the data warehouse team reports to the CIO, the BI competency centre is more likely to report to the CFO or...
Thus has inked a £5m deal with the Audit Commission to supply the government agency with a next-generation network. The Audit Commission will also be able to use their next-generation network for video conferencing to aid teleworking.